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After One-Hundred-and-Twenty
Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition
Inbunden, 2016
246 kr
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After One-Hundred-and-Twenty provides a richly nuanced and deeply personal look at Jewish attitudes and practices regarding death, mourning, and the afterlife as they have existed and evolved from biblical times to today. Taking its title from the Hebrew and Yiddish blessing to live to a ripe old …
Jabotinsky
A Life
Häftad, 2019
145 kr
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An insightful biography of the most controversial and perhaps most fervent of all Zionist political figures “A beautifully written short biography of an exceedingly interesting man: a novelist, translator, poet, playwright, journalist, polemicist, and probably the most remarkable public speaker in …
After One-Hundred-and-Twenty
Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition
Häftad, 2018
169 kr
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A deeply personal look at death, mourning, and the afterlife in Jewish traditionAfter One-Hundred-and-Twenty provides a richly nuanced and deeply personal look at Jewish attitudes and practices regarding death, mourning, and the afterlife as they have existed and evolved from biblical times to …
Yehuda Halevi
E-bok, 2010
244 kr
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Part of the Jewish Encounter series A masterly biography of Yehuda Halevi, one of the greatest of Hebrew poets and a shining example of the synthesis of religion and culture that defined the golden age of medieval Spanish Jewry. Like Maimonides, with whom he contrasts sharply, Yehuda Halevi spanned …
After One-Hundred-and-Twenty
Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition
E-bok, 2016
228 kr
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A deeply personal look at death, mourning, and the afterlife in Jewish tradition After One-Hundred-and-Twenty provides a richly nuanced and deeply personal look at Jewish attitudes and practices regarding death, mourning, and the afterlife as they have existed and evolved from biblical times to …
Complicated Jew: Selected Essays
E-bok, 2021
106 kr
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Hillel Halkin is widely admired for his works of literary criticism, biography, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as for his celebrated achievements as a translator. Born and raised in New York City, he has lived most of his life in Israel. His complex sensibility, deeply rooted in Jewish literature …
Luck and Chutzpah: Against all odds
Inbunden, 1997
280 kr
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Hans Kahn spent his life looking towards the sea. And it was no easy task as he escaped from the Nazis through the least-used route from Amsterdam through Belgium, France and across the Pyrenees to Spain, Portugal and England. There he volunteered and spent the rest of the war with the Navy of the …
Grand Things to Write a Poem on
A Verse Autobiography of Shmuel Hanagid
Inbunden, 1999
249 kr
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Shmuel Hanagid, poet, rabbi, Talmudic scholar, statesman, general and bon vivant was born in Cordoba, Spain, in 993 C.E. Settling in the city-state of Granada, he rose through its court life to become Grand Vizier and chief military commander. For years he led Granada's army into the field against …
Lives of the Children of Manasia
Oral history interviews with the B'nei Menashe community
Av Hillel Halkin, Isaac Thangjom
Häftad, 2022
318 kr
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THE B'NEI MENASHE are certifiably one of the newest, possibly remnants of one of the oldest, and certainly one of the most unusual Jewish communities in the world today. Hailing from a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group known as the Kuki- Mizo that inhabits the remote Himalayan foothills of northeast …
Complicated Jew
Selected Essays
Inbunden, 2021
263 kr
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Elegant and learned, personal and universal, literary, philosophical, and historical—Hillel Halkin’s finely wrought essays on themes of Jewish culture and life are an education in themselves.Hillel Halkin is widely admired for his works of literary criticism, biography, fiction, and nonfiction, as …
