Books

  • Grapevine and Rose: Muslim Oral Ballads from Bosnia-Herzegovina

    Masha Belyavski-Frank

    Grapevine and Rose: Muslim Oral Ballads from Bosnia-Herzegovina

    An important part of Balkan folk literature, oral ballads of the Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina are part of the European tradition of ballads. One of the broad themes that one encounters repeatedly in Bosnian Muslim oral ballads is the stepping outside of...

    $34.95
  • City of Memory: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Polish Poetry

    Mikoś, Michael J

    City of Memory: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Polish Poetry

    City of Memory brings together 122 poems written by 21 authors in the last quarter century. These writers draw upon the deep-rooted tradition of Polish literature established by poets like Kochanowski, Norwid, and Herbert, whose worldviews and...

    $34.95
  • RGWR V10: Women and Gender in Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–22

    Adele Lindenmeyr and Melissa K. Stockdale (eds.)

    RGWR V10: Women and Gender in Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–22

    World War I, followed by four more years of revolution and civil conflict, exerted its power to both liberate and destroy in Russia on a scale unsurpassed elsewhere in Europe. It accelerated improvements in women’s status and employment...

    $44.95
  • RGWR V5, B3: The Russian Civil War: Military and Society

    David R. Stone et al. (eds.)

    RGWR V5, B3: The Russian Civil War: Military and Society

    This book--one of two covering the Russian Civil War in a volume on military affairs during Russia’s Great War and Revolution--explores institutions, social groups, and social conflict amid the chaos of the war that followed the Russian...

    $44.95
  • Against the devil in History book cover

    By Aleksander Wat, Translated by Frank L. Vigoda, Edited and with an Introduction by Gwido Zlatkes

    Against the Devil in History: Poems, Short Stories, Essays, Fragments

    Aleksander Wat. This extraordinary poet can be seen against the background of three periods of the 20th century. Born in 1900 to a Jewish merchant family in Warsaw, he became an anarchist and futurist, edited a communist journal, and was imprisoned by...

    $44.95
  • V zeleni drželi zeleni breg book cover

    Dickey, Steven M., and Mark R. Lauersdorf (eds.)

    V zeleni drželi zeleni breg: Studies in Honor of Marc L. Greenberg

    This volume of essays honors Marc L. Greenberg for his distinguished contributions to research in the field of Slavic linguistics, as well as for his effort in support of foreign languages in American higher education, most notably as a professor and...

    $39.95
  • Katerino Mome book cover

    Edited by Steven L. Franks, Vrinda Chidambaram, Brian D. Joseph, and Iliyana Krapova

    Katerino Mome: Studies in Bulgarian Morphosyntax in Honor of Catherine Rudin

    As demonstrated by the diverse contributions to this volume, Catherine Rudin occupies a special position in Bulgarian linguistics. Since her 1982 Indiana University dissertation, she has come to be known as the doyenne of Bulgarian generative syntax. Her...

    $39.95
  • The Jewish Worker in Russia

    Yakov Leshchinsky, translated by Robert Brym

    The Jewish Worker in Russia

    At the turn of the 20th century, the Russian Empire's 5.2 million Jews were in crisis. Having quintupled in number since 1800, they were substantially impoverished and crammed into Russia's 25 westernmost provinces. Some pinned their hopes on...

    $29.95
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