Even a fist was once an open palm with fingers: Recent poems

The author shares his thoughts about childhood, history, love, war, and his everyday experiences in this collection of recent poetry

Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm With Fingers: Recent Poems

Harshav, Benjamin

Harshav, Barbara

AMICHAI, Yehuda

Harpercollins

The story of four inmates in a Nazi concentration camp - a juggler, a dwarf, an astrologer and a hunchback. They survive the camp by amusing their tormentors. Then they must survive the shattered world after the war.

The Court Jesters

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Dagan, Avigdor

Thrillers & Suspense

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

Provides information on the Yiddish language and literature, describes poetic forms, and gathers poems in Yiddish and English by seven of the best Jewish American poets

American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of California Press

Since it was first published in Hebrew in 2000, this provocative book has been garnering acclaim and stirring controversy for its bold reinterpretation of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in the Middle Ages, especially in medieval Europe. Looking at a remarkably wide array of source material, Israel Jacob Yuval argues that the inter-religious polemic between Judaism and Christianity served as a substantial component in the mutual formation of each of the two religions. He investigates ancient Jewish Passover rituals; Jewish martyrs in the Rhineland who in 1096 killed their own children; Christian perceptions of those ritual killings; and events of the year 1240, when Jews in northern France and Germany expected the Messiah to arrive. Looking below the surface of these key moments, Yuval finds that, among other things, the impact of Christianity on Talmudic and medieval Judaism was much stronger than previously assumed and that a "rejection of Christianity" became a focal point of early Jewish identity. Two Nations in Your Womb will reshape our understanding of Jewish and Christian life in late antiquity and over the centuries.

Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Biographies & Memoirs

Chipman, Jonathan

Yuval, Israel Jacob Jacob

Historical

This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. The range of American Yiddish Poetry runs the gamut from individualistic verse of alienation in the modern metropolis, responses to Western culture and ideologies, and experiments with poetic form and the resources of the Yiddish language, to the vitriolic associative chains of a politically engaged anarchist existentialist; from hymns to urban architecture and landscapes and the plight of African Americans to confrontations with the experiences of Jewish history and the loss of the Yiddish language. The bilingual facing-page format, the notes and the biographies of poets, the selections from Yiddish theory and criticism, and a comprehensive introduction to the cultural background and concerns of the poetry enhance the poems themselves.

Literary

Stanford University Press

Zayde Rabinovitch relates the story of his mother, Judith, the three men who loved her, and the mystery surrounding his paternity

The Loves of Judith

Shalev, Meir

Contemporary

Ecco Pr

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