Author: Publisher: Editora 247 S.A.
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Palestina: a guerra sem fim
Author: One Night, Markovitch
Author: Ayelet Gundar-GoshenPublisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770899774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin meets The Marrying of Chani Kaufman in this cinematic novel about the birth of Israel and the true story of the marriages of convenience that were arranged to smuggle Jewish women out of Nazi-occupied Europe. On the eve of World War II, a ship bearing twenty young men sets sail from the Palestine Territory toward Europe. Eagerly awaiting them on the other side are twenty young women, whom the men have never met. They have been set up in arranged marriages to enable Jewish women to escape Nazi Germany and enter Palestine without being turned back by the British. But when Yaacov Markovitch, a thoroughly unremarkable man, finds himself married to Bella Zeigerman, the most beautiful woman he has ever set eyes upon, things start to get complicated. Yaacov’s fake marriage is the beginning of a lifelong obsession, as he vows to make his beautiful bride, Bella, love him, despite her determination to break free. Their changing fortunes take them through war, upheaval, terrible secrets, tragedy, joy, and loss. Vital, funny, and tender, One Night, Markovitch brilliantly fuses personal lives and epic history in an unforgettable story of endless, hopeless longing and the desperate search for love.
Four Years Beneath the Crescent
Author: Rafael de Nogales MéndezPublisher:
ISBN: 9781903656198
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
These are the memoirs of a Venezuelan mercenary officer in the Ottoman army during WWI. He fought on the Caucasian, Iraqi, and Palestine fronts. He was involved in the siege of Van, and witnessed much of the genocide against Armenians in 1915.
The Freedom of the Migrant
Author: Vilem FlusserPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252028175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
"The Freedom of the Migrant presents a series of reflections on national, ethnic, and cultural identity, offering a unique perspective on such topics as communication, nomadism, housing, nationalism, migrant cultures, and Jewish identity."--BOOK JACKET.
The Sheik
Author: Edith Maude HullPublisher: Lightyear Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Diana Mayo is young, beautiful, wealthy--and independent. Bored by the eligible bachelors and endless parties of the English aristocracy, she arranges for a horseback trek through the Algerian desert. Two days into her adventure, Diana is kidnapped by the
A History of Saudi Arabia
Author: Madawi al-RasheedPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521644129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Saudi Arabia is a wealthy and powerful country which wields influence in the West and across the Islamic world. Yet it remains a closed society. Its history in the twentieth century is dominated by the story of state formation. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Ibn Sa'ud fought a long campaign to bring together a disparate people from across the Arabian peninsula. In 1932 the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was born. Madawi al-Rasheed traces its extraordinary history from the age of emirates in the nineteenth century, through the 1990 Gulf War, to the present day. She fuses chronology with analysis, personal experience with oral histories, and draws on local and foreign documents to illuminate the social and cultural life of the Saudis. This is a rich and rewarding book which will be invaluable to students, and to all those trying to understand the enigma of Saudi Arabia.
Waking Lions
Author: Ayelet Gundar-GoshenPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316395404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In this thrilling drama from an award-winning author, after one night's deadly mistake, a man will go to any lengths to save his family and his reputation. Neurosurgeon Eitan Green has the perfect life—married to a beautiful police officer and father of two young boys. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that the man, an African migrant, is beyond help, he flees the scene. When the victim's widow knocks at Eitan's door the next day, holding his wallet and divulging that she knows what happened, Eitan discovers that her price for silence is not money. It is something else entirely, something that will shatter Eitan's safe existence and take him into a world of secrets and lies he could never have anticipated. Waking Lions is a gripping, suspenseful, and morally devastating drama of guilt and survival, shame and desire from a remarkable young author on the rise.
Damião de Gois
Author: Elisabeth Feist HirschPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401034885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Scholars have given relatively little attention to sixteenth-century Portuguese humanism, although Portugal's vital influence on the humanistic thirst for learning has been readily acknowledged. Through her heroic explorations of distant lands and dangerous sea routes, Portugal infected many humanists with the excitement of discovery, none more than Damiao de Gois, Portuguese student of history. Gois, although generally little known, was - in his life and finally as a victim of the Inquisition in Portugal - thoroughly representative of the course of sixteenth-century Erasmian humanism in Portugal; in addition he deserves recognition in his own right as a contributor to modern historiography. Portugal's explorations and the atmosphere of passion for discovery that prevailed in Lisbon had as strong an influence on Gois during his early years as that of the school of Erasmus, the "prince of humanists" who was eventually to become his personal friend and guide. Gois's two great chronicles of the Portuguese kings John II and Ma nuel I culminated a life spent as diplomat, composer, art collector, articulate pleader for religious tolerance, and scrupulous student of history. A factual report of Gois's life - in the main outlines accurate but not complete - exists in Portuguese, and a short resume of his life has been published in English, but so far no full study has been available in any language.
The Missionary Strategies of the Jesuits in Ethiopia (1555-1632)
Author: Leonardo CohenPublisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447058926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Based on doctoral thesis, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007.
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