this can be a glittering new translation of the component to the Hebrew Bible referred to as the ebook of the Twelve Prophets, or the Twelve "Minor" Prophets. within the Bible, the books of the prophets are prepared in tough order of size. the current staff of writings hence appears to be like after the so-called "major" prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel), and contains the a lot shorter texts of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habbakuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. on the time whilst all biblical books have been written on scrolls, those twelve short prophetic texts have been typically written on a unmarried scroll, and so got here to be thought of a unmarried ebook. "Minor" with recognize to size in basic terms, they're from the literary standpoint probably the most attention-grabbing texts within the Bible--passionate, visionary, and written with real literary sophistication. David Slavitt's significant sleek translation breathes clean existence into those strong old texts.

When Crusader armies on their method to the Holy Land attacked Jewish groups within the Rhine Valley, many Jews selected suicide over demise by the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr used to be born. With the literary commemoration of the sufferers, Jewish martyrology undefined. Beautiful Death examines the evolution of a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, the laments reflecting the categorical stipulations of Jewish lifestyles in northern France. The poems supply perception into daily life and into the methods medieval French Jews replied to persecution. in addition they recommend that poetry was once used to motivate resistance to intensifying pressures to convert.

The trained Jewish elite in northern France was once hugely acculturated. Their poetry--particularly that rising from the leading edge Tosafist schools--reflects their engagement with the vernacular renaissance unfolding round them, in addition to awake and subconscious absorption of Christian well known ideals and hagiographical conventions. whilst, their amazing poems sign an more and more harsh repudiation of Christianity's sacred symbols and ideology. They exhibit a fancy dating to Christian tradition as Jews internalized components of medieval tradition even whereas expressing a robust revulsion opposed to the kinds and ideology of Christian life.

This gracefully written examine crosses conventional limitations of historical past and literature and of Jewish and basic medieval scholarship. targeting particular incidents of persecution and the literary commemorations they produced, it deals special insights into the ancient stipulations during which those poems have been written and performed.

Una novela sobre los angeles alquimia del paso de los angeles infancia a l. a. adolescencia, por David Grossman, ganador del guy Booker overseas Prize 2017.

A sus doce años Aharon Kleinfeld posee todo lo que un niño de Jerusalén podría desear: una imaginación portentosa, un grupo de amigos que lo respeta y admira, y un millón de aventuras por conquistar. Pero, ajeno a su voluntad, el cuerpo de Aharon se niega a crecer durante tres largos años, abriendo un abismo infranqueable entre él y sus compañeros de juegos.

Al tiempo que Israel se prepara para los angeles guerra de los Seis Días y sus amigos cruzan los angeles frontera que separa l. a. infancia de los angeles adolescencia, Aharon permanece atrapado en su cuerpo de niño y aprende a descifrar los misteriosos códigos que rigen el mundo adulto mientras, emulando a su héroe Houdini, forcejea desesperadamente para escapar de los angeles trampa de los angeles madurez.

Reseña:
«Un maestro de l. a. indagación psicológica.»
Jorge Carrión, Letras Libres

The Holocaust and the Postmodern argues that postmodernism, specifically understood within the mild of the paintings of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, is a reaction to the Holocaust. this manner of considering deals new views on Holocaust testimony, literature, historiography, and post-Holocaust philosophy. whereas postmodernism is frequently derided for being both playful and superficial or imprecise and elitist, this booklet argues and demonstrates its dedication either to the earlier and to ethics.

Dealing with Holocaust testimony, together with the paintings of Primo Levi and Eli Wiesel, with the memoirs of "second new release" survivors and with contemporary Holocaust literature, together with Anne Michael's Fugitive Pieces, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated and the fake memoir of "Benjamin Wilkomirski," Eaglestone argues for a brand new method of studying either Holocaust testimony and Holocaust fiction. via an exploration of Holocaust historiography, the ebook deals a brand new method of debates over fact and reminiscence. Eaglestone argues for the valuable value of the Holocaust in realizing the paintings of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, and is going directly to discover what the Holocaust potential for rationality, ethics, and for the assumption of what it really is to be human. Weaving jointly concept and perform, testimony, literature, background, philosophy, and Holocaust reports, this interdisciplinary e-book is the 1st to discover intimately the importance of the Holocaust for postmodernism, and the importance of postmodernism for realizing the Holocaust.

Composti consistent with l. a. maggior parte durante gli anni della Prima Guerra mondiale, i quattro testi qui raccolti (Il mondo senza sonno, Episodio sul lago di Ginevra, L’obbligo e Ypres) fanno rivivere los angeles straordinaria gamma di emozioni e sensazioni che sconvolsero l’Europa intera. L’allerta continua, lo spaesamento radicale e il suicidio, il rifiuto di obbedire e l. a. diserzione, los angeles mercificazione del trauma sono i terreni esplorati da uno dei più grandi autori del Novecento.

“Più breve è ora il sonno del mondo, più lunghe le notti e più lunghi i giorni. In ogni Paese della sconfinata Europa, in ogni città, through, casa, stanza, il respiro quieto e sopito è più corto, agitato; are available in un’unica notte d’estate afosa e soffocante, questo nostro pace arroventato incendia le notti e confonde i sensi. Quanti, da ambo le parti, solevano scivolare dolcemente dalla sera alla mattina nella nera barchetta del sonno – pavesata di variopinti sogni sventolanti – ora, di notte, ascoltano gli orologi camminare, camminare senza posa lungo l. a. terrificante through da luce a luce, e si sentono consumare e rodere dentro senza tregua dal tarlo delle preoccupazioni e dei pensieri, fino a quando il cuore non si affligge e si ammala. Ora l’umanità tutta è agitata, di notte come di giorno, un impellente, spaventoso stato di veglia sfavilla tra i sensi eccitati di milioni di persone, il destino penetra invisibile dalle migliaia di finestre e porte, e scaccia il sopore, scaccia l’oblio da ogni giaciglio. Più breve è ora il sonno del mondo, più lunghe le notti e più lunghi i giorni.”

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), scrittore, giornalista, drammaturgo e poeta austriaco naturalizzato britannico, è̀ stato uno degli scrittori più̀ noti del Novecento: tra i suoi titoli più famosi ricordiamo Il mondo di ieri. Ricordi di un europeo (Mondadori, 1994), los angeles novella degli scacchi (Garzanti, 2004), Magellano (BUR, 2006), Paura (Adelphi, 2011). In fuga dalle leggi razziali, si esiliò in Brasile nel 1940 e vi si suicidò, insieme alla seconda moglie, nel 1942. Di lui Skira ha pubblicato Il candelabro sepolto (2013).

Die Liebesbeziehung von Stefan Georges „Lieblingsjünger“, dem Heidelberger Germanisten Friedrich Gundolf (1880-1931), zu der so schönen wie emanzipierten Jüdin Elisabeth Salomon (1893-1958) gilt als zentrales Skandalon des George-Kreises. Der Briefwechsel der beiden lässt nun eine anrührende Innensicht ihrer Beziehung zu, die sich zwischen Heidelberg, Berlin, Wien und Rom abspielte - vor dem Hintergrund von Erstem Weltkrieg, Spartakusaufstand, Inflationszeit, Wiener Psychoanalyse und italienischem Faschismus.
Friedrich Gundolf, durch sein legendäres Goethe-Buch (1916) Mitbegründer einer antipositivistischen Geistesgeschichte, conflict zu Lebzeiten der prominenteste deutsche Literaturwissenschaftler. 1914 beginnt sein spannungs- und wechselvolles Liebesverhältnis mit der promovierten Nationalökonomin und freien Journalistin Elisabeth Salomon, das 1926 in die Ehe mündet. Die bis vor kurzem nicht zugängliche, insgesamt 1382 Briefe umfassende Korrespondenz ist ein einzigartiges historisches Dokument und bewegendes biographisches Zeugnis zugleich. Im Zusammenspiel mit der Geliebten schuf Gundolf sein modernstes Werk.

This publication collects twenty formerly released essays and one new one via Erich S. Gruen who has written broadly at the literature and heritage of early Judaism and the event of the Jews within the Greco-Roman global. His many articles in this topic have, even if, seemed usually in convention volumes and Festschriften, and feature for that reason now not had vast move. by way of placing them jointly in one paintings, it will carry the essays to the eye of a much wider scholarly readership and lead them to extra available to scholars within the fields of historic heritage and early Judaism. The items are particularly different, yet boost a couple of hooked up and similar subject matters: Jewish identification within the pagan global, the literary representations through Jews and pagans of each other, the interconnections of Hellenism and Judaism, and the Jewish adventure below Hellenistic monarchies and the Roman empire.

Immigrant Soldier, the tale of a Ritchie Boy, according to the genuine studies of a refugee from Nazi Germany, combines a coming-of-age tale with an immigrant story and a global conflict II experience. On a chilly November morning in 1938, Herman watches in horror as his cousin is arrested. As a Jew, he realizes it truly is earlier time to escape Germany, a call that catapults him from one experience to a different, his existence replaced eternally by means of the collection hurricane of worldwide occasions. steadily, Herman evolves from a annoyed teen, searching for a spot to belong, right into a convinced US military intelligence officer who struggles with hate and forgiveness.

Jews and Latinos were not likely companions via tumultuous instances. This groundbreaking, eclectic publication of readings, edited by way of Ilan Stavans, whom The Washington put up defined as "one of our most desirable cultural critics," deals a sideboard of the ups and downs of that partnership. It comprises a few seventy canonical authors, Jews and non-Jews alike, via whose assorted oeuvre-poetry, fiction, theater, own and philosophical essays, correspondence, historic records, or even kitchen recipes-the reader is ready to navigate the transferring waters of background, from Spain within the 10th century to the Spanish-speaking Americas and the USA at the present time. The Reader showcases the writings of such awesome 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 call just a few.