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Author: Yoram Kaniuk
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780802136893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of Jews as they marched to their deaths, Adam Stein is now the ringleader at an asylum in the Negev desert populated solely by Holocaust survivors. "A tour de force."--"Commentary."
Author: S.A. Raffa
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2021-09-23
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1664192115
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Out of Profound disappointment came the Almighty's decree to resurrect the biblical Adam into a contemporary self. For the plan was a celestial quest to collaborate with the reincarnated First Man to help eliminate much of mankind's wicked and wanton ways, adjudged on the brink of self-destruction. And Adam's help was essential also to lead the way in restoring the Almighty's one pristine planet. Angels are dispatched to rain a bevy of whimsical phantasms on Adam to wheedle him into willingly joining their mission. Eventually, the Angel Amos appears, telling Adam of their goals and requirements he must meet. But Adam scoffs at making a contrite repentance for his prior disobedience in the Garden of Eden-complicating heaven's designs. Although the tale often flows surreal and adventuresome, the perceptive reader is apt to capture meanings aloft, and intellectualize on individualism, free will and defense of humanness, interwoven in the fabric of this spiritual fantasy.
Author: Michael Barry
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Published: 2023-12-08
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 1035822679
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jesus Is Adam is not just another book on the shelf. Its title, echoing above Caravaggio’s evocative painting of Jesus and the incredulity of doubting Thomas, beckons readers to delve deeper into the true identity of Jesus. Despite the vast number of Christians worldwide, many remain unaware of the profound connection between Jesus and Adam. With over 2.56 billion Christians globally, including 27.3 million in England alone, the significance of this revelation cannot be understated. This book isn’t solely for Christians. It aims to enlighten everyone, from atheists and agnostics to Muslims and beyond. By unraveling the life and teachings of Jesus, it presents a compelling case for understanding him as Adam. Given the universal reverence for Jesus, a book that offers such a fresh perspective is bound to captivate readers worldwide. Dive in and discover the simplicity and profundity of Jesus Is Adam.
Author: Edward Lamberti
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019-11-06
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1474444024
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, this book explores this influence through three directorial bodies of work: those of Barbet Schroeder, Paul Schrader and the Dardenne Brothers.
Author: Yoram Kaniuk
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 155584782X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“The first biography of Yossi Harel . . . offers valuable insights into the Jewish struggle to create a homeland.” —Booklist Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most inventive, brilliant novelists in the Western world,” internationally renowned Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk turns his hand to nonfiction to bring us his most important work yet. Commander of the Exodus animates the story of Yossi Harel, a modern-day Moses who defied the blockade of the British Mandate to deliver more than twenty-four thousand displaced Holocaust survivors to Palestine while the rest of the world closed its doors. Of the four expeditions commanded by Harel between 1946 and 1948, the voyage of the Exodus left the deepest impression on public consciousness, quickly becoming a beacon for Zionism and a symbol to all that neither guns, cannons, nor warships could stand in the way of the human need for a home. With grace and sensitivity, Kaniuk shows the human face of history. He pays homage to the young Israeli who was motivated not by politics or personal glory, but by the pleading eyes of the orphaned children languishing on the shores of Europe. Commander of the Exodus is both an unforgettable tribute to the heroism of the dispossessed and a rich evocation of the vision and daring of a man who took it upon himself to reverse the course of history. “[Yossi Harel’s] remarkable achievements have been engraved in history by the talent of Yoram Kaniuk.” —Ehud Barak, former prime minister of Israel
Author: Olga Gershenson
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780820476155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Gesher Theatre opened in 1990 as a marginal immigrant troupe in Tel Aviv, and soon became one of the most popular innovative theatres in Israel. It has now achieved international acclaim. However, because its bilingual performances and multicultural cast challenge cornerstones of Zionism, the mainstream Israeli media constantly debate Gesher's position. Gesher: Russian Theatre in Israel - A Study of Cultural Colonization discusses Gesher's history and analyzes its controversial media reception. What emerges is an extension of postcolonial theory to new cultural contexts, leading to a groundbreaking model of interethnic relations. This book will be of value to scholars of cultural studies and immigration, as well as to anyone interested in contemporary Israeli culture." --Book Jacket.
Author: De Gaetano Roberto
Publisher: Luigi Pellegrini Editore
Published: 2013-09-18
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 886822092X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Eleven conversations taken from as many issues of Fata Morgana. Eleven conversations which synthesize the project behind the journal which was born in spring 2006. At the time it was decided against having an editorial comment because of the conviction that if the journal was going to succeed it would speak for itself. However, the time has come to say a few words. A journal is first and foremost a collective gesture whose outline creates a field. The gesture made by Fata Morgana, which at the beginning was only an intuition and then it slowly developed, is the same one that makes cinema a place and an opportunity to think about contemporaneity. It is not simply about what happens around us; it is what emerges from within the events which gather around a concept: from the concept of Bíos (issue No. 0) to the concept of the Sacred (issue No. 10). In this perspective, cinema needs to be interpreted and understood as having its own un-specific specificity. It needs to be interpreted and understood in its principal form where it is capable of categorizing its un-specificity, in other words, its autonomous form where it can categorize its heteronomy. This means thinking about a concept starting from cinema, and thinking about cinema starting from the concept. Thus, cinema becomes a special place and an opportunity to think about the universality of the concept (as a marker of contemporaneity) and the concept becomes the perspective from which to conceive cinema. By avoiding the double edged sword of a sterile specificity or of a self serving un-specificity cinema becomes the quintessential way of thinking about modernity where autonomy of aesthetical form is affirmed in its heteronomy, and its individuation imposes itself as a dis-individuation.
Author: Dvir Abramovich
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Published: 2019-06-03
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1644690934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this compelling and engaging book, Dvir Abramovich introduces readers to several landmark novels, poems and stories that have become classics in the Israeli Holocaust canon. Discussed are iconic writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Etgar Keret, Yoram Kaniuk, Uri Tzvi Greenberg and Ka-Tzetnik, and their attempts to come to terms with the unprecedented trauma and its aftereffects. Scholarly, yet deeply accessible to both students and to the public, this illuminating volume offers a wide-ranging introduction to the intersection between literature and the Shoah, and the linguistic, stylistic and ethical difficulties inherent in representing this catastrophe in fiction. Exploring narratives by survivors and by those who wrote about the European genocide from a distance, each chapter contains a compassionate and thoughtful analysis of the author’s individual opus, accompanied by a comprehensive exploration of their biography and the major themes that underpin their corpus. The rich and sophisticated discussions and interpretations contained in this masterful set of essays are sure to become essential reading for those seeking to better understand the responses by Hebrew writers to the immense tragedy that befell their people.
Author: Claude Schumacher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-09-24
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780521624152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'To portray the Holocaust, one has to create a work of art', says Claude Lanzmann, the director of Shoah. However, can the Holocaust be turned into theatre? Is it possible to portray on stage events that, by their monstrosity, defy human comprehension? These are the questions addressed by the playwrights and the scholars featured in this book. Their essays present and analyse plays performed in Israel, America, France, Italy, Poland and, of course, Germany. The style of presentation ranges from docudramas to avant-garde performances, from realistic impersonation of historical figures to provocative and nightmarish spectacles. The book is illustrated with original production photographs and some rare drawings and documents; it also contains an important descriptive bibliography of more than two hundred Holocaust plays.
Author: Adam Fitzgerald
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 0871406993
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A debut collection that welcomes a new modernist aesthetic for the twenty-first century. Aswirl with waking dreams and phantom memories, The Late Parade is a triumph of poetic imagination. To write about one thing, you must first write about another. In Adam Fitzgerald's debut collection, readers discover forty-eight poems that yoke together tones playful and elegiac, nostalgic and absurd. Fitzgerald's shape-shifting inspirations "beckon us to join an urban promenade" (McLane) with a multiplicity of chimerical stops: from the unreal cities of Dubai to the former Soviet Union, from Nigerian spammers and the Virgin Mary to Dr. Johnson and Cat Power. "The glory of this volume is the long title poem, which carries the primal vision of Hart Crane into a future that does not surrender the young poet’s love of the real," writes Harold Bloom. Mash-ups of litanies, monologues and odes, these poems spring from a modernist landscape filled with madcap slips of tongue, innuendo, archaisms and everyday slang. Though Fitzgerald's lines often hallucinate meanings that feel open-ended, they never ignore the traditional pleasures of poetic craft and memory, their music an ambient drone—part Technicolor, part nitrous oxide. Even so, what glues these fantasies together is more than the charm of the maddeningly chameleon rhetoric. Fitzgerald's sonorous voice is unabashedly that of a love poet's: melancholic, baroque and visionary. The Late Parade is a testament to the powers of confusion, which may disguise our sense of loss but offer in return that eloquent tonic known as poetry. As Richard Howard writes, "When the new poet turns up the heat, he gives us just the necessary outrages which make us understand what we never knew we could say."
