This book explores the life and thought of one of the most important but least known figures in early Zionism, Nathan Birnbaum. Now remembered mainly for his coinage of the word "Zionism," Birnbaum was a towering figure in early Jewish nationalism. Because of his unusual intellectual trajectory, however, he has been written out of Jewish history. In the middle of his life, in the depth of World War I, Birnbaum left his venerable position as a secular Jewish nationalist for religious Orthod...

Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust, the birth of Israel, and the rise and fall of the Soviet bloc. They assess the achievements and fate of those who participated in the 1908 Yiddish Language Conference that was held at...

A lack of trust can be harder to overcome than distance.Jess Butler just wanted to dip her toe in the water. She didn't expect her one-night stand with her sister's best man, Ethan Knight, to develop into a steamy relationship or to meet a man who could crack the hardened exterior of her twice-broken heart. A one-night stand, turned holiday romance shouldn't have followed her home, but it did, and the excess baggage of their combined trust issues might just...

At his boardinghouse in Rio de Janeiro, the Englishman James Marian is seen as handsome but eccentric. Then another boarder learns Marian's secret: a fusion of a female head and a male body, Marian is the creation of a surgeon with occult powers. Despite his wealth and mysterious abilities, Marian is unable to live fully as either a man or a woman, traveling the world in order to repress his sexual desire and withdraw from society.Esfinge explores the binaries of science a...

At his boardinghouse in Rio de Janeiro, the Englishman James Marian is seen as handsome but eccentric. Then another boarder learns Marian's secret: a fusion of a female head and a male body, Marian is the creation of a surgeon with occult powers. Despite his wealth and mysterious abilities, Marian is unable to live fully as either a man or a woman, traveling the world in order to repress his sexual desire and withdraw from society.Sphinx explores the binaries of science an...

Meet Jasmin ... she is sweet, caring and observant. She wants young siblings to know they are not alone in losing a sibling. At age 4, Jasmin loses her sister to cancer. From visiting her sister in the hospital to helping with medicine, Jasmin recollects the times she supported her sister. She also shares the legacy her sister left her and takes comfort in knowing she will always be a little sister.

Death studies typically focus on the death of humans, overlooking the wider factors involved in social and natural processes around death. This edited volume provides an alternative focus for death studies by looking beyond human death, to reveal the complex interconnections among human and more than human creatures, entities and environments.Bringing together a diverse range of international scholars, the book sheds light on topics which have previously remained at the margins of ...