This International Women's Day, Marjorie Lehman, co-editor of Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination, discusses how she is working to disentangle motherhood from idealised notions of the Jewish family and the stereotypes of the Jewish mother. Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination (eds.) Marjorie Lehman, Jane L. Kanarek and Simon J. Bronner is published by the Littman … Continue reading
Celebrating 10 years of Jewish Cultural Studies with Simon J. Bronner
2018 marks the tenth anniversary of the Jewish Cultural Studies book series in the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. Ten years ago, the inaugural volume, Jewishness: Expression, Identity, and Representation, edited by Simon J. Bronner, drew wide attention with its announcement of an emerging interdisciplinary field of Jewish cultural studies and a provocative cover photograph of Chai jewellery in … Continue reading
Liverpool University Press to publish ‘Writers and their Work’ series
Northcote House Publishers and Liverpool University Press (LUP) have agreed a strategic partnership for the publication of the long-running series Writers and their Work. With immediate effect, LUP will assume responsibility for more than 400 backlist titles and a frontlist of around 10 new books a year. The partnership will also see the titles digitised and … Continue reading
Town Planning Review 89.3 Featured Article
The editors of TPR have selected 'Minding the gap: the professionals’ view on the interaction between urban design theory and practice' by Hooman Foroughmand Araabi as the Featured Article for the latest issue. It will be free to access for a limited time here. When asked to describe the paper, and highlight its importance, the author stated the … Continue reading
The Cartographic Capital – Q&A with Kory Olson
This week we're celebrating the first title in the highly anticipated Studies in Modern and Contemporary France series. We sat down with author Kory Olson to discuss Parisian migration, urban spaces and the Third Republic in his new book The Cartographic Capital. Celebrating The Cartographic Capital by Kory Olson as the first title in the Studies in Modern and Contemporary France series. … Continue reading
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