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1	Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics more books like this by David Grossman, Jessica Cohen add to wishlist Throughout his career, Grossman has been a voice for peace and reconciliation between Israel and its Arab citizens and neighbors. In five new essays on politics and culture in Israel today, he addresses the conscience of a country that has lost faith in its leaders and its ideals. see all copies from £2.22! new only from £2.22! \| first editions
2	The Gazelle: Medieval Hebrew Poems on God, Israel, & the Soul more books like this by Raymond Scheindlin (Editor) add to wishlist Rich with sensual imagery, the poems collected here have been chosen to emphasize the Arabic influence on the Hebrew rabbi-poets of medieval Spain. Work by Jehudah Halevi, Solomon AIbn Gabirol, and Samuel the Nagid is included. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	In the land of Israel more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL, a book of essays about Amos Oz's travels there during the war with Lebanon, was the source of heated controversy when it was published in Israel in 1983. The essays combine factual reporting and interviews with Oz's personal feelings about the conflict and about his country. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.92! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Greek Myths more books like this by Robert Graves add to wishlist The Greek Myths has long been among Graves's most popular works, compendious in scope and lively in the telling. No poet of the twentieth century, not even Ezra Pound, was so compendiously learned as Graves in the origins of our Mediterranean cultures. While his approach to myth is original and sometimes contentious, his narrative is always ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £14.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Wine, Women, and Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life more books like this by Raymond Scheindlin (Editor) add to wishlist The Jewish poets of medieval Spain combined elements of the dominant Arabic-Islamic culture with Jewish religious and literary traditions to create a rich new Hebrew literature that is as richly entertaining today as it was in the twelfth century. Scheindlin presents the original Hebrew poetry with his own melodic English translations, each ... see all copies from £7.79! new only from £15.60! \| first editions
6	The Amos Oz Reader (Cancelled) more books like this by Amos Oz, Nitza Ben Dov (Editor), Mr. Robert Alter (Foreword by) add to wishlist A rich and varied selection of writings--from the early 1960s to the present--by Amos Oz, one of Israel's leading novelists, public intellectuals, and political activists. see all copies from £7.77! new only from £7.77! \| first editions
7	In My Fathers Court more books like this by Isaac Bashevis Singer add to wishlist A memoir of Singer's childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father. The vanished world Singer recalls, of the Hasidic community in Warsaw in the early part of this century, is beautifully evoked. see all copies from £4.98! new only from £6.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling more books like this by David G Roskies add to wishlist This text provides a history of how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for successive generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their fervent hopes and greatest fears in the languages of tradition. Its protagonists are modern writers who returned to storytelling in the hope of harnessing the folk tradition and who created ... see all copies from £6.86! new only from £11.05! \| first editions
9	Freud and the Non-European more books like this by Professor Edward W Said, Christopher Bollas (Introduction by) add to wishlist Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud's Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said's abiding interest in Freud's work and its important influence on his own. He proposes that Freud's assumption that ... see all copies from £3.85! new only from £3.85! \| first editions
10	Golden Tradition: Jewish Life & Thought in Eastern Europe more books like this by Lucy S Dawidowicz (Editor) add to wishlist A collection of documents from the 16th century to 1939, demonstrating the changes in Jewish life and thought in Eastern Europe, which includes writings by Bergson, Chagall, Weizmann and Trotsky. see all copies from £1.48! new only from £10.40! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems more books like this by Yehuda Amichai, Harold Schimmel (Translator), Assia Gutmann (Translator) add to wishlist This volume of work by the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai contains two of his collections in full. This is a bilingual edition with English translations alongside the Hebrew originals. see all copies from £7.48! new only from £7.48!
12 view cover	Writing History, Writing Trauma more books like this by Professor Dominick LaCapra add to wishlist Trauma and its often symptomatic aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In this study, Dominick LaCapra offers a broad-ranging, critical enquiry into the problem of trauma, notably with respect to major historical events. In a series of interlocking essays, he explores theoretical and literary-critical ... see all copies from £13.66! new only from £13.66!
13	The selected poetry of Yehuda Amichai more books like this by Yehuda Amichai, Chana Bloch, 1940-, Stephen Mitchell add to wishlist Four decades of poetry from Amichai, who immigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1936. His perennial themes are the threat of death versus the joy of faith in God. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.10! \| first editions
14 view cover	Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden more books like this by Jason P Rosenblatt add to wishlist In the midst of an age of prejudice, John Selden's immense, neglected rabbinical works contain magnificent Hebrew scholarship that respects, to an extent remarkable for the times, the self-understanding of Judaism. Scholars celebrated for their own broad and deep learning gladly conceded Selden's superiority and conferred on him titles such as ... see all copies from £10.58! new only from £20.95!
15 view cover	The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself more books like this by Stanley Burnshaw (Editor), T Carmi (Editor), Susan Glassman (Editor) add to wishlist A collection of modern Hebrew poetry. In this new and expanded edition of a volume first printed in 1965, a new generation of Hebrew poets is added. Each poem appears in both its original Hebrew and an English phonetic transcription, along with extensive commentary and a literal English translation. This offers readers who know little or no Hebrew ... see all copies from £9.32! new only from £27.02! \| first editions
16 view cover	Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife more books like this by Francine Prose add to wishlist In June, 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years, with ever-increasing maturity, Anne crafted a memoir that has become one of the most compelling, intimate, and important documents of modern history ... see all copies from £12.44! new only from £12.44! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Reading the Holocaust more books like this by Inga Clendinnen add to wishlist Fifty years after their occurrence, the events of the Holocaust remain for some of their most dedicated students as morally and intellectually baffling, as 'unthinkable', as they were at their first rumoring. Reading the Holocaust challenges that bafflement, and the demoralization that attends it. Exploring the experience of the Holocaust from ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £13.09! \| first editions
18 view cover	An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the "Diary" more books like this by Lawrence Graver add to wishlist Graver examines Meyer Levin's 30-year obsession with "The Diary of Anne Frank." Levin collaborated with Anne's father, Otto, to bring the diary to an American audience. However, disputes and disagreements between them turned to litigation and scandal. This book is based on numerous previously unpublished documents and interviews with the principal ... see all copies from £5.43! new only from £8.10! \| first editions
19 view cover	Yehuda Amichai, a Life of Poetry, 1948-1994 more books like this by Yehuda Amichai add to wishlist This mammoth collection draws on 46 years of Amichai's previously published volumes, sampling nearly a half-century of this Israeli poet's witty and serious work. see all copies from £3.51! new only from £6.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America more books like this by Professor Eric J Sundquist add to wishlist In a culture deeply divided along ethnic lines, the idea that the relationship between blacks and Jews was once thought special - indeed, critical to the cause of civil rights - might seem strange. Yet the importance of blacks for Jews and Jews for blacks in conceiving of themselves as Americans, when both remained outsiders to the privileges of ... see all copies from £11.21! new only from £14.91! \| first editions
21 view cover	More Funniest Man in World more books like this by Ephraim Kishon add to wishlist This book contains more hilarious stories full of life's everyday characters by Israel's most famous humorist - who also happens to be the World's best-selling humour writer with 64 million books sold in 50 languages! These are more of the best and funniest stories culled from the author's past 25 books. see all copies from £6.59! new only from £13.03!
22 view cover	Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory more books like this by Ernst Van Alphen, Ernst Van Alphen add to wishlist In the face of strong moral and aesthetic pressure to deal with the Holocaust in strictly historical and documentary modes, this book discusses why and how reenactment of the Holocaust in art and imaginative literature can be successful in simultaneously presenting, analyzing, and working through this apocalyptic moment in human history. In ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £10.02!
23 view cover	Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism more books like this by Lawrence H. Schiffman add to wishlist see all copies from £10.59! new only from £23.12!
24 view cover	With an Iron Pen: Twenty Years of Hebrew Protest Poetry more books like this by Rachel Tzvia Back (Editor), Tal Nitzan (Editor) add to wishlist A groundbreaking collection of forty two Israeli poetic voices protesting the occupation of the West Bank. see all copies from £7.92! new only from £7.92!
25 view cover	The Poems and Psalms of the Hebrew Bible more books like this by S E Gillingham add to wishlist Because of the command not to make 'graven images' the creativity of the ancient Jews was always somewhat constrained: instead of the visual arts, poetry and story became the two most important forms which depicted the relationship between God and his people. This book concentrates on the poetry of the Hebrew Bible. After considering the essential ... see all copies from £15.27! new only from £24.93! \| first editions

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