If all you knew about Dreyfus was that he was a Jewish army officer who was wrongfully convicted of treason and imprisoned on Devil’s Island, this is a nice way to find out more (and if you’ve never heard of him at all, start with The Man on Devil’s Island or the historical ...
Looking to books on Israel, we anticipate dipping into a new English translation of three Amos Oz essays inDear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by veteran translatorJessica Cohen, winner of the Man Booker International Prize for her translation of David Grossman’sA...
New, highly acclaimed book on Jewish culture, history, achievement. The Golden Age details over 200 years of Jews in the areas of Politics, Entertainment, Science, Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, Art and more.
Souls on Fire feels like listening to your uncle who visits rarely and tells the most interesting stories. If you have any interest at all in Elie Wiesel, Jewish history, or religious inspiration, do yourself a favor and read this book. I can't recommend it highly enough. 11 people found...
Yes, but nowhere near on the scale they have been recently. This has been the history of Christianity from the beginning: wherever the Gospel goes and begins to invade a culture, contention, strife, and upheavals follow because Satan and his demons oppose it. They’re not willing to ...
Contents include:Includes articles on a request for new history books; books for Europe; H.G. Wells and the publication of 100,000 copies of ten of H.G. Wells' volumes; Mr Cooper's book on the Nuremberg Trials;The Anatomy of Peaceby Emery Reves;Hiroshimaby John Hersey; Science News;The...
Forty years on from the launch of Banned Books Week,censorshipis once again on the rise. To launch a new BBC Culture series, John Self considers the long and ignoble global history of book-banning. The legend of the Sibylline Books tells us that in an ancient city, a woman offered to ...
In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston—the sole black student at the college—was living in New York, “desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.” During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one...
Books On Books Collection. Drucker Johanna. 1999. The Alphabetic Labyrinth : The Letters in History and Imagination. London: Thames & Hudson. Drucker Johanna. 2022. Inventing the Alphabet : The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Not just ...
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