Download or read book A Crown for the King written by Ibn Gabirol and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Crown (or, "A Crown for the King" in Slavitt's translation) is the greatest of Gabirol's poems. Its theme is the problem of the human predicament: the frailty of man and his proclivity to sin, in tension with a benign providence that must leave room for the operation of man's free will and also make available to him the means of penitence. The Royal Crown is still printed in prayerbooks of the Sephardic rite for the Day of Atonement, and among North African Jewish communities (and their offshoots in Israel and elsewhere) it is read communally before the morning service of the Day. In northern Europe and the West this custom has lapsed, however the Royal Crown is still used for private penitential reading.

Download or read book The Crown of Solomon and Other Stories written by Marc D. Angel and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since his novel, The Search Committee, I have been waiting anxiously for Rabbi Marc D. Angel's next work of fiction. The short story collection The Crown of Solomon and Other Stories was worth the wait! A unique and moving collection that allows the reader insight into Sephardic Jewry's rich heritage." - Naomi Ragen, Author of The Sister's Weiss and the Ghost of Hannah Mendes These wry parables of Jewish wisdom and ignorance touch a nerve. We find ourselves thinking about these characters long after we've put the book down-this one timid and self-demeaning until she suddenly is not, that one stubborn and aggressive, another, hesitant beyond reason. The stories quietly ambush assumptions of many kinds. - Jane Mushabac, CUNY Professor of English, author of "Pasha: Ruminations of David Aroughetti." Praise for The Crown of Solomon: While reading Rabbi Marc Angel's The Crown of Solomon and Other Stories, I could not stop wondering whether David Barukh, the unrecognized Sephardic Mozart, was a metaphor for the last two centuries of the Ottoman Sephardic culture, a metaphor for all the wasted opportunities and unrealized potentials! Rabbi Angel's stories demonstrate that Sepharadim can still teach modern American readers a thing or two, a lesson in honesty, or modesty-or, maybe, how to turn a defect into effect. Rabbi Angel does not idealize his Sephardic characters, not even the rabbinic ones. Some of his rabbis, like Hakham Shelomo, are wise in an a la turca way; others are quite average, like Hakham Ezra; some are humble, honorable and even saintly like Rabbi Bejerano-and yet others are frivolous and self-centered, like Rabbi Tedeschi. All are convincingly human and quite imaginable in real life. The lay characters of the stories are simply conquering in their charming simplicity, in their human rootedness and in their folk wisdom. While reading Rabbi Marc Angel's new book, I felt everything was in its place. It takes a person deeply rooted in both cultures, traditional Sephardic and modern American, to tell so Sephardic a story in a language such as English, and who makes everything feel totally right. - Dr. Eliezer Papo, Head of the Sephardic Studies Research Institute, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Download or read book Ploughed and Other Stories written by Lucy Bethia Walford and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Soul of a Cat and Other Stories written by Margaret Benson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written by Margaret Benson, an English author and Egyptologist best known for her excavation of the Precinct of Mut. Despite her achievements in Egyptology, the current publication has no relation to her professional work - instead, it focuses on her admiration of cats through tales that she weaves; be it feral cats or house cats.

Download or read book Changeling and Other Stories written by Brian Oswald Patrick Donn-Byrne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Changeling and Other Stories" by Brian Oswald Patrick Donn-Byrne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Coals of fire and other stories written by David Christie Murray and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Wayside wisdom or Old Solomon s idea of things written by John Colwell and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Practical Analysis of the Several Letters Patent of the Crown written by William Henry Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century written by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Twixt promise and vow and other stories by Ruth Elliott written by Lillie Peck and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book King Solomon s Goat written by Willard Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Daughter of the Nile The Loves of King Solomon Book 3 written by Jill Eileen Smith and published by Revell. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her father, the Great Pharaoh of Egypt, promised the renowned king of Israel anything he desired. She never could have imagined his desire would include her. Princess Siti is happy to let her older sister marry the crown prince out of duty to Egypt. She longs to marry for love--to a great man like those in the romantic poems she adores. But her mother wants her to wed her temperamental cousin, and only her father can overturn the arrangement. When news comes of Egypt's triumph over a distant Canaanite city, rumors spread that Israel's great King Solomon himself may travel to Egypt in order to make an alliance. Siti yearns to meet this fabled king, who is as handsome as he is wise, but she never dreamed she might be offered to him as a bride. Can she truly leave her beloved Egypt--and love the man who is tearing her away from all she's ever known?

Download or read book The Falling Snow and Other Stories written by José Maria Eça de Queirós and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Short stories (fiction) by the great nineteenth-century Portuguese author Jose Maria Eca de Queiros; a variety of themes characterize the stories: love, greed, obsession, country life; patriotism"--