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Privire sintetică asupra „literaturii naționalităților conlocuitoare” din România în perioada 1975-1979 [PDF]

Revista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2022
A totalizing perspective on the literary landscape in Romania in the second half of the 1970s should not lose sight of certain aspects that are not always as visible as one would like, such as the literature belonging to the „cohabiting nationalities ...
Cristina Deutsch
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Henri Lefebvre and the spatial revolution that never ends: Towards the reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches in geography?

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 1, March 2026.
Abstract It is widely accepted that Henri Lefebvre's Marxism had anarchistic traits, but few have tried to specify what these traits are, or what they mean. This paper argues that Lefebvre's work should be seen as first and foremost an anti‐authoritarian theory that uses space, rather than a spatial theory.
Hamish Kallin
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Leib Malach’s Montreal Travelogue, 1930

Canadian Jewish Studies, 2022
In mid-1930, the Yiddish novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, and world traveller Leib Malach visited Montreal to attend the dedication of a new home for the Jewish Public Library.
Zachary M. Baker
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W lustrze pamięci – problemy żydowskiej literatury autobiograficznej

Autobiografia, 2017
This article is an introduction to Jewish autobiographical literature. Basing her premises on a canonical text by Georges Gusdorf, the author undermines, in the spirit of post-colonialism, his Christianity-centered perception of the foundations of the ...
Joanna Lisek
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope

Symbolic Interaction, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 3-47, February 2026.
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Foreign Stories and National Narratives: Yiddish and Fictionality in Jurek Becker’s Jakob the Liar and Edgar Hilsenrath’s The Nazi and the Barber

Humanities, 2019
This article uses two examples of postwar German Jewish literature to explore the way in which these literary reflections on fictionality can also serve to subvert and complicate the national narratives that were developed in East and West Germany.
Emma Woelk
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Singing Off the Road to Life: The Threat of Sonic Delinquency in the Early Soviet Union

The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 7-22, January 2026.
Abstract During the New Economic Policy, Bolshevik activists and the public alike shared a fixation on singing criminals and young delinquents. It saturated stories of criminality and moral or social reform, from newspapers to sociological literature and even one of the first Soviet sound films.
Elizabeth Abosch
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Chaim Kruger as an Author of Serialized Novels in the Keneder Adler, 1927–1933

Canadian Jewish Studies
Chaim Kruger (1877–1933) was born in Lithuania, educated in Lithuanian yeshivas, and became a personality of some importance in the Montreal Jewish community after his emigration to Canada in 1907.
Ira Robinson
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Unterzakhn, Dirty Laundry, and the Map of Lost New York: An Interview with Leela Corman

European Journal of American Studies, 2015
This interview with cartoonist Leela Corman took place shortly after the publication of her graphic novel Unterzakhn. In the interview, she describes what it means to her to be a Jewish American cartoonist – where her book fits into that tradition, how ...
Jaime Cleland
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El judaísmo en la obra de Sergio Chejfec: escribir desde una cultura ausente

Cuadernos LIRICO, 2019
In his first novel (Lenta Biografia) Chejfec told the story of an unsuccessful transmission of the familial memory and of the Ashquenazi culture. He then dealt with the progressive disappearance of the Jewish traditions and culture within the immigrant ...
Benoît Coquil
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