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"Manger's deceptively folkish style, which mixes fantasy and autobiography, Biblical plots and a fin-de-siecle East European setting, pathos and parody, angels wings and social protest, the lyric and dramatic, has been brilliantly rendered into English by Leonard Wolf." Ruth R. Wisse In the years between 1929 and 1939, when Itzik Manger wrote most...

'In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a cafe called Ziemianska'. Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at the fin-de-siecle. They sat in Cafe Ziemianska and believed that the world moved on what they said there. "Caviar and Ashes" tells the story of...

In this book a MacArthur Award-winning scholar argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and colonization of the region, Anders Winroth contends that rather than acting as passive...

In the latest volume in the esteemed series Victoria Todd, Jack and Kerry Kelly Novick, and Norka T. Malberg look at issues involving the child analyst at work; and Frederick L. Meisel, Victoria Todd, Aerin Hyun, write about on children affected by medical illness. The volume also includes contributions from Adele Kaufman, Bernadette Kovach, Wendy...

The latest volume in the esteemed series features special sections devoted to sibling relationships and to working with parents of adolescents. Other contributions address the adolescent's use of cyberspace to regulate intimacy in psychotherapy, the evolution of traumatic memories over the course of development, and the role of the other in object...

The Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was one of the leading proponents of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer's discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence - the fact that our entire emotional and intellectual life is configured and formed through the originary expressive...