Yannai on Genesis

Yannai on GenesisPiyyut is the art of Hebrew or Aramaic poetry composed either in place of or as adornments to Jewish statutory prayers. Laura S. Lieber uses the piyyutim of a single poet, Yannai (ca. sixth century C. E.), to introduce readers to this important but largely unfamiliar body of writings.

Her best-known play

Choreographies is both autobiography and archive – documenting production through rehearsal and performance photographs

is concerned with women’s varied involvement with the visual arts and material culture of their day

Tragic and timeless

This book examines the tensions

Using interviews

The book also features an essay on shelter by anthropologist Tim Ingold

This volume publishes and discusses 186 cuneiform documents from the Late Old Babylonian period (1683-1595 B

the other Byzantine cities and their surroundings in the Balkans and Asia Minor

and related fields increasingly revolve around this question: What to do with “the human”

and even who one could marry

Marxism and America: New appraisals sheds new light on that question in essays that engage sexuality