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New York's Yiddish theater : from the Bowery to Broadway / by Nahshon, Edna,editor.(CARDINAL)649838; Museum of the City of New York,host institution.(CARDINAL)161593; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research,collector.(CARDINAL)147093;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-321) and index.In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the scene on Broadway. While these productions were in Yiddish and catered to Eastern European Jewish audiences (the largest immigrant group in the city at the time), their artistic and aesthetic creations and their play with politics and history came to influence all facets of the American stage. Vividly illustrated and with contributions from leading historians and critics, this history recounts in absorbing detail the heyday of "Yiddish Broadway" and its vital contribution to American Jewish life and its crossover to American culture. Performances grappled with Jewish nationalism, labor relations, women's rights, religious observance, acculturation, and assimilation. They reflected a range of genres, from tear-jerkers to experimental theater, and introduced American audiences to avant-garde dramatic technique.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Jewish theater; Theater, Yiddish;
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The beauty suit : how my year of religious modesty made me a better feminist / by Shields, Lauren,1981-author.(CARDINAL)803441;
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction -- Katy Perry in a leopard bustier: the problem with "sexy feminism" -- "Is this really any better?" Islam and the couch epiphany -- Still not a nun: how to be a Christian feminist -- Less G-string, more Gucci: Christianity and consumerism -- Tech and Tzniut: the digital suit vs. Jewish modesty -- Worldwide beauty: the "social skin" -- Conclusion: now what?
Subjects: Modesty; Feminism; Feminism.; Women; Sex role.; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Feminism.; Women's movement.; Women.; Womyn.; Gender roles.;
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Making the body beautiful : a cultural history of aesthetic surgery / by Gilman, Sander L.(CARDINAL)128665;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-383) and index.
Subjects: Surgery, Plastic; Body image;
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The mystical Qabalah / by Fortune, Dion,author.(CARDINAL)505648;
"An occult classic and a Dion Fortune bestseller of strongly growing interest. Fortune was one of the first to bring this "secret tradition" to a wider audience with her clear and comprehensive exploration of the Qabalah tradition. The Mystical Qabalah remains a classic in its clarity, linking the broad elements of Jewish traditional thought-probably going back to the Babylonian captivity and beyond-with both Eastern and Western philosophy and later Christian insights. The Qabalah could be described as aconfidential Judaic explanation of the paradox of "the Many and the One"-the complexity and diversity within a monotheistic unity. Whereas the Old Testament outlines the social and psychological development of a tightly knit "chosen group" culture, the supplementary Qabalah provides a detailed plan of the infrastructure behind the creative evolutionary process.The Mystical Qabalah devotes a chapter to each of the ten schematic "God-names," the qualities or Sephiroth which focus on the principal archetypesbehind evolving human activity: the Spiritual Source; the principles of Force and Form; Love and Justice; the Integrative principle or the Christ Force; Aesthetics and Logic; the dynamics of the Psyche; and, finally, the Manifestation of life on Earth ina physical body"--"This book links the broad elements of Jewish traditional thought-probably going back to the Babylonian Captivity and beyond-with both Eastern and Western philosophy and later Christian insights. Qabalah could be described as a confidential Judaic explanation of the paradox of 'the Many and the One'-the complexity and diversity within a monotheistic unity. Whereas the Old Testament outlines the social and psychological development of a tightly knit 'chosen group' culture, the supplementary Qabalah provides a detailed plan of the infrastructure behind the creative evolutionary process"--
Subjects: Cabala.; Tree of life.;
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North Carolina Museum of Art handbook of the collections / by North Carolina Museum of Art.(CARDINAL)150432; Burden, Virginia.(CARDINAL)214892; Martin Nagy, Rebecca.(CARDINAL)136019; Spence, June,1969-(CARDINAL)212495;
Includes references for quotations and index.Ancient Egyptian art -- Classical art -- New World art -- Oceanic art -- African art -- Jewish ceremonial art -- Northern European Medieval and renaissance art -- Flemish Baroque art -- The Dutch golden age -- Late Medieval and Renaissance art in Italy -- Italian Baroque art -- Eighteenth-century Italian art -- The Spanish golden age -- British portraiture -- French rococo art -- Neoclassical and French nineteenth-century art -- American art -- Art of the twentieth-century."The North Carolina Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections makes available, for the first time, substantial interpretations of the Museum's major works of art in one lavishly illustrated guide. Full-color images accompany narratives of the art and artists in their historical contexts, vividly conveying over five thousand years of aesthetic achievement represented in the NCMA's galleries."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Catalogs.; North Carolina Museum of Art; North Carolina Museum of Art; Arts;
Available copies: 71 / Total copies: 79
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René Blum and the Ballets russes : in search of a lost life / by Chazin-Bennahum, Judith,author.(CARDINAL)877527;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Childhood and youth: the formation of an intellectual and aesthete -- René Blum, man of letters -- Marcel Proust and René Blum: an uncommon friendship -- The great war and René Blum -- René Blum and the Théâtre de Monte-Carlo (1924-1931) -- René and Josette -- The resurrection of the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo -- Blum brings Michel Fokine into the fold -- The new world calls! Blum sells the company to Americans -- Blum's final days."Like a detective, Judith Chazin-Bennahum sets out to recover Rene Blum's fascinating and ultimately tragic life from the margins of history. Weaving him into the tapestry of the Belle Epoque and les annees folles, she reveals a life devoted from childhood to the arts, a writer-turned-ballet impresario who brought taste, passion, and a rare gift for friendship to everything he did. The brother of Leon Blum, the first Socialist and first Jewish prime minister of France, Rene died in Auschwitz, a victim like so many others of Nazi racial hatred."-Lynn Garafola, Professor Of Dance, Barnard College."Chazin-Bennahum Has Unearthed The Truth About Rene Blum's extraordinary vision and artistic contributions. By illuminating the life of an important dance figure via an array of previously unknown primary sources, she also provides a first-rate model for dance biographies yet to come."-Elizabeth Aldrich, Dance Historian --Book Jacket.
Subjects: Biographies.; Blum, René, 1878-1942.; Ballets russes; Choreographers; Publishers and publishing; Jews; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945);
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Farrell Covington and the limits of style : a novel / by Rudnick, Paul,author.(CARDINAL)748270;
"Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is capable of anything and impossible to resist. He's a clear-eyed romantic, an aesthete but not a snob, self-indulgent yet wildly generous. As the son of one of the country's most powerful and deeply conservative families, the world could be his. But when he falls for Nate Reminger, an aspiring writer from a nice Jewish family in Piscataway, New Jersey, the results are passionate and catastrophic. Together, the two embark on a uniquely managed romance that spans half a century. They are inseparable--except for the many years when they are apart. Moving from the ivy-covered bastion of Yale to New York City, Los Angeles, and eventually all over the world, Farrell and Nate experience the tremendous upheaval and social change of the last fifty years. From the freedom of gay life in 1970s Manhattan to the Hollywood closet, the AIDS epidemic, and the profound strides of the LGBTQ+ movement, this witty and moving novel shows how the world changes around us while we're busy doing other things."--
Subjects: Gay fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Romance fiction.; Novels.; Gay men; Rich people; Jews; Same-sex marriage; AIDS (Disease); Gay liberation movement; Gay men.; Same-sex marriage.;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 18
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Highway 61 revisited : Bob Dylan's road from Minnesota to the world / by Sheehy, Colleen J.(Colleen Josephine),1953-(CARDINAL)218520; Swiss, Thomas,1952-(CARDINAL)749999;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Highway 61, from north to south. Hibbing High School and "the mystery of democracy" / Greil Marcus ; Jewish homes on the range, 1890-1960 / Marilyn J. Chiat ; Not from nowhere : identity and aspiration in Bob Dylan's hometown / Susan Clayton -- "A lamp is burning in all our dark" : Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash / Court Carney ; Allowed to be free : Bob Dylan and the civil rights movement / Charles Hughes -- Planet waves. Lives of allegory : Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol / Thomas Crow ; Like the night : reception and reaction Dylan UK 1966 / C.P. Lee ; Oh, the streets of Rome : Dylan in Italy / Alessandro Carrera ; Bob Dylan's reception in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s / Mikiko Tachi ; Borderless troubadour : Bob Dylan's influence on international protest during the Cold War / Heather Stur -- The ancients, whom all moderns prize. Bob Dylan's lives of the poets : Theme time radio hour as buried autobiography / Mick Cochrane ; Bob Dylan's memory palace / Robert Polito ; Among schoolchildren : Dylan's forty years in the classroom / Kevin J.H. Dettmar -- In a voice without restraint. Women do Dylan : the aesthetics and politics of Dylan covers / Daphne Brooks and Gayle Wald ; Crow Jane approximately : Bob Dylan's black masque / Aldon Lynn Nielsen ; Not dark yet : how Bob Dylan got his groove back / David Yaffe ; "Nettie Moore" : minstrelsy and the cultural economy of race in Bob Dylan's late albums / Robert Reginio ; "Somewhere down in the United States" : the art of Bob Dylan's ventriloquism / Michael Cherlin and Sumanth Gopinath ; Dylan/disabled : tolling for the deaf and blind / Alex Lubet ; Bob Dylan and the beats : magpie poetics, an investigation and memoir / Anne Waldman.
Subjects: Biographies.; Dylan, Bob, 1941-; Dylan, Bob, 1941-; Rock music; Singers;
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Byzantium and Islam : age of transition, 7th-9th century / by Evans, Helen C.(CARDINAL)211559; Ratliff, Brandie.(CARDINAL)602388; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)(CARDINAL)147619;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-319) and index.This magnificent volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. At the beginning of the 7th century, the Empire's southern provinces, the vibrant, diverse areas of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, were at the crossroads of exchanges reaching from Spain to China. These regions experienced historic upheavals when their Christian and Jewish communities encountered the emerging Islamic world, and by the 9th century, an unprecedented cross- fertilization of cultures had taken place. This extraordinary age is brought vividly to life in insightful contributions by leading international scholars, accompanied by sumptuous illustrations of the period's most notable arts and artifacts. Resplendent images of authority, religion, and trade{u2014}embodied in precious metals, brilliant textiles, fine ivories, elaborate mosaics, manuscripts, and icons, many of them never before published{u2014} highlight the dynamic dialogue between the rich array of Byzantine styles and the newly forming Islamic aesthetic. With its masterful exploration of two centuries that would shape the emerging medieval world, this illuminating publication provides a unique interpretation of a period that still resonates today.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Art, Byzantine; Art, Byzantine; Christian art and symbolism; Islamic art;
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Jerusalem, 1000-1400 : every people under heaven / by Boehm, Barbara Drake,editor,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)284295; Holcomb, Melanie,editor,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)211148; Williams, Elizabeth Dospěl,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)338164; Jacobs, Martin,1963-writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)338165; Shalem, Avinoam,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)338166; Ball, Jennifer(Jennifer L.),writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)338161; Polliack, Meira,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)338162; Kraemer, David Charles,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)338163; Hillenbrand, Carole,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)338158; Folda, Jaroslav,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)338159; Hillenbrand, Robert,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)338160; Auld, Sylvia,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)338156; Matar, N. I.(Nabil I.),1949-writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)338157; Carroll, James,1943-writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)338155; Evans, Helen C.,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)211559; Seubert, Xavier J.,1944-writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)329708; Natsheh, Yusuf,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)338154; Kornfeld, Abby,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)338153; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),issuing body,host institution.(CARDINAL)147619;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-327) and index."Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international center and home to multiple cultures, faiths, and languages. Harmonious and dissonant influences from Persian, Turkish, Greek, Syrian, Armenian, Georgian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Indian, and European traditions gave Jerusalem a key role in shaping art produced for both secular and religious purposes. Patrons and artists from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions alike focused their attention on the Holy City, endowing and enriching its sacred buildings and creating luxury goods for its residents. This artistic fertility was particularly in evidence between the 11th and 14th centuries, notwithstanding often devastating circumstances--from the earthquake of 1033 to the fierce battles of the Crusades. So strong a magnet was Jerusalem that it drew out the creative imagination of even those separated from it by great distance. Through compelling essays and focused discussions of more than 200 works of art, Jerusalem, 1000-1400 breaks new ground in exploring the relationship between the historical and the archetypal city of Jerusalem and uncovers the way in which the aesthetic achievements it inspired enhanced and enlivened the medieval world."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Art, Medieval; Cultural pluralism; East and West;
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