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Daniil Andreev and the Mysticism of Femininity (1997)
Book Chapter
Epstein, M. (1997). Daniil Andreev and the Mysticism of Femininity. In B. Glatzer (Ed.), The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture (325-355). Cornell University Press

Soviet Jewish Aliyah: Impact and Implications for Israel and the Middle East (1996)
Book
Jones, C. (1996). Soviet Jewish Aliyah: Impact and Implications for Israel and the Middle East. Frank Cass

This book provides new insights into a period of fundamental change in Israel and the Middle East. It explains how the Israeli government failed to effectively handle the integration of new emigres from the Soviet Union, and how it alienated traditio... Read More about Soviet Jewish Aliyah: Impact and Implications for Israel and the Middle East.

The Origins and Meaning of Russian Postmodernism (1995)
Book Chapter
Epstein, M. (1995). The Origins and Meaning of Russian Postmodernism. In E. Berry, & A. Miller-Pogacar (Eds.), Re-entering the Sign: Articulating New Russian Culture (25-47). University of Michigan Press

Re- Entering the Sign brings together an array of perspectives from contemporary Russian scholars and artists on the radical cultural changes that have accompanied the collapse of familiar social, political, and economic structures in the former Sovi... Read More about The Origins and Meaning of Russian Postmodernism.

After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture. (1995)
Book
Epstein, M. (1995). After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture. University of Massachusetts Press

This book brings together for the first time in English the major writings of Mikhail Epstein, one of post-Soviet Russia's most prominent theoreticians of cultural studies and postmodernism. Written from a non-Western point of view yet informed by a... Read More about After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture..

Early Israelite Wisdom. (1994)
Book
Weeks, S. (1994). Early Israelite Wisdom. Clarendon Press

This study of the nature and origins of the earliest material in the Book of Proverbs in the Bible draws on evidence from Israel and the neighbouring Near East. This literature has been widely believed to have originated as pedogogical material, desi... Read More about Early Israelite Wisdom..