Boria Sax
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Boria Sax is an award winning author and lecturer and a teacher at Mercy College
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Boria Sax is probably best known for his writing on human-animal relations, where he has developed a style that combines scholarship with narrative and lyricism. He views the representation of animals in human culture as a means to explore human identity, as well as an enduring source of myths and legends. The publications of Boria Sax include books of scholarship, poetry, reference, translation, memoirs, and other genres. Two of the scholarly books have been named to list of “outstanding academic titles of the year” compiled by the journal Choice: Animals in the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust (Continuum, 2000) and The Mythical Zoo: An Encyclopedia of Animals in Myth, Legend, and Literature (ABC-CLIO, 2002). His books have been translated into French, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, and Czech.
. He received his doctorate in Intellectual History and German from State University of New York, Buffalo. He has worked as a consultant on human rights for Amnesty International
, Helsinki Watch
, and Human Rights Internet
. He is also the founder of the non-profit organization “Nature in Legend and Story,” dedicated to “promote understanding of traditional bonds between human beings and the natural world.”
Mercy College (New York)
Mercy College is a private, non-profit liberal arts college with its main campus in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and satellite locations throughout southeastern New York, including the Bronx, Manhattan, White Plains and Yorktown...
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Boria Sax is probably best known for his writing on human-animal relations, where he has developed a style that combines scholarship with narrative and lyricism. He views the representation of animals in human culture as a means to explore human identity, as well as an enduring source of myths and legends. The publications of Boria Sax include books of scholarship, poetry, reference, translation, memoirs, and other genres. Two of the scholarly books have been named to list of “outstanding academic titles of the year” compiled by the journal Choice: Animals in the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust (Continuum, 2000) and The Mythical Zoo: An Encyclopedia of Animals in Myth, Legend, and Literature (ABC-CLIO, 2002). His books have been translated into French, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, and Czech.
Biography
Boria Sax is the son of Saville SaxSaville Sax
Saville Sax was the Harvard University roommate of Theodore Hall who recruited Hall for the Soviets and acted as a courier to move the atomic secrets from Los Alamos to the Soviets.-Biography:...
. He received his doctorate in Intellectual History and German from State University of New York, Buffalo. He has worked as a consultant on human rights for Amnesty International
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
, Helsinki Watch
Helsinki Watch
Helsinki Watch was a private American NGO devoted to monitoring Helsinki implementation throughout the Soviet bloc. It was created in 1978 to monitor compliance to the Helsinki Final Act...
, and Human Rights Internet
Human Rights Internet
Human Rights Internet is a non-governmental organization based in Ottawa, Canada, that supports the exchange of information within the worldwide human rights community...
. He is also the founder of the non-profit organization “Nature in Legend and Story,” dedicated to “promote understanding of traditional bonds between human beings and the natural world.”
Scholarship and translations
- City of Ravens: The True History of the Legendary Birds in the Tower of London. London: Duckworth, forthcoming May 2011.
- Contacts/Kontakte: Poems and Writings of Lutz Rathenow (edited anthology of translations). Providence: The Poet's Press, 1985.
- The Romantic Heritage of Marxism: A Study of East German Love Poetry. Bern: Peter Lang, 1987.
- The Frog King: On Fairy Tales, Fables and Anecdotes of Animals. New York: Pace University Press, 1990.
- The Parliament of Animals: Legends and Anecdotes from Books of Natural History, 1775 1900 New York: Pace University Press, 1992.
- The Serpent and the Swan: Animal Brides in Literature and Folklore. Austin: U. of Tennessee Press, 1998 (formerly published by McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co.).
- The Fantastic, Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow (edited anthology of translations). Sacramento: Xenos Books, 2001.
Memoir
- Stealing Fire: A Childhood in the Shadow of Atomic Espionage. Decalogue Books: Yonkers, to be published in 2011.
Study guides
- Thomas Mann's Death in Venice (study guide). Piscataway, NJ: Research and Education Association, 1996.
- The Romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (study guide). Parsippany, NJ: Research and Education Association, 1996.
- William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. (study guide). Parsippany, NJ: Research and Education Association, 1996.
Chapbooks and poetry
- The Raven and the Sun: Poems and Stories. Providence: The Poet's Press, 2010.
- When the Glaciers Melted. New Paltz: Cloud Mountain Press, 1973.
- Rheinland Market. Buffalo: Textile Bridge Press, 1983.
- I am that Snowflake. Providence: The Poet's Press, 1987.