The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse

Author: T. Carmi
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 612

Book Description
Now back in print, this collection compiled by a distinguished Israeli poet and scholar draws on a multitude of journals, rare editions, and liturgical collections from all over the world. Poems are presented in the original Hebrew and in English translation. The volume illuminates the historical and literary background of a tradition that spans 3,000 years and has flourished within many cultures.

Modern Yiddish Verse

Author: Irving Howe
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 756

Book Description
A gift dedicated to Leonard Bernstein on his 70th birthday (1988). It was signed by the artist, Yossi Stern, and by Teddy Kollek. In addition to the numerous line drawings illustrating the poetry, Stern crafted an original book cover with a colorful drawing of a wedding scene.

First World War Poetry

Author: Jon Silkin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141180090
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.

Wine, Women, & Death

Author: Raymond P. Scheindlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195129873
Category : Hebrew poetry, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
The Jewish poets of medieval Spain combined elements of the dominant Arabic-Islamic culture with Jewish religious and literary traditions to create a rich new Hebrew literature that is as richly entertaining today as it was in the twelfth century. In this delight delightful book, Scheindlin presents the original Hebrew poetry with his own melodic English translations, each followed by commentary that explains its cultural context.

The Penguin Book of Hell

Author: Scott G. Bruce
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143131621
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guantánamo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book Review Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America A Penguin Classic From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Acheron; meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth-century Irish monk--a monster with a thousand giant hands; wander the nine circles of Hell in Dante's Inferno, in which gluttons, liars, heretics, murderers, and hypocrites are made to endure crime-appropriate torture; and witness the debates that raged in Victorian England when new scientific advances cast doubt on the idea of an eternal hereafter. Drawing upon religious poetry, epics, theological treatises, stories of miracles, and accounts of saints' lives, this fascinating volume of hellscapes illuminates how Hell has long haunted us, in both life and death. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

משכן תפלה

Author: Elyse D. Frishman
Publisher: CCAR Press
ISBN: 9780881231052
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description

Mishkan T'filah

Author: Central Conference of American Rabbis/CCAR Press
Publisher: CCAR Press
ISBN: 9780881231069
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 410

Book Description

על מזזות ביתך

Author: Chaim Stern
Publisher: CCAR Press
ISBN: 9780881230437
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
This revised and expanded edition of the classic home prayerbook Gates of the House includes a wealth of new readings and meditations for private and family devotions on all occasions.

The Scroll and the Cross

Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136698450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This groundbreaking, eclectic book of readings, edited by Ilan Stavans, whom The Washington Post described as "one of our foremost cultural critics," offers a sideboard of the ups and downs of that partnership. It includes some seventy canonical authors, Jews and non-Jews alike, through whose diverse oeuvre-poetry, fiction, theater, personal and philosophical essays, correspondence, historical documents, and even kitchen recipes-the reader is able to navigate the shifting waters of history, from Spain in the tenth century to the Spanish-speaking Americas and the United States today. The Reader showcases the writings of such notable authors as Solomon ibn Gabirol, Maimonides, Miguel de Cervantes, Henry W. Longfellow, Miguel de Unamuno, Federico García Lorca, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacobo Timerman, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ruth Behar, and Ariel Dorfman to name only a few.

Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004435409
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 723

Book Description
In Israel in Egypt scholars in different fields explore what can be known of the experiences of the many and varied Jewish communities in Egypt, from biblical sources to the medieval world. For generations of Jews from antiquity to the medieval period, the land of Egypt represented both a place of danger to their communal religious identity and also a haven with opportunities for prosperity and growth. A volume of collected essays from scholars in fields ranging from biblical studies and classics to papyrology and archaeology, Israel in Egypt explores what can be known of the experiences of the many and varied Jewish communities in Egypt, from biblical sources to the medieval world.