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Book review: Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema

"[A]n insightful survey of how Soviet and Russian cinema constructed the meanings of Soviet, Russian and foreign identities over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries ... It will be useful to graduate students and scholars working in the area of Russian and film studies." —Slavonic and East European Review

Last Folio exhibit on display at the Grunwald Gallery this September

The Grunwald Gallery of Art will be exhibiting the work of photographer and IU Press author Yuri Dojc in a display entitled Last Folio: A Photographic Journey with Yuri Dojc. This exhibition will be on view Friday, September 2 through Saturday, October 1, 2011.

Accompanying the exhibit will be Dojc's book, Last Folio: Textures of Jewish Life in Slovakia. The book includes portraits of aging Slovak Holocaust survivors and images of the poignant ruins of schools, synagogues, mikvahs, and cemeteries. With texts by Lucia Faltin, Katya Krausova, David G. Marwell, and Azar Nafisi, Last Folio presents a stirring tribute to a vanished culture.

Last Folio is the inaugural exhibition for the Grunwald Gallery and is made possible by a gift in memory of John Grunwald by Rita Grunwald.

Book review: Food and Everyday Life in the Postsocialist World

"Food and Everyday Life in the Post-Socialist World is an important contribution and should be of great interest to policymakers and regulatory bodies, as well as students and researchers." —Slavic Review

Book review: Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire

"[A] deeply engaging and insightful book ... [A] wonderful analysis of the spectacular involvement of ordinary people in a set of cultural activities that helped reconfigure the Jewish community in secular terms." —Slavic Review

Book review: Cinepaternity

"Helena Goscilo and Yana Hashamova's collection of essays is a most welcome addition to the existing literature on Russian cinema ... The volume will no doubt find wide application in university courses." —Slavic Review

Book review: Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine

"Phillips offers a comprehensive and thoughtful monograph on disability in the post-Soviet context. ... This is a welcome addition to the field, as little work has documented this history in a sustained manner." —H-Disability

Book review: On the Social Life of Postsocialism

"Berdahl’s work does not disappoint, and her readers will be rewarded by her perceptive research, skillful prose, and humanizing insights." — H-SAE

Book review: Preserving Petersburg

"[A]n excellent collection of essays ... [T]he variety of subjects and methodologies gathered together here will certainly satisfy anyone interested in the study of the former imperial capital." —Journal of Modern History

Book review: Soviet and Kosher

"[This book] is a long overdue historical study of the role of popular culture in the formation of Soviet Jewish identity in the 1920s and 1930s. With clear, appealing prose and a highly original methodology, Anna Shternshis offers a fascinating exploration of the central paradox of the early Soviet Jewish experience..." —Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Film review: Russian Feminism

"Hats off to Holmgren and Sopronenko for producing this film. It will provide food for discussion in courses on Soviet and post-Soviet history, Russian feminism, and comparative feminisms for years to come. And it is an enormous tribute to those who initiated this dialogue in our field to begin with." —Slavic Review