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Conocer a una mujer

Autor: Amos Oz

Número de Páginas: 264

Yoel Raviv, agente del Mossad, acaba de enviudar y decide abandonar su profesión y alquilar una casa en las afueras de Tel Aviv, en donde poder empezar una nueva vida junto a su hija, su madre y su suegra. Pero este periodo de paz se transforma en un duro camino para Yoel que descubre que, en verdad, no sabía nada de su esposa. Aunque quizá lo más importante es que tiene que asumir que realmente nunca ha escuchado a ninguna mujer de su familia. Después de toda una vida descubriendo los secretos de los demás, se ve obligado a mirar ahora hacia atrás, a las mentiras que él mismo ha dicho, al sombrío enigma de la vida y la muerte de su mujer, a sus años al servicio del Estado y al misterio de la conducta de su hija. «Un escritor que consigue evocar maravillosamente la sensación del mundo físico y plantear cuestiones fundamentales de la naturaleza humana en un libro, en verdad, excelente.»Scotsman

Suspicious minds 1

Autor: Laura Pérez Caballero

Número de Páginas: 38

Yoel y Nacho son una pareja de treintañeros que están juntos desde la adolescencia. La relación es estable, pero los celos de Nacho siempre están al acecho, y la forma que buscará para tratar de librarse de ellos no va a ser la más acertada... Una historia llena de mentiras, secretos y obsesiones.

Esposo Piadoso - Capitulos 1 a 5000

Autor: Luis Fernando Narvaez Cazares

Número de Páginas: 5422

Al final de la noche

Autor: Nir Baram

Número de Páginas: 298

«Dostoievski escribiría así si viviera hoy en Israel». Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Un escritor acude a un festival literario de una ciudad mexicana y, cuando acaba, se encuentra incapaz de volver a Tel Aviv, donde le espera su familia. Desorientado y ebrio, pasa los siguientes días deambulando por la ciudad y participando en sus fiestas, y cuando le preguntan por qué no regresa a su casa, solo halla una respuesta: su amigo Yoel ha fallecido. Sin embargo, Yoel sigue vivo. Asolado por los recuerdos, revisa ahora su amistad con el compañero junto al que vivió las primeras ilusiones, los desencantos, las tragedias familiares y políticas, y la entrada en la edad adulta, pero con quien, desde hace un tiempo, apenas se habla. ¿Por qué lo da por muerto? En el centro de este misterio residen los fantasmas de una relación tempestuosa: dos vidas desarrolladas entre los escombros de conflictos demasiado adultos y silencios imposibles, a los que tendrá que enfrentarse si algún día quiere volver a su hogar. La crítica ha dicho: «El libro más fascinante y conmovedor de Baram. [...] Una novela hermosa y maravillosa». Esti Adivi Shoshan, Haaretz «Una conmovedora historia de...

The Besht

Autor: Immanuel Etkes

Número de Páginas: 360

Now available in English, a provocative new biography of the founder of Hasidism

Light Stories for Teenage Boys

Número de Páginas: 178

Of Lodz and Love

Autor: Chava Rosenfarb

Número de Páginas: 372

In Of Lodz and Love, Chava Rosenfarb revisits her themes of the shtetl and pre-Holocaust Poland, of economic and political oppression, and of the upheavals that would herald a new Jewish national and political awakening. The story takes Yacov, son of Hindele, and Binele, the daughter of the chalk vendor Yossele Abedale, to the industrial town of Lodz during the first years of Poland's independence, both before and after the country entered the war with the Bolsheviks. The would-be young lovers evolve separately against the backdrop of the city's own struggle for economic survival. In sometimes tragic turns, they make their way in the strange urban culture, rapidly acquiring the skills to survive. Translated from the original Yiddish, this book serves as prologue and as counterpoint to the urbanization of Jewish life in Poland. In its elegance and subtle wit, and overwhelming human dignity, it is not only the testimony of a vanished world, but a powerful love story.

Jewish Hungarian Orthodoxy

Autor: Menachem Keren-kratz

Número de Páginas: 259

Beginning with the informal establishment of Jewish Orthodoxy by a Hungarian rabbi in the early nineteenth century, this book traces the history and legacy of Jewish Hungarian Orthodoxy over the course of the last 200 years. To date, no single book has provided a comprehensive overview of the history of Hungarian Orthodoxy, a singularly zealous, fundamental, and separatist faction within Jewish circles. This book describes and explains the impact of this strand of Jewish Orthodoxy – developed in Hungary in the second half of the nineteenth century – across the Jewish world. The author traces the development of Hungarian Orthodoxy in the “new” Jewish territories created in the wake of Hungary’s dismantlement following its defeat in World War I. The book also focuses on Hungarian Orthodoxy in the two spheres where it continued to develop after the Holocaust, namely Israel and the United States. The book concludes with a review of Hungarian Orthodoxy’s legacy in contemporary communities worldwide, most of which are known for their radical anti-Zionist and anti-modernistic strands. The book will prove vital reading for students and academics interested in religious...

Fire in the Canyon

Autor: Daniel Gumbiner

Número de Páginas: 306

A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 A new novel from National Book Award nominee Daniel Gumbiner about a California grape-grower, his family, and the climate disaster that upends their quiet lives. Since his release from prison after serving an eighteen-month sentence for growing cannabis, Ben Hecht’s life has settled into a familiar routine. On his farm in the foothills of California, he stays busy cultivating a dozen acres of grapes and tending to a flock of mistrustful sheep. Meanwhile, from her desk in their old redwood barn, his novelist wife, Ada, continues to work on what may be her most important book yet. When their only son, Yoel, comes home from Los Angeles for a rare visit, Ben is forced to confront their long troubled relationship, which has continued to degrade in recent years. But before the two of them can truly address their past, a wildfire sweeps through the region, forcing the Hecht family to flee to the coast, and setting into motion a chain of events that will transform them all. This is a story about grape growing and wine, financial and familial struggles, and the peculiar characters and unlikely heroes one will always find in small-town California. Through...

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 8

Autor: Todd M. Endelman , Zvi Gitelman , Deborah Dash Moore

Número de Páginas: 1384

The eighth volume in a landmark series, this anthology of Jewish culture and civilization encompasses the period between the world wars An anthology of Jewish culture between the world wars, the editors' selections convey the variety, breadth, and depth of Jewish creativity in those tempestuous decades. Despite--or perhaps because of--external threats, Jews fought vigorously over religion, politics, migration, and their own relation to the state and to one another. The texts, translated from many languages, span a wide range of politics, culture, literature, and art. This collection examines what was simultaneously a tense and innovative period in modern Jewish history.

The Songbirds Delight

Autor: Dr. Michael J. Curran

Número de Páginas: 282

Christian and Jewish communities in a small town come together in joy through the love and energy of a small group of intimate friends. The group slowly expands in number, wisdom, and shared experiences which include drama, adventure, romance, and humor. Many difficult challenges unfold that primarily involve psychological and spiritual battles. At the center of all this is the light of Scripture.

Breaking Twitter

Autor: Ben Mezrich

Número de Páginas: 239

From New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich: the book Elon Musk doesn’t want you to read. Breaking Twitter takes readers inside the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time—Elon Musk—and the company that represents our culture’s dearest hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to the mission-driven team Musk surrounded himself with, this is the full story from all sides. Can Musk miraculously succeed or will he spectacularly fail? What will that mean to the global town hall that is Twitter? What, really, is Elon’s end goal? The whole world is watching. Breaking Twitter will provide ringside seats. Elon Musk didn't break Twitter. Twitter broke Elon Musk.

The Seraph of Brisk

Autor: Shalom Meʾir Ben Mordekhai Ṿalakh (ha-kohen.)

Número de Páginas: 800

Secret Agenda

Autor: Howard H. Schack

Número de Páginas: 340

"Former CIA and Mossad intelligence agents find it difficult to sleep at night since much of the old Soviet Union's arsenal of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons is being secretly sold to fanatical international terrorists. Only a retired veteran intelligence analyst such as this author, with his many international contacts, can alert the West to the unprecedented dangers of impending global blackmail and mass-murder which he has uncovered. Written by a former Mossad intelligence agent, the threats depicted in these pages are all too real.

Somber Lust

Autor: Yair Mazor

Número de Páginas: 220

In Somber Lust, Yair Mazor examines the work of the celebrated Israeli writer Amos Oz. In addition to providing a panoramic, comprehensive study of Oz's work, including his novels, novellas, short stories, and numerous essays on literary, social, and political subjects, Mazor also meticulously documents the evolution of Oz's aesthetic and ideological vision. The book concludes with an extensive interview with Oz himself, in which he offers insights into his own work as well as the creative process in general.

Havana and Other Missing Fathers

Autor: Mia Leonin

Número de Páginas: 180

Mia Leonin spent the first sixteen years of her life believing her father was dead. All she knew of the man came through stories told by her mother. At times he had been a surgeon, at others a psychiatrist. In truth, he had been a fantasy. Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Leonin learned from her mother that her father, a Cuban exile, was very much alive and living in Florida. Her attempts to contact him, however, were thwarted until four years later, when she left home in search of her roots. She meets her father, but trying to discover the truth behind him proves to be a more daunting task. Her journey takes her to Miami, Colombia, and Cuba, and her search for cultural identity leads her to create memories, friendships, and romances. She finds moments of connection and redemption, ending up in Havana not as a cultural tourist but as an illegitimate daughter of Cuba looking for validation. What she discovers is an island bereft of fathers and brimming with paternalism. As she becomes entangled with two different men, she descends further into the Havana of poverty, humiliation, and despair, as well as the ever-inventive city that is as passionate as it is contradictory....

Jewish Religious Architecture

Autor: Steven Fine

Número de Páginas: 398

Jewish Religious Architecture explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit. This volume stretches from the biblical Tabernacle to Roman Jerusalem, synagogues spanning two millenia and on to contemporary Judaism. Social historians, cultural historians, art historians and philologists have come together here to present this extraordinary architectural tradition. The multidisciplinary approach employed in Jewish Religious Architecture reveals deep continuities over time, together with the distinctly local— sometimes in surprising ways.

Golden Ages

Autor: Jeremiah Lockwood

Número de Páginas: 206

"Golden Ages: Hasidic Singers and Cantorial Revival in the Digital Era is an ethnographic study of young singers in the Brooklyn Hasidic community who look to the gramophone-era cantorial golden age for the stylistic basis of their own aesthetic explorations. The book proposes a view of their work as a nonconforming social practice within the conservative contemporary Hasidic community. Hasidic cantorial revivalists call upon the sounds and structures of Jewish sacred musical heritage to stage a disruption in the aesthetics and power hierarchies of their community and the aesthetics of prayer in contemporary American Jewish synagogue life outside the Hasidic world. Beyond its role as a desirable art form, "golden age" cantorial music offers a model for aspiring Hasidic singers of a form of Jewish cultural productivity in which artistic excellence, maverick outsider status, and sacred authority were aligned. The musical lives of contemporary cantorial revivalists suggest new ways of thinking about the meaning of the work of gramophone-era cantors. Hasidic cantorial revivalists call upon the cantors of the golden age as a precedent for musical and social practices that defy...

More than Conquerors

Autor: Carole Towriss

Número de Páginas: 358

Kassandra‘s privileged and pampered life explodes when she meets a woman with next to nothing. When a glimpse into the lives of those less fortunate turns into a mission to help them, her father offers a choice: act like the daughter of a politarch and marry the man he has chosen––or leave home forever. Unimaginable loss shakes Jason‘s world to its foundation, and he struggles to keep his faith in the Jewish God. He faces losing everything generations of his family have built, and one of the city’s elite seems determined to make that happen. A visiting Jewish preacher shakes up the synagogue⸺and then the town⸺with outrageous claims. Paulos’s teachings fascinate Kassi but contradict everything Jason believes. As pressure amps up on every side, they must decide how much they are willing to risk to follow The Way.

To Know A Woman

Autor: Amos Oz

Número de Páginas: 272

‘A writer of revelatory genius’ Guardian Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his daughter, mother and mother-in-law. After a lifetime of uncovering other people's secrets he is forced to look back at the lies he has told himself; at the desolate enigma of his wife's life and death; his years of service to the state and the riddle of his daughter's behaviour. ‘Humorous, melancholy and touching’ New York Times

El legado del sol y la luna

Autor: Lidia Moncayo

Número de Páginas: 543

Esta historia se desarrolla en un mundo fantástico en el que destacan las naciones de Detraina y Angbo entre las demás. Por un lado, se narra la vida de dos jóvenes hermanos: Ethan y Eliza, que viven en el pueblo de Asross, un lugar insignificante que comienza a prosperar con el resurgimiento de las minas de oro y a la vez supone un cambio dramático en sus vidas, cuando el poder político interfiere, primero arrebatándoles a su madre y después su hogar. Es entonces cuando la vida de ambos toma un rumbo diferente. Por otro lado, Mendy llega a Asross acompañada de su familia y conoce a ambos hermanos, llegando a involucrarse de lleno en sus vidas. Es por ello que les trata de ayudar con sus reveses. Sin embargo, Mendy y su familia esconden un pasado del que llevan años huyendo. Además, se narra la historia de Flores, una niña huérfana de diez años que vive en la capital del Reino de Detraina. Mientras Flores trata de ganarse la vida y sobrevivir en una ciudad dominada por la política, empiezan a surgirle las dudas de cualquier niño respecto al bien y al mal...

La hermandad de la Atlántida

Autor: Mariano F. Urresti

Número de Páginas: 405

1939 En plena expansión del Tercer Reich, la enigmática Ahnenerbe, el brazo ocultista de las SS, se embarca en una expedición al Tíbet en busca de los orígenes de la raza aria y una conexión perdida con la legendaria Atlántida. Paralelamente, en las necrópolis de Castiltierra, en Segovia, un hallazgo arqueológico sacude los cimientos de la historia oficial y ofrece pistas sobre una civilización perdida, celosamente custodiada por una Hermandad que parece desafiar las leyes de la muerte. 2024. El congreso internacional Atlántida: Platón frente a la Historia, celebrado en El Rocío, España, reúne a los mayores expertos en la búsqueda del continente perdido. Pero lo que debía ser un intercambio académico pronto se convierte en una carrera contra el tiempo cuando varios participantes son asesinados. ¿Quién está detrás de estos crímenes? ¿Qué secretos intentan proteger con sangre? Conectando dos épocas separadas por más de 80 años, esta historia de conspiraciones, arqueología y misterio lleva a sus protagonistas a enfrentarse con preguntas que han obsesionado a la humanidad durante milenios: ¿y si la Atlántida no fuera un mito? ¿Qué estaría dispuesto a...

Suspicious minds 2

Autor: Laura Pérez Caballero

Número de Páginas: 59

Yoel y Nacho son una pareja de treintañeros que están juntos desde la adolescencia. La relación es estable, pero los celos de Nacho siempre están al acecho, y la forma que buscará para tratar de librarse de ellos no va a ser la más acertada... Una historia llena de mentiras, secretos y obsesiones.

Hasta el último suspiro

Autor: Anne Swärd

Número de Páginas: 274

Una novela hermosa y desgarradora. Una historia que nos habla del amor con el que todos soñamos, pero que pocos se atreven a vivir. Lukas la ama. Ella no alberga ninguna duda. Lo sabe desde niña, cuando su curiosa mirada infantil se cruzó con la de aquel adolescente hosco durante un incendio. Lo sabe a pesar de las advertencias de su madre y del resto de su familia, que la previenen contra un joven tan distinto a ellos. Lo sabe, incluso después de averiguar que el pasado de Lukas esconde rincones oscuros. Lukas la ama. Pero quizá todo sea demasiado intenso, demasiado prematuro. Quizá, como le repite su madre a todas horas, el amor no sea una emoción en la que se puede confiar. Reseñas: «En el mundo de Anne Swärd, el aire abrasa. La autora escribe sobre un amor capaz de emerger con la misma fuerza que un incendio forestal.» Arbetarbladet «Una de las novelas más absolutamente arrebatadoras que he leído en mucho tiempo.» Svenska Dagbladet «La novela del año.» Expressen

The Book of Caleb

Autor: J. W. Delorie

Número de Páginas: 321

Caleb knew he would follow the teachings and the love of the Lord soon after he gave John the basket full of bread and fish. Later he came to realize that this man named John was very close to the Messiah, the One they called Jesus. Like his father, Caleb was a simple fisherman, having the skills taught to him as he worked on the Sea of Galilee. However, his father taught him more than fishing during the times in the boat. He could hear the Love of the Lord from his father as he spoke to him about the Fathers Word, and the ways of the Son. After the accident on the Sea of Galilee that took his father home to the Lord, Caleb at the age of seventeen started dreaming of the Messiah. He would wake to his mother and younger brother watching over him waiting to hear more of his dreams. As he explained how Jesus offered him the Crown of Thorns he realized he was being given a great journey, and he could feel through the love of the Father that he would receive help during this journey that would take him far from his home of Bethsaida in search of the Crown.

Raiding the Land of the Foreigners

Autor: Danilyn Rutherford

Número de Páginas: 321

What are the limits of national belonging? Focusing on Biak--a set of islands off the coast of western New Guinea, in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya--Danilyn Rutherford's analysis calls for a rethinking of the nature of national identity. With the resurgence of separatism in the province, Irian Jaya has become the focus of fears that the Indonesian nation is falling apart. Yet in the early 1990s, the fieldwork for this book was made possible by the government's belief that Biaks were finally beginning to see themselves as Indonesians. Taking in the dynamics of Biak social life and the islands' long history of millennial unrest, Rutherford shows how practices that indicated Biaks' submission to national authority actually reproduced antinational understandings of space, time, and self. Approaching the foreign as a focus of longing in cultural arenas ranging from kinship to Christianity, Biaks participated in Indonesian national institutions without accepting the identities they promoted. Their remarkable response to the Indonesian government (and earlier polities laying claim to western New Guinea) suggests the limits of national identity and modernity, writ large. This is...

Framing the Sex Scene: A New Take on Israeli Film History

Autor: Naomi Rolef

Número de Páginas: 306

This book retells the history of Israeli film in the 1960s and 1970s in sex scenes. Through close readings of the first sex scenes in mainstream Israeli movies from this period, it explores the cultural and social contexts in which these movies were made. More specifically, it discusses how notions of collective identity, individual agency, and the public and private spheres are inscribed into and negotiated in sex scenes, especially in light of the historical events that marked these decades. This study thus pushes away from the traditional academic perception of Israeli film and opens up new ways of understanding how it has developed in recent decades. It draws on a growing international body of academic literature on the cinematic representation of sex in order to illuminate the particularities of the Israeli context in the 1960s and 1970s. Apart from film scholars and scholars of Israeli film, this study also addresses readers interested in Israeli cultural history more broadly.

Instantes suicidas

Autor: Celia Gourinski

Número de Páginas: 56

A Heart Afire

Autor: Zalman Schacter-shalomi , Netanel Miles-yepez

Número de Páginas: 505

A Heart Afire is an intimate, guided tour of many of the lesser-known and previously unpublished stories and teachings of the first three generations of Hasidism, especially those of the Ba'al Shem Tov, his heirs (male and female) and the students of his successor, the Maggid of Mezritch.

The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Conference 2013, Volume 2

Autor: Isls

Número de Páginas: 546

The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Conference 2013 proceedings, Volume 2

Restricciones a la libertad de expresión en Cuba

Autor: Amnistía Internacional

Número de Páginas: 43

Kin

Autor: Dror Burstein

Número de Páginas: 167

Emil, the unwanted child of two young parents, is adopted by Yoel and Leah, a childless couple. Yet, as the years pass, it becomes clear that Emil doesn't bear much resemblance to the parents who've loved and raised him. Is his name the only thing his real parents have left him? Kin traces the movements of Emil and his four parents as they walk through the same city, nearby but apart, searching for each other in the faces of passersby; until Yoel, now old, becomes determined to do the impossible: return his grown son—a lonely man approaching middle age—to his birth parents. In prose that is both minimal and subtly off kilter, acclaimed Israeli novelist Dror Burstein introduces us to an Israel that is as peculiar, and poignant, as Donald Barthelme's America: ranging from an apocalyptic future to the petty annoyances of daily life, from shifting continents to tiny heartbreaks.

Classic Love and Romance Literature

Autor: Virginia Brackett

Número de Páginas: 432

Before Barbara Cartland, there was Emily Bronte. Before Fabio, there was Heathcliff. If you want to see how men and women have looked at love, and each other, over the centuries, just open this endlessly readable encyclopedia: your A-to-Z guide to the literature of love. From Romeo and Juliet to Rebecca, entries treat scores of the most memorable novels and plays. Coverage is fair and square: men and women get equal time; elite and popular fiction are treated with respect; and minority voices are clearly heard. More than 340 A-to-Z entries are thoroughly illustrated, cross-referenced, and indexed.

Cástico

Autor: Pedro Pérez , Dani Orts

Número de Páginas: 963

En la ciudad de Cástico, Alberto, un afligido profesor de 36 años consternado por sus circunstancias personales, y Sofía, una adolescente de 15 años que relata en su diario problemas propios de su edad, se unen para investigar un trágico suceso acontecido en su instituto. Sospechando que hay más de lo que dice la versión oficial, deciden profundizar en busca de la verdad. A medida que avanzan en su investigación, descubren que sus vidas personales les afectan más de lo que hubieran pensado en un inicio, yendo así la historia mucho más allá del misterio inicial.

Gran Libro Del Vampiro, El

Autor: Alexis Puig

Número de Páginas: 164

Within Our Gates

Autor: Alan Gevinson

Número de Páginas: 1588

"[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Mission Design

Autor: Aaron Abramson

Número de Páginas: 102

Navigating Change in Complex Ministry Environments Mission Design by Aaron Abramson is a timely guide for ministry leaders navigating the challenges of a volatile and rapidly changing world. With technological growth, societal shifts, and economic instability reshaping the landscape, traditional five-year plans feel out of touch. Yet, even amidst uncertainty, opportunities for meaningful kingdom impact abound. Drawing on principles from design thinking, user experience design, and service design, Aaron Abramson provides a step-by-step approach to help pastors, church planters, nonprofit leaders and mission entrepreneurs adapt and innovate ministries to reach the shifting world around us. This book provides the tools and insights you need to adapt, pivot, navigate, and kickstart change for your ministry. Whether you're clarifying your vision, understanding your community’s needs, or testing new strategies, Mission Design equips you to lead your organization into a flourishing future. With relatable examples and case studies, Abramson doesn't just show you how to launch impactful ideas—he also teaches you how to pivot, evaluate, and grow through the learning process. No matter...

Hispano Americano

Número de Páginas: 542

Lubavitcher Rabbi's Memoirs

Autor: Joseph Isaac Schneersohn

Número de Páginas: 348

Enter the magical world of mystics and scholars, and discover the fascinating history of the origins of the Chasidic movement. In Lubavitcher Rabbi's Memoirs, Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn, sixth leader of Chabad-Lubavitch, takes us back three centuries, to a time of extreme physical and spiritual hardship for the Jews of Eastern Europe. Here, we meet the heroes, the brilliant scholars and simple cobblers, the princes and dreamers, the giants of spirit that spawned this revolutionary movement. These captivating tales will warm the heart, stir the spirit, and inspire the soul.

West's Federal Supplement

Número de Páginas: 1692