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Acknowledgments . . vii
Introduction . . ix
How to Read the Entries . . xiii

PROVERBS . . 1

Appendix: Some No Longer "Modern" Proverbs . . 287
Works Cited . . 291

Acknowledgments . . ix
Introduction: Acknowledged Legislation . . 1

1 Courting Disaster: Blok and Yeats . . 45
2 Whitman, Mayakovsky, and the Body Politic . . 83
3 The Death of the Book a la russe: The Acmeists under Stalin . . 109
4 Akhmatova and the Forms of Responsibility: The Poem without a Hero . . 120
5 Avant-garde Again, or the Posthumous Polish Adventures of Vladimir Mayakovsky . . 149
6 Bringing Up the Rear: The Histories of Wisfawa Szymborska . . 173
7 Counterrevolution in Poetic Language: Poland's Generation of '68 . . 197
8 The Unacknowledged Legislator's Dream: Czesław Miłosz and Anglo-American Poetry . . 234

Afterword: Martyrs, Survivors, and Success Stories, or the Postcommunist Prophet . . 266
Notes . . 277
Credits . . 317
Index . . 319

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . vi
INTRODUCTION . . 1

1 THE BED . . 13
2 THE DRESSING AREA OF THE HOME . . 43
3 THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW . . 75
4 THE BATH . . 121
5 THE STREET . . 155

CONCLUSIONS . . 187
NOTES . . 194
WORKS CITED . . 216
PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS . . 241
INDEX . . 242

Preface . . ix

1 Copyright . . 1
2 Trademarks . . 64
3 Terms and Conditions . . 115
4 Contracts . . 136
5 Rights of Privacy and Publicity . . 169
6 Internet and New Media . . 192

Epilogue . . 220
Appendix 1: How to Register a Copyright . . 223
Appendix 2: How to Register a Trademark . . 229
Acknowledgments . . 233
Index . . 236

Introduction . . ix

POEMS OF THE PALACES AND EARLY LITURGICAL HYMNS

Anonymous
Hymn to the Heavens . . 6
A Measure of Holiness . . 7
Awe and Adornment . . 9
Each Day . . 10
From Whose Beauty the Depths Are Lit . . 12
To Rise on High . . 13
Blessed Is the Eye . . 14
The Priest's Appearance . . 20
Windows of Worship . . 23

Yannai
Angel of Fire . . 24
From the Sky to the Heavens' Heavens . . 25

Eliezer Kallir
King Girded with Might . . 27
Creatures Four-Square About the Throne . . 32

Anonymous
Release, Please . . 34

THE BOOK OF CREATION
from Sefer Yetzirah . . 42

AL-ANDALUS AND ASHKENAZ

Shelomoh Ibn Gabirol
He Dwells Forever . . 55
Angels Amassing . . 59
I Love You . . 61
from Kingdom's Crown . . 62

Yehudah HaLevi
True Life . . 70
Where Will I Find You . . 71
Lord, [All My Desire] . . 73
A Dove in the Distance . . 75

Yehudah HeHasid
Hymn of Divine Glory . . 81

THE KABBALAH IN SPAIN

Moshe ben Nahman
Before the World Ever Was . . 94

Ya'akov HaKohen
Prayers for the Protection and Opening of the Heart . . 97

The Zohar
On Awakening and Drawing Near . . 105
Incantation Against Lilith . . 107

Avraham Abulafia
from the Book of the Sign . . 113

Yosef Gikatilla
The Nut Garden . . 121

THE SAFED CIRCLE (GALILEAN KABBALAH)

Shelomoh Alkabetz
Hymn to the Sabbath . . 133

Anonymous
Peace Be upon You . . 136

Eliezer Azikri
Soul's Beloved . . 137

Yitzhak Luria
Hymns for the Three Sabbath Meals . . 149
Why, My Desire . . 160

Avraham ben Maimon
Hidden God . . 162

Yisrael Najara
To the Shekhinah . . 165
Your Kingdom's Glory . . 166

EXTENSIONS EAST AND WEST

Shalem Shabazi
Who Kissed Me . . 176
The Myrtle's Scent . . 177

Shimon Lavi
Bar Yohai . . 180

Ya'akov Ifargan
In Praise of the Name and Its Mystery . . 183

JEWISH MUSLIMS/MUSLIM JEWS

Shabbatian Hymns
Meliselda . . 198
I Have Found Bliss . . 199
The Valley of Ishmael . . 201
On the Extinguishing of the Lights . . 203
Secret Pleasure . . 205
On the Destruction of the Law . . 207
The Ghazal of Goodness . . 208

ITALIAN KABBALAH

Moshe Zacut
The Light Concealed . . 218
You Readied a Light . . 221

Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto
Messiah . . 228

HASIDIC DEVOTION

Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev
Song of You . . 236

Shneur Zalman
from the Tanya . . 238

THE SEEDS OF SECULAR MYSTICISM

Hayyim Nahman Bialik
from The Pool . . 246
Bring Me in Under Your Wing . . 249

Notes . . 251
Afterword, by Aminadav Dykman . . 435
Poems in Hebrew and Other Languages
Acknowledgments . . 447

Foreword . . vii

Volume 1
1953 . . 3
1954 . . 75
1955 . . 158
1956 . . 209
Against Poets . . 264
Sienkiewicz . .  274

Volume 2
1957 . . 287
1958 . . 306
1959 . . 398
1960 . . 433
1961 . . 488

Volume 3
1961 . . 519
1962 . . 532
1963 . . 584
1964 . . 625
1965 . . 655
1966 . . 673
1967 . . 712
1968 . . 724
1969 . . 728

Translator's Afterword . . 739
Chronology of Important Dates . . 743
Index of Works by Gombrowicz . . 747
Subject Index . . 749

List of Figures . . vii
Acknowledgements . . ix
Introduction . . xi

Chapter 1 The Unfinished Revolution . . 1
Chapter 2 Completing the Revolution: History Commissions and Institutes of National Memory . . 27
Chapter 3 Criminalizing Communism?: History at Terror Sites and in Statue Parks and National Museums . . 61
Chapter 4 Containing Fascism: Anti-Communism in the Age of Holocaust Memory . . 93
Chapter 5 Remaking the Autobiography: Communists and their Pasts . . 126
Chapter 6 Victims' Stories . . 165
Chapter 7 The Afterlife of Atrocity: Remembering Red Army Rape after 1989 . . 194
Conclusion Divided Societies, Democratic Memory? . . 215

Notes . . 222
Bibliography . . 270
Index . . 291

Preface . . ix
Acknowledgements . . xi
Abbreviations . . xiii
Introduction . . xv
Note on the Translation . . lxiii
Map of Rome with the Churches Indicated . . lvi

I The Antiquities of Rome . . . Succinctly Compiled From Authors both Ancient & Modern (1554) . . 1
II Description of the Churches, Stations of the Cross, Indulgences, and Relics of the Bodies of Saints, in the City of Rome (1554) . . 95

Appendix: The Letter to Leo X by Raphael and Baldassare Castiglione (c.1519) . . 177
Commentary . . 193
Bibliography . . 264
Index . . 275

Preface ix
Acknowledgments XVI
A Note on Soviet Administrative Structure xvii
Introduction 1
Lazar Kaganovich: The Career of a Stalinist Commissar 21
1931 Introduction 37
Documents 1-23 49
1932. Introduction IO4
Documents 24-59 114
1933 Introduction 186
Documents 60-85 195
1934 Introduction 236
Documents 86-111 245
1935 Introduction 289
Documents 112.-115 296
1936 Introduction 315
Documents 126-177 322
Appendix 373
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations 387
Brief Biographies 391
Index 417
Illustrations follow page 244

List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Part I: The Rise and Fall of Epidemic Poliomyelitis 1
New York 1916 3
FDR 29
Warm Springs 41
Polio Crusaders 54
An Angel Abroad 85
A Planned Miracle 111
The Quick and the Dead 159
Born Too Soon 188
Part II: Lives of the Polios 227
In England 229
In America 276
A Civil Wound: an autobiographical coda 305
Appendix: Monkey Business 322
A Note on Sources 325
Notes 328
Select Bibliography 346
Index 354