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On the ShelfALUMNI PUBLICATIONSIn Search of PolinGary S. Schiff, M.A. ’70, Ph.D. ’73, Political ScienceTaking a unique, multi-faceted approach to the1,000 years of Polish Jewish history in thisvolume, Gary S. Schiff combines academicscholarship with his own family’s long history, insightfultravel experiences, and candid observations.From its earliest medieval days, to its “golden years”in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to itssubsequent decline and Poland’s three-way partitionin the eighteenth century, to its ultimate destructionin the Holocaust and its mini-revival today, the Jewishcommunity of Poland—the world’s largest for 500years—comes to life again.Gravity in ArtMary D. Edwards, ’66GS, M.Phil. ’75, Ph.D. ’86, ArtHistory and Archaeology, and Elizabeth Bailey, editorsThe gravitational pull of the earth and the challengeto resist it have long inspired artists. Likethe Greek vases depicting Sisyphus’s quest topush his boulder up a hill and the Whirlwind Loversin Dante’s Inferno, images that portray the defianceof, or submission to, gravity permeate the artisticworld. This collection examines the ways artists fromantiquity to today use gravity and levity symbolically,metaphorically, and expressively. The 26 essaysexamine these opposing forces through analysis ofsuch dualities as ascent and descent, weight andweightlessness, hope and despair, or life and death,and draw distinct lines between the works of art andtexts of such writers and thinkers as Homer, Aristotle,Newton, Marx, and Einstein.Thomas Jefferson’s Haitian Policy:Myths and RealitiesArthur Scherr, M.A. ’72, HistoryIn a revolutionary revisionist reassessment of history,Scherr reexamines Jefferson’s relationshipto Haiti (then known as St. Domingue). Underminingmainstream interpretations, Scherr revealsthrough extensive research that Jefferson acted generallyin favor of the Haitian Revolution.Link back to contents page32 Superscript