Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 8, 2002Volume 30, Number 17


This portrait of Jewish feminist Puah Rakovsky is is from her newly translated memoir.

Yale Books in Brief

The following is a list of books published recently by members of the Yale community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers.

To submit information about books for this column, send e-mail to opa@yale.edu.


My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland
Puah Rakovsky; edited by Paula E. Hyman, the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History; translated by Barbara Harshav, Lecturer in Comparative Literature, with Paula E. Hyman
(Indiana University Press, 2002)

In "My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman," Puah Rakovsky (1865­1955) pens her experiences as a Jewish woman in late 19th- and early 20th-century Poland. A professional educator, Zionist activist
and feminist leader, Rakovsky broke with her traditional upbringing to pursue equality of life for Jewish women in her homeland. This pursuit led Rakovsky through a constantly evolving social and political climate. Written in Yiddish and translated here for the first time, Rakovsky's memoirs not only reveal her fortitude but also offer insights into a variety of radical political movements, the birth of Zionism and the devastation of World War I.


Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, Second Edition
Patrick J. Lynch, Director of Information Technology Services-Medicine Web Design and Development, and Sarah Horton
(Yale University Press, paperback, 2001)

This guide for website designers provides practical, concise advice on creating well-designed and effective websites and pages. Focusing on the interface and graphic design principles that underlie the best website design, this book offers help on a full range of issues, from planning and organizing goals to design strategies for a site to the elements of individual page design.


Enfants Terribles: Youth and Femininity in the Mass Media in France, 1945­1968
Susan Weiner, Associate Professor of French
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)

Focusing on the role of gender in representations of youth in post-World War II France, Susan Weiner traces how, after 1945, young men and women came to symbolize different aspects of social order and disorder in a country traumatized by the Nazi occupation and Cold War paranoia, seduced by consumerism and Americanization, and engaged in an undeclared war in Algeria. While political discourses about "youth" generally referred to middle-class young men, Weiner argues that it was in media representations of "bad girls" that anxieties over the loss of a morally and socially coherent national identity found their expression.

T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Yale PREP to boost number of minorities in biomedicine

Study ranks Finland as No. 1 in environmental sustainability

Yale Engineering to mark its 150th anniversary

Yale Opera to present Mozart's fantastical tale 'The Magic Flute'

Yale and New Haven: Downtown News


ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS

IN FOCUS: Collection of Musical Instruments

Book's authors share perspectives on Sept. 11 and its aftermath

Three exhibits opening Feb. 11 at the School of Architecture


MEDICAL SCHOOL NEWS

Noted science reporter to visit as Poynter Fellow

Kenyan environmentalist to teach as McCluskey Fellow

'Injustice' of lead poisoning to be explored in F&ES talk

Event to explore innovative approaches to the law

Eugene Davidson, former editor at Yale Press, dies

Memorial service for Louis Martz

Yale Dining Halls has been honored by industry magazine

Yale Books in Brief

Campus Notes


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