A Diplomat's Extraordinary Journey from Poverty to Israel's Ambassador to the Vatican and Ireland
From a small village in Iran to a childhood spent in a ma'abarah (a refugee and immigration camp) in Israel, and ultimately to the marble corridors of the Vatican, Holy Land, Holy See tells the extraordinary journey of an Israeli diplomat who devoted more than four decades to serving his country. Born in Borujerd, Iran, and raised in Israel in ......
Nuclear Dialogues examines how a discursive process constructed the nuclear nonproliferation norm in international relations. Zoe I. Levornik's innovative new study traces the evolution of the norm from the dawn of the nuclear age to the present day and how it emerged and diffused through the actions of antinuclear activists and members of the ......
This path breaking study is the first biography in any language of the Russian industrialist, entrepreneur, and political leader Nikolai Fedorovich von Ditmar (1865-1919). Scion of a Baltic German noble family, von Ditmar studied physical sciences with the famous chemist Dmitrii Mendeleev and pursued a career as a railway engineer before ......
Black-Palestinian Solidarity Movements in the United States
Soon after a series of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, African-American protestors there and Palestinian protestors in the West Bank began to include the slogan "From Ferguson to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime" in their public statements. In Neither Thugs nor Terrorists, Randa Serhan uses cutting edge first-hand research to explore how these two ......
The Saga of a Russian-American Family Through War and Revolution
The collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917 had devastating consequences for millions of its subjects, many of whom fled from the violent chaos, becoming known as "White Russian" emigres. While their stories have been widely chronicled, less well known are the stories of the so-called Second Wave of Russian emigrants, who were swept across Europe ......
How Wagner's Three Canonical Operas (The Flying Dutchman, Tannhaeuser, and Lohengrin) Paved the Way to his Mature Music Dramas
Scholars of Richard Wagner's works have long noted his numerous comparisons between their characters and plots in his letters, essays, and recorded remarks. Yet no one has previously attempted to assess their implications for our understanding of his art systematically. Paul Heise's quest to grasp the allegorical unity underlying Wagner's ......
Surviving evolutionary lines of animals and plants all had their adaptive keys for flourishing in the long run. In the case of humans, a lack of primate specializations opened the door to unique evolutionary possibilities. From the Miocene Era about 20 million years ago, nature began to offer new possibilities to creatures with larger brains and ......
Prosecutorial Democracy and the Future of Cancellation
For more than a decade, cancel culture has contributed to the stifling of public debate and the ruin of private lives. Academics, artists, and professionals have found themselves deplatformed, disinvited, and unemployed for little more than expressing an opinion or publishing research that departs from current dogma. In From Cancel Culture to ......
The Raj's Last Man Standing In Search of Geoffrey Langlands
Born in Hull in 1917, Geoffrey Langlands narrowly survived the Spanish Flu epidemic and Zeppelin bombings of World War I. Coming of age in time for World War II, he joined the elite No. 4 Commando unit in 1940. After successes in Europe, he was selected for officer training and posted to the Indian Army. He never left the subcontinent, serving ......
