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Brill on the Wire
Interviews with Brill authors about their new books.
May 12, 2024
In the Shadow of War and Empire
In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey (Brill, 2023) offers a site-specific history…
May 11, 2024
Before Maimonides
All can agree that the achievement of Moses Maimonides (d. 1204) set the standard for subsequent works of "Jewish philosophy". But just what were the …
April 20, 2024
Undesired Revolution
Ahmed M. Abozaid’s Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt--A Three Level Analysis (Brill, 2023) introduces new non-Western perspectives on …
April 7, 2024
Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews
Gustavo Guzmán's Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen (Brill, 2022) is the first book in …
March 16, 2024
Hollow Men, Strange Women
In Hollow Men, Strange Women: Riddles, Codes, and Otherness in the Book of Judges (Brill, 2016), Robin Baker provides a masterly reappraisal of Israel…
March 13, 2024
Legal Cultures in the Russian Empire
Law. How does the state form and use it? How do people use and shape it? How does law shape culture? How does the practice of law change over time in …
February 24, 2024
Jewish Refugees in the Balkans, 1933-1945
The Balkans provided the escape route for tens of thousands of German Jews, and remained a place of refuge until the Nazis brutally shut it off with t…
January 19, 2024
Lucan and Flavian Epic
Roman imperial epic is enjoying a moment in the sun in the twenty-first century, as Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, and Silius Italicus have all bee…
January 6, 2024
From Grand Estates to Grand Corruption
Today I talked to Klaus Buchenau about his new book From Grand Estates to Grand Corruption: The Battle Over the Possessions of Prince Albert of Thurn …
December 31, 2023
The Politics of Transindividuality
Many major political questions today revolve around questions of human nature; what sort of people we are and what sort of people we're capable of bei…
December 4, 2023
Beyond Colonial Rupture
Scholarly discussions on Islam in print have focused predominantly on the role of Urdu in the development of North Indian Muslim publics (Dubrow, 2018…
October 29, 2023
Frames That Speak
Frames That Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps (Brill, 2023) is the first systematic exploration of cartographic cartouches, the decorated frames …
October 18, 2023
Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776)
Jeremy Land's book Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776) (Brill, 2023) takes a long-run view of the globa…
September 30, 2023
Living Under the Evil Pope
In Living under the Evil Pope (Brill, 2020), Martina Mampieri presents the Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV, written in the second half of the sixteen…
September 15, 2023
Nation and Ethnicity
Julia Schneider’s Nation & Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s), published with Brill in 2017, is a…
August 15, 2023
Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age Without Plato
In Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age Without Plato: Permitting and Forbidding Open-Inquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa (Brill, 2021),…
July 31, 2023
Paul and the Rhetoric of Resurrection
Have you ever wondered why Paul leaves the resurrection discussion in 1 Corinthians 15 for the end of the letter? Have you pondered how 1 Corinthians …
July 30, 2023
Luke the Chronicler
Did the author of the two-part narrative of Luke-Acts have a literary and historical paradigm in mind? Mark Giacobbe says, yes, that in certain key re…
July 18, 2023
Moulding the Socialist Subject
Xiaoning Lu received her BA and MA in Chinese Literature and Language from Nanjing University and Fudan University respectively. She then earned her P…
July 11, 2023
Tōhoku Unbounded
Anne Giblin Gedacht’s Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan (Brill, 2022) centers cross-border mobility in its na…