School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

From clandestine images of Jewish children isolated in Nazi ghettos and Japanese American children incarcerated in camps to images of Native children removed to North American boarding schools, classroom photographs of schoolchildren are pervasive even in repressive historical and political contexts. School Photos in Liquid Time offers a closer look at this genre of vernacular photography, tracing how photography advances ideologies of social assimilation as well as those of hierarchy and exclusion. In Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer's deft analysis, school photographs reveal connections between the histories of persecuted subjects in different national and imperial centers. Exploring what this ubiquitous and mundane but understudied genre tells us about domination as well as resistance, the authors examine school photos as documents of social life and agents of transformation. They place them in dialogue with works by contemporary artists who reframe, remediate, and elucidate them. Ambitious yet accessible, School Photos in Liquid Time presents school photography as a new access point into institutions of power, revealing the capacity of past and present actors to disrupt and reinvent them.

Arts & Photography

Spitzer, Leo

Hirsch, Marianne

History & Criticism

University of Washington Press

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The Creoles of Sierra Leone: Responses to Colonialism 1870-1945

History

World

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Hotel Bolivia

Hill Wang

Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory

In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the “Vienna of the East” under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II―yet an idealized version lives on, suspended in the memories of its dispersed people and passed down to their children like a precious and haunted heirloom. In this original blend of history and communal memoir, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer chronicle the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory. They find evidence of a cosmopolitan culture of nostalgic lore―but also of oppression, shattered promises, and shadows of the Holocaust in Romania. Hirsch and Spitzer present the first historical account of Jewish Czernowitz in the English language and offer a profound analysis of memory's echo across generations.

Russia

University of California Press

Employing a cross-cultural approach, this book focuses on members from several generations of families who were products of two or more social worlds - the Afro-Brazilian Reboucas family, the West African Creole May family from Sierra Leone, and the Austrian-Jewish Zweig-Brettauer family.

Lives in Between: Assimilation and Marginality in Austria, Brazil, and West Africa, 1780–1945 (Studies in Comparative World History)

Africa

Cambridge University Press

Employing a cross-cultural approach, this book focuses on members from several generations of families who were products of two or more social worlds - the Afro-Brazilian Reboucas family; the West African Creole May family from Sierra Leone; and the Austrian-Jewish Zweig-Brettauer family.

Spitzer discusses the method he evolved for bringing together the two disciplines, linguistics and literary history, and examines the work of Cervantes, Racine, Diderot, and Claudel in the light of this theory.
Originally published in 1967.
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Linguistics and Literary History: Essays in Stylistics (Princeton Legacy Library)

Literature & Fiction

Princeton University Press

Essays on English and American Literature (Princeton Legacy Library)

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