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A Fool's Kabbalah

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In the ruins of postwar Europe, the world's leading expert on the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism goes on a hair-raising journey to recover sacred books stolen by the Nazis . . .At the end of the Second World War Gershom Scholem, the magisterial scholar of Jewish mysticism, is commissioned by the Hebrew University in what was then British-ruled Palestine to retrieve a lost world. He is sent to sift ... Read more

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In the ruins of postwar Europe, the world's leading expert on the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism goes on a hair-raising journey to recover sacred books stolen by the Nazis . . .At the end of the Second World War Gershom Scholem, the magisterial scholar of Jewish mysticism, is commissioned by the Hebrew University in what was then British-ruled Palestine to retrieve a lost world. He is sent to sift
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The North of God

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Here in a place dedicated to the manufacture of fear—a place that one ghoul of a Rebbe declared was located to the North of God, where his jurisdicition no longer held sway—Velvl found himself developing a certain resistance.Through numerous books and stories, Steve Stern has become known for his fantastical (and often wildly comic) stories based on yiddish folklore—Harold Bloom has called him "a ... Read more

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Here in a place dedicated to the manufacture of fear—a place that one ghoul of a Rebbe declared was located to the North of God, where his jurisdicition no longer held sway—Velvl found himself developing a certain resistance.Through numerous books and stories, Steve Stern has become known for his fantastical (and often wildly comic) stories based on yiddish folklore—Harold Bloom has called him "a
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The Book of Mischief

New and Selected Stories

by Steve Stern ...

"In the 25 years since [Stern] published his first book, younger Jewish writers have run with a similar shtick . . . But Stern was there first." —The Toronto Globe and MailT**he Book of Mischief triumphantly showcases twenty-five years of outstanding work by one of our true masters of the short story. Steve Stern's stories take us from the unlikely old Jewish quarter of the Pinch in Memphis to a ... Read more

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"In the 25 years since [Stern] published his first book, younger Jewish writers have run with a similar shtick . . . But Stern was there first." —The Toronto Globe and MailT**he Book of Mischief triumphantly showcases twenty-five years of outstanding work by one of our true masters of the short story. Steve Stern's stories take us from the unlikely old Jewish quarter of the Pinch in Memphis to a
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The Frozen Rabbi

by Steve Stern ...

Award-winning novelist Steve Stern’s exhilarating epic recounts the story of how a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town ends up in a basement freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end of the twentieth century. What happens when an impressionable teenage boy inadvertently thaws out the ancient man and brings him back to life is nothing short of miraculous. ... Read more

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Award-winning novelist Steve Stern’s exhilarating epic recounts the story of how a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town ends up in a basement freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end of the twentieth century. What happens when an impressionable teenage boy inadvertently thaws out the ancient man and brings him back to life is nothing short of miraculous.
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The Village Idiot

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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022"A frothy picaresque that ... vibrates to the “sweet celestial confusion” of Soutine’s painting: delirious and earthy, reverent and irreligious." -- The New York Times Book ReviewA wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life of the extraordinary artist Chaim SoutineSteve Stern’s astonishing new novel The Village Idiot begins on a gl... ... Read more

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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022"A frothy picaresque that ... vibrates to the “sweet celestial confusion” of Soutine’s painting: delirious and earthy, reverent and irreligious." -- The New York Times Book ReviewA wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life of the extraordinary artist Chaim SoutineSteve Stern’s astonishing new novel The Village Idiot begins on a gl...
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Remembering Pinochet's Chile

On the Eve of London 1998

by Steve J. Stern, Walter D. Mignolo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Irene Silverblatt ...

Series Book 1 - Latin America Otherwise
During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this compelling work, Stern shares the recollections of individual Chileans and draws on their stories to provide a ... Read more

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During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this compelling work, Stern shares the recollections of individual Chileans and draws on their stories to provide a
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Foxy Ladies

by Steve Stern, Lorraine Hall ...

Foxy Ladies is the story of Zoe Heller, a talented graphic designer who works her way up the ranks in the advertising department of a major Los Angeles department store in the 1970s. Foxy Ladies is the chronicle of a country emerging from the upheaval of the 1960s, with women, gays, and African-Americans creating a new American paradigm. ... Read more

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Foxy Ladies is the story of Zoe Heller, a talented graphic designer who works her way up the ranks in the advertising department of a major Los Angeles department store in the 1970s. Foxy Ladies is the chronicle of a country emerging from the upheaval of the 1960s, with women, gays, and African-Americans creating a new American paradigm.
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The Pinch

A Novel

by Steve Stern ...

A dazzling, spellbinding novel set in a mythical Jewish community by the acclaimed author of the New York Times Notable Book The Book of MischiefIt's the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish community centered on North Main Street in Memphis, has been reduced to a single tenant. Lenny Sklarew awaits the draft by peddling drugs and shelving books—until he learns he is a character in a book ... Read more

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A dazzling, spellbinding novel set in a mythical Jewish community by the acclaimed author of the New York Times Notable Book The Book of MischiefIt's the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish community centered on North Main Street in Memphis, has been reduced to a single tenant. Lenny Sklarew awaits the draft by peddling drugs and shelving books—until he learns he is a character in a book
... Read more
Harry Kaplan's Adventures Underground

by Steve Stern ...

Harry finds himself transplanted from staid and steady Brooklyn in the 1930s and discovers a world that eclipses anything that the Scarlet Pimpernel or Captain Horatio Hornblower could conjure before his inexperienced eyes. His life of excitement is predominantly lived between his ears. ... Read more

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Harry finds himself transplanted from staid and steady Brooklyn in the 1930s and discovers a world that eclipses anything that the Scarlet Pimpernel or Captain Horatio Hornblower could conjure before his inexperienced eyes. His life of excitement is predominantly lived between his ears.
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Reckoning with Pinochet

The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006

by Steve J. Stern, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...

Series Book 3 - Latin America Otherwise
Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet’s legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America’s “dirty war” dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base. Hero to some and criminal to others, the general cast a long shadow over Chile’s future. Steve J. Stern recounts the ... Read more

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Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet’s legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America’s “dirty war” dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base. Hero to some and criminal to others, the general cast a long shadow over Chile’s future. Steve J. Stern recounts the
... Read more
The Secret History of Gender

Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico

by Steve J. Stern ...

In this study of gender relations in late colonial Mexico (ca. 1760–1821), Steve Stern analyzes the historical connections between gender, power, and politics in the lives of peasants, Indians, and other marginalized peoples. Through vignettes of everyday life, he challenges assumptions about gender relations and political culture in a patriarchal society. He also reflects on continuity and change ... Read more

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In this study of gender relations in late colonial Mexico (ca. 1760–1821), Steve Stern analyzes the historical connections between gender, power, and politics in the lives of peasants, Indians, and other marginalized peoples. Through vignettes of everyday life, he challenges assumptions about gender relations and political culture in a patriarchal society. He also reflects on continuity and change
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Battling for Hearts and Minds

Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973–1988

by Steve J. Stern, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...

Series Book 2 - Latin America Otherwise
Battling for Hearts and Minds is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from the 1973 military coup in which he seized power through his defeat in a 1988 plebiscite. Steve J. Stern provides a riveting narration of Chile’s political history during this period. At the same time, he analyzes ... Read more

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Battling for Hearts and Minds is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from the 1973 military coup in which he seized power through his defeat in a 1988 plebiscite. Steve J. Stern provides a riveting narration of Chile’s political history during this period. At the same time, he analyzes
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