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        SINAMATELLA: A Quest for Meaning

        by Shlomo Breznit

        Don’s personal life is shattered by a trauma, and he is devastated and helpless. His obsessive, automat-like way of thinking leaves no room for fresh or novel experiences. He seeks help from Irv, a highly unconventional therapist, who sends him to Africa in order to “unfreeze his personality.” There, at Sinamatella, he starts the long journey back from his deep depression. Slowly, step by step, his inner life, which was an empty shell, starts to evolve, and with it his ability to cope. He meets a person unlike anyone he has known before, who teaches him to trust his intuition. He learns to infuse meaning into the most mundane experiences and thus enrich his life beyond recognition. Sinamatella is a story of hope and of a second chance in life. Shlomo Breznitz is a world-renowned expert in the area of psychological stress and coping. His more recent work is in the area of cognitive aging and brain training. He has published numerous scientific books in his field. The most recent, Maximum Brainpower: Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom, which he wrote with Collins Hemingway, was published by Ballantine Books in 2012. In addition he has written two memoirs, Memory Fields and The Tapestry of Life. He was the rector and president of the University of Haifa and briefly served in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament. He lives in Haifa. An English-Language eBook edition was published in winter 2014 by Samuel Wachtman's Sons ,Inc., CA. 212 pages, 15X22.5 cm

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        September 2022

        Ein antisemitischer Doppelmord

        Die vergessene Geschichte des Rechtsterrorismus in der Bundesrepublik

        by Uffa Jensen

        »Letztlich war auch die NSU-Mordserie 20 Jahre später nur möglich, weil man sich schon 1980 geweigert hatte, aus dem rechten Terror Schlussfolgerungen zu ziehen.« Am 19. Dezember 1980 wurden Shlomo Lewin, der ehemalige Vorsitzende der jüdischen Gemeinde Nürnberg, und seine Lebensgefährtin Frida Poeschke in ihrem Haus in Erlangen erschossen. Statt den Spuren nachzugehen, die zur rechtsextremistischen »Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann« führten, konzentrierten sich die Ermittler lange auf das Umfeld Lewins. Die genauen Umstände der Bluttat blieben ungeklärt. Kaum ein zeitgeschichtlich bedeutendes Ereignis wurde so aggressiv vergessen wie dieser antisemitische Doppelmord.Uffa Jensen rekonstruiert die Tat und ihre Hintergründe. Er folgt den Verbindungen zur PLO, in deren Lager die Wehrsportgruppe ausgebildet wurde, beleuchtet die Rolle von deren Gründer, Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, und stellt das Attentat in Bezug zu den weiteren Anschlägen des Jahres 1980, in dem in der Bundesrepublik mehr Menschen durch (rechten) Terror ums Leben kamen als in jedem anderen Jahr. Dabei macht Jensen die Muster im Umgang mit Rechtsterrorismus sichtbar, die sich künftig mehrfach wiederholen sollten – eine bis heute anhaltende Geschichte aus Gewalt, Verharmlosung und Verdrängung.

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        May 1994

        Abraham Abulafia und die mystische Erfahrung

        by Moshe Idel, Eva-Maria Thimme, Shlomo Pines

        Moshe Idel, geboren 1947 in Rumänien, lebt seit 1963 in Israel. Er lehrt an der Hebräischen Universität Jerusalem und ist derzeit international der führende Forscher zur jüdischen Mystik. Seine Arbeiten wurden vielfach ausgezeichnet, u. a. mit dem Israel-Preis (1999).

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      • Au-delà du désespoir

        by Freddie Knoller, John Landaw, Gilbert Fouquet

        Biography -  En s'enfuyant de Vienne quelques mois après la Nuit de Cristal lorsque les nazis eurent envahi l'Autriche, Freddie Knoller fut obligé d'abandonner sa famille.  A peine sorti de l'école, il entreprit une longue errance à travers l'Allemagne, la Belgique et la France où il fut incarcéré dans un camp à Saint-Cyprien. Il s'en échappa pour rejoindre Paris après différentes péripéties. Là, il réussit à survivre en guidant des soldats allemands dans les cabarets de Pigalle, jusqu'au jour où il dut s'enfuir à nouveau pour gagner un maquis dans les environs deFigeac. Arrêté dans un train au cours d'une vérification d'identité, il se retrouva à Drancy puis fut envoyé comme tant d'autres dans l'enfer d'Auschwitz. En janvier 1945, il participa à la Marche de la Mort pour aboutir, rongé par le typhus à Bergen-Belsen d'où il fut enfin libére par l'armée britannique. Ce récit d'une authenticité implacable à la limite de l'insoutenable est le témoignage d'un homme qui a survécu à la barbarie nazie.

      • Peace studies & conflict resolution
        February 2007

        From Rejection to Acceptance

        Israeli National Security Thinking and Palestinian Statehood

        by Shlomo Brom

        The United States Institute of Peace’s Project on Arab-Israeli Futures is a research effort designed to anticipate and assess obstacles and opportunities facing the peace process in the years ahead. Stepping back from the day-to-day ebb and flow of events on the ground, this project examines deeper, over-the-horizon trends that could offer new openings for peace. The effort brings together American, Israeli, and Arab researchers and is directed by Scott Lasensky, a Senior Research Associate at the Institute. In this report, General Shlomo Brom traces the development of Israeli national security thinking about Palestinian statehood, and the implications it holds for American policy. The first study in the series, “The Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Critical Trends Affecting Israel,” by Yossi Alpher, was published in September 2005. The second report, “Willing to Compromise: Palestinian Public Opinion and the Peace Process,” by Khalil Shikaki, was published in January 2006.

      • February 2020

        Pitifully Beautiful, Laughably Bitter

        Stories from Many Years

        by André Heller

        A world championship in hand folding, Shlomo Herzmansky’s miraculous survival thanks to Himmler, and the nightly tumult of Lipizzan horses in the middle of Vienna. Anything is possible, even the abolition of death is unsurprising when you immerse yourself in the narrative world of André Heller. Like in his bestseller Das Buch von Süden, André Heller mixes the anecdotal with the autobiographical, creating images and portraits of his world that brings the past into the present and the far-away near.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2020

        The Oktoberfest bombing and the double murder in Erlangen

        How far-right extremism and anti-Semitism were overlooked since 1980

        by Ulrich Chaussy

        On September 26, 1980, a bombing at the Oktoberfest in Munich kills 13 people, and on December 19 the first anti-Semitic murders in Germany since World War II were committed in Erlangen. Far-right extremists were involved in both crimes. Gundolf Köhler planted the bomb in Munich, Uwe Behrendt is said to have shot the rabbi of Nürnberg Shlomo Lewin and his partner Frida Poeschke. Both terrorists were connected to the far-right brigade Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann. However, both men apparently planned and executed their attacks alone. The leader of the far-right brigade, Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, was found not guilty of the incitement to murder by the district court in Nürnberg. Chaussy uncovers the dramatic failure of the investigators and courts and he shows how both crimes are connected to each other. The bombing of Munich cannot have been planned and executed by one person alone and the anti-Semitic hatred that drove the shooter in Erlangen was not his own idea. Like in 1980 the myth of a terrorist acting alone is till preventing the understanding of far-right attacks and anti-Semitic murder.

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