Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine. By Amelia M. Glaser. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. xiv, 353 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. $39.95, hard bound.
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2023.76
Abstract: terms “diaspora,” “emigration,” “exile” had not become “archaic,” “aged” (245, 246, inter alia). As Russia’s aggression against Ukraine wiped the slate clean, the vaunted “global connectivity” has revealed the ugly face of censorship as vicious… read more here.
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RESEARCHING PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF EDUCATIONAL PROFESSIONALS IN NEW DARK TIMES
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DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2019.1673879
Abstract: ABSTRACT Education reform under the modernisation agenda both in England and internationally has signified the restoration of the ‘private’ and the decline of ‘public’ education. Deploying Arendtian thinking on assimilation and identity, we argue that… read more here.
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Hermeneutics contra fundamentalism: Zygmunt Bauman’s method for thinking in dark times
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DOI: 10.1177/0725513619898285
Abstract: Faced with a rise of populism seemingly in all corners of the globe, the need to facilitate meaningful communication between different world-views and to resist the closing down of dialogue is pressing. In this paper,… read more here.
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Revolutionary Hope in Dark Times: Zizek on Faith in the Future
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DOI: 10.3390/rel11050243
Abstract: In this article, I interpret Zizek’s recent call to “abandon hope” and embrace the “courage of hopelessness,” as a provocation to articulate a new kind of utopia, rather than an endorsement of despair. On Zizek’s… read more here.
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