Europe — Markus Wiener Publishers

Subject: Europe

From Plotzk to Boston: A Young Girl’s Journey from Russia to the Promised Land
	Antin, Mary (edited by Pamela S. Nadell) Subject: Europe, U.S. History, Jewish Studies	From Plotzk to Boston was written while the memory of the journey was still fresh, when Mary Antin was just 13 years old. She describes her family’s frightening and exciting journey to America in the 1890s. Like thousands of other … More Information

Germany and the Middle East: 1871–1945
	Schwanitz, Wolfgang G., editor Subject: Europe, Middle East	Before World War II, Germany intended to set up a greater Arabia under the influence of the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan. But the war changed everything. Now the Middle East became a potential battlefield at the crossroads … More Information

Hildegard of Bingen: Healing and the Nature of the Cosmos
	Schipperges, Heinrich (translated by John A. Broadwin) Subject: Europe, Religion	Hildegard of Bingen’s contemporaries called her “prophetissa teutonica,” honoring her philosophical writings and interpretation of the cosmos. Medievalists still consider her one of the leading mystics, and point to her active spiritual and artistic life in the twelfth century as … More Information

History: The Last Things Before The Last
	Kracauer, Siegried , Kristeller, Paul Oskar Subject: European History	“The late Siegfried Kracauer was best known as a historian and critic of the cinema. His main intellectual preoccupation during the last years of his life was the relation between past and present, and the relation between histories in different … More Information

Ibn Fadlan’s Journey To Russia: A Tenth-Century Traveler From Baghdad to the Volga River
	Frye, Richard N., editor Subject: Asia, Europe, Middle East, Religion	This is the first English translation of the famous Risala, letters by the tenth-century traveler Ibn Fadlan, one of the great medieval travelers in world history, akin to Ibn Battuta. Ibn Fadlan was an Arab missionary sent by the Caliph … More Information

Inward Hunger: The Education of a Prime Minister
	Williams, Eric (introduction by Colin Palmer) Subject: Caribbean	“When the author, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, was a lad, his country was a British crown colony, and its government offered one university scholarship a year to the entire population. Young Williams won it, and went off … More Information

Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism
	Göle, Nilüfer Subject: Europe, Middle East, Religion	French Selection for the PEN World Voices Literary Festival Islam in Europe is a book full of striking images: the assassination of and the death threats against artists and intellectuals; violent demonstrations demanding Sharia [Koranic] law for … More Information

Ivies in Athens: The Deep Bond Between Two Great Sporting Traditions: The Olympic Games and The Ivy League
	Bashivi, Jay V. Subject: U.S. History, World History	This remarkable history gives light to the Ivy League’s role in the fabric of the Olympic Games— thrilling victories, disappointing defeats, and enduring stories, topped off by a rare all-time index of Ivy League Olympians. The relationship between Ivy League … More Information

Massacre Averted: An Armenian Town, An American Nurse, and the Turkish Army They Resisted
	Super, Mary (edited by Nancy Klancher) Subject: Europe, Middle East	Between 1920 and 1923, American relief workers managed to prevent the massacre of three hundred Armenian orphans at the hands of Turkish and Kurdish troops. One of them, a nurse, kept a diary that illuminated in dramatic detail the struggle … More Information

Memoirs of a Janissary
	Mihailović, Konstantin (edited by Svat Soucek; translated by Benjamin Stolz) Subject: Europe, Middle East	Konstantin Mihailović, born a Christian Serb in the early 15th century, was kidnapped by Ottoman Turks and brought to Anatolia, where he was trained as a Janissary — a member of the elite corps of the Ottoman army made up … More Information