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“…"While living in anti-Semitic Vienna, Freud wrote in a letter to Ernest Jones, 'What progress we are making. …”

“…Provides a comprehensive history of Soviet Jewry during World War IIAt the beginning of the twentieth century, more Jews lived in the Russian Empire than anywhere else in the world. …”

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“…A group of thirty anonymous Burmese videoreporters put their lives at risk to smuggle their secret recordings to Norway. …”
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“…The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives. This work is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam, as well as a portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live…”
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“…Space can be understood as an interactive mediation between the forms of the built environment, resulting from the transformation of nature, and the social life that animates them, whose production dynamics dialectically articulate the dimensions of the perceived, the conceived and the lived. Thus, the production process and modes of appropriation of the metropolitan space of Brasília are the focus of this analysis. …”

“…"Amazonian Cosmopolitans focuses on the autobiographical accounts of two Brazilian Indigenous leaders, Prepori and Sabino, Kawaiwete men whose lives spanned the twentieth century, when Amazonia increasingly became the context of large-scale state projects. …”

“…The argument for such border crossings lies in the reality of people's lives. This thought-provoking book explores that reality, as it brings postcolonial theory to a personal level and investigates global influences on local lives of immigrants…”

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“…As Hsiang-shui Chen documents, the political dynamics of these settlements are entirely different from the traditional closed Chinese communities; the immigrants in Queens think of themselves as living in "worldtown," not in a second Chinatown. …”

“…As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary greatness. …”

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“…In contrast to many of the other major excavations of Anglo-Saxon settlements, the evidence from Stratton provides insights into the lives of a low-status rural community, whose development can be traced over the course of more than a millennium. …”