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Yehuda Amichai

A Life of Poetry, 1948-1994

By: Yehuda Amichai,Benjamin Harshav

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Yehuda Amichai

A Life of Poetry, 1948-1994

By: Yehuda Amichai,Benjamin Harshav

In Temporary Poem of My Time, the Israeli poet writes: "Hebrew writing and Arabic writing go from east to west, / Latin writing, from west to east. / Languages are like cats: / You must not stroke their hair the wrong way.

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Harper Collins

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006092666X

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9780060926663

The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai

By: Yehuda Amichai

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The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai

By: Yehuda Amichai

Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved poems, including forty poems from his later work. A new foreword by C.K. Williams, written especially for this edition, addresses Amichai’s enduring legacy and sets his poetry in the context of the new millennium.

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Univ of California Press

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0520954440

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9780520954441

Open Closed Open

Poems

By: Yehuda Amichai

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Open Closed Open

Poems

By: Yehuda Amichai

In poems marked by tenderness and mischief, humanity and humor, Yehuda Amichai breaks open the grand diction of revered Jewish verses and casts the light of his own experience upon them. Here he tells of history, a nation, the self, love, and resurrection. Amichai’s last volume is one of meditation and hope, and stands as a testament to one of Israel’s greatest poets. Open closed open. Before we are born, everything is open in the universe without us. For as long as we live, everything is closed within us. And when we die, everything is open again. Open closed open. That’s all we are. —from “I WASN’T ONE OF THE SIX MILLION: AND WHAT IS MY LIFE SPAN? OPEN CLOSED OPEN”

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201

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HarperCollins

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ISBN 10

0547563949

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9780547563947

The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai

By: Yehuda Amichai

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The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai

By: Yehuda Amichai

Yehuda Amichai's splendid poems, refined and cast in the desperate foundries of the Middle East, where life and faith are always at stake, exhibit a majestic and Biblical range of the topography of the soul."—Anthony Hecht

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224

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Univ of California Press

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0520275837

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9780520275836

Voices of Israel

Essays on and Interviews with Yehuda Amichai, A. B. Yehoshua, T. Carmi, Aharon Appelfeld, and Amos Oz

By: Joseph Cohen

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Voices of Israel

Essays on and Interviews with Yehuda Amichai, A. B. Yehoshua, T. Carmi, Aharon Appelfeld, and Amos Oz

By: Joseph Cohen

Cohen takes an in-depth critical look at three novelists and two poets who stand at the forefront of contemporary Israeli literature, and whose works have been widely read, studied, and admired in the Western world. The critiques examine all English translations of these Israeli writers' major works from the beginning of their careers up to the present. Cohen demonstrates the vitality and virtuosity of the so-called New Wave Israeli writers whose sources and influences are as ancient as the stories of the Hebrew Bible and as modern as the interiorization of reality found in Proust, Faulkner, Woolf, and Joyce; and the literary adaptation of relativity found in Borges, Lowry, and Durrell. Complementing the critiques are interviews with the five Israeli writers. The issues discussed--the relation of politics and literature, the influence of literature on life, the role of the writer in society, the moral responsibility of the writer--combine with the essays to provide comprehensive insight into the contemporary Israeli psyche.

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254

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SUNY Press

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0791402436

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9780791402436

A Lover of Unreason

The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill

By: Yehuda Koren

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A Lover of Unreason

The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill

By: Yehuda Koren

Assia was my true wife, and the best friend I ever had', wrote Ted Hughes, after his lover surrendered her life and that of their young daughter in 1969, six years after Sylvia Plath had suffered a similiar fate. Diva, she-devil, enchantress, muse, Lillith, Jezebel - Assia inspired many epithets during her life. The tragic story of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been related from one of two points of view: hers or his. Missing for over four decades had been a third: that of Hughes's mistress. This first biography of Assia Wevill views afresh the Plath-Hughes relationship and at the same time, recounts the journey that shaped her life. Wevill's is a complex story, formed as it is by the pull of often contrary forces.

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365

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Robson

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ISBN 10

1909396834

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9781909396838

Exile at Home

By: Yehuda Amichai

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Exile at Home

By: Yehuda Amichai

Published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the modern state of Israel, this collection of photographs focuses on Jews who have returned from exile in the Diaspora to their promised land. The French photographer Frederic Brenner travelled for nearly two decades to photograph Jews in more than 40 countries, capturing the diversity of their experiences in different cultures. The 14 immigrant families depicted in Israel in the book were all previously photographed in Ethiopia, Morocco, Yemen, Russia, the USA, England or India.

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Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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0810932695

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9780810932692

Masada Myth

Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel

By: Nachman Ben-Yehuda

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Masada Myth

Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel

By: Nachman Ben-Yehuda

In 73 A.D., legend has it, 960 Jewish rebels under siege in the ancient desert fortress of Masada committed suicide rather than surrender to a Roman legion. Recorded in only one historical source, the story of Masada was obscure for centuries. In The Masada Myth, Israeli sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda tracks the process by which Masada became an ideological symbol for the State of Israel, the dramatic subject of movies and miniseries, a shrine venerated by generations of Zionists and Israeli soldiers, and the most profitable tourist attraction in modern Israel. Ben-Yehuda describes how, after nearly 1800 years, the long, complex, and unsubstantiated narrative of Josephus Flavius was edited and augmented in the twentieth century to form a simple and powerful myth of heroism. He looks at the ways this new mythical narrative of Masada was created, promoted, and maintained by pre-state Jewish underground organizations, the Israeli army, archaeological teams, mass media, youth movements, textbooks, the tourist industry, and the arts. He discusses the various organizations and movements that created “the Masada experience” (usually a ritual trek through the Judean desert followed by a climb to the fortress and a dramatic reading of the Masada story), and how it changed over decades from a Zionist pilgrimage to a tourist destination. Placing the story in a larger historical, sociological, and psychological context, Ben-Yehuda draws upon theories of collective memory and mythmaking to analyze Masada’s crucial role in the nation-building process of modern Israel and the formation of a new Jewish identity. An expert on deviance and social control, Ben-Yehuda looks in particular at how and why a military failure and an enigmatic, troubling case of mass suicide (in conflict with Judaism’s teachings) were reconstructed and fabricated as a heroic tale.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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ISBN 10

0299148335

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9780299148331

Political Assassinations by Jews

A Rhetorical Device for Justice

By: Nachman Ben-Yehuda

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Political Assassinations by Jews

A Rhetorical Device for Justice

By: Nachman Ben-Yehuda

Ben-Yehuda presents an in-depth inquiry into the nature and patterns of political assassinations and executions by Jews in Palestine and Israel. Extensive empirical evidence is used to analyze the social construction of violent and aggressive human behavior, using a sociology of deviance perspective. Political assassinations and executions are placed within their particular cultural matrix to describe how this specific form of killing has been conceptualized as part of an alternative system of justice. "The taking of a human life is generally regarded as the ultimate evil. Given this fact, it is important to examine and understand how it is explained, justified, and cloaked in a 'vocabulary of motives.' Such acts are, in the author's words, 'socially constructed and interpreted,' dependent on the observer's location in a specific 'symbolic-moral universe.'Moreover, such acts (political assassination specifically) are manifestations of struggles that represent attempts to legitimate these world-views, rhetorical devices that serve to define 'boundary-markers' between such universes — moral crusades that attempt to validate one view vis-a-vis another. This general approach to political assassinations is original. Its application to assassinations by Israelis is original. The fact that the book is empirical marks it off from many speculations on the subject. A number of the author's findings make a distinct contribution.

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State University of New York Press

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0791496376

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9780791496374

An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations

By: Yehuda Pinchover,Jacob Rubinstein

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An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations

By: Yehuda Pinchover,Jacob Rubinstein

A complete introduction to partial differential equations, this textbook provides a rigorous yet accessible guide to students in mathematics, physics and engineering. The presentation is lively and up to date, paying particular emphasis to developing an appreciation of underlying mathematical theory. Beginning with basic definitions, properties and derivations of some basic equations of mathematical physics from basic principles, the book studies first order equations, classification of second order equations, and the one-dimensional wave equation. Two chapters are devoted to the separation of variables, whilst others concentrate on a wide range of topics including elliptic theory, Green's functions, variational and numerical methods. A rich collection of worked examples and exercises accompany the text, along with a large number of illustrations and graphs to provide insight into the numerical examples. Solutions to selected exercises are included for students whilst extended solution sets are available to lecturers from solutions@cambridge.org.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139444913

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9781139444910

Shuva

The Future of the Jewish Past

By: Yehuda Kurtzer

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Shuva

The Future of the Jewish Past

By: Yehuda Kurtzer

Offers a roadmap for revitalizing the connection between the Jewish people and the Jewish past

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UPNE

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1611682320

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9781611682328

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The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai

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Open Closed Open

The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai

The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai

Voices of Israel

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A Lover of Unreason

A Lover of Unreason

Exile at Home

Exile at Home

Masada Myth

Masada Myth

Political Assassinations by Jews

Political Assassinations by Jews

An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations

An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations

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