Download or read book The Silence of Malka written by Jorge Zentner and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping and poignant story of Ashkenazi Jews fleeing the Russian pogroms at the end of the 19th Century, as well as a parable of the making of a modern society and the extent to which religion and mysticism meet. Inspired by a story told to the author by his grandmother. For the family of the little red-headed Malka, trading the Russian shtetl for the Argentine pampas isn't so easy. Even in a country eager to populate its vast territories, the immigrants discover that their new home isn't the promised land. They encounter hostility from both man and nature, as they struggle through droughts and locusts in an attempt to cultivate the arid soil. When misery pushes them to the extreme, Malka's uncle is visited by the prophet Elias, who advises that he create a Golem--the mythical creature fashioned from earth and endowed with life by engraving on his body the word Emet ("Truth")--to pose as a man and aid the immigrants. When years later the adult Malka is visited by Elias, the events of her youth force her to decide whether or not she can maintain her silence--with fate and divine justice hanging in the balance. Winner of the Best Foreign Graphic Album award at the Angoulême Festival.
Download or read book Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives written by Matt Reingold and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most up-to-date critical guide mapping the history, impact, key critical issues, and seminal texts of the genre, Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives interrogates what makes a work a "Jewish graphic narrative", and explores the form's diverse facets to orient readers to the richness and complexity of Jewish graphic storytelling. Accessible but comprehensive and in an easy-to-navigate format, the book covers such topics as: - The history of the genre in the US and Israel - and its relationship to superheroes, Underground Comix, and Jewish literature - Social and cultural discussions surrounding the legitimization of graphic representation as sites of trauma, understandings of gender, mixed-media in Jewish graphic novels, and the study of these works in the classroom - Critical explorations of graphic narratives about the Holocaust, Israel, the diasporic experience, Judaism, and autobiography and memoir - The works of Will Eisner, Ilana Zeffren, James Sturm, Joann Sfar, JT Waldman, Michel Kichka, Sarah Glidden, Rutu Modan, and Art Spiegelman and such narratives as X Men, Anne Frank's Diary, and Maus Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels includes an appendix of relevant works sorted by genre, a glossary of crucial critical terms, and close readings of key texts to help students and readers develop their understanding of the genre and pursue independent study.
Download or read book The Missing Hand written by Susan Van Dusen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stolen heirloom reveals long-buried sins among a peaceful Midwestern Jewish community in this mystery from the author of Poisoned Passover. While running the Crestfall, Illinois, Torah study group can be rewarding, it isn’t especially eventful, until a valuable heirloom is stolen from one of the group’s members. Known as a yad—the Hebrew word for hand—it is used to keep one’s place while reading the Torah. And this particular yad happens to be encrusted with a fortune’s worth of jewels. Now the mayor’s wife, Julia Donnelly, finds herself volunteering to help find the item. With no experience in crime detection beyond what she’s seen on TV, Julia and the Torah group leader Rabbi Fine attempt to solve the mystery and address the misery it is causing. But they soon find that the heirloom they seek holds a mystery of its own—one that reaches back to the Second World War—about the enigmatic man who brought this priceless yad to America in the first place.
Download or read book The Brothers of Auschwitz written by Malka Adler and published by One More Chapter. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The USA Today Bestseller An extraordinary novel of hope and heartbreak, this is a story about a family separated by the Holocaust and their harrowing journey back to each other. My brother's tears left a delicate, clean line on his face. I stroked his cheek, whispered, it's really you...
Download or read book The Silence of Heaven written by Amos Oz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Silence of Heaven, the world renowned Israeli novelist Amos Oz introduces us to an extraordinary masterpiece of Hebrew literature that is just now appearing in English, S. Y. Agnon's Only Yesterday. For Oz, Agnon is a treasure trove of a world no longer available to today's writers, yet deeply meaningful for his wonderment about God, the submerged eroticism of his writing, and his juggling of multiple texts from the historical Hebrew religious library. This collection of Oz's reflections on Agnon, which includes an essay on the essence of his ideology and poetics, is a rich interpretive work that shows how one great writer views another. Oz admires Agnon especially for his ability to invoke and visualize the religious world of the simple folk in Eastern European Jewry, looking back from the territorial context of the Zionist revival in Palestine. The tragedy of Agnon's visions, Oz maintains, lies in his perspicacity. Long before the Holocaust, Agnon saw the degeneration, ruin, and end of Jewish culture in Eastern Europe. He knew, too, that the Zionist project was far from being a secure conquest and its champions far from being happy idealists. Oz explores these viewpoints in a series of thick readings that consider the tensions between faith and the shock of doubt, yearnings and revulsion, love and hate, and intimacy and disgust. Although Oz himself is interested in particular ideological questions, he has the subtle sensibility of a master of fiction and can detect every technical device in Agnon's arsenal. With the verve of an excited reader, Oz dissects Agnon's texts and subtexts in a passionate argument about the major themes of Hebrew literature. This book also tells much about Oz. It represents the other side of Oz's book of reportage, In the Land of Israel, this time exploring the ideologies of Jewish identity not on the land but in texts of the modern classical heritage. The Silence of Heaven hence takes us on a remarkable journey into the minds of two major literary figures.
Download or read book The Grammar of Identity written by Stephen Clingman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence. The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of twentieth-century fiction that examines how writers across nearly a hundred years have confronted these issues. Circumventing the divisions of conventional categories, the book examines writers from both the colonial and postcolonial, the modern and postmodern eras, putting together writers who might not normally inhabit the same critical space: Joseph Conrad, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, Anne Michaels, W. G. Sebald, Nadine Gordimer, and J. M. Coetzee. In this guise, the book itself becomes a journey of discovery, exploring the transnational not so much as a literal crossing of boundaries but as a way of being and seeing. In fictional terms this also means that it concerns a set of related forms: ways of approaching time and space; constructions of the self by way of combination and constellation; versions of navigation that at once have to do with the foundations of language as well as our pathways through the world. From Conrad's waterways of the earth, to Sebald's endless horizons of connection and accountability, to Gordimer's and Coetzee's meditations on the key sites of village, Empire, and desert, the book recovers the centrality of fiction to our understanding of the world. At the heart of it all is the grammar of identity, how we assemble and undertake our versions of self at the core of our forms of being and seeing.
Download or read book The Gods Within written by J. L. Doty and published by Telemachus, LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 1683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete 4-eBook Boxed Set Praise for The Gods Within: "...a magical world of witches, wizards and war in this high-energy first installment of an epic-fantasy series...A fine fantasy novel that will provide readers with a good weekend escape from reality" — Kirkus Reviews Child of the Sword: Kindle Book Review Editor's Pick Child of the Sword: "This book grabbed from the start. I finished it and had to pick up the 2nd one right away."—A. C. Rat is no ordinary Thief A small feral child, he steals what he can to feed the gnawing hunger in his gut, though nothing can satisfy the hunger in his soul. But he has a special talent that the wizards and witches of the clans covet, so Clan Elhiyne abducts him and gives him the name Morgin. Can he escape the scheming of the clan's calculating and manipulative leader, the matriarchal old witch Olivia? And as he grows into manhood, can he survive the inter-clan rivalries, and the hatred that smolders between Olivia and her arch-enemy Valso, leader of Clan Decouix? A can't-put-it-down read. Pick it up today!
Download or read book The Hebrew Teacher written by Maya Arad and published by New Vessel Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intensely readable and beautifully observed . . . full of wisdom, generosity, humor, and sharp insights." —Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life around her career. When a young Hebrew literature professor joins the faculty, she finds his post-Zionist politics pose a threat to her life’s work. Miriam, whose son left Israel to make his fortune in Silicon Valley, pays an unwanted visit to meet her new grandson and discovers cracks in the family’s perfect façade. Efrat, another Israeli in California, is determined to help her daughter navigate the challenges of middle school, and crosses forbidden lines when she follows her into the minefield of social media. In these three stirring novellas—comedies of manners with an ambitious blend of irony and sensitivity—celebrated Israeli author Maya Arad probes the demise of idealism and the generation gap that her heroines must confront.
Download or read book Lidingo written by Ḥanah Manṭel and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small Swedish island of Lidingo became a haven for the homeless, shattered girls saved from the ravages of the Holocaust. There they received the warmth, love, and Jewish education they so desperately needed in order to rebuild thieir lives. A beautifully written historical account of chilling memoirs, poignant recollections of the past, and stories of the healing years in Lidingo.
Download or read book The History of Soul 2065 written by Barbara Krasnoff and published by Mythic Delirium Books. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Achingly familiar and wonderfully strange.” —Samuel R. Delany, Hugo and Nebula Award winner “Plunge into The History of Soul 2065, there’s nothing like it.” —Jeffrey Ford, World Fantasy Award winner Months before World War I breaks out, two young Jewish girls just on the edge of adolescence—one from a bustling Russian city, the other from a German estate—meet in an eerie, magical forest glade. They are immediately drawn to one another and swear an oath to meet again. Though war and an ocean will separate the two for the rest of their lives, the promise that they made to each other continues through the intertwined lives of their descendants. This epic tale of the supernatural follows their families from the turn of the 20th Century through the terrors of the Holocaust and ultimately to the wonders of a future they never could have imagined. The History of Soul 2065 encompasses accounts of sorcery, ghosts, time travel, virtual reality, alien contact, and elemental confrontations between good and evil. Understated and epic, cathartic and bittersweet, the twenty connected stories in Nebula Award finalist Barbara Krasnoff’s debut form a mosaic narrative even greater than its finely crafted parts. Jane Yolen, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master, says in her introduction: “If you, like me, love quirky and original fantasy stories, I advise you to dive right in. If you, like me, admire tough writing that’s not afraid of the grit, dive right in. If you, like me, want to hang out a while with characters rich in their own traditions, dive right in. This is storytelling at the top of the heap.”
Download or read book Children of the Ghetto written by Israel Zangwill and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Second Son written by Joel Z. Wagman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout a distinguished many-faceted career, Joel Z Wagman QC has been an entrepreneur and innovator playing key roles in numerous industries, including: telecommunications, automotive, computing, entertainment, real estate, waste management, hospitality and investment banking. Mr. Wagman has also served on the board of directors of several private and public companies in both financial and executive capacities. Although, still engaged in corporate finance, he is also an historian , scholar and author of the acclaimed “ Enemies and Allies: Seven Days of Destiny and and The Manuscript: The Life and Times Of James Weymore.
Download or read book Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People written by Israel Zangwill and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People" by Israel Zangwill. 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 Children of the Ghetto written by Israel Zangwill and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1906-01-01 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A novel set in late nineteenth-century London, Children of the Ghetto gave an inside look into an immigrant community that was almost as mysterious to the more established middle-class Jews of Britain as to the non-Jewish population, providing a compelling analysis of a generation caught between the ghetto and modern British life."--Goodreads
Download or read book Terminus Ascending written by Jeremy Michelson and published by Jeremy Michelson. This book was released on with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A case of mistaken identity? Not at all. A vicious alien race has a secret weapon to use against humanity: Roy DeHaas. Turns out to be quite the surprise to Roy. Roy finds himself on the run. Chased by every race in the galaxy. Including his own. Somehow he’s started a war. Waves of alien warships are bearing down on Earth. The two most powerful people in the galaxy could stop them. They won’t. Instead, they dump humanity’s fate on Roy. Now he has to play cat and mouse with a fiendishly clever alien who thirsts for vengeance against humanity. Roy’s in way over his head. Nothing new there. But this time the entire human race depends on his finding a way out of this mess. He’ll never give up. But persistence might not be enough this time. He can’t do it alone. Can he pull everyone together in time? An epic chapter in the Star Ascension series.
Download or read book Shayndl and Salomea written by Salomea Genin and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-25 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From stories both told and untold, Genin recreates the lives of the Zwerling family in the Jewish quarter of Lemberg (Lvov): There is her strict, deeply religious grandfather, Shulim, the patriarch; his patient but tired wife, Dvoire; and his beautiful and rebellious daughter, Shayndl, who marries the dreamer Avram Genin against her father's wishes and without his blessing, and who will later become Salomea Genin's mother.
Download or read book Mori Joe exploring magical paths written by Claude-Hélène Mayer and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on 2015 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about Mori-Joe and the cultural and spiritual journey she embarks on. After spending her formative years in Germany she moves to South Africa with her parents, where exciting new worlds await her. Somehow these worlds are already uncannily familiar to her. Her journey is told in the form of a didactic narrative. It is an amazing story on the one hand, on the other a biographical excerpt that has its roots in a set of profound cross-cultural scenarios. Mori-Joe's story is based on David S. Hoopes' cross-cultural personality development methodologies and cleverly conceptualises this into a humorous and entertaining narrative. Found at the end of the story is a compact, scientific 'user guide' on intercultural personality development with select references to the literature that has been consulted on this subject. The book has been written as a novel in a style that is both palatable to young people and adults alike, as it is to persons in a professional context devoted to the subject of cross-cultural development and learning. It can be adopted by schools and universities as foundational material for an understanding of the subject, as well as for topics like psychobiography and anti-racism. Claude-Hélène Mayer holds a Master and Doctorate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Göttingen, Germany, and a Doctorate in Management from Rhodes University, Grahamstown. Her research areas are cross-cultural conflict management, identity, value and health in organisational contexts. She is currently Professor of Intercultural Business Communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, Germany, and Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. PD Dr. habil. Claude-Hélène Mayer, PhD (RU) ist Visiting Professor an der University of South Africa, Pretoria, Distinguished Visiting Professor (2013) und Senior Research Associate an der Rhodes University, Grahamstown, sowie Privatdozentin am Lehrstuhl für Sprachgebrauch und Therapeutische Kommunikation, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). Sie ist interkulturelle Trainerin, Mediatorin & Ausbilderin für Mediation (BM), systemische Beraterin (NIS) und systemische Familientherapeutin (SG), Hypnosetherapeutin (TIM) und integrierte Lerntherapeutin (ILT). Ihre Forschungsthemen sind interkulturelle Gesundheit in Organisationen, interkulturelles Konfliktmanagement und Mediation sowie Beratung. Sie ist Autorin mehrerer Kinderbücher, Fachbücher, wissenschaftlicher Artikel und Monographien.
