1944. This is a study of types of Christian interpretation of the cabala and represents the first attempt at an adequate, balanced treatment of Christian Cabalism. The general theme of the book is that the use of Cabala by Christian thinkers was a fad of no lasting significance; that, no matter what type of interpretation was momentarily aided by Cabalistic speculation, this type of speculation rapidly proved a blind alley. That this proved to be so is unquestionably due to the fact that during the very period in which Pico della Mirandola and John Reuchlin and their followers were attempting to utilize Cabalistic thought as a basis for their deductive systems, Copernicus, Kepler and Bruno were building the foundations of scientific systems whose value in use has proved to be so much greater than that of the old systems.

The profoundly moving family history of one of America's greatest newspapermen. As his father lies dying, Joseph Lelyveld finds himself in the basement of the Cleveland synagogue where Arthur Lelyveld was the celebrated rabbi. Nicknamed "the memory boy" by his parents, the fifty-nine-year-old son begins to revisit the portion of his father's life recorded in letters, newspaper clippings, and mementos stored in a dusty camp trunk. In an excursion into an unsettled and shakily recalled period of his boyhood, Lelyveld uses these artifacts, and the journalistic reporting techniques of his career as an author and editor, to investigate memories that have haunted him in adult life.. With equal measures of candor and tenderness, Lelyveld unravels the tangled story of his father and his mother, a Shakespeare scholar whose passion for independence led her to recoil from her roles as a clergyman's wife and, for a time, as a mother. This reacquired history of his sometimes troubled family becomes the framework for the author's story; in particular, his discovery in early adolescence of the way personal emotions cue political choices, when he is forced to choose sides between his father and his own closest adult friend, a colleague of his father's who is suddenly dismissed for concealing Communist ties. Lelyveld's offort to recapture his family history takes him on an unforeseen journey past disparate landmarks of the last century, including the Scottsboro trials, the Zionist movement, the Hollywood blacklist, McCarthyism, and Mississippi's "freedom summer" of 1964. His excursion becomes both a meditation on the selectivity and unreliability of memory and a testimony to thepossibilities, even late in life, for understanding and healing. As Lelyveld seeks out the truth of his life story, he evokes a remarkable moment in our national story with unforgettable poignancy.

Die Geschichte des Leutnants Trotta, dessen Schicksal mit dem Untergang der k. u. k. Monarchie unauflosbar verwoben ist. Die Kapuzinergruft, Grabstatte der osterreichischen Kaiser, wird hier zum Symbol der vergangenen Donaumonarchie. Der Roman spielt kurz vor, wahrend und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg; er endet mit dem sogenannten Anschlu Osterreichs an das Deutsche Reich 1938. Die Hauptfiguren sind - wie im >Radetzkymarsch

An intensely beautiful book about one of history’s bleakest periods The Emperor’s Tomb – the last novel Joseph Roth wrote – is a haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and a magically evocative paean to the passing of time and the loss of hope. The Emperor’s Tomb runs from 1913 to 1938, from the eve of one world war to the eve of the next, from disaster to disaster. Striped with beauty and written in short propulsive chapters – full of upheavals, reversals and abrupt twists of plot – the novel powerfully sketches a time of change and loss. Prophetic and regretful, intuitive and exact, Roth tells of one man’s foppish, sleepwalking, spoiled youth and then his struggle to come to terms with the uncongenial society of post-First World War Vienna, financial ruin, and the first intimations of Nazi barbarities.

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Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 75-108954 Memoir of " fiddler, soldier, croupier, claquer, lawyer .. writer" for New Yorker, emigre to USA from Moravia

A Moravian by birth, a musician by avocation, a writer by choice, and a bon vivant by instinct, Wechsberg was set squarely among a generation of mid-century writers that included A. J. Liebling, M. F. K. Fisher, Waverly Root, and Ludwig Bemelmans. Many of them found a home at the New Yorker and were routinely provided carte blanche to tackle any subject they found interesting. For Wechsberg, this meant the cultural life of the civilized world, which included music, food (especially classic French food, as prepared by such great chefs as Henri Soul and Fernand Point), travel, and the history of banking and finance. Always central to these essays were people of acknowledged accomplishments, whose lives he tried to understand both in the contexts of their own personality and of the cultures that shaped them.

First Published in 1998. This is Volume V, of nine in the Sociology of Culture series and includes part two of the Samples from English Cultures and looks at child rearing practices and shows how childhood, parental behaviour and socio-economic conditions related to each other, as well as adult choices equalling greater diversity in patterns of child-rearing.

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The year is 2015, and 21-year-olds Yoav and Uri have just completed their compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces. In keeping with national tradition, they take a year off for rest, recovery, and travel. They come to New York City and begin working for Yoav's distant cousin, David King-a proud American patriot, Republican, and Jew, and the recently divorced proprietor of King's Moving Inc., a heavyweight in the Tri-State area's moving and storage industries. What starts off as a profitable if eerily familiar job-an "Occupation"-quickly turns violent, when they encounter one homeowner seeking revenge

Few issues have divided Poles and Jews more deeply than the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War and the subsequent slaughter of almost ninety percent of Polish Jewry. Many Jewish historians have argued that, during the occupation, Poles at best displayed indifference to the fate of the Jews and at worst were willing accomplices of the Nazis. Many Polish scholars, however, deny any connection between the prewar culture of antisemitism and the wartime situation. They emphasized that Poles were also victims of the Nazis and, for the most part, tried their best to protect the Jews. This collection of essays, representing three generations of Polish and Jewish scholars, is the first attempt since the fall of Communism to reassess the existing historiography of Polish-Jewish relations just before, during, and after the Second World War. In the spirit of detached scholarly inquiry, these essays fearlessly challenge commonly held views on both sides of the debates. The authors are committed to analyzing issues fairly and to reaching a mutual understanding. Contributors cover six topics: 1. The prewar legacy 2. The deterioration of Polish-Jewish relations during the first years of the war 3. Institutional Polish responses to the Nazi Final Solution 4. Poles and the Polish nation through Jewish eyes 5. The destruction of European Jewry and Polish popular opinion 6. Polish-Jewish relations since 1945

Опис книги Крутіше за звичайний путівник Понад 700 найцікавіших куточків світу Для того щоб вирушити в подорож, достатньо… не підніматися з улюбленого крісла. Навпаки: загорніться у затишну ковдру, увімкніть улюблену музику, розгорніть цей фантастичний Атлас і — вуаля! - обирайте маршрут та прямуйте відкривати найдивовижніші, найхимерніші, найчарівніші місця планети. Неймовірні світлини, обов’язкові карти, описи місцин з усіх регіонів світу. Ви можете потрапити куди завгодно, навіть до таких потаємних куточків, про які не розкаже жодний путівник чи тревел-шоу. «Atlas Obscura» — це музей дивовижних і нетипових туристичних об’єктів, який надихає на подорож. Затяті мандрівники запевняють: такого вони ще не бачили… Я думав, що бачив усе. «Atlas Obscura» довів мені, що я помилявся. Вирушайте туди, куди ніколи навіть не мріяли поїхати, щоб побачити речі, які навіть не могли собі уявити. Ніл Ґейман «Акустичні дзеркала» у Ґрейтстоні, Гайґейтське кладовище, фонтани-жартуни палацу Гельбрунн, таємні ліонські коридори, шпигунська станція Тойфельсберґ, курорт-привид Вароша — go!

Josh never conceived that Tony would end up in an arranged marriage and devoting his life to the Torah in a closed, cloistered world in which outsiders were not welcome. As Josh follows his brothers metamorphic path he grows to better understand his brother, as well as the most frightening and exotic territory for a foreign correspondent: his own family (Dani Shapiro).