The Land Agent
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"A genuine tour-de-force" - Lesley McDowell on 'An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful'. Palestine,...
Jakob the Liar (1999)
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In 1944, Jewish shop owner Jakob (Robin Williams) overhears a radio broadcast on the movements of...
According to Wikipedia:
"A golem is an animated anthropomorphic being in Jewish folklore that is created entirely from inanimate matter (usually clay or mud) ... The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late-16th-century rabbi of Prague"
Modern readers might be more familiar with them from their inclusion in the later entries in Terry Pratchett's superlative Discworld series.
In this one, a Golem has been created and is terrorizing select parts of New York, with Montague and Strong called in to deal - reluctantly - with the threat it represents.
Portnoy's Complaint
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'The most outrageously funny book about sex written' Guardian Portnoy's Complaint n. [after...
Motherland: Growing Up with the Holocaust
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The author writes: "I am the child of a woman who survived the Holocaust not by the skin of her...
I Survived a Secret Nazi Extermination Camp
Rudolf Reder and Mark Forstater
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This is the harrowing and extraordinary story of the camp at Belzec. Unlike Auschwitz, Belzec is not...
In a Guardsman's Boots: A Boy Soldier's Adventures from the Streets of 1920s Dublin to Buckingham Palace, WWII and the Egyptian Revolution
Caroline Rochford and Paddy Rochford
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When he was just eight years old, Paddy Rochford enrolled at Dublin's Royal Hibernian Military...
Historical and Biblical Israel: The History, Tradition, and Archives of Israel and Judah
Reinhard G. Kratz and Paul Michael Kurtz
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At the center of this book lies a fundamental yet unanswered question: under which historical and...
Chagall and Music
Ambre Gauthier and Meret Meyer
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- Accompanying text for the exhibition at the Montreal Beaux-Arts Museum, from 28th January to 11th...