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Wine, Women, and Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life
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Raymond Scheindlin (Editor)
The Jewish poets of medieval Spain combined elements of the dominant Arabic-Islamic culture with Jewish religious and literary traditions to create a rich new Hebrew literature that is as richly entertaining today as it was in the twelfth century. Scheindlin presents the original Hebrew poetry with his own melodic English translations, each ...
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A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling
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David G Roskies
This text provides a history of how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for successive generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their fervent hopes and greatest fears in the languages of tradition. Its protagonists are modern writers who returned to storytelling in the hope of harnessing the folk tradition and who created ...
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Greek Myths
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Robert Graves
The Greek Myths has long been among Graves's most popular works, compendious in scope and lively in the telling. No poet of the twentieth century, not even Ezra Pound, was so compendiously learned as Graves in the origins of our Mediterranean cultures. While his approach to myth is original and sometimes contentious, his narrative is always ...
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Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics
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David Grossman, Jessica Cohen
Throughout his career, Grossman has been a voice for peace and reconciliation between Israel and its Arab citizens and neighbors. In five new essays on politics and culture in Israel today, he addresses the conscience of a country that has lost faith in its leaders and its ideals.
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In the land of Israel
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Amos Oz
IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL, a book of essays about Amos Oz's travels there during the war with Lebanon, was the source of heated controversy when it was published in Israel in 1983. The essays combine factual reporting and interviews with Oz's personal feelings about the conflict and about his country.
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The Amos Oz Reader (Cancelled)
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Amos Oz, Nitza Ben Dov (Editor), Mr. Robert Alter (Foreword by)
A rich and varied selection of writings--from the early 1960s to the present--by Amos Oz, one of Israel's leading novelists, public intellectuals, and political activists.
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Reading the Holocaust
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Inga Clendinnen
Fifty years after their occurrence, the events of the Holocaust remain for some of their most dedicated students as morally and intellectually baffling, as 'unthinkable', as they were at their first rumoring. Reading the Holocaust challenges that bafflement, and the demoralization that attends it. Exploring the experience of the Holocaust from ...
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Golden Tradition: Jewish Life & Thought in Eastern Europe
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Lucy S Dawidowicz (Editor)
A collection of documents from the 16th century to 1939, demonstrating the changes in Jewish life and thought in Eastern Europe, which includes writings by Bergson, Chagall, Weizmann and Trotsky.
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The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America
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Jonathan Freedman
From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and ...
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In My Fathers Court
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
A memoir of Singer's childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father. The vanished world Singer recalls, of the Hasidic community in Warsaw in the early part of this century, is beautifully evoked.
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Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah: A Historical and Literary Introduction
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George W E Nickelsburg
In this fully revised and expanded edition, Nickelsburg introduces the reader to the broad range of Jewish literature that is not part of either the Bible or the standard rabbinical works. This includes especially the Apocrypha (such as 1 Maccabees), the Pseudepigrapha (such as 1 Enoch), the Dead Sea Scrolls, the works of Josephus, and the works ...
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Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory
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Ernst Van Alphen, Ernst Van Alphen
In the face of strong moral and aesthetic pressure to deal with the Holocaust in strictly historical and documentary modes, this book discusses why and how reenactment of the Holocaust in art and imaginative literature can be successful in simultaneously presenting, analyzing, and working through this apocalyptic moment in human history. In ...
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Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems
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Yehuda Amichai, Harold Schimmel (Translator), Assia Gutmann (Translator)
This volume of work by the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai contains two of his collections in full. This is a bilingual edition with English translations alongside the Hebrew originals.
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Freud and the Non-European
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Professor Edward W Said, Christopher Bollas (Introduction by)
Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud's Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said's abiding interest in Freud's work and its important influence on his own. He proposes that Freud's assumption that ...
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Yehuda Amichai, a Life of Poetry, 1948-1994
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Yehuda Amichai
This mammoth collection draws on 46 years of Amichai's previously published volumes, sampling nearly a half-century of this Israeli poet's witty and serious work.
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An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the "Diary"
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Lawrence Graver
Graver examines Meyer Levin's 30-year obsession with "The Diary of Anne Frank." Levin collaborated with Anne's father, Otto, to bring the diary to an American audience. However, disputes and disagreements between them turned to litigation and scandal. This book is based on numerous previously unpublished documents and interviews with the principal ...
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Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America
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Professor Eric J Sundquist
In a culture deeply divided along ethnic lines, the idea that the relationship between blacks and Jews was once thought special - indeed, critical to the cause of civil rights - might seem strange. Yet the importance of blacks for Jews and Jews for blacks in conceiving of themselves as Americans, when both remained outsiders to the privileges of ...
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Hebrew and Modernity
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Mr. Robert Alter
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The Jewish Writer
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Jill Krementz
Photojournalist Jill Krementz presents an inquiry into the soul of the Jewish writer, profiling such contemporary as David Mamet, Cynthia Ozick, and venerable voices such as Isaac Bashevis Singer. 90 photos.
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The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself
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Stanley Burnshaw (Editor), T Carmi (Editor), Susan Glassman (Editor)
A collection of modern Hebrew poetry. In this new and expanded edition of a volume first printed in 1965, a new generation of Hebrew poets is added. Each poem appears in both its original Hebrew and an English phonetic transcription, along with extensive commentary and a literal English translation. This offers readers who know little or no Hebrew ...
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More Funniest Man in World
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Ephraim Kishon
This book contains more hilarious stories full of life's everyday characters by Israel's most famous humorist - who also happens to be the World's best-selling humour writer with 64 million books sold in 50 languages! These are more of the best and funniest stories culled from the author's past 25 books.
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Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers
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Yehuda Amichai
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The selected poetry of Yehuda Amichai
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Yehuda Amichai, Chana Bloch, 1940-, Stephen Mitchell
Four decades of poetry from Amichai, who immigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1936. His perennial themes are the threat of death versus the joy of faith in God.
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Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism
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With an Iron Pen: Twenty Years of Hebrew Protest Poetry
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Rachel Tzvia Back (Editor), Tal Nitzan (Editor)
A groundbreaking collection of forty two Israeli poetic voices protesting the occupation of the West Bank.
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