FromtheOid
Marketplace
A Memoir
of
laughter,
SUNival, and Coming of
Age in Eastern Europe
Ioseph
Buloff
Translated
by
Joseph Singer
From the Old Market–
place,
now ably translated
by Joseph Singer, is cast
as fiction- both the story
of a boyhood and
of
a
city, Vilnius, in the 12 years
between the Russo:Japa–
nese War of 1905 a nd
the Russlon Revolution ..
Buloff
creotes
a
Chagallesque vision
of
Vilnius by blending hyper–
bole , sarcasm, and
sweetness...What is most
charming about th is tole is
the woy it blends the com–
ing
of
age and the coming
of
history "
- Richard Lourie,
New York Times
Book
Review
$ 19.95 cloth
AH~of
theArati
Peoples
Albert Hourani
"Now in what is undoubt·
edly a masterly summa–
tion , the whole story of the
Arab peoples is lad out
before us by Houranl
There are no other books
like It .
It
IS difficult to over
estimate the signal Impor–
tance of this book
fa,
this
time Here at last IS a
genuinely readable,
genUinely responsive his–
tory of the Arabs . He
completely controls the best
In modern as well as tradi–
tional Western scholarship
and often lets the Arabs
their poets. historians
sages and ordinary people
speak along wi th, rother
than against, that learn–
Ing.
1heAlchemv
of
Race and
Rights
Patricia
I.
W illiams
In this autobiographical
essay Patricia Williams
a professor of commerCia!
law, a lawyer and a de–
scendent of a slave and
the white lawyer wha
owned her reflects on the
intersection of race , gen–
der, and class USing the
tools of critical literary and
legal theory, she inscribes
her views of contempo–
rary culture and current
even ts by tracing the work–
ings of such phenomena
as the Howard Beach in–
ciden t, the law -school
classroom, Oprah W infrey
and the workings of "ordi–
nary racism"-everyday
occurences, casual, unin–
tended , but mortifying .
$24 .95 cloth
Harvard
University
Press
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Cambridge, MA 02138
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Published at Boston University
