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The Art of Bible Translation by Robert Alter;
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Robert Alter; [Alter;, Robert]

CHAPTER FOUR Sound Play and Word Play SOUND PLAY AND WORD PLAY are ubiquitous in literature, and they are an abounding presence in the Hebrew Bible, both in the poetry ...
( Category: Exegesis & Hermeneutics January 19,2020 )
The Talmud: A Biography by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-04-17 | Author:Barry Scott Wimpfheimer [Wimpfheimer, Barry Scott]

Jewish Philosophy It can be difficult to properly apprehend the long-ago impact of Greek philosophy on theories of nature, the function of the world, and the roles of human beings ...
( Category: Talmud January 19,2020 )
Information Hunters by Kathy Peiss
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Kathy Peiss

Chapter 6 Book Burning—American Style Even as American libraries expanded their collections through relationships with the military, the American occupation government faced its own problem of mass acquisitions. The Allies ...
( Category: General January 19,2020 )
Yitzhak Rabin by Itamar Rabinovich
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Itamar Rabinovich [Rabinovich, Itamar]

5 Fall and Rise, 1977-1992 FAILED LEADERS are rarely given a second chance. Rabin was to be an exception. By responding to adversity with tenacity, taking full advantage of his ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 19,2020 )
Who Will Lead Us?: The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America by Samuel C. Heilman
epub |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:Samuel C. Heilman [Heilman, Samuel C.]

FAILURE IN SIGHET AND SUCCESS IN KROLE Part of Yoelish’s unhappiness in Krole came from the fact that the same year he arrived there his older brother suffered a massive ...
( Category: Sociology January 19,2020 )
The Beginning of Politics by Halbertal Moshe; Holmes Stephen;
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Halbertal, Moshe; Holmes, Stephen; [Halbertal, Moshe; Holmes, Stephen;]

FOUR David’s Will and Last Words As his eventful life approached its end, the once vigorous king is portrayed as pitifully bedridden and out of touch: And King David had ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States by Samira K. Mehta
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Samira K. Mehta

A Little Latin, a Lot Jewish The Cordero family further complicates the categories of race, religion, and ethnicity—a family that, unlike the Wilsons, can to a certain extent “choose” to ...
( Category: Ritual January 19,2020 )
The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World by Kati Marton
epub |eng | 2006-10-17 | Author:Kati Marton [Marton, Kati]

ON SUNDAY MORNING, September 3, 1939, the shrill wail of the war’s first air raid warning pierced through London’s early morning sky, bringing the nightmare home to Alexander Korda. “We ...
( Category: Jewish January 18,2020 )
Genius and Anxiety by Norman Lebrecht
epub |eng | 2019-08-29 | Author:Norman Lebrecht

An elusive Jewish sound: George Gershwin paints Arnold Schoenberg, 1936. ‌Nine 1911 Blues ’n’ Jews One sweltering summer’s afternoon on a brownstone stoop in the Bronx or Harlem, a bunch ...
( Category: Jewish January 18,2020 )
Milk by Mark Kurlansky
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Kurlansky

With an abundant availability of factory-made American cheeses that melted well, America developed a melted-cheese cuisine—cheeseburgers, grilled cheese, macaroni and cheese—that became quintessentially American. But melted-cheese cooking was not new, ...
( Category: Sustainable Agriculture January 18,2020 )
Alchemist by Isabella Jordan
epub |lav | 0101-01-01 | Author:Isabella Jordan [Jordan, Isabella]

Chapter 5 Vitali Kerensky nodded to Joey the next morning when he entered the hardware shop, quietly asking a younger man working at the cash register to watch things for ...
( Category: Historical January 17,2020 )
The Stone Crusher by Jeremy Dronfield
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-04-15 | Author:Jeremy Dronfield

14 Resistance and Collaboration: The Death of Fritz Kleinmann THE GREAT MACHINE IN which the concentration camps were the main components was a formidable but shockingly ramshackle work of engineering. ...
( Category: Ethnic & National January 17,2020 )
Judaism- An Introduction by C M Hoffman
azw3 |eng | 2010-05-28 | Author:C M Hoffman

* * * Hasidism goes so far as to say that devekut should be the believer’s constant state of mind. Yet in prayer particularly there may be a mystical encounter ...
( Category: Jewish Life January 16,2020 )
Genius & Anxiety by Norman Lebrecht
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Norman Lebrecht

Being Arnold Schoenberg is never easy, least of all for the man behind the name. Edgy, provocative, hotheaded, stubborn, insensitive, antisocial, and downright rude are just a few of the ...
( Category: Jewish December 30,2019 )
Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar by Morinis Alan
mobi |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Morinis, Alan [Morinis, Alan]

All of this might lead you to conclude that the ultimate form of generosity is giving from a loving heart. Rabbi Simcha Zissel tells us this, and more. He looks ...
( Category: Torah December 30,2019 )

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