03861nam 22005895 450 991048029670332120210716031415.01-4798-4118-810.18574/9781479841189(CKB)3710000000397646(EBL)2011362(SSID)ssj0001459466(PQKBManifestationID)12567728(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001459466(PQKBWorkID)11456574(PQKB)10311262(StDuBDS)EDZ0001325770(MiAaPQ)EBC2011362(OCoLC)923734881(MdBmJHUP)muse42927(DE-B1597)547382(DE-B1597)9781479841189(EXLCZ)99371000000039764620200723h20152015 fg 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrModern Albania From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe /Fred C. AbrahamsNew York, NY :New York University Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (568 p.)Includes index.0-8147-0511-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Map of Albania --Map of Tirana --Introduction --Prologue --1. Hoxha’s Heart --2. Fences Fall --3. The System Shakes --4. Student City --5. A Democratic Party --6. Vote for the Future --7. Rebuild the State --8. One-Party Town --9. The Fall --10. Profiteers’ Pact --11. Revolt --12. A Horrible End --13. Democracy 2.0 --14. Illegal but Necessary --15. A Shot, a Coup --16. Argument of Force --17. A Formula --18. To War --19. Busts in Our Heads --20. The Doctor Is Back --21. Pendulum Swing --Epilogue --Acknowledgments --Notes --Sources --Index --About the AuthorIn the early 1990's, Albania, arguably Europe’s most closed and repressive state, began a startling transition out of forty years of self-imposed Communist isolation. Albanians who were not allowed to practice religion, travel abroad, wear jeans, or read “decadent” Western literature began to devour the outside world. They opened cafés, companies, and newspapers. Previously banned rock music blared in the streets. Modern Albania offers a vivid history of the Albanian Communist regime’s fall and the trials and tribulations that led the country to become the state it is today. The book provides an in-depth look at the Communists' last Politburo meetings and the first student revolts, the fall of the Stalinist regime, the outflows of refugees, the crash of the massive pyramid-loan schemes, the war in neighboring Kosovo, and Albania’s relationship with the United States. Fred Abrahams weaves together personal experience from more than twenty years of work in Albania, interviews with key Albanians and foreigners who played a role in the country’s politics since 1990—including former Politburo members, opposition leaders, intelligence agents, diplomats, and founders of the Kosovo Liberation Army—and a close examination of hundreds of previously secret government records from Albania and the United States. A rich, narratively-driven account, Modern Albania gives readers a front-row seat to the dramatic events of the last battle of Cold War Europe.DemocracyAlbaniaPost-communismAlbaniaAlbaniaPolitics and government1990-Electronic books.DemocracyPost-communism949.6504Abrahams Fred C.authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1042150DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910480296703321Modern Albania2466150UNINA05998 am 22007693u 450 99630907740331620210623164435.03-11-039531-23-11-033996-X10.1515/9783110339963(CKB)3360000000515106(EBL)1377157(SSID)ssj0001332242(PQKBManifestationID)11719189(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001332242(PQKBWorkID)11375649(PQKB)11089292(DE-B1597)214544(OCoLC)896890926(OCoLC)922639781(DE-B1597)9783110339963(Au-PeEL)EBL1377157(CaPaEBR)ebr11010317(CaONFJC)MIL806518(ScCtBLL)aaa789d1-17c0-4e90-b6a4-c9162210cde2(MiAaPQ)EBC1377157(EXLCZ)99336000000051510620150213h20142014 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrLament in Jewish thought philosophical, theological, and literary perspectives /edited by Ilit Ferber and Paula SchwebelBerlin, [Germany] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter,2014.©20141 online resource (372 p.)Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts,2199-6962 ;Volume 2Description based upon print version of record.3-11-033382-1 Includes bibliographical references.Front matter --Acknowledgments --Contents --Frequently Used Abbreviations --Preface --Bibliography --Section One: Lament and Consolation --Eikhah and the Stance of Lamentation /Halbertal, Moshe --Ein Menachem: On Lament and Consolation /Schonfeld, Eli --Section Two: Lament and Gender --Bodies Performing in Ruins: The Lamenting Mother in Ancient Hebrew Texts /Hasan-Rokem, Galit --Women's Oral Laments: Corpus and Text - The Body in the Text /Madar, Vered --Section Three: The Linguistic Form of Lament --Bemerkungen zur Klage /Hamacher, Werner --"Incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech": Scholem, Benjamin, and Cohen on Lament /Ferber, Ilit --Section Four: Silence and Lament --The Unfallen Silence: Kinah and the Other Origin of Language /Bielik-Robson, Agata --The Silent Syllable: On Franz Rosenzweig's Translation of Yehuda Halevi's Liturgical Poems /Shahar, Galili --Silence, Solitude, and Suicide: Gershom Scholem's Paradoxical Theory of Lamentation /Witte, Bernd --Section Five: The Poetry of Lament --The Role of Lamentation for Scholem's Theory of Poetry and Language /Weigel, Sigrid --The Ghost of the Poet: Lament in Walter Benjamin's Early Poetry, Theory, and Translation /Sauter, Caroline --Words and Corpses: Celan's "Tenebrae" between Gadamer and Scholem /Lipszyc, Adam --"Movement of Language" and Transience: Lament, Mourning, and the Tradition of Elegy in Early Scholem /Weidner, Daniel --Section Six: Mourning, Ruin and Lament --Paradoxes of Lament: Benjamin and Hamlet /Comay, Rebecca --The Tradition in Ruins: Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem on Language and Lament /Schwebel, Paula --Section Seven: Translations of Gershom Scholem's Texts on Lament --Translators' Introduction /Barouch, Lina / Schwebel, Paula --On Lament and Lamentation /Scholem, Gershom --Job's Lament /Scholem, Gershom --Translation of Job Chapter 3: Job's Lament /Scholem, Gershom --Ezekiel Chapter 19: A Lamentation for Israel's Last Princes /Scholem, Gershom --Translation of Ezekiel Chapter 19: A Lamentation for Israel's Last Princes /Scholem, Gershom --A Medieval Lamentation /Scholem, Gershom --Translation of Sha'ali Serufa: A Medieval Lamentation /Scholem, Gershom --Scholem's postscript in the manuscript version /Scholem, Gershom --Notes on ContributorsLament, mourning, and the transmissibility of a tradition in the aftermath of destruction are prominent themes in Jewish thought. The corpus of lament literature, building upon and transforming the biblical Book of Lamentations, provides a unique lens for thinking about the relationships between destruction and renewal, mourning and remembrance, loss and redemption, expression and the inexpressible. This anthology features four texts by Gershom Scholem on lament, translated here for the first time into English. The volume also includes original essays by leading scholars, which interpret Scholem's texts and situate them in relation to other Weimar-era Jewish thinkers, including Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, Franz Kafka, and Paul Celan, who drew on the textual traditions of lament to respond to the destruction and upheavals of the early twentieth century. Also included are studies on the textual tradition of lament in Judaism, from biblical, rabbinic, and medieval lamentations to contemporary Yemenite women's laments. This collection, unified by its strong thematic focus on lament, shows the fruitfulness of studying contemporary and modern texts alongside the traditional textual sources that informed them.Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts (Series) ;v. 2.LamentsPhilosophyJewish mourning customsPhilosophyJewish philosophyLaments in the BibleGershom Scholem.Jewish Thought.Lament.Mourning.LamentsPhilosophy.Jewish mourning customsPhilosophy.Jewish philosophy.Laments in the Bible.809/.88924CC 8200BVBrvkFerber IlitSchwebel Paula1981-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996309077403316Lament in Jewish thought1938053UNISA