Ohr Yisrael

Ohr Yisrael
Author: Israel Salanter
Publisher: Targum Press
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

A glowing treasure now available to the English-speaking public! The trail-blazing work of Rav Yisrael Salanter, and his disciple, Rav Yitzchak Blazer illuminate the darkness of our generation with wisdom and insight. This classic Mussar work focuses on attaining closeness with G-d and on ethical introspection. This volume is a compendium of four classics of ethical thought: The Gates of Light, The Light of Israel, Paths of Light, and Stars of Light. This extraordinary book, translated into lucid, flowing English, will enable all who read it to reach a new spiritual dimension. Contains English text only.

An Die Deutschen

An Die Deutschen
Author: Karl Wolfskehl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2013
Genre: New Zealand poetry
ISBN: 9780473247805

"This is the first published English translation of Karl Wolfskehl's famous and perhaps most personal poem, An die Deutschen / To the Germans, translated with an introductory essay and notes by Friedrich Voit and Andrew Paul Wood"--Publisher information.

1852-1867

1852-1867
Author: Boston (Mass.). Office of the Mayor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1896
Genre: Boston (Mass.)
ISBN:

Letters of Light

Letters of Light
Author: Kalonymus Kalman Epstein
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2015-02-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1625648839

Letters of Light is a translation of over ninety passages from a well-known Hasidic text, Ma'or va-shemesh, consisting of homilies of Kalonymus Kalman Epstein of Krakow, together with a running commentary and analysis by Aryeh Wineman. With remarkable creativity, the Krakow preacher recast biblical episodes and texts through the prism both of the pietistic values of Hasidism, with its accent on the inner life and the Divine innerness of all existence, and of his ongoing wrestling with questions of the primacy of the individual vis-a-vis that of the community. The commentary traces the route leading from the Torah-text itself through various later sources to the Krakow preacher's own reading of the biblical text, one that often transforms the very tenor of the text he was expounding. Though composed almost two centuries ago, Ma'or va-Shemesh comprises an impressive spiritual statement, many parts of which can speak to our own time and its spiritual strivings.

An Estate of Memory

An Estate of Memory
Author: Ilona Karmel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1969
Genre: Concentration camps
ISBN:

A spiritual novel of growth and regeneration, even in the midst of brutality and death, that recreates in precise detail the daily lives of Jewish women in a Nazi concentration camp in Poland.

Baghdad, Yesterday

Baghdad, Yesterday
Author: Sasson Somekh
Publisher: Ibis Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"Sasson Somekh's memoir takes shape like a series of telling snapshots from another time and place. The time is the 1930s and '40s and the place, Iraq, where Somekh and his family were part of the country's then-flourishing Jewish community. The book offers an intimate view of this milieu and manages both to describe vividly the young Somekh's intellectual and emotional growth and to map the now-vanished world of Baghdad's book stalls and literary cafes, its Arabic-speaking Jewish bank clerks, outdoor movies at the Cinema Diana, and bonfires by the Tigris. As the pieces of Somekh's unsentimental memoir accumulate, they also mount in meaning. The book celebrates the ups and downs of Iraqi Jewish life as it also portrays the eventual dissolution of the community in the early 1950s."--BOOK JACKET.

Churchill and the Jews

Churchill and the Jews
Author: Martin Gilbert
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2008-09-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466829621

An insightful history of Churchill's lifelong commitment—both public and private—to the Jews and Zionism, and of his outspoken opposition to anti-Semitism Winston Churchill was a young man in 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. Despite the prevailing anti-Semitism in England as well as on the Continent, Churchill's position was clear: he supported Dreyfus, and condemned the prejudices that had led to his conviction. Churchill's commitment to Jewish rights, to Zionism—and ultimately to the State of Israel—never wavered. In 1922, he established on the bedrock of international law the right of Jews to emigrate to Palestine. During his meeting with David Ben-Gurion in 1960, Churchill presented the Israeli prime minister with an article he had written about Moses, praising the father of the Jewish people. Drawing on a wide range of archives and private papers, speeches, newspaper coverage, and wartime correspondence, Churchill's official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, explores the origins, implications, and results of Churchill's determined commitment to Jewish rights, opening a window on an underappreciated and heroic aspect of the brilliant politician's life and career.

The Wicked Son

The Wicked Son
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0805211578

David Mamet's interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder (the child who asks, "What does this story mean to you?") Mamet confronts what he sees as an insidious predilection among some Jews to exclude themselves from the equation and to seek truth and meaning anywhere--in other religions, political movements, mindless entertainment--but in Judaism itself. He also explores the ways in which the Jewish tradition has long been and still remains the Wicked Son in the eyes of the world. Written with the searing honesty and verbal brilliance that is the hallmark of Mamet's work, The Wicked Son is a powerfully thought-provoking look at one of the most destructive and tenacious forces in contemporary life.