May 10, 2017
This book by anthropologist William A. Christian, Jr. presents and comments on an extensive set of religious and personal photographs and illustrations, from a wide variety of sources throughout Europe, that depict people along with divine beings or absent loved ones.
For more information, see http://ceupress.com/books/html/Stranger_Tears_Photograpgh_Touch.htm
May 10, 2017
Six million people visit Prague Castle each year. Bruce R. Berglund, professor of history at Calvin College, tells the story of how this ancient citadel was transformed after World War I from a neglected, run-down relic into the seat of power for independent Czechoslovakia—and the symbolic center of democratic postwar Europe.
For more information, see http://ceupress.com/books/html/Castle_and_Cathedral.htm
May 9, 2017
Estonia is perhaps the only country in Europe that lacks a comprehensive history of its Jewish minority. Spanning over 150 years of Estonian Jewish history, Anton Weiss-Wendt addresses the issues of rebuilding a life beyond so-called Pale of Jewish Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Jewish cultural autonomy in interwar Estonia, and the trauma of Soviet occupation of 1940–41 in On the Margins. But most profoundly, the book wrestles with the subject of the Holocaust and its legacy in Estonia.
May 9, 2017
Exploring theater practices in communist and post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, Ileana Alexandra Orlich, President’s Professor at Arizona State University, analyzes intertextuality or “inter-theatricality” as a political strategy, designed to criticize contemporary political conditions while at the same time trying to circumvent censorship.
For more information, see http://ceupress.com/books/html/Subversive%20_Stages.htm