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Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow
of the Intifada by Adia Mendelson-Maoz presents a new perspective on the
multifaceted relations between ideologies, space, and ethics manifested in
contemporary Hebrew literature dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
and the occupation. In this volume, Mendelson-Maoz analyzes Israeli prose
written between 1987 and 2007, relating mainly to the first and second intifadas,
written...
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English
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American and Israeli Jews have historically clashed over the contours of Jewish identity, and their experience of modern Jewish life has been radically different. As Philip Roth put it, they are the "heirs jointly of a drastically bifurcated legacy." But what happens when the encounter between American and Israeli Jewishness takes place in literary form-when Jewish American novels make aliyah, or when Israeli novels are imported for consumption by...
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Listen to the shocking story that the media have ignored and covered up. In 2007, two Israeli news publications, Israel Today and News First Class reported that the most famous Rabbi in Israel's modern history, 108-year-old Yitzhak Kaduri, had left a cryptic death note revealing the name of the long-awaited Messiah. Within a year after the rabbi's death, the note was reported to have been verified as authentic by some of Kaduri's closest followers...
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English
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A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.
Signatures of Struggle offers a unique perspective on Israeli literature, bringing Marxist cultural critique to bear on a field from which it has hitherto been absent. Oded Nir moves beyond the dominant interpretive horizon of Israeli literary criticism: the relation of literature to national ideology. Rather than reproducing the...
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Eternal light volume Bk. 7
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Veshinantam Levanecha
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English
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Stories from the Lives of Tzaddikim. The Maggid of Mezritch, Reb Naftali of Ropshitz, The Tzemach Tzaddik, The She'eiris Yisrael of Vilednik, The Be'er Mayim Chayim, The Divrei Yoel of Satmar, Rav Yehoshua Rokach - The Rebbe of Belze.
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"I didn't think he'd do it. I really didn't think he would. I thought he'd say, whoa, hold on, wait a minute. We made a deal, remember, the land, the blessing, the nation, the descendants as numerous as the sands on the shore and the stars in the sky." So begins James Goodman's original and urgent encounter with one of the most compelling and resonant stories ever told-God's command to Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. A mere nineteen lines...
68) Four Chassidic masters: the heart, the mind, the eye, and the tongue : history, stories, teachings
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Shaar Press
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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English
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"Co-Winner of the 2014 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association" "Winner of the 2014 Salo Baron Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research" "Co-Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics, Association for Jewish Studies" Lital Levy is associate professor of comparative literature at Princeton University, where she teaches Modern Hebrew and Arabic literatures and literary theory.
A Palestinian-Israeli...
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"This book consists of six conversations between Amos Oz and Shira Hadad, who worked closely with Oz as the editor of his novel Judas. The interviews, which took place toward the end of Oz's life, about a decade after the publication of his memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness, capture the writer's thoughts and opinions on many of the subjects that occupied him throughout his life and career, including writing and creation, guilt and love, death and...
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Tfutza Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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It all began with a letter... When Eli finds a letter beside the dumpster, little does he know that he and his friends are about to be sucked into a murky tale of deception and treachery. Together with his group of brave friends, the Fearless Four, Eli sets out on a mission to help a desperate family - and becomes entangled in a risky plan to set his classmate free from a formidable enemy. Join the Fearless Four on their mission - a mission of chessed...
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Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry collects 212 poems by 110 poets to celebrate contemporary writers, born after World War II, who write about Jewish themes. In bringing together poets whose writings explore cultural Jewish topics with those who directly address Jewish religious themes as well as those who only indirectly touch on their Jewishness, this anthology offers a fascinating insight into what it is to be a Jewish...
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Who's telling the truth? And whom can be trusted? Claudius, a roman guard, finds himself in the middle of a cover-up regarding the tumultuous events following Christ's execution. As he investigates further, he discovers that the religious leaders, the Roman government officials, and even his closest friends are attempting to hide something important from him. His relentless pursuit of answers to his growing questions threatens his reputation – and...