Author: Rodger Kamenetz
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0805242570
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A dual portrait of venerated Hasidic storyteller Rabbi Nachman and iconic writer Franz Kafka reveals unexpected parallels between their abbreviated lives, tracing their respective writings about an illogical world and searches for spiritual meaning. By the National Jewish Book Award-winning author of The Jew in the Lotus.
Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
A quarter of a century ago, the Australian Geographicjournal began documenting an Australia only thrown apassing glance by other media: a land of red dirt, bigskies and faces etched with experience of this sometimesharsh and unforgiving land. Founder Dick Smith's love forthe Aussie bush manifested itself in a not-for-profitSociety committed
Language: en
Pages: 361
Pages: 361
A dual portrait of venerated Hasidic storyteller Rabbi Nachman and iconic writer Franz Kafka reveals unexpected parallels between their abbreviated lives, tracing their respective writings about an illogical world and searches for spiritual meaning. By the National Jewish Book Award-winning author of The Jew in the Lotus.
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Part of the Jewish Encounter series Rodger Kamenetz, acclaimed author of The Jew in the Lotus, has long been fascinated by the mystical tales of the Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. And for many years he has taught a course in Prague on Franz Kafka. The more he thought
Language: en
Pages: 208
Pages: 208
'A compact and compelling novel by an iconic Norwegian writer...[and] thanks to Don Bartlett and Don Shaw's crisp translation, we see it obliquely' - Independent Set in Finland in 1939, this is the story of one man who remains in his home town when everyone else has fled, burning down
Language: de
Pages: 270
Pages: 270
Einbruch, Diebstahl, Brandstiftung: Dem selbstgefälligen Kunstkritiker James Figueras ist schier jedes Mittel recht, um seinen Namen als Koryphäe des Kunstbe triebes verewigen zu können. Als ihm der wohlhabende amerikanische Kunstsammler Cassidy ein Interview mit dem verscholle- nen, weltberühmten französischen Künstler Jacques Debierue in Aussicht stellt, der plötzlich im sumpfigen Süden
Language: en
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Language: en
Pages: 193
Pages: 193
PrefaceIntroduction: A Menorah for Athena 1. Call Him Charles 2. Immanence and Diaspora 3. Hebraism and Hellenism 4. Sincerity and Objectivism Afterforward: Trilling and GinsbergChronology Notes Works Cited Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Language: en
Pages: 460
Pages: 460
This book explores poems, novels, legends, operas and other genres of writing from the Ming Dynasty. It is composed of two parts: the literary history; and comprehensive reference materials based on the compilation of several chronologies. By studying individual literary works, the book analyzes the basic laws of the development
Language: en
Pages: 369
Pages: 369
It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day. The role of Christian authorities in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little sustained consideration by academics. In an approach that
Language: en
Pages: 275
Pages: 275
Wallace Stevens' "dark rabbi," from his poem "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle," provides a title for this collection of essays on the "lordly study" of modern Jewish poetry in English. Including chapters on such poets as Charles Reznikoff, Allen Grossman, Chana Bloch, and Michael Heller, this volume explores the tensions