Author : Abraham Ezra Millgram
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780827603585
Jerusalem is a holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims. It is a city of strange contradictions and astonishing curiosities. This book seeks to help readers grasp Jerusalem’s unique role in the history of mankind, as it charts the “curiosities” of the city—not to be confused with “trivia” about the city—through the centuries, and right up to the late 20th century.
Author : Jack Friedman
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789652293923
Perhaps no other city has been spoken of as often or as passionately as Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Book of Quotations brings together the kaleidoscopic impressions and perspectives of a representative group of those who have responded to the wonder of the Holy City from the biblical period to the present: Jews, Christians, and Muslims; pilgrims as well as skeptics, travelers, conquerors, scholars, and statesmen. The work gives expression to the discordant notes of contrasting perspectives about the meaning of Jerusalem. At the same time, it reflects the city s unique distinction as the embodiment of mankind s highest ethical and spiritual aspirations.
Author : David Brandon
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 144564844X
An informative and entertaining walking guide, encountering the oddities, curiosities and unknown history of some of London's most well-known and less-visited areas.
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Page : 468 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Bible
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Author : Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 1822
Category : Curiosities and wonders
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Author : Ronald H. Isaacs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742543546
This book presents an array of strange facts and curiosities about Jewish customs and rituals. In the great body of Jewish literature there are a plethora of fascinating (but relatively unknown), strange, and unusual statements, curiosities, oddities, and other bits of information that have accumulated over the centuries. This book gathers these curiosities and presents them thematically for the reader's pleasure.
Author : Lesli Koppelman Ross
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1461627729
This innovative how-to guide and reference book on the Jewish holidays provides a well-rounded foundation for both knowledge and action. Unlike many books of its kind, Celebrate! The Complete Jewish Holidays Handbook is nondenominational and comprehensive in approach. The author includes the historical development, religious importance, and personal significance of each Jewish holy day in a way that is useful to both beginners and those well versed in Jewish practice. The richness and depth of Jewish tradition, with a full range of information on why and how to celebrate, is presented in a lively, warm, and user-friendly manner.
Author : Randall Price
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736908238
A concise examination of the Middle East conflict surrounding Jerusalem provides historical information while considering Jewish and Arab claims to the city, the political significance of the conflict, and the prospects for both war and peace. Original.
Author : David Patterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1316239993
This book articulates a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of Jew hatred as a metaphysical aspect of the human soul. Proceeding from the Jewish thinking that the anti-Semites oppose, David Patterson argues that anti-Semitism arises from the most ancient of temptations, the temptation to be as God, and thus to flee from an absolute accountability to and for the other human being.
Author : Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0190625945
A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities will reinforce these old prejudices, while also stimulating a deeper interest among readers in one of history's most interesting civilizations. Many of the zanier tales and trivia that are collected here revolve around the political and religious life of Byzantium.
