Author : Yigal Allon
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN :
"[This book] is not a study in depth of the growth of Israel's armed forces, nor is it a historical analysis of the military doctrines which those forces developed. It is rather a sketch, a profile of the people and events which moulded first the resistance movement and then the army of the Jewish State"--Author's note.
Author : Yigal Allon
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Israel
ISBN :
Author : Gerbern S. Oegema
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN :
A study of the evolution of the six-pointed star (in Hebrew, "Magen David" - "the Shield of David") as a Jewish symbol, from the Middle Ages to the present. For antisemitism, see pp. 68-72, "Jewish Hat and Jewish Badge as Distinctive Marks, " and pp. 120-125, "The Shield of David as an Antisemitic Symbol."
Author : Levy Daniella
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789659254002
This book is a collection of letters from a religious Jew in Israel to a Christian friend in Barcelona on life as an Orthodox Jew. Equal parts lighthearted and insightful, it's a thorough and entertaining introduction to the basic concepts of Judaism.
Author : Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1400852897
This volume presents the most important portions of Erwin Goodenough's classic thirteen-volume work, a magisterial attempt to encompass human spiritual history in general through the study of Jewish symbols in particular. Revealing that the Jewish religion of the period was much more varied and complex than the extant Talmudic literature would lead us to believe, Goodenough offered evidence for the existence of a Hellenistic-Jewish mystic mythology far closer to the Qabbalah than to rabbinical Judaism. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : David Shields
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0307593231
A landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead. Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete? Exploring these and related questions, Shields orchestrates a chorus of voices, past and present, to reframe debates about the veracity of memoir and the relevance of the novel. He argues that our culture is obsessed with “reality,” precisely because we experience hardly any, and urgently calls for new forms that embody and convey the fractured nature of contemporary experience.
Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : Wicked Son
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : History
ISBN :
Jews first arrived in the New World in 1654, seeking religious freedom. Since the beginning of American nationhood, Jewish volunteers and conscripts fought in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, on both sides of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, in both World Wars, and in the Korean, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Over the years, the American military learned to integrate its Jewish servicemen and women by providing Jewish military chaplains, kosher food, religious services, and placing the Star of David on the graves of fallen Jewish soldiers. The end of conscription and the establishment of the All-Volunteer Force in 1973 offered other paths to serve our country. American Jews have contributed with distinction in the arts and sciences, academia, entertainment, government, and in building the economy. For Jews, America is the Goldene Medina—the Golden Country.
Author : Vidda Crochetta
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1663257248
When Petros, the leader of the disciples of Joshua, began a secret journey up the Jordan River, he is not certain who he will meet along the way. He does know some of the players of his mission and where to meet them, but does not know the big picture. Then a mysterious hooded person approaches him on the sandy shores of the Dead Sea, more familiar to him than strange. Together they will face the uncertainty of a mission known only to The Shield of David. Author Vidda Crochetta chronicles the greatest story ever told unlike any author before him. The Shield of David is five women who combine their resources and unite to protect a charismatic Galilean populist preacher to save him from himself. The man is more important to them than his mission to challenge the Roman and Jewish authorities who disregard the concerns of ordinary people and support the established elite.
Author : David Gemmell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Aeneas (Legendary character)
ISBN : 0552151122
The second novel in David Gemmell's bestselling Troy trilogy. Interlacing myth and history, and high adventure, this is epic storytelling at its very best. The war of Troy is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, friends and enemies, each with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder. Into this maelstrom of treachery and deceit come three travellers; Piria, a runaway priestess nursing a terrible secret, Kalliades, a warrior with a legendary sword, and Banokles who will carve his own legend in the battles to come. Shiled of thunder takes the reader back into the glories and tragedies of Bronze Age Greece, reuniting the characters from Lord of the silver bow; the dread Helikaon and his great love, the fiery Andromache, the mighty Hektor and the fabled storyteller, Odysseus.
Author : Dr Robert Rozett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1135969507
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust is a comprehensive, authoritative one-volume reference that provides reliable information on this ignoble and frightening episode of modern history. It features eight essays on the history of the Holocaust and its antecedents, as well as coverage of such topics as the history of European Jewry, Jewish contributions to European culture, and the rise of anti-semitism and Nazism. The essays are followed by more than 650 entries on significant aspects of the Holocaust, including people, cities and countries, camps, resistance movements, political actions, and outcomes. More than 300 black-and-white photographs from the archives at Yad Vashem bear witness to the horrors of the Nazi regime and at the same time attest to the invincibility of the human spirit. Best Specialist Reference Work of the Year - Reference Reviews UK
