"In The History of the Devil, Flusser frames the human situation from a pseudo-religious point of view. The phenomenal world, or reality in a general sense, is identified as the Devil, and that which transcends phenomena, or the philosophers' and theologians' reality, is identified as God. Referencing Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in its structure, Flusser provocatively leads the reader through an existential exploration of nothingness as the bedrock of reality, where phenomenon and transcendence, Devil and God become fused and confused. So radically confused, in fact, that Flusser suggests we abandon the quotation marks from the terms Devil and God. At this moment of abysmal confusion, we must make the existential decisions that give direction to our lives"--Publisher's description.

Elie Kedourie was one of the twentieth century's most important and controversial historians of the Middle East. He redefined the landscape of the field by challenging the notion that the West's imperial domination of the region spawned nationalism in Arab countries. In a long career lecturing in politics at the London School of Economics, Kedourie inspired a generation of political scientists and politicians. A dedicated scholar and meticulous teacher, he founded Middle Eastern Studies, a journal which, forty years after its launch, remains one of the leading publications in the field and a monument to his work. Bringing together some of the most distinguished figures in Middle Eastern studies, this collection evaluates Kedourie's contribution to Middle Eastern history and political thought and assesses the impact of his scholarly legacy. The volume contains a complete bibliography of his writing and was previously published as a special issue of Middle Eastern Studies.

A family history book of the Robinson family of North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma and California.

Reproduction of the original: Notes on The Diplomatic History of The Jewish Question by Lucien Wolf

An authorized biography of Soong Ching-Ling. With a great number of documents, letters, and references checked and collected, revealing a picture of Soong Ching-Ling's strength, brilliance and courage, helpful to all with a sense of history.

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This volume is the first attempt to offer a panoramic historical overview of South Asian classical poetry, especially in Sanskrit. Many of the essays in this volume are the first serious studies of the great masterpieces of South Asian literature. Moreover, the book as a whole captures the millennium-long developmental logic of kavya literature by identifying a series of critical moments of breakthrough and innovation-that is, moments when the basic rules of composition and the aesthetic and poetic goals underwent dramatic change, allowing the tradition to reinvent itself. Individual sections thus focus on the beginnings of kavya literature and Kalidasa's creation of what came to be its classical form; the new poetic model that emerged from the intense competition and conversation of Bharavi and Magha in the middle of the first millennium; the extended revolutionary period in Kanauj, where Bana and his successors reconceived the meaning and practice of Sanskrit poetry; and the no less transformative period at the beginning of the second millennium, when poets of genius such as Sriharsa were active in the context of India's nascent vernacularization. The scope of the volume extends beyond Sanskrit to early modern Hindi, and beyond the subcontinent and the Himalayas to Java and Tibet, where kavya found a new home and continued to evolve. A general introduction proposes a theoretical framework for the study of this immense literary tradition in terms of its continuous self-reinvention. --

Elie Kedourie has been variously described as an angry young man, a sceptic, a conservative, an Oakeshottian, a pessimist, an imperialist, a Zionist, an anti-Zionist, an anti-Arab, and lately even starry-eyed about imperialism - all labels which attempt to categorize the scholar but reveal nothing about the man or his work. This little book is not a biography. It is a collection of essays evaluating his work and his legacy to scholarship. The various contributors, ranging widely in interest and occupation, have indicated their relationship with him in their essays. Of his own work, three pieces are included. One of his last essays, 'The Jews of Babylon and Baghdad', is published here for the first time.

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic and popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven US and European honorary doctorates. He received his AB from Harvard College in 1953, his PhD from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1961, and rabbinical ordination and the degree of Master of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1960. Neusner is editor of the 'Encyclopedia of Judaism' (Brill, 1999. I-III) and its Supplements; Chair of the Editorial Board of 'The Review of Rabbinic Judaism, ' and Editor in Chief of 'The Brill Reference Library of Judaism', both published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is editor of 'Studies in Judaism', University Press of America. Neusner resides with his wife in Rhinebeck, New York. They have a daughter, three sons and three daughters-in-law, six granddaughters and two grandsons.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Examines Jewish Argentine literature published between 1910-1977, focusing on the works of eight writers. In the introduction (pp. 1-50) which surveys the history of Jewish literature in Argentina, and in the postface (pp. 158-168), mentions the theme of antisemitism in the works of several writers.

Book x, 198 p., 8 plates : ill., facsims., music, ports. ; 22 cm. ; A note on the origins of the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae (1931-1971) -- H. J. W. Tillyard, In Memoriam / Egon Wellesz -- The origin of the Modes / David Wulstan -- The Treatise on Music by John Laskaris / Christos Bentas -- Some Remarks on the Traditional Music of the Greeks of Corsica / Markos Ph. Dragoumis -- The 'Initia Hymnorum Ecclesiae Graecae', A Bibliographical Supplement / Enrica Follieri -- The Communion Chants in 13th-Century Byzantine Musical Manuscripts / Simon Harris -- The Synodikon of Tsar Boril and the Problem of Byzantino-Bulgarian Musical Relations / Stefan Lazarov -- The 'Three Teachers' and Their Place in the History of Greek Church Music / Maureen M. Morgan -- A Newly Discovered Fragment of a Fourteenth-Century Heirmologion / Jørgen Raasted -- 'Psellus' Treatise on Music' in Mizler's 'Bibliothek' / Lukas Richter -- A Computer-Aided Analysis of Thirty-Five Byzantine Hymns / Nanna Schiødt -- The Musical Works of Theoleptos, Metropolitan of Philadelphia / Miloš Velimirović-- An Unusual Russian 'Spiritual Verse' / Miloš Velimirović-- The Treatment of Text in the Kalophonic Chanting of Psalm 2 / Edward V. Williams.