Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln

Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln
Author: Gluckel
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-09-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0307806383

Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewish widow, mother of fourteen children, tells how she guided the financial and personal destinies of her children, how she engaged in trade, ran her own factory, and promoted the welfare of her large family. Her memoir, a rare account of an ordinary woman, enlightens not just her children, for whom she wrote it, but all posterity about her life and community. Gluckel speaks to us with determination and humor from the seventeenth century. She tells of war, plague, pirates, soldiers, the hysteria of the false messiah Sabbtai Zevi, murder, bankruptcy, wedding feasts, births, deaths, in fact, of all the human events that befell her during her lifetime. She writes in a matter of fact way of the frightening and precarious situation under which the Jews of northern Germany lived. Accepting this situation as given, she boldly and fearlessly promotes her business, her family and her faith. This memoir is a document in the history of women and of life in the seventeenth century.

The Life of Glückel of Hameln, 1646–1724

The Life of Glückel of Hameln, 1646–1724
Author: Gl of Hameln
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2010-01-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0827609140

A memoir that began as a 17th century German-Jewish widow's way to tell her life story to her 12 children offers more than just a look into her day-to-day life; it also offers a unique view of the Jewish community in Germany during the 1600s.

Glikl

Glikl
Author: Glueckel (of Hameln)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2019
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 9781684580064

Abstraktion und Einfühlung

Abstraktion und Einfühlung
Author: Percival Everett
Publisher: Akashic Books
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1933354704

"If you said "cubism" fifteen times, you would be getting close to some of what Percival Everett is playing with in this new book of poems. With words that mimic process, the poems here attempt to reverse the canvas, skewing perspective to reflect the world around it, spiraling into the work as a way to get out of it. Often what stands in the way of art is art itself, a lingering delusion that there is such a thing as beauty, especially universal beauty. The same is true of a belief in transcendence. To buy into it is to merely substitute one word for another, to fall prey to a correspondence theory of truth."--BOOK JACKET.

Six from Leipzig

Six from Leipzig
Author: Gertrude Wishnick Dubrovsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"Six cousins from Leipzig, aged 7 months to 14 years, were among the 2,000 children who arrived in Cambridge, and were under the supervision of both the Movement and of the Cambridge Refugee Children's Committee. The story of these children brings to life the issues faced by all those who travelled on the Kindertransports and the way in which the Committee tried to cope with their responsibilities.".

Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books

Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books
Author: David Price
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2011-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195394216

The early sixteenth century saw a major crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy every Jewish book in Germany. This unprecedented effort to end the practice of Judaism throughout the empire was challenged by Jewish communities, and, unexpectedly, by Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522), the founder of Christian Hebrew studies. In 1510, Reuchlin wrote an extensive, impassioned, and ultimately successful defense of Jewish writings and legal rights, a stunning intervention later acknowledged by a Jewish leader as a ''miracle within a miracle.''The fury that greeted Reuchlin's defense of Judaism resulted in a protracted heresy trial that polarized Europe. The decade-long controversy promoted acceptance of humanist culture in northern Europe and, in several key settings, created an environment that was receptive to the nascent Reformation movement. The legal and theological battles over charges that Reuchlin's positions were "impermissibly favorable to Jews," a conflict that elicited intervention on both sides from the most powerful political and intellectual leaders in Renaissance Europe, formed a new context for Christian reflection on Judaism.David H. Price offers insight into important Christian discourses on Judaism and anti-Semitism that emerged from the clash of Renaissance humanism with this potent anti-Jewish campaign, as well as an innovative analysis of Luther's virulent anti-Semitism in the context and aftermath of the Reuchlin Affair. This book is a valuable contribution to study of an important and complex development in European history: Christians acquiring accurate knowledge of Judaism and its history.

The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature

The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature
Author: Adam Kirsch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 039360831X

An accessible introduction to the classics of Jewish literature, from the Bible to modern times, by "one of America’s finest literary critics" (Wall Street Journal). Jews have long embraced their identity as “the people of the book.” But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little known to nonspecialist readers. The People and the Books shows how central questions and themes of our history and culture are reflected in the Jewish literary canon: the nature of God, the right way to understand the Bible, the relationship of the Jews to their Promised Land, and the challenges of living as a minority in Diaspora. Adam Kirsch explores eighteen classic texts, including the biblical books of Deuteronomy and Esther, the philosophy of Maimonides, the autobiography of the medieval businesswoman Glückel of Hameln, and the Zionist manifestoes of Theodor Herzl. From the Jews of Roman Egypt to the mystical devotees of Hasidism in Eastern Europe, The People and the Books brings the treasures of Jewish literature to life and offers new ways to think about their enduring power and influence.

Let Me Continue to Speak the Truth

Let Me Continue to Speak the Truth
Author: Elizabeth Loentz
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780878204601

In 1953, Freud biographer Ernest Jones revealed that the famous hysteric Anna O. was really Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936), the prolific author, German-Jewish feminist, pioneering social worker, and activist. Loentz directs attention away from the young woman who arguably invented the talking cure and back to Pappenheim and her post-Anna O. achievements, especially her writings, which reveal one of the most versatile, productive, influential, and controversial Jewish thinkers and leaders of her time.

My Years in Theresienstadt

My Years in Theresienstadt
Author: Gerty Spies
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2010-10-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1616140542

She has learned to forgive, but she can never forget. And neither can we.Gerty Spies was born in 1897 at Trier into a Jewish family whose ancestors had lived in Germany for centuries. Separated from her family by the Nazis, she was sent to the Czech camp known as Theresienstadt. It was a peculiar place: publicized as a retirement city, a Nazi propaganda showplace where Jews could sit out the war. But it was actually a way station for those destined for the Auschwitz death camp. Isolated from the outside world, surrounded by death, Spies retreated to her inner self to concentrate on human, cultural, and other values. Her powerful talent for writing, discovered at the camp, enabled her to transcend and triumph over mental and physical degradations; to keep her own integrity; to not let evil destroy her loving nature; and, finally, to not lose faith in humanity. By the end of the war, 33,000 people died in Theresienstadt from disease and malnutrition. Spies''s work exhibits a tension between the expression of camp reality and an imagination of an idealized past. Sensitive and humorous, but never bitter, her stories of the struggle for survival are expressions of her own individual moral poise.

Max Bruch

Max Bruch
Author: Christopher Fifield
Publisher: New York : G. Braziller
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

In this book - the only full-length study of the composer - the author provides a richly documented account of Bruch's career as music director and conductor.