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Book From Leningrad to Jerusalem

Download or read book From Leningrad to Jerusalem written by Hilel Buṭman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Leningrad Jerusalem a Long Stop

Download or read book Leningrad Jerusalem a Long Stop written by Hillel Butman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cheerful Memories Troubled Years

Download or read book Cheerful Memories Troubled Years written by Ida Taratuta and published by Cherry Orchard Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of the Taratuta family and their struggle to flee the USSR to repatriate to Israel at the end of the last century. It includes the lives of Aba, wife Ida and son Misha Taratuta and details of their struggle during their quest for freedom.

Book Return from the Archipelago

Download or read book Return from the Archipelago written by Leona Toker and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive historical survey and critical analysis of the vast body of narrative literature about the Soviet gulag. Leona Toker organizes and characterizes both fictional narratives and survivors' memoirs as she explores the changing hallmarks of the genre from the 1920s through the Gorbachev era. Toker reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanization, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives -- arrest, the stages of trial, imprisonment, labor camps, exile, escapes, special punishment, the role of chance, and deprivation -- Toker discusses the historical, political, and social contexts of these accounts and the ethical and aesthetic imperative they fulfill. Her readings provide extraordinary insight into prisoners' experiences of the Soviet penal system. Special attention is devoted to the writings of Varlam Shalamov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, but many works that are not well known in the West, especially those by women, are addressed. Consideration is also given to events that recently brought many memoirs to light years after they were written.

Book The Jerusalem File

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joel Stone
  • Publisher : Europa Editions
  • Release : 2009-01-27
  • ISBN : 1609459326
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book The Jerusalem File written by Joel Stone and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Successfully grafts a classic hard-boiled detective plot line onto the complexities and dangers of life in modern Israel” (Publishers Weekly). Levin has been living in Jerusalem for most of his adult life. Retired from the security services, he lives alone a few streets away from his ex-wife, continents away from his children. Adrift, Levin accepts a request to follow the wife of an acquaintance and discover her secret lover. Unlike the chaotic, incomprehensible suicide bombings he’s used to dealing with, at least this assignment seems like one that could possibly be solved. As Levin watches the woman, Deborah, he begins to assess her as a potential lover might. And when the man her husband believes to be her paramour is murdered—and Deborah, in desperation, turns to Levin with her own unexpected request—his own moral universe becomes as conflicted as the struggle between Arab and Jew for the fate of the fabled city. From the Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of A Town Called Jericho, this is both a twisting thriller and a “spare, pensive but never brooding study of obsessive love” (Kirkus Reviews). “The Jerusalem File is styled as a neo-noir mystery story set in contemporary Jerusalem. From the first page, however, the book throws off reflections of its far deeper facets. Joel Stone uses his short and elegantly crafted thriller as the occasion for something much more ambitious—a meditation on the politics of the modern Middle East and, at the same time, the more intimate politics of the human heart . . . A page-turner.” —Los Angeles Times

Book An Anthology of Jewish Russian Literature  Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry

Download or read book An Anthology of Jewish Russian Literature Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry written by Maxim D. Shrayer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive anthology gathers stories, essays, memoirs, excerpts from novels, and poems by more than 130 Jewish writers of the past two centuries who worked in the Russian language. It features writers of the tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods, both in Russia and in the great emigrations, representing styles and artistic movements from Romantic to Postmodern. The authors include figures who are not widely known today, as well as writers of world renown. Most of the works appear here for the first time in English or in new translations. The editor of the anthology, Maxim D. Shrayer of Boston College, is a leading authority on Jewish-Russian literature. The selections were chosen not simply on the basis of the author's background, but because each work illuminates questions of Jewish history, status, and identity. Each author is profiled in an essay describing the personal, cultural, and historical circumstances in which the writer worked, and individual works or groups of works are headnoted to provide further context. The anthology not only showcases a wide selection of individual works but also offers an encyclopedic history of Jewish-Russian culture. This handsome two-volume set is organized chronologically. The first volume spans the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth century, and includes the editor's extensive introduction to the Jewish-Russian literary canon. The second volume covers the period from the death of Stalin to the present, and each volume includes a corresponding survey of Jewish-Russian history by John D. Klier of University College, London, as well as detailed bibliographies of historical and literary sources.

Book Jerusalem Transformed

    Book Details:
  • Author : Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History Richard I Cohen
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2024-10
  • ISBN : 019778321X
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Jerusalem Transformed written by Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History Richard I Cohen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The symposium that kicks off the latest volume of Studies in Contemporary Jewry focuses on the city that is at the very center of contemporary Jewish life, both geographically and culturally. Jerusalem is an extremely engaging and beautiful city as well as a source of continual controversy and contestation. The authors in the symposium discuss a wide range of topics, with a focus on politics and culture, offering readers provocative views on the city over the last 120 years. Essays by historians and cultural scholars in the volume engage with such issues as visions of the city among Jews and non-Jews and musical and literary imaginings of the city, while other scholars bring original interpretations of the city's political evolution in the past century that will both surprise and intrigue readers. The extensive book review section illustrates the consistent interest in modern Jewish history and culture.

Book Cheerful Memories Troubled Years

Download or read book Cheerful Memories Troubled Years written by Ida Taratuta and published by Cherry Orchard Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of the Taratuta family and their struggle to flee the USSR to repatriate to Israel at the end of the last century. It includes the lives of Aba, wife Ida and son Misha Taratuta and details of their struggle during their quest for freedom.

Book Ex Soviets in Israel

    Book Details:
  • Author : L. L. Fialkova
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780814331699
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Ex Soviets in Israel written by L. L. Fialkova and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking study of personal stories from ex-Soviet immigrants in Israel, bringing together scholarship in anthropology, sociology, linguistics, semiotics, and social psychology. In the final years of the Soviet Union and into the 1990s, Soviet Jews immigrated to Israel at an unprecedented rate, bringing about profound changes in Israeli society and the way immigrants understood their own identity. In this volume ex-Soviets in Israel reflect on their immigration experiences, allowing readers to explore this transitional cultural group directly through immigrants' thoughts, memories, and feelings, rather than physical artifacts like magazines, films, or books. Drawing on their fieldwork as well as on analyses of the Russian-language Israeli media and Internet forums, Larisa Fialkova and Maria N. Yelenevskaya present a collage of cultural and folk traditions--from Slavic to Soviet, Jewish, and Muslim--to demonstrate that the mythology of Soviet Jews in Israel is still in the making. The authors begin by discussing their research strategies, explaining the sources used as material for the study, and analyzing the demographic profile of the immigrants interviewed for the project. Chapters use immigrants' personal recollections to both find fragments of Jewish tradition that survived despite the assimilation policy in the USSR and show how traditional folk perception of the Other affected immigrants' interaction with members of their receiving society. The authors also investigate how immigrants' perception of time and space affected their integration, consider the mythology of Fate and Lucky Coincidences as a means of fighting immigrant stress, examine folk-linguistics and the role of the lay-person's view of languages in the life of the immigrant community, and analyze the transformation of folklore genres and images of the country of origin under new conditions. As the biggest immigration wave from a single country in Israel's history, the ex-Soviet Jews make a fascinating case study for a variety of disciplines. Ex-Soviets in Israel will be of interest to scholars who work in Jewish and immigration studies, modern folklore, anthropology, and sociolinguistics.

Book We Are Jews Again

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yuli Kosharovsky
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 2017-06-15
  • ISBN : 0815654006
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book We Are Jews Again written by Yuli Kosharovsky and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kosharovsky’s authoritative four-volume history of the Jewish movement in the Soviet Union is now available in a condensed and edited volume that makes this compelling insider’s account of Soviet Jewish activism after Stalin available to a wider audience. Originally published in Russian from 2008 to 2012, "We Are Jews Again" chronicles the struggles of Jews who wanted nothing more than the freedom to learn Hebrew, the ability to provide a Jewish education for their children, and the right to immigrate to Israel. Through dozens of interviews with former refuseniks and famous activists, Kosharovsky provides a vivid and intimate view of the Jewish movement and a detailed account of the persecution many faced from Soviet authorities.

Book Reimagining Jerusalem   s Architectural Identities in the Later Middle Ages

Download or read book Reimagining Jerusalem s Architectural Identities in the Later Middle Ages written by Cathleen A. Fleck and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores several fascinating medieval Christian and Islamic artworks that represent and reimagine Jerusalem’s architecture as religious and political instruments to express power, entice visitors, console the devoted, offer spiritual guidance, and convey the city’s mythical history.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies written by Martin Goodman and published by Oxford Handbooks Online. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies reflects the current state of scholarship in the field as analyzed by an international team of experts in the different and varied areas represented within contemporary Jewish Studies. Unlike recent attempts to encapsulate the current state of Jewish Studies, the Oxford Handbook is more than a mere compendium of agreed facts; rather, it is an exhaustive survey of current interests and directions in the field.

Book Beyond the Pale

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Nathans
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2004-04-29
  • ISBN : 9780520242326
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Pale written by Benjamin Nathans and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, 'beyond the Pale' of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. This text reinterprets the history of the Russian-Jewish encounter, using long-closed Russian archives and other sources.

Book THE GODMOTHER

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anatoliy Drozdov
  • Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
  • Release : 2022-04-06
  • ISBN : 1638448418
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book THE GODMOTHER written by Anatoliy Drozdov and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 9th of November, 2020 Russian politologist Vladimir Solo- vyov offered to purchase Odessa and south from Ukraine. Link: https://ria.ru/20201109/odessa-1583780656.html I want to say that my spiritual father is from Odessa oblast, my grandfather on the father’s line who passed away in suffering exactly on hat day is from Odessa. My grandmother is from Nikolaev, on the mother’s line my grandmother is from Kaluga oblast - the home of the Marshal Georgy Zhukov, my grandfa ther is from Ural. I want you to publicly apologize for your words about the purchase of the Hero-City (Gorod Geroy) Odessa and the south, which was by the way built by the Russian people. When there are countries in the world invest into the foreign policy for establishment the military, the political and economic unions, by all means and from one side correctly, with all the power go forward. You with the sense of humor, being the head of one of the leading alternative political streams of infromation that is one of the sources for the people of the Commonwealth of Independent States (SNG) say about the purchase of the Odessa and the whole south from Ukraine.The Kulikovo field (the area of Odessa where cruel events took place on the 2nd of May, 2014) was named after the Battle at the Kulikovo Field in the times of PRAVOSLAVIE, which took place on the 8th of September, 1380 on the Remembrance Day of the Nativity of the Holy Mary. Events on the 2nd of Maywhich took place on the Remembrance Day of Saint Matrona of Moscow. I do know if I can talk to you this way. You are just a political scientist. (The english term that I do not recognize but politologist) The Great Fatherland War - is the eternal memory. It is a Great Victory! We - Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, maybe someone counts himself Russian-speaking Ukrainian, I do not know, but our blood , in the veins of our fathers was fighting and was spilled in the Great Fatherland War, and now we can live together on one, native and loved land. Let’s resolve it forever (read the book Russia, Ukraine, Belarus. The Ceasefire) and let’s live like the brother people on our own land. I already said in this book that I have forgiven the cruelty of Ukrainian events that were coming from hands and the government that had only partial genetic affilation to our land. I have forgiven Viktor Yanukovich that you left us behind. But you, Vladimir Solovyov, shall have to ask publicly for forgiveness that you wanted to purchase us!!!Are you wiling to do so?

Book Daily Report  Foreign Radio Broadcasts

Download or read book Daily Report Foreign Radio Broadcasts written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book SIPRE Report

Download or read book SIPRE Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Implementation of the Helsinki Accords

Download or read book Implementation of the Helsinki Accords written by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: