One man whose journey mirrored those monumental times in the early part of the century was Mosa (Moshe) Pijade, a towering ...

"This is a fascinating and accessible new account of the tumultuous history of sexuality in Europe from the waning of Victorianism to the collapse of Communism and the rise of European Islam. Although ...

Here, the traditional angels are replaced by characters from folklore who frolic as the children sleep: Snow White, Red Riding Hood, a wolf, Cinderella and Rapunzel gambol across the stage.

Chernivtsi in the early twentieth century was a real cultural center, a city where different nationalities and traditions ...

In 1999 Geert Mak, a Dutch journalist, was given an enviable commission by his newspaper: to travel throughout Europe in the last months of the century, reporting daily on the condition of the ...

India, with its rich history, diverse culture, and complexity, is home to a multitude of languages that have evolved over ...

Political and social turmoil provide the backdrop to themes of violence and identity for this burgeoning generation of ...

Each year on Jan. 1, copyright protections expire on a new batch of media, like books, movies, characters and music.

By contrast, the warming from the 1910s to the 1940s, here termed early twentieth-century warming (ETCW), still defies full explanation. Here I argue that investigating regional temperature ...

Evolution is a process that can take many millennia, if not longer. For a scholarly organization like the Yiddish archive and ...

Ancient, repurposed parchments reveal hidden and forgotten traces of Iceland’s history. Iceland has a long and rich literary ...

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers. Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter ...