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With a focus on selected writings by Edward Abbey, the article discusses the places which the travel writer designates as home. Showing how Abbey mythologizes his birthplace and how he sentimentalizes his boyhood nest, i...

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My article explores the contribution of Jewish composers, singers and musicians to the popularization of jazz in the Soviet Union. Many Soviet Jewish musicians chose this genre, because jazz relies upon improvisation as...