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Your search for not in my family returned 266 results:
German Studies
January 30, 2018
Not in My Family
German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust
Roger Frie
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Ryan Stackhouse
What if you suddenly discovered a cherished member of your family was a Nazi? How would you make sense of the code of silence that had kept an uncomfortable reality at bay? How would you resolve the wartime suffering of your family with their moral culpability for the Holocaust? Roger Frie explores the thorny issue of historical memory and intergenerational trauma in his new award winning book Not in My …
Women's History
November 11, 2022
Not the Camilla We Knew
One Woman's Life from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army
Rachael Hanel
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Rebecca Turkington
How could an artist and former social worker from small-town Minnesota become one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States? Camilla Hall was a pastor's daughter who …
Gender Studies
July 29, 2021
Hijras, Lovers, Brothers
Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India
Vaibhav Saria
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Shraddha Chatterjee
Hijras, one of India’s third gendered or trans populations, have been an enduring presence in the South Asian imagination—in myth, in ritual, and in everyday life, often associated in stigmatized …
Neuroscience
January 27, 2021
Successful Aging
A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
Daniel J Levitin
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Victoria Reedman
In Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives (Dutton Books, 2020), Daniel J. Levitin delivers powerful insights:• Debunking the myth that memory always declines with age• …
Asian American Studies
May 16, 2022
Our Laundry, Our Town
My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
Alvin Eng
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Deidre Tyler
Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond (Fordham UP, 2022) is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle …
Neuroscience
February 18, 2022
A Molecule Away from Madness
Tales of the Hijacked Brain
Sara Manning Peskin
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Galina Limorenko
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here …
Literature
May 14, 2021
The Portrait
A Novel
Ilaria Bernardini
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Duncan McCargo
The Portrait is a story full of ambiguity and suspense, one that works on many different levels and holds the reader’s attention until the very last page. Recently published to great acclaim …
Australian and New Zealand Studies
July 8, 2022
Root and Branch
Essays on Inheritance
Eda Gunaydin
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Bede Haines
Eda Gunaydin joins us today to talk about Root and Branch: Essays on Inheritance (NewSouth, 2022). Lots of themes: Turkey, Australia, Sydney, family, friends, media, food, essays. That there is no easy translation …
Anthropology
September 29, 2021
Can You Run Away from Sorrow?
Mothers Left Behind in 1990s Belgrade
Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic
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Anna Domdey
How does emigration affect those left behind? The fall of Yugoslavia in the 1990s led citizens to look for a better, more stable life elsewhere. For the older generations, however …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
December 20, 2022
The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation
Where Do Organs Come From?
Hagai Boas
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Renee Garfinkel
This is the story of organ transplantation, told from the organ’s point of view. Organs for transplantations come from two sources: living or post-mortem organ donations. These sources set different …
East Asian Studies
October 28, 2022
The Last Cherry Blossom
Kathleen Burkinshaw
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Bing Wang
Yuriko was happy growing up in Hiroshima when it was just her and Papa. But her aunt Kimiko and her cousin Genji are living with them now, and the family …
Middle Eastern Studies
January 29, 2023
Water the Willow Tree
Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood
George Anton Kiraz
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Ari Barbalat
In Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood (Gorgias Press, 2022), George A. Kiraz tells the story of a young Palestinian boy growing up in Bethlehem, fascinated with …
Historical Fiction
May 31, 2022
Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder
Catherine Lloyd
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C. P. Lesley
As we soon find out in this opener to a new series set in 1830s London, Lady Caroline Morton’s illustrious heritage has been tarnished by the financial ruin and suicide …
Literature
November 13, 2020
Mobile Home
A Memoir in Essays
Megan Harlan
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Zoe Bossiere
Home is the place many of us have spent our days for the last eight months. During the pandemic, our homes have become our workplaces, our classrooms, and our social …
Japanese Studies
October 15, 2021
The Blood of Gutoku
A Jack Riddley Mystery in Japan
J. W. Traphagan
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Jingyi Li
Today I talked to anthropologist J. W. Traphagan's novel The Blood of Gutoku: A Jack Riddley Mystery in Japan (Balestier Press, 2021). Jack Riddley is an anthropologist all too ready to retire – …
Literature
January 12, 2021
The Tenth Muse
A Novel
Catherine Chung
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G. P. Gottlieb
Katherine recalls being young and friendless. While growing up in the 40’ and 50’s, she remembers when her mother packed up and left, her father remarried, and she was left …
Historical Fiction
October 11, 2021
God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen
Rhys Bowen
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C. P. Lesley
Back in the days when brick-and-mortar bookstores were common in suburban America, I was browsing the shelves at my local Borders when a title caught my eye: Her Royal Spyness …
Jewish Studies
May 26, 2022
So They Remember
A Jewish Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine
Maksim Goldenshteyn
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Amber Nickell
When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust extends beyond those notorious sites. In the …
Public Policy
November 8, 2022
Who Cares
The Social Safety Net in America
Christopher Howard
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Stephen Pimpare
Societies are often judged by how they treat their most vulnerable members: the poor and near poor. In the United States, this responsibility belongs not only to governments, but also …
Economics
May 18, 2022
Streets of Gold
America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success
Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan
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Peter Lorentzen
Immigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly most misunderstood, topics in American social discourse—yet, in most cases, the things we believe about immigration are based largely on myth …
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