Malka

When the roundups start, Malka's mother knows she must get her daughters-seven-year-old Malka and sixteen-year-old Minna-across the Hungarian border to safety, a place where they hope Jews can live in peace. But escape proves harder than they could have imagined, with bleeding feet, bad weather, and homesickness, and little Malka falls ill. Left behind to be brought across when the threat has passed, Malka finds herself in a terrifying world full of strangers, starvation, and constant fear of Nazi roundups. As time passes, it becomes more and more apparent that the threat is far from over. Completely alone, Malka struggles to stay hidden, unaware that miles away, a brokenhearted mother is searching frantically for her lost little girl.

Children's Books

Pressler, Mirjam

Murdoch, Brian

Literature & Fiction

Speak

What happened to Adam and Eve after their expulsion from paradise? Where the biblical narrative fell silent apocryphal writings took up this intriguing question, notably including the Early Christian Latin text, the Life of Adam and Eve. This account describes the (failed) attempt of the couple to return to paradise by fasting whilst immersed in a river, and explores how they coped with new experiences such as childbirth and death. Brian Murdoch guides the reader through the many variant versions of the Life, demonstrating how it was also adapted into most western and some eastern European languages in the Middle Ages and beyond, constantly developing and changing along the way. The study considers this development of the apocryphal texts whilst presenting a fascinating insight into the flourishing medieval tradition of Adam and Eve. A tradition that the Reformation would largely curtail, stories from the Life were celebrated in European prose, verse and drama in many different languages from Irish to Russian.

The Apocryphal Adam and Eve in Medieval Europe: Vernacular Translations and Adaptations of the Vita Adae et Evae

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Oxford University Press

The story of the apocryphal pope and saint Gregorius was extremely popular throughout the middle ages and later in Europe and beyond. In a memorable narrative Gregorius is born from an incestuous relationship between a noble brother and sister, and is set out to sea with (unspecific) details of his origin. He is found and brought up by an abbot, but when revealed as a foundling leaves as a knight to seek his origins; he rescues his mother's land from attack, and marries her. On discovering his sin he undertakes years of penance on a rocky islet, which he survives miraculously. An angel sends emissaries from Rome to find him after the death of the pope, the key to his shackles is equally miraculously discovered, and he becomes pope. This hagiographical romance is not a variation upon Oedipus; it uses the invisible sin of incest as a parallel both for original sin (the sin of Adam and Eve) and for actual sin. It combines the universal theme of the quest for identity with the problem not of guilt as such, which is inevitable, but of how sinful humanity can cope with it. Brian Murdoch traces the story's probable origins in medieval England or France, and its later appearance in versions from Iceland and Ireland to Iraq and Egypt, in verse and prose, in full-scale literary forms or in much-reduced folktales, in theological as well as secular contexts, down to Thomas Mann and beyond.

Gregorius: An Incestuous Saint in Medieval Europe and Beyond

History

World

In 1943, Hannah plans to leave Hungary with her children, 16-year old Minna and 7-year-old Malka. Just before they reach the border, Malka is taken seriously ill and Hannah is forced to leave her daughter behind. The story is told from two perspectives, as mother and child try to find each other.

Macmillan Children`s Books

Stefan Zweig: SchachnovelleAuf einem Passagierdampfer, auf der Passage von New York nach Buenos Aires, kommt es zu einer außergewöhnlichen Konfrontation: Der amtierende Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic, ein derber, unsensibler Mensch, dessen Inselbegabung für Schach alleine und verloren in charakterlicher Ödnis liegt, tritt auf Veranlassung weiterer Passagiere gegen den geheimnisvollen, sensiblen Österreicher Dr. B. an. - Und dieser gewinnt mit spielerischer Leichtigkeit und Eleganz gegen den Großmeister. Doch woher hat B. seine Schachkunst? Es ist ein dunkles Geheimnis, das er in sich trägt, und das sich im Verlauf des weiteren Spiels bitter Bahn bricht.Die Schachnovelle erschien 1942, kurz vor Stefan Zweigs Tod (am 23. Februar 1942) im brasilianischen Petrópolis.

Schachnovelle: Stefan Zweig (Twentieth Century German Texts)

Reference

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

The twentieth century, perhaps more than any other, was shaped by war and conflict. In particular, the two world wars have had a profound influence on the development of world history, especially in western Europe. The aim of Memory and Memorials, however, is not to seek the effects war has had on the twentieth century, but rather to explore how societies chose to remember wars and manipulate this memory for political and cultural purposes. Tackling issues of actual memory, distorted memory and reconstructions of the past, the use and nature of the war memorial, and the reflection of all these points in selected art, literature and film, the main theme of Memory and Memorials is to stress both continuity and change in memory and memorial.

Memory and Memorials: The Commemorative Century (Modern Economic and Social History)

Kidd, William

Africa

Routledge

The term "Old High German" belongs primarily to the study of language, not of literature. It is applied to the earliest stage of the German language, as found in written documents from the middle of the eighth century to the middle of the eleventh, when a series of major changes give rise to the quite distinct second stage of German, which we call Middle High German. Even "Old High German" does not refer to a unified language, but rather to a group of dialects, sometimes markedly different from on another, but sharing certain linguistic features not found in other languages.

Old High German Literature (Twayne's World Authors Series, Twas 688)

Humor & Entertainment

Twayne Pub

The theme of Adam's Grace is the interplay of theology and literature across a wide range of genres and vernaculars: in particular, the use of medieval literary texts to explain the balance of the Fall and Redemption, the universality of original sin, and the identity of mankind with its first parents, Adam and Eve. The process begins with the Christian tradition of apocryphal Adam-lives, which live on and develop in many vernaculars. Later, Adam is used as a literary model, on whom many well-known Christian figures of the middle ages - knights, popes, emperors, kings and saints - can be seen to be based. They include Gregorius, the "medieval Oedipus", whose case demonstrates the resolution of the paradox of the felix culpa; Parzival, searching for the Holy Grail and for God in the hostile world into which he has been ejected; and the many medieval figures (literary and even historical) associated with the legends of leprosy, blood and healing which reflect the sacrifice in the Redemption. The last part of the book looks at the drama, first of all the medieval representations of the Fall and the Passion, and then the rather different portrayal of Adam on stage in the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. BRIAN MURDOCH is Professor of German at Stirling University.

Adam's Grace: Fall and Redemption in Medieval Literature

D.S.Brewer

Fighting Songs and Warring Words: Popular Lyrics of Two World Wars

German Literature and the First World War: The Anti-War Tradition: Collected Essays by Brian Murdoch (Routledge Studies in First World War History)

The period immediately following the end of the First World War witnessed an outpouring of artistic and literary creativity, as those that had lived through the war years sought to communicate their experiences and opinions. In Germany this manifested itself broadly into two camps, one condemning the war outright; the other condemning the defeat. Of the former, Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front remains the archetypal example of an anti-war novel, and one that has become synonymous with the Great War. Yet the tremendous and enduring popularity of Remarque’s work has to some extent eclipsed a plethora of other German anti-war writers, such as Hans Chlumberg, Ernst Johannsen and Adrienne Thomas. In order to provide a more rounded view of German anti-war literature, this volume offers a selection of essays published by Brian Murdoch over the past twenty years. Beginning with a newly written introduction, providing the context for the volume and surveying recent developments in the subject, the essays that follow range broadly over the German anti-war literary tradition, telling us much about the shifting and contested nature of the war. The volume also touches upon subjects such as responsibility, victimhood, the problem of historical hiatus in the production and reception of novels, drama, poetry, film and other literature written during the war, in the Weimar Republic, and in the Third Reich. The collection also underlines the potential dangers of using novels as historical sources even when they look like diaries. One essay was previously unpublished, two have been augmented, and three are translated into English for the first time. Taken together they offer a fascinating insight into the cultural memory and literary legacy of the First World War and German anti-war texts.

History & Criticism

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Malka

The Apocryphal Adam and Eve in Medieval Europe: Vernacular Translations and Adaptations of the Vita Adae et Evae

Gregorius: An Incestuous Saint in Medieval Europe and Beyond

Malka

Schachnovelle: Stefan Zweig (Twentieth Century German Texts)

Memory and Memorials: The Commemorative Century (Modern Economic and Social History)

Old High German Literature (Twayne's World Authors Series, Twas 688)

Adam's Grace: Fall and Redemption in Medieval Literature

Fighting Songs and Warring Words: Popular Lyrics of Two World Wars

German Literature and the First World War: The Anti-War Tradition: Collected Essays by Brian Murdoch (Routledge Studies in First World War History)