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MARIANNE OF THE SNOW
A Psychological Novel on Shellshock Victims
by Hadassa Ashdot
Army psychologist Hadassa Ashdot has written a moving novel about the healing power of love and desire, about blind hatred and killing that destroy all good, about the longing for limitless freedom as opposed to cultural and social restrictions and taboos, and about deep loss giving way to light and hope. The story revolves around three Israeli fighters: Nadav, a medic and disillusioned Kibbutz member, and his friends David, enlisted man and one of Israel's “socially disadvantaged”, and Osama, the unit commander who comes from a small Druze village and is a member of this unique minority that serves in the Israeli army. The three are hiding in a cypress forest in Lebanon, where Osama is critically wounded, waiting for an army helicopter to come and rescue them. During their four days of desperate anticipation, the forest where they have taken refuge becomes a fateful and symbolic death trap in which their lives and fates are intertwined. By the time the helicopter arrives, two of the men lay dead, and Nadav, the protagonist, experiences first-hand the trauma of losing friends to war. Shaken by his friends' deaths and the horrific war experience that has turned his world upside down, Nadav leaves Marianne, the girl he loves, and sets out on a trek of self-purification in the Himalayas. But no salvation awaits him there. After being buried in a snow avalanche, from which he was rescued bruised and broken, he sinks into darkness and depression, enduring years of living death in an abyss of despair. Love, ultimately, proves to be the light at the end of the tunnel through which Nadav makes his way back to life - love, the only force capable of healing the deep wound that the war bestowed upon him. Marianne, a Finnish volunteer at the kibbutz, is the woman Nadav loved and left; but she nevertheless accompanies him through the Himalayan snows to which he escapes in an attempt to free himself of the pain and guilt of his friends' deaths. Nadav rediscovers Marianne in the calm affection of middle age, in the snows of Finland, and she is the balm that finally helps soothe the wounds of war. About the author, Hadassa Ashdot, see Borrowed Identity.
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July 1982Das Kibbutz-Modell
Bestandsaufnahme einer alternativen Wirtschafts- und Lebensform nach sieben Jahrzehnten Herausgegeben und mit einer Einleitung versehen von Gunnar Heinsohn
by Gunnar Heinsohn, Ingrid Westerhoff
In den entwickelten Industriegesellschaften des Westens ist jenseits politischer und ökonomischer Auseinandersetzungen eine Politisierung des Alltagslebens eingetreten. In Bürgerinitiativen z. B. wird direkte Demokratie im Widerstand gegen öffentlich-bürokratische Reglementierung geprobt; in Einkaufs- und Produktionskooperativen werden Alternativen zum individuellen Reproduktionskampf und zur individuellen Konkurrenz in hierarchischen Arbeitsorganisationen entwickelt; in Wohngemeinschaften wird die Verarbeitung gestörter Geschlechter- und Generationsbezeichnungen versucht. In diesem Zusammenhang ist das Modell des israelischen Kibbutz – als das historisch am besten fundierte Beispiel einer alternativen Wirtschafts- und Lebensform in der Industriegesellschaft – bisher noch kaum zur Kenntnis genommen worden. Das Kibbutz-Modell zeichnet sich – bei aller Verschiedenheit der Entwicklungsstufen und -tendenzen in den einzelnen Siedlungen – durch direkte Demokratie, Gleichheit der Einkommen unabhängig von der Beschäftigung und das Fehlen eines besonderen Gewaltapparats aus. Durch seine landwirtschaftliche und industrielle Produktivität und Innovationsfähigkeit hat der Kibbutz gezeigt, daß der Verzicht auf ein Lohnarbeitssystem nicht notwendigerweise mit bürokratischer Reglementierung oder freiwilliger Armut erkauft werden muß. Darüber hinaus hat er eine Chance zur Wiedergewinnung familialer Bindungen eröffnet – es scheint auf historisch neuer Grundlage zu gelingen, die Geschlechterbeziehung gewaltlos zu gestalten und ein verläßliches Sozialisationsband zwischen den Generationen zu knüpfen. Die in diesem Band versammelten Untersuchungen erschließen historische Erfahrungen, aus denen diejenigen lernen können, die heute über alternative Wirtschafts- und Lebensformen in der Industriegesellschaft nachdenken. Es wird geprüft, inwieweit die Motive und Ausgangsbedingungen der Kibbutz-Geschichte mit denen der gegenwärtigen Alternativbewegung vergleichbar sind, welche Hoffnungen de
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Out There, in the Forest & Ein Ro’eem
Two Plays
by Shmuel Cohavy
Ein Ro'eem is a comedy that takes place on a kibbutz in Israel. Some kibbutz members create a show for a children's celebration and rehearse in a field amid successful and unsuccessful love affairs that threaten to derail the performance. Meanwhile, the kibbutz decides to cut down part of its unprofitable orchard, inspiring orchard workers to strike. Will they save the orchard? Will the love affairs survive? And will the show succeed? In Out There, in the Forest, three plots are intertwined. A British journalist is intrigued by a mysterious masked murderer in The East African Republic and travels there to find him. Who is this murderer? Is there a reason for his attacks, or is he simply a lunatic? He desperately wants to look the murderer in the eyes. Meanwhile, three American women struggle with harsh living conditions in a cave in the jungle. Will they survive their battle against nature? Simultaneously, the local population rebels against their ruler, who rose to power in a military coup. Will their revolt succeed or will they continue to endure the harsh regime? Shmuel Cohavy is an Israeli writer who spent most of his youth on a kibbutz. He also worked at the Timna copper mines and studied history and filmmaking at Tel Aviv University. Although Cohavy’s plays have been presented in the Finborough Theatre in London, this book marks the first time his plays have been published in English. An English-language eBook edition was published in late 2014 by Samuel Wachtman’s Sons, Inc., CA. 314 pages, 15 x 22.5 cm
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The Wall, Etc.
by Hamutal Bar-Yosef
The Wall, Etc. by Hamutal Bar-Yosef is a collection of eighteen powerfully written stories, some of which are based on true stories. Israel’s celebrated writer Amos Oz called the collection "especially strong and heartbreaking." Hamutal Bar-Yosef creates in The Wall, Etc., a tragicomic, sometimes grotesque slice-of-life narrative that portrays the human condition as the yawning abyss between desires and reality. She expresses great empathy and respect for the characters she depicts, and she enters their inner worlds with a breathtaking sensitivity. Hamutal Bar-Yosef is a well-known Israeli writer, poet, translator, and scholar. She was born in a kibbutz to parents who lost their family in the Holocaust. Her only brother was killed in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. At age twenty, the author married the playwright Yosef Bar-Yosef and had four children; one committed suicide at sixteen. She provided for her family first as a high school teacher, and then by writing guides for teachers. The author didn’t write her PhD dissertation until after turning forty, and she became a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University. She has published eight scholarly books and fifteen books of poetry, and she has won numerous distinguished prizes for her poetry. Her collection of stories, The Wall, Etc., (originally titled Music) won the ASI (Association of Israeli Writers) prize. Professor Bar-Yosef has translated poetry and prose fiction from English, French, and Russian. An English-language North-American edition was published in early 2019 by Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc., CA. A French-Language Edition, Called Le Mur Etc. was Published BY SWS In 2020: https://frankfurtrights.com/Books/Details/le-mur-etc-french-edition-19001778 294 Pages, 15X22.5 cm.
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Evita
by Dvora Schechner
Evita – de Dvora Schechner Esta es la fascinante historia de Eva Perón (1919-1952) en su corta pero intensa trayectoria. Trata de las pasiones, los temores y los odios, las gentes, las situaciones y el entorno que la hicieron ser “Evita”. “Confieso que tengo una ambición, una gran ambición personal: quisiera que el nombre de Evita figurase alguna vez en la Historia de mi Patria” escribió unos meses antes de morir. Indudablemente ha conquistado su lugar. Más, ese lugar ?donde se encuentra? Numerosas son las obras que protagoniza, tanto estudios académicos como novelas, cine, teatro, poesía. La mayoría adopta uno de los mitos contradictorios de quien fue la mujer más amada, pero también la más odiada y temida en su tiempo. Para unos es La Abanderada de los Trabajadores, La Madre de los Humildes, Santa Evita. Para otros, La prostituta, La Mujer del Látigo, La Nazi-Peronista. A 20 años de su muerte, hubo jóvenes que creían que si Evita viviera, sería una guerrillera Montonera. En esta biografía Evita es observada desde otras latitudes. Se analiza la revolución peronista y se revisa nuevamente la doctrina de Juan Perón, en la cual ensambla perfectamente la Evita real, que plasma su propio carisma para actuar en un régimen populista autoritario. Esta, la Evita de verdad, es más interesante y rica en facetas, que cualquier leyenda. La autora, Dvora Schechner – escritora y educadora israelí, miembro del kibbutz Gazit en la Baja Galilea – es nacida en Buenos Aires en 1930. En su adolescencia se opuso al peronismo hasta que emigró a Israel en 1952, dos meses antes de la muerte de Eva Perón. Una película documental con las fotos de los millones de argentinos llorándola la impulsó a tratar de descifrar el enigma de esa personalidad histórica. ?Quién fue Evita; qué hay detrás del amor y del odio que despierta es mujer hasta hoy mismo? Dvora Schechner estudió Humanidades en el Seminario Oranim, es licenciada en Filosofía e Historia en la Universidad de Tel Aviv. Escribió: La Guerra Civil Española (1962 – 1970), La Inquisición Española (1972), Evita (1995), Una Muchacha Política (2003).
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Marianne de la nieve
by Hadassa Ashdot
Marianne de la nieve – Una novela psicológica por Hadassa Ashdot Hadassa Ashdot, una psicóloga del ejército escribió esta novela conmovedora acerca del poder curativo del amor y el deseo, sobre el odio ciego y la muerte que destruyen todo lo bueno, el anhelo ilimitado por la libertad como oposición a las restricciones culturales y sociales y tabúes, y acerca de una gran pérdida que cede para dar paso a la luz y la esperanza. La historia trata sobre tres combatientes israelíes - Nadav, un médico y desilusionado miembro de un kibutz; y sus amigos: David, un recluta y uno de los israelíes “socialmente rechazados”, y Osoma, el comandante de la unidad, quien viene de una pequeña aldea drusa y es un miembro de la única minoría que sirve en el ejército de Israel. Los tres estás escondidos en un bosque de cipreses en el Líbano, y Osama, se encuentra críticamente herido. Esperan por un helicóptero del ejército que venga y los rescate. Durante cuatro desesperados días mientras esperan al rescate, el bosque donde se han refugiado se convierte en una decisiva y simbólica trampa mortal en la cual sus vidas y destinos se entrelazan. Cuando el helicóptero llega, dos hombres yacen muertos, y Nadav, el protagonista, experimenta en vivo el trauma de perder amigos en la guerra. Choqueado por la muerte de sus amigos y la horrible experiencia de la guerra que ha girado su mundo al revés, Nadav deja a Marianne, la chica que ama, y se embarca en un viaje de auto purificación a los Himalayas. Pero ninguna salvación le aguarda en ese lugar. Después de que una avalancha de nieve lo deja enterrado, es rescatado magullado y maltrecho. Poco después se hunde en una oscura y profunda depresión, aguantando años de muerte viva en un abismo de desesperación. Al final, el amor, prueba ser la luz del final del túnel a través del cual Nadav hace su regreso a la vida. El amor, es la única fuerza capaz de curar una herida tan profunda que la guerra le dejó. Marianne, una voluntaria Finlandesa en el kibbutz, es la mujer que Nadav amó y abandonó, pero ella, no obstante, siempre lo acompañó durante las nieves de los Himalayas de las cuales escapa, en un intento de liberarse del dolor y la culpa por la muerte de sus amigos. Nadav redescubre a Marianne en el calmado cariño de la mediana edad, en las nieves de Finlandia, y ella es el bálsamo que finalmente le ayudan a apaciguar sus heridas de guerra. Acerca del autor, Hadassa Ashdot, ver arriba en Identidad perdida.
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A SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN KILINSKI PARK
by Arieh Stav
There were rumors; a smell of fear in the air. And yet, it all happened with incredible suddenness. The Soviets were abandoning the city; the Germans were at the gates. Mera Stollar grabbed her baby and ran for her life. From that day on, her life became an odyssey of flight and survival. Thanks to her son’s Aryan appearance (as long as he did not lower his pants…), her resourcefulness and wisdom, they escaped from the city after the murder of its Jewish inhabitants. Without documents, the mother and child wandered among the back lanes of Occupied Poland under the guise of Polish refugees, until they reached Warsaw. On the way, they endured the ever present fear of capture, hunger, cold, illness and the cruelty and indifference of people; but there are also instances of compassion and mercy. Their flight is accompanied by many dangers and threats. They are thrown into the street by a Christian family for having crossed themselves left-handed; a Ukrainian informer turns them in to the police – meaning transport to Treblinka; the convoy is bombed and on the first day of the Liberation, Mera is found guilty of collaborating with the German enemy, a sin carrying a sentence of execution. A SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN KILINSKI PARK also tells the stories of Rocheleh, thrown into prison over a pair of boots; Stiepan the Ukrainian policeman whose love for Vera does not prevent him from murdering her entire family; of Lieber, protected by his father’s corpse in the Susenki killing pits; Sonia the convert, who was not saved by the crucifix she wore on her throat; Granny Jadzia, the Pole who was prepared to sacrifice her life for Libi, whom she loved like a grandchild; Alex and Irena, the two Ukrainian circus artists who, ironically, come under Mera’s protection; and Rudolph, the German paratrooper whose courtship and love for Mera lead to disillusion. Arieh Stav was born in 1939 in Rovno, Poland at that time, Ukraine today. In 1951, he made aliyah with his mother. He was educated at Kibbutz Givat Haim, served in the IDF as a paratrooper and was a member of the Kibbutz until 1963, when he left and moved to Tel Aviv. He studied psychology, philosophy and drama at Tel Aviv University. Arieh Stav is the Director of the Ariel Center for Policy Research, a non-partisan organization devoted to inclusive research and discussion of political and strategic issues concerning Israel and the Jewish people. Stav is the editor of Nativ, a bi-monthly periodical on politics and the arts, author and editor of numerous books and research studies. He has translated (to Hebrew) and published numerous volumes of epic poems which were written throughout the ages and in a myriad of languages.
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Suitcases and Backpacks
by Chava Kohavi Pines
Suitcases and Backpacksis a testimony of intricate detail that describes a young girl’s survival in ghettos and concentration camps between 1942 and 1945. Readers follow her journey from Vienna to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, then to Auschwitz and to a labor camp near Breslau, followed by the alienation she feels upon returning to Vienna, her subsequent journey to Prague, and, finally, the realization of her dream to immigrate to Palestine. The original edition published in Hebrew has proved interesting to readers of all ages. Chava Kohavi Pines was born Eva Hirsch in 1927 in Vienna, Austria, to a middle-class Jewish family. Since immigrating to Palestine in 1946, the author has resided in Kibbutz Dorot in the northern Negev where she worked as a teacher and counselor for years. Only with forty years’ distance from the trauma of her youth has she been able to write an account of some of her experiences during the Holocaust. An English-language eBook edition was published in late 2014 by Samuel Wachtman's Sons Inc., CA. An Italian edition was published in early 2017 by Edizioni Terra Santa, Milano. 80 pages, 14 x 21.5 cm
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Yitzhak Rabin – The Growth of A Leader
by Shaul Webber
“Even before Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, I always saw him as an enigmatic hero,” writes the author Dr. Shaul Weber. This enigma only intensified after his assassination. Rabin’s appearances in the media and the testimony given by those close to him reflected a complexity that could not be ignored. Always surrounded by others, he stood out as an emotionally distant loner. A politician who projected unease with the political norms, and basically a man of integrity and morality, he was nevertheless willing to stray from his ideals in the interests of national security. Despite his undiplomatic image, he became a senior diplomat and national leader. Rabin, emotionally withdrawn, shy and blunt throughout his formative years, demanded uncompromising perfection from himself and others. Blessed with impressive analytic capabilities, he demonstrated the qualities of leadership, even when not quite ready to assume the onerous mantle of military leadership when that role was forced on him by circumstances beyond his control. In his early days with the Palmach, Rabin comes across as a man who glorified camaraderie, but who was lonely, shy and unable to communicate. Although he spoke in terms of “we,” he closed himself off from others, putting up barriers of individualism and fastidiousness. Cool and analytic, he paradoxically had a hot temper and was known to speak bluntly, even offensively. However, in the latter years of his life, he learned to better express his feelings and project more warmth. As an educator and historian, Dr. Webber assumes that every human being is a product of his childhood and upbringing, which offers only partial solutions to the riddle of Rabin’s boyhood, his adolescence, and his painful ordeal as commander of the Harel Brigade during Israel's 1948 War of Independence. Throughout his life, and especially after his death, Rabin was said to be the “salt of the earth.” It appears, however, that in order to earn this noble title, one has to eat a lot of bitter herbs, too. This book is about those bitter herbs. Each year the president and the prime minister of Israel present prizes – usually to writers – for the best works related to one of each of their predecessors. This year the prize winner for memorizing Yitzhak Rabin was Dr. Shaul Weber for his book The Growth of a Leader, which follows Rabin’s path from childhood through to his youth in the Palmah and subsequently in the army, and sheds fresh light on what influenced Rabin’s growth as a military leader, a diplomat and a political leader. Shaul Webber was born in Tel Aviv. After his army service, he joined Kibbutz Ha'on nearby the Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee). When the Six-Day War was over he joined Kibbutz Merom Golan in the Golan Heights, and worked there as an educator and teacher. The author received his B.A. in philosophy and education from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, an M.A. in education from Haifa University, and his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Today he lives in Ramat Gan and teaches education and history at the Open University. This is Dr. Webber’s third book. His first book, A Blue Shirt on a Black Background, was published in 1998 and describes how the youth movements in Eretz Israel related to the Diaspora during and after the Holocaust. His second book, Mystery Hill, published in 2003, analyzes the famous battle of Ammunition Hill from his personal point of view as a soldier who participated in that terrible bloodshed, as well as from the perspective of a researcher and historian. His recently published book, The Spy Who Was Forgotten, is about Major Max Bennett – one of Israel's most controversial and tragic undercover agents, a brilliant intelligence officer who was recklessly involved by his superiors in the notoriously failed secret operation in Egypt in the early 50s, and who tragically ended his life there in a prison cell. An English-language eBook edition was published in spring 2013 by Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc., CA.) 374 Pages, 15 x 22.5 cm.
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DESERT PASSIONS - Wild Love in Sinai
by Robert Bettelheim
Desert Passions unfolds tales of wild, dramatic transformations that may occur to people in Sinai due to a mixture ofcravings, sexual arousal, spontaneity, love, rapture, hopes and dreams—conflicting forces that are often at odds with our current lifestyles. New motivations appear, behavioral patterns might shift or completely change, sex and romance easily flourish, often unrestrained by former inhibitions. This explains why seekers trying to find their way in this puzzled, crazy world travel to the Sinai Desert where secret passions, hidden sexual fantasies, and lust that have been long subdued suddenly emerge and rule. Since ancient times, the Sinai Desert has been a place for spiritual and mental metamorphosis, initiating its powerful impact on anyone who wanders there. When Western ideas and habits first met traditional, tribal Bedouins after the Six-Day War in 1967, it created a unique cultural divergence. Many Westerners, too, have been deeply influenced by the raw nature revealed to them. Robert Bettelheim was born in Vienna, but after his parents fled the Nazi Anschluss of Austria to China, he grew up in Shanghai Ghetto under Japanese rule during WWII. Bettelheim later served in the IDF as a paratrooper, and soon became an ardent scuba diver on the enchanting shores of the Sinai Desert. A musicology graduate and teacher, the author lives with his wife in Kibbutz Zikim, which is not infrequently under shell fire. He has six grandchildren. An English-language eBook edition was published in Summer 2018. 326 Pages, 15X22.5 cm.
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THE KETER
by Amnon Shamosh
Amnon Shamosh The Aleppo Codex (the Hebrew term "Keter," literally meaning "crown," signifies a codex of the Bible, as opposed to a scroll) is the earliest known manuscript comprising the full text of the Bible. In all probability, it is also the most authoritative, accurate, and sacred source document, both for the biblical text and for its vocalization, cantillation, and "Massorah" (literally "transmission" of the Bible, the oral and written tradition by which the holy scriptures have been preserved and passed on from generation to generation). As such, the Aleppo Codex has achieved a position of preeminence among Hebraic and Judaic manuscripts, and is of greater religious and scholarly import than any other manuscript of the Bible. A time-honored tradition invests the Codex with a unique aura of authority, reverence, and sanctity, and maintains that this was the manuscript consulted by Maimonides in setting down the exact rules for writing scrolls of the Torah (deduced from his comment: "I used it as a basis for the copy of the 'Sefer Torah', which I wrote according to the Law"). The Rabbis and elders of the Aleppo community guarded the Codex jealously for some six hundred years. The drama (if not the trauma) of its loss during the 1947 anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo when the local synagogue was set on fire, turned to joy and relief when it was rediscovered (albeit partially) thanks to intensive, dramatic rescue efforts, and brought to Jerusalem. Born in Syria in 1929, Amnon Shamosh immigrated to Tel Aviv as a child, and later became one of the founding members of Kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch, where he resides today. A graduate of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, author of both poetry and prose for children and adults, his work has been translated into English, Spanish, and French, and one of his novels was made into a mini-series for television. Amnon Shamosh is a recipient of the Agnon Prize, named after the celebrated Israeli Nobel Laureate in Literature, the Shalom-Aleichem Prize, the Prime Minister's Prize for Creativity, the President of Israel's Award for Literature, and numerous other literary awards.
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On the Silk Road
by Amnon Shamosh
Amnon Shamosh, who made his name as an author with the well-known family saga “Michel Ezra Safra & Sons” as well as with the dozens of enthralling short stories that appeared in the collections entitled “My Sister the Bride” and “Wheels of the World,” surprises us once again with a novel that is modern, brilliant, and profound. The story revolves around age-old traditions and historical facts that complement one another, mingling in Shamosh’s imagination and impassioning the reader. In the year 1400, the great conqueror Timur Lang arrives in the Syrian city of Haleb (Aram Zoba) and from it sends ten Jewish families of silk dyers into exile, banishing them to Samarkand, capital of Timur’s empire, on the Silk Road. Timur Lang also kidnaps Jewish virgins, sequestering them in his harems. One of the virgins captures the heart of Timur’s son, a man of intellect and creation, who ruled under him. King Elias, “son of the Jewess,” who was raised in the Islamic faith, embarks on a quest to Spain in an effort to get to know and understand the Christian world as well as the Jewish one, which was flourishing in Spain at the time. Elias, seeking an identity and also a bride, finds them in Haleb, city of his maternal forefathers. His young wife came from the Dayan family, with ties to the dynasty of the House of David. The novel moves through three story lines. One is situated in the fifteenth century and centers mainly on the royal family and on the harem in Samarkand. The second occurs at the beginning of the twentieth century, in Jerusalem’s Bokharan Quarter, where immigrants from Bokhara and Haleb are crowded together, and the leaders of the new Jewish immigrant society visit the neighborhood. Story line number three concerns the last decade of the century, with the massive immigration of Soviet Jewry; the story here focuses mainly on the Bokharan immigrants. The spotlight is on Oshi Shauloff Ben-Shaul, born in the Bokharan Quarter, whose mother, of Halev origin, is a descendant of the above-mentioned House of Dayan and has roots in one of the families that were exiled from Haleb to Samarkand. This novel, excitingly erotic yet refined and restrained, has a style that is at once powerful and inspiring – as we have been led to expect from the works of Amnon Shamosh. Born in Syria in 1929, Amnon Shamosh immigrated to Tel Aviv as a child and later became one of the founding members of Kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch, where he resides today. A graduate of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, author of both poetry and prose for children and adults, his work has been translated into English, Spanish, and French. Amnon Shamosh is a recipient of the Agnon Prize, named after the celebrated Israeli Nobel Laureate in Literature, the Prime Minister's Prize for Creativity, the President of Israel's Award for Literature, and numerous other literary awards. 288 pages, 14.5X21 cm
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Yitzhak Rabin – Die Laufbahn einer Führungspersönlichkeit
by Shaul Webber
Yitzhak Rabin – Die Laufbahn einer Führungspersönlichkeit Von Shaul Webber „Schon vor der Ermordung von Yitzhak Rabin sah ich in ihm immer einen rätselhaften Helden“, schreibt der Autor Dr. Shaul Weber.Dieses Rätsel wurde nach seiner Ermordung noch verstärkt.Rabins Auftritte in den Medien und den Aussagen von denen, die ihm nahe gestanden haben, zeigten eine Komplexität, die nicht ignoriert werden konnte.Obwohl er ständig von Menschen umgeben war, war er emotional ein Einzelgänger.Er war ein Politiker, dem politische Normen widerstrebten, ein Mann von Integrität und Moral. Dennoch war er bereit, im Interesse der nationalen Sicherheit von seinen Idealen abzugehen.Trotz seines undiplomatischen Erscheinungsbildes, wurde er ein hochrangiger Diplomat und nationale Führungspersönlichkeit. Rabin war am Anfang seiner Karriere emotional zurückgezogen, schüchtern und schonungslos offen. Er forderte kompromisslose Perfektion von sich selbst und anderen.Er verfügte über beeindruckende analytische Fähigkeiten und stellte deutlich seine Führungsqualitäten unter Beweis, auch wenn er noch nicht ganz bereit war, die anspruchsvolle Aufgabe der militärischen Führung zu übernehmen, als diese Rolle ihm durch die Umstände aufgezwungen wurde. In seinen frühen Tagen mit der Palmach erschien Rabin als ein Mann, der Kameradschaft verherrlicht, aber einsam, schüchtern und unfähig zu kommunizieren war.Obwohl er ständig das „wir“ in seinen Reden verwendete, sonderte er sich von anderen ab und errichtet um sich eine Barriere von Individualismus und extrem hohen Ansprüchen.Obwohl er kühl und analytisch war, hatte er paradoxerweise ein hitziges Temperament und war bekannt dafür, unverblümte, bisweilen sogar beleidigende Äußerungen zu machen.Doch in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens lernte er seine Gefühle besser auszudrücken und mehr Wärme auszustrahlen. Als Pädagoge und Historiker geht Dr. Webber davon aus, dass jeder Mensch ein Produkt seiner Kindheit und Erziehung ist. In diesem Buch werden schlaglichtartig Episoden aus der Kindheit und Jugend Rabins sowie von seinem Leidensweg als Kommandeur der Harel-Brigade während des israelischen Unabhängigkeitskrieges von 1948 geschildert.Während seines Lebens, besonders jedoch nach seinem Tod, galt Rabin als das „Salz der Erde“. Es scheint jedoch, dass man eine Menge bitterer Kräuter essen muss, um sich diesen hehren Titel zu verdienen.Dieses Buch handelt von diesen bitteren Kräutern. Shaul Webber wurde in Tel Aviv geboren.Nach seinem Wehrdienst schloss er sich dem Kibbutz Ha'on nahe Kinneret an (See Genezareth).Nach dem Ende des Sechstagekrieges ging er ins Kibbuth Merom Golan in den Golan-Höhen und arbeitete dort als Erzieher und Lehrer.Der Autor erhielt seinen B.A. in Philosophie und Pädagogik von der Hebrew University in Jerusalem, einen M.A. in Pädagogik von der Haifa University und einen Ph.D. von der Hebrew University in Jerusalem.Heute lebt er in Ramat Gan und lehrt Pädagogik und Geschichte an der Open University.Dies ist sein drittes Buch.Sein erstes Buch, Ein blaues Hemd auf schwarzem Hintergrund, wurde 1998 veröffentlicht und beschreibt das Verhältnis der Jugendbewegungen in Eretz Israel zur Diaspora während und nach dem Holocaust.Sein zweites Buch, Mystery Hill, im Jahr 2003 veröffentlicht, analysiert die berühmte Schlacht von Ammunition Hill aus seiner persönlichen Sicht als ein Soldat, der an diesem schrecklichen Blutbad teilgenommen hat, sowie aus der Sicht eines Forschers und Historikers.Sein kürzlich erschienenes Buch, Der Spion, der vergessen wurde, handelt von Major Max Bennett – einem der umstrittensten und tragischen israelischen Undercover-Agenten, ein brillanter Geheimdienstoffizier, der leichtfertig von seinen Vorgesetzten in die berüchtigte gescheiterte Geheimoperation in Ägypten in den frühen 50er Jahren geschickt wurde und dort in einer Gefängniszelle umkam
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Science & MathematicsAugust 2018Tomatoes
by E Heuvelink
This new edition of a successful, practical book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of all aspects of the production of the tomato crop, within the context of the global tomato industry. Tomatoes are one of the most important horticultural crops in both temperate and tropical regions and this book explores our current knowledge of the scientific principles underlying their biology and production.Tomatoes 2nd Edition covers genetics and breeding, developmental processes, crop growth and yield, fruit ripening and quality, irrigation and fertilisation, crop protection, production in the open field, greenhouse production, and postharvest biology and handling. It has been updated to:- reflect advances in the field, such as developments in molecular plant breeding, crop and product physiology, and production systems.- include a new chapter on organic tomato production.- present photos in full colour throughout.Authored by an international team of experts, this book is essential for growers, extension workers, industry personnel, and horticulture students and lecturers.
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FictionThe Water and the Wine
by Tamar Hodes
Leonard Cohen is at the start of his career and in love with Marianne Jensen, who is also a muse to her ex-husband, Axel. Australian authors George Johnston and Charmian Clift write, drink and fight. It is a hedonistic time of love, sex and new ideas on the Greek island of Hydra. As the island hums with creativity, Jack and Frieda join the artistic community, hoping to mend their broken marriage. However, Greece is overtaken by a military junta and the artists’ idyll is over. In this fictional account of real events, Tamar Hodes explores the destructive side of creativity and the price that we pay for our dreams.
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FictionApril 2011Acts of Terror and Contrition
a nuclear fable and eight stories
by Daniel Melnick
ACTS OF TERROR AND CONTRITION) is both a political novella about Israel and a literary thriller telling the unofficial story of Israeli responses to Saddam Hussein’s missile attacks during the 1990-1 Iraq War – and the possibility that his missiles might carry nuclear warheads “to burn Israel to the ground,” as Tarik Aziz said then. This “nuclear fable” presents the secret history of the Mossad Special Operations Chief’s covert threats to force world governments to face what is at stake should Iraq have launched a nuclear attack. Desperate and unyielding in the face of Saddam’s threat, the Chief, Arie Schneider, puts a renegade plan into place, even as he confronts the machinations of the deeply-divided Israeli government. Shadowing all this is the presence of the first Intifada, an Arab mother, and particularly her Islamist son, who plots his own act of terror. Enmeshed in the nuclear crisis, Arie must yet face his troubled wife, their two children, and above all his father, Rami, a holocaust survivor and retired diplomat. In opposition to the extremity of Arie’s plan, the old man summonses all his wisdom and his wily, struggling will to confront his son (in an echo of the biblical sacrifice of Isaac). Accompanying the novella are 8 STORIES OF THE EIGHTIES: In “Einstein’s Sorrow,” the first story after the novella, a wry secular Jewish owner of a New York toy company is visited one night in 1980 (the great physicist’s centennial year) by the spirit of the genius, and together the two Jews mourn the development of the nuclear bomb. In “Your Name is Hiroshima,” set in the mid-eighties, a young professor creates a haunted poem in response to the film “Hiroshima, Mon Amour,” as he faces the needs of wife, mentor, department chair, during a visit to campus by a famed Russian poet. The third and fourth stories are told by two elderly characters – an Armenian-American in “Taste of the Sun” and, in “Contrapuntal Piece,” the Greek widow of the eminent German-Jewish expatriate pianist from Hungry Generations; each character seeks the clarity to go on in the face of maddening infirmities and the incomprehension of others. In the fifth story “Before the Revolution,” a former political activist takes his family on a European vacation in 1984, and on an Italian train he faces his youthful double, a fiery student anarchist. The final three stories in Terror and Contrition chronicle the life of Joe Mubar, a Syrian-Italian American artist. “Triptych” tells his story over 30 years from his abused childhood, through his youthful wildness, to his struggle to find his balance in marriage. The second story – “Odalisque” – presents Joe, after divorce, in his sexual collision with a woman in the college town where he teaches art. “The Fall of the Berlin Wall” – the third story in the trilogy – portrays a last chance Mubar has to break the cycle of failed communication and to right himself as a father to his teen-aged son in the America of 1989.
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MemoirsDecember 2012Larry's Left Side
A Life's Journey
by Laurence A. Cole
Top U.S. cancer specialist/researcher’s triumph over massive brain damage which occurred while he was a medical student in Britain. Rediscovery of his Jewish faith.
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Veterinary anatomy & physiologyJuly 2015Extension Education Management In Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry
by Ruchi Singh, Mk Mandal
The book is intended to describe the chemistry of several of the important processes which take place in the soil. These are discussed in detail in the appropriate chapters which include treatments of precipitation and of ion-exchange reactions, adsorption and the formation of complexes and of oxidation and reduction.
