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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2025The Jewish pedlar
An untold criminal history
by Tony Kushner
An imaginative investigation into a historical crime that sheds new light on Jewish history. In 1734 a pedlar turned smuggler named Jacob Harris slit the throats of three people in a pub in Sussex. This triple-murder, for which he was hanged and gibbeted, remains the most violent crime ever committed by a British Jew. Yet today it is all but forgotten. In The Jewish pedlar, Tony Kushner goes in search of the enigmatic Harris. Digging into a remarkable range of sources, from law records and newspaper reports to ballads and folktales, he follows the traces of Harris's legend across three hundred years of British history. In doing so, he reconstructs the world of Jewish pedlars and criminals across many continents. The lives these figures eked out at the margins of society paint a picture of persistent antisemitism - but also of remarkable integration. Intellectually bold and deeply humane, The Jewish pedlar takes a new, grassroots approach to the history of Jews in the modern world, shedding light on everyday lives from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust and beyond.
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March 2026Künstler meines Lebens
Sechzehn Porträts | Reflexionen und Erinnerungen an Wegbegleiter
by Sigrid Damm
16 außergewöhnliche Porträts von Sigrid Damm versammelt dieser Band. Es sind Reflexionen und Erinnerungen an Künstler und Wegbegleiter, die für Sigrid Damm wichtig waren. Mit einigen war sie persönlich bekannt: Eva und Erwin Strittmatter, Franz Fühmann, Siegfried Unseld; für andere hatte sie eine lebenslange Vorliebe: Ernst Barlach, Käthe Kollwitz, Caspar David Friedrich, Heinrich Heine und natürlich Johann Wolfgang von Goethe und seine Familie. Aber auch »Zufallsbekanntschaften« und überraschende Funde im eigenen Bücherregal oder in Bibliotheken prägen die Auswahl: von Iwan Turgenjew über Else Lasker-Schüler, Rosa Luxemburg und Hermann Hesse bis zu Lew Tolstoj. Vom jeweiligen Tag des Todes blickt Sigrid Damm auf ausgewählte Lebensmomente in diesen kleinen Biografien zurück und erzählt von ihrer ganz persönlichen Begegnung mit den Künstlern und ihren Werken und wie diese ihr Leben bereichert haben.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Bertrand Blier
by Sue Harris
The most complete study of Blier's work to date, Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present. Outlines the forms, themes and style which dominate in Blier's work, and challenges the many labels that have been used to describe both the corpus of films and the man himself. Provides an original and controversial discussion of Blier's alleged 'misogyny', and invites the reader to understand the scatological and corporeal aspects of Blier's filmmaking in terms of long-established traditions of popular dramatic culture. Brings to light the comic mechanisms underpinning Blier's films and identifies strategies which navigate through one of the most entertaining and disconcerting bodies of work of recent years. The first book on Blier published in English.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2015Men, ideas and tanks
British military thought and armoured forces, 1903?39
by J. P. Harris
Men, ideas and tanks reviews the development of British military ideas on armoured forces from 1903 to 1939. Great Britain was the nation which first developed the tank, first used it in action and first gained dramatic results by employment. The British continued to be world leaders in the field of mechanised warfare until the early 1930s. J. P. Harris offers strikingly new interpretations of the early history of British armoured forces and explains why Great Britain had lost the lead by the outbreak of the Second World War. Available in paperback once more, this work will be of interest to all those concerned with British military history in the first half of the twentieth century, with the history of mechanised warfare and with the history of military thought. ;
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