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CURRENT EVENTS AND ISSUES
COMING SOON COMING SOON The Future of
The Danger of #antisemitism the Corpse
Devaluing Immigrants Coming of Age during the Changing Ecologies of
Impacts on the U.S. Resurgence of Hate Death and Disposition
Economy and Society SAMANTHA A. VINOKOR-MEINRATH KARLA ROTHSTEIN AND
CHRISTINA STAUDT, EDITORS
FARIBORZ GHADAR
June 2022 , 180pp , 6 1/8x9 1/4
Hardcover: 978-1-4408-7899-2 October 2021 , 271pp , 6 1/8x9 1/4
August 2022 , 320pp , 6 1/8x9 1/4 $50.00 , £38.00 , €44,00 Hardcover: 978-1-4408-6905-1
Hardcover: 978-1-4408-7933-3 eBook: 978-1-4408-7900-5 $63.00 , £47.00 , €55,00
$60.00 , £45.00 , €52,00 eBook: 978-1-4408-6906-8
eBook: 978-1-4408-7934-0
Exploring what it means to come of
age in an era marked by increasing This book reviews the spectrum of
Despite deep divisions on the issue
of immigration, this book shows that antisemitism, readers see through the death, from when the living person
immigration promotes economic eyes of Jewish Gen Zers how identities turns to corpse until the person lives in
innovation, expands the job market, and are shaped in response to and in the memory of mourners, and its impact
contributes to diversity and creativity in defiance of antisemitism. on the ecology of the socio-cultural
the United States. FEATURES community and physical environment.
• Provides a comprehensive deep dive FEATURES
FEATURES into multifaceted manifestations
• Approaches immigration from many of modern antisemitism and their • Demonstrates the centrality of death
care—from the deathbed to rituals
perspectives: economic, business, impact on the emerging Jewish
historical, and sociological identities of Generation Z of commemoration and mourning—
in our individual and communal life
• Investigates the substantial roles of • Explores the common thread of and cultures
immigrants in critical industries and antisemitism through the lens of
sectors across the U.S. economy • Reveals promising trends in human
Israel, the Holocaust, social media, disposition, burial places, funerary
• Emphasizes the bimodal nature and racial justice during a large officiant profession, technologies of
of attitudes toward immigrants national uptick in anti-Jewish hatred memorialization, and grief therapy
depending on their education and • Offers personal and research-based
skill level and abilities
perspectives on how antisemitism KARLA ROTHSTEIN is the founder
• Includes personal stories and case impacts the modern American and director of Columbia University’s
studies from immigrants Jewish experience. DeathLAB; associate professor at
Columbia Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning and
FARIBORZ GHADAR is a distinguished SAMANTHA A. VINOKOR-MEINRATH ,
scholar and senior adviser at CSIS EdD, is senior director of knowledge, Preservation; a practicing architect; and
and the William A. Schreyer Professor ideas, and learning at the Jewish co-founder of LATENT Productions.
of Global Management, Policies, and Education Project in New York. CHRISTINA STAUDT, PhD, is chair of
Planning at the Smeal College of the Columbia University Seminar on
Business at Penn State University. Death and co-editor of three scholarly
volumes related to mortality.
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