Opening a Confiscated Archive: A View of the Interracial Yiddish Left's Origins, Impact and Legacy. | Elissa Sampson Apr 23, 2026 | Jewish Community Library with the San Francisco Workers Circle / Arbeter Ring 9pm ET. Talk Sign Up: https://forms.gle/GyLvhuYzRQ4PbTHP8 A Zoom link will be sent

Opening a Confiscated Archive: A View of the Interracial Yiddish Left's Origins, Impact and Legacy with Elissa Sampson, co-editor of FROM POPULAR FRONT TO COLD WAR #SaveTheDate
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The Great Repair by Gideon Reuveni | Hardcover | Cornell University Press The Great Repair explores how Jews and Germans began reparations discussions fewer than seven years after the Holocaust—a momentous achievement relegated to the margins of Holocaust scholarship and...

THE GREAT REPAIR explores how #Jews and #Germans began reparations discussions fewer than seven years after the Holocaust—a momentous achievement relegated to the margins of Holocaust scholarship and memory—and the complexities that emerged from the resulting settlement.

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Women and Resistance in the "Annals" of Tacitus by Caitlin C. Gillespie | Hardcover | Cornell University Press Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Throughout his Annals,...

WOMEN AND RESISTANCE IN THE ANNALS OF TACITUS explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Caitlin C. Gillespie situates nonimperial Roman women at the fore. #History

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Fear of the False by Mitra Sharafi | Paperback | Cornell University Press Fear of the False uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of forensic science. Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific detection...

FEAR OF THE FALSE uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of #forensicscience. Through scrupulously documented legal cases, Mitra Sharafi reveals that colonial dynamics put special pressure on the relationship between truth and justice.

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Women and Resistance in the "Annals" of Tacitus by Caitlin C. Gillespie | Hardcover | Cornell University Press Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Throughout his Annals,...

WOMEN AND RESISTANCE IN THE ANNALS OF TACITUS explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Caitlin C. Gillespie situates nonimperial Roman women at the fore. #History

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Fear of the False by Mitra Sharafi | Paperback | Cornell University Press Fear of the False uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of forensic science. Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific detection...

FEAR OF THE FALSE uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of #forensicscience. Through scrupulously documented legal cases, Mitra Sharafi reveals that colonial dynamics put special pressure on the relationship between truth and justice.

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The Politics of Collaboration by William A. Hoisington Jr. | Hardcover | Cornell University Press The Politics of Collaboration explores the initial fifteen years of the French protectorate in Morocco (1912–1927) when the independent Sharifian Empire ruled by a sultan claiming descent from the...

THE POLITICS OF COLLABORATION William A. Hoisington Jr. reveals details on the working collaboration between Lyautey and Yusef bin Hassan, along with a new examination of the relationships between the protectorate's administrators and #Morocco's leaders.

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Belfastmen by Tom Hulme | Paperback | Cornell University Press Belfastmen reconstructs the everyday experiences of queer men in a region infamous for its recent history of intolerance, violence, and religious homophobia to show how queer lives before the gay rights...

Tom Hulme in BELFASTMEN traces the intimate lives of men across time, space, and self-understanding: their meeting places, their sexual and romantic relationships. #LGBTQ

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The Human Edge by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn. foreword by Marian R. Croak | Paperback | Cornell University Press The Human Edge is a call to action for anyone who wants to lead—and not merely follow—using artificial intelligence (AI) to transform the way we make decisions. But as Cheryl Strauss Einhorn shows,...

THE HUMAN EDGE shows that the challenge we face is no longer about using AI—it is about leading AI with clarity, discernment, and a commitment to human agency, as Cheryl Strauss Einhorn shows. #AI #Tech

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Fire and Freedom by Edited by Thomas S. Wermuth, Devin Lander, and Jennifer Lemak. With a foreword by Russell Shorto | Hardcover | Cornell University Press More than two hundred and fifty years after the revolution began, Fire and Freedom invites readers to rediscover America's journey to independence. Showcasing New York's central role in the revolution,...

With a foreword by Russell Shorto, FIRE AND FREEDOM, edited by Thomas S. Wermuth, Devin Lander and Robert Chiles, shows that events off the battlefield were just as meaningful as the fighting itself. #EarlyAmerica #History

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Lyric Poetry as State Criticism in Modern Japan by Marianne Tarcov | Paperback | Cornell University Press Lyric Poetry as State Criticism in Modern Japan explores how seemingly apolitical verse became a subtle vehicle for political expression under censorship. In an era of intense state control, Japanese...

LYRIC POETRY AS STATE CRITICISM IN MODERN JAPAN explores how seemingly apolitical verse became a subtle vehicle for political expression under censorship, as Marianne Tarcov shows how lyric form enabled poets to veil their critique in plain sight. #Poetry

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Critical Failures by Miyabi Goto | Paperback | Cornell University Press Critical Failures revisits the overlooked messiness at the heart of Japan's early experiments with modern criticism. In the Meiji era, young intellectuals posited that mastering the art of critical...

CRITICAL FAILURES revisits the overlooked messiness at the heart of #Japan's early experiments with modern criticism. Miyabi Goto argues that this gap between theory and practice—hihyō's failure—opened unexpected pathways for what critical reading could be.

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Rogue States by Matthew A. Frakes | Paperback | Cornell University Press In Rogue States, Matthew A. Frakes reveals the connection between US national security strategy at the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the War on Terror. Throughout a series of crises from...

In ROGUE STATES, Matthew A. Frakes reveals the connection between US national security strategy at the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the War on Terror. #USHistory #NationalSecurity

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Join Robert W. Snyder to talk about his book most recent book WHEN THE CITY STOPPED at the Historic Richmond Town, in Staten Island, NY.
🗓️March, 26, 2026 🕧 6:30pm / More info: https://www.historicrichmondtown.org/events
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DIGITAL INITIATION RITES by Vita Peacock is an ethnography of Anonymous in Britain between 2014 and 2017, in the context of government austerity.
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The Human Edge by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn. foreword by Marian R. Croak | Paperback | Cornell University Press The Human Edge is a call to action for anyone who wants to lead—and not merely follow—using artificial intelligence (AI) to transform the way we make decisions. But as Cheryl Strauss Einhorn shows,...

THE HUMAN EDGE shows that the challenge we face is no longer about using AI—it is about leading AI with clarity, discernment, and a commitment to human agency, as Cheryl Strauss Einhorn shows. #AI #Tech

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Resilient Failure? Regulating Human Rights in Global Supply Chains | ScuolaNormaleSuperiore Ever more initiatives, public and private, are introduced to regulate labour standards in global supply chains, but to what effect? In the inaugural Ciampi Lecture of 2026 Prof. Sarosh Kuruvilla, of C...

Ciampi Lecture: “Resilient Failure? Regulating Human Rights in Global Supply Chains”. Sarosh Kuruvilla (Cornell University) reflects on 25 years of efforts to enforce labour standards in global supply chains.
March 23, 5 PM | Palazzo Strozzi (or Teams) @cornellupress.bsky.social

Beyond the Elite by edited by Elisheva Baumgarten | Paperback | Cornell University Press Beyond the Elite focuses on the everyday social history of Jews in medieval northern and central Europe using four interpretive lenses: people, space, objects, and rituals. Contributors to this innovative...

BEYOND THE ELITE, edited by Elisheva Baumgarten, focuses on the everyday social #history of Jews in #medieval northern and central Europe using four interpretive lenses: people, space, objects, and rituals. #JewishStudies

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"Monasticism and Manuscript Culture in Medieval Europe: Studies in Cluniac History, c. 900–1200," by Scott G. Bruce, Cornell University Press, 2026

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"Monasticism and Manuscript Culture in Medieval Europe: Studies in Cluniac History, c. 900–1200," by Scott G. Bruce,
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Join Robert W. Snyder to talk about his book most recent book WHEN THE CITY STOPPED at the Historic Richmond Town, in Staten Island, NY.
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In ATOMIC BILL, Vincent Kiernan examines the fraught career of New York Times science journalist, William L. Laurence and shows his professional and personal lives to be a cautionary tale of dangerous proximity to power.
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Always Under Siege by Irina Paperno | Paperback | Cornell University Press Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies strategies of physical and moral survival. Irina Paperno brings to light the autobiographical...

ALWAYS UNDER SIEGE presents a singular testament of resilience, despair, and stubborn creative intellect, as Irina Paperno shows what it means to live and to think in a state of siege. #History #Totalitarianism

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An incredible cover has landed for an incredible book - Philippa Hetherington's "Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885–1935."

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ICYMI #SkyStorians - A great focus on Joseph Kellner's great "Spirit of Socialism" is in @lrb.co.uk: Apocalypse Forgotten, www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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I’m excited that *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social) received the Honor Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book from the Texas Institute of Letters! 📚

Military Humanitarianism by edited by Brian Drohan and Margot Tudor | Paperback | Cornell University Press While interconnections between humanitarian actors and military operations are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflicts around the globe today, Military Humanitarianism challenges the idea that.....

Brian Drohan and Margot Tudor eds. Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations and Armed Forces - @cornellupress.bsky.social, July 2026
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