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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
This book explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long after it ceased to be a mother tongue, resulting in one of the most intense textual cultures ever known. It was a bridge to Greek and Arab science. It unlocked the biblical sources for Jerome and the Reformation....
16) For my father
Series
Film Movement volume year 7, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2009
Description
for my Father : Tarek is a young Palestinian who has been blackmailed into a suicide mission. When the device does not explode Tarek must wait for its repair and live among the people he planned to kill. He meets beautiful Keren and feels the urge to live his life. Now he faces the most important decision he will ever make.
Ali & the Ball : Eight-year-old Ali lives in a refugee detention centre with his mother and little sister Fatima. When his mother's...
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary sensuality and intense faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time. Peter Cole's translations reveal this remarkable poetic world to English readers in all...
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