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A collection of poems about such topics as bugs, weather, food, and the sea, by poets ranging from Robert Louis Stevenson and Walter de la Mare to Gwendolyn Brooks and Arnold Lobel.

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Limited edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. This is number 64 of 100, signed by the author, the artists and photographers who have contributed to the book. Errata slip tipped in. From the collection of Ian Angus, British Librarian and a scholar on George Orwell, whose name and date are pencilled to FEP. Jacket is sunned throughout, and edges are creased and nicked. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1886 Edition.

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The conflict between Haskalah and hasidism was one of the most important forces in shaping the world of Polish Jewry for almost two centuries, but our understanding of it has long been dominated by theories based on stereotypes rather than detailed analysis of the available sources. In this award-winning study, Marcin Wodziński challenges the long-established theories about the conflict by contextualizing it, principally in the Kingdom of Poland but also with regard to other parts of eastern Europe. Covering the period from the earliest anti-hasidic polemics in the late eighteenth century through to the post-Haskalah movements of the twentieth century, it follows the development of this important conflict in its central arena. Using source materials (including many hitherto unknown documents) in Polish and five other languages, Wodziński has succeeded in reconstructing the way the conflict expressed itself. Identifying the motives, the methods, and the consequences of the conflict as it was played out in five Polish towns (Lódz, Opoczno, Piotrków, Warsaw, and Warta), he shows that it was primarily informed by non-ideological clashes at the level of local communities rather than by high-level ideological debates. Much attention is also devoted to the general characteristics of hasidism and the Haskalah, as well as to the post-Haskalah movements. Here too Wodziński challenges the ideologically charged assumptions of a generation of historians who refused to see the advocates of Jewish modernity in nineteenth-century Poland as an integral part of the Haskalah movement. Extensive consideration is given to the professional, social, institutional, and ideological characteristics of the Polish Haskalah as well as to its geographic extent, and to the changes the movement underwent in the course of the nineteenth century. Similar attention is given to the influence of the specific characteristics of Polish hasidism on the shape of the conflict, especially as regard the size of the movement and the evolution of hasidic communal involvement. In consequence the book presents a synthesis that offers both breadth and depth, contextualizing its subject matter within the broader domains of the European Enlightenment and Polish culture, hasidism and rabbinic culture, tsarist policy and Polish history, not to mention the ins and outs of the Haskalah itself across Europe. An extensive appendix presents translations of nineteen important and hitherto unknown sources of relevance to a nuanced understanding of many aspects of nineteenth-century Jewish history in Poland and eastern Europe more generally.

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Excerpt from The Queen of Sheba: Opera in Four Acts, From a d104 by Mosenthal Kano awaits thecoming of the Queen of Sheba. He has dispatched his favorite courtier, Assad, to escort the royal guest to Jerusalem. Assad, the betrothed of Sulamith, the High Priest's daughter, was to celebrate his nuptials during the Queen' s sojourn in the Jewish capital; but at the foot of the Lebanon he has surprised the beautiful queen in a bath, and, inflamed by her charms, has become deeply enam ored with her, as she with him. On his return to Jerusalem he 18 met by his betrothed and her father, but conscious of his guilty passion he shrinks from their welcomes. Solomon who half divines the truth, questions him closely, whereupon Assad confesses the truth so far as it is known to himself, for he is not yet aware of the fact that it was the Queen herself whom he had espied in the bath. Solomon exhorts himto remain faithful to Sulamith; Assad promises obedience, but finds his resolution shaken when, at the Queen's reception of the royal court, she raises her veil and gazes at him. Dining the night the Queen has a secret meeting with Assad in the royal gardens and urges him to abandon Sulamith and to return with her (the Queen) to Arabia. The day set for his nuptials with Sulamith arrives Solomon himself appears in the temple to witness the celebration Assad seems inclined to return to his faith, but on seeing the Queen enter the sacred edifice, his unhahowed passxon revives, and be publicly spurns his devoted bride. Solomon, suspecting the truth, conjures the Queen to solve this mystery, but she declares that she does not know Assad and has never seen him. The latter is condemned to death by the priests, but the execution of judgment is stayed by the Ling. The Queen pleads for him, but Solomon remains deaf to her prayers, where upon the Queen departs from Jerusalem. Sulamith declares her intention to retire from the world and to devote her remaining days to God. Assad, whose life has been spared, but who is condemned by the King to perpetual banishment, strays repent nully in the Syrian desert. Once more he meets the false Queen who exhausts her seductive eloquence, but m vain. Assad remains deaf to her pleadings and is resolved to atone his guilt by sincere repentance. He expires in the arms of Sulamith who, accompanied by her maidens, is traversing the desert on her way to her cloistral seclusion and has found her faithless lover fainting and dying. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.