Author: Bernard Taper
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Keywords: biography, balanchine
Number of Pages: 438
Published: 1987-03
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0520060598
ISBN-13: 9780520060593

Written with wit, insight, and candor, Balanchine is a book that will delight lovers of biography as well as those with a special interest in dance. For this edition the author has added a thoughtful yet dramatic account of the working out of Balanchine’s legacy, from the making of his controversial will to the present day. The author explores the intriguing legal, financial, and institutional subplots that unfolded after the death of the greatest choreographer of the century, but the central plot of his epilogue is the aesthetic issue: In the absence of their creator, can

Author: Bernard Taper
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: epilogue, new, biography, balanchine
Number of Pages: 458
Published: 1996-11-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0520206398
ISBN-13: 9780520206397

Written with wit, insight, and candor, Balanchine is a book that will delight lovers of biography as well as those with a special interest in dance. For this edition the author has added a thoughtful yet dramatic account of the working out of Balanchine’s legacy, from the making of his controversial will to the present day. The author explores the intriguing legal, financial, and institutional subplots that unfolded after the death of the greatest choreographer of the century, but the central plot of his epilogue is the aesthetic issue: In the absence of their creator, can

Author: Catherine M. Soussloff
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: jewish, foundation, imprint, studies, taper, history, identity, modern, art, mark
Number of Pages: 249
Published: 1999-03-31
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0520213033
ISBN-13: 9780520213036

In the first comprehensive study of Jewish identity and its meaning for the history of art, eleven influential scholars illuminate the formative role of Jews as subjects of art historical discourse. At the same time, these essays introduce to art history an understanding of the place of cultural identity in the production of scholarship. Contributors explore the meaning of Jewishness to writers and artists alike through such topics as exile, iconoclasm, and anti-Semitism. Included are essays on Anselm Kiefer and Theodor Adorno; the effects of the Enlightenment; the rise of the nation-state; N

Author: Bluma Goldstein
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: jewish, taper, foundation, imprint, mark, studies, wives, marginality, narratives, abandoned, enforced
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 2007-08-21
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0520249682
ISBN-13: 9780520249684

This illuminating study explores a central but neglected aspect of modern Jewish history: the problem of abandoned Jewish wives, or agunes ("chained wives")--women who under Jewish law could not obtain a divorce--and of the men who deserted them. Looking at seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany and then late nineteenth-century eastern Europe and twentieth-century United States, Enforced Marginality explores representations of abandoned wives while tracing the demographic movements of Jews in the West. Bluma Goldstein analyzes a range of texts (in Old Yiddish, German, Yiddish, and English

Author: Nathaniel Deutsch
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: jewish, taper, foundation, imprint, mark, studies, world, ludmir, holy, woman, maiden
Number of Pages: 329
Published: 2003-10-06
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0520231910
ISBN-13: 9780520231917

Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-nineteenth-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the three-hundred-year history of Hasidism to function as a rebbe--or charismatic leader--in her own right. Nathaniel Deutsch follows the traces left by the Maiden in both history and legend to fully explore her fascinating story for the first time. The Maiden of Ludmir offers powerful insights into the Jewish mystical tradition, into the Maiden’s place within it, and into the remarkable Jewish community of Ludmir. Her biograph

Author: Harvey E. Goldberg
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: jewish, foundation, imprint, studies, taper, mark, passages, cycles, life
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2003-10-17
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0520206932
ISBN-13: 9780520206939

American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life--however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life’s momentous events and rites of passage. The interplay of past and present, of individual practice and collective identity, emerges as a central fact of contemporary Jewish experience in Harvey E. Goldberg’s multifaceted account of how Jews celebrate and observe the cycles of life. A leading anthropologist of Jewish culture, Goldberg draws on his own experience as well as classic source

Authors:Mark Twain, Bernard Taper,
Publisher: Heyday Books
Keywords: california, legacy, francisco, san, twain, mark
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1890771694
ISBN-13: 9781890771690

"This book’s time span is from the fall of 1863, when Twain began frequently making the coach trip from Virginia City down to San Francisco and contributing to San Francisco journals, to December, 1866 when he left the city to embark on the voyages out of which he would make The Innocents Abroad." The editor’s purpose was "to present here simply the voice of Twain as it was to be heard at a particular time and a particular place."