A Convert S Tale
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A Convert S Tale
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Author : Tamar Herzig
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-12-03
A Convert S Tale written by Tamar Herzig and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-03 with History categories.
Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone’s world—his Jewish upbringing, his craft and patrons, and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation, we see how precarious and contested was the meaning of conversion.
The Convert
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Author : Deborah Baker
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2011-05-10
The Convert written by Deborah Baker and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
*A 2011 National Book Award Finalist* A spellbinding story of renunciation, conversion, and radicalism from Pulitzer Prize-finalist biographer Deborah Baker What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The Convert tells the story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore, one of the most trenchant and celebrated voices of Islam's argument with the West. A cache of Maryam's letters to her parents in the archives of the New York Public Library sends the acclaimed biographer Deborah Baker on her own odyssey into the labyrinthine heart of twentieth-century Islam. Casting a shadow over these letters is the mysterious figure of Mawlana Abul Ala Mawdudi, both Maryam's adoptive father and the man who laid the intellectual foundations for militant Islam. As she assembles the pieces of a singularly perplexing life, Baker finds herself captive to questions raised by Maryam's journey. Is her story just another bleak chapter in a so-called clash of civilizations? Or does it signify something else entirely? And then there's this: Is the life depicted in Maryam's letters home and in her books an honest reflection of the one she lived? Like many compelling and true tales, The Convert is stranger than fiction. It is a gripping account of a life lived on the radical edge and a profound meditation on the cultural conflicts that frustrate mutual understanding.
The Convert
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Author : Stefan Hertmans
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 2020-02-04
The Convert written by Stefan Hertmans and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with Fiction categories.
Finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards In this dazzling work of historical fiction, the Man Booker International–long-listed author of War and Turpentine reconstructs the tragic story of a medieval noblewoman who leaves her home and family for the love of a Jewish boy. In eleventh-century France, Vigdis Adelaïs, a young woman from a prosperous Christian family, falls in love with David Todros, a rabbi’s son and yeshiva student. To be together, the couple must flee their city, and Vigdis must renounce her life of privilege and comfort. Pursued by her father’s knights and in constant danger of betrayal, the lovers embark on a dangerous journey to the south of France, only to find their brief happiness destroyed by the vicious wave of anti-Semitism sweeping through Europe with the onset of the First Crusade. What begins as a story of forbidden love evolves into a globe-trotting trek spanning continents, as Vigdis undertakes an epic journey to Cairo and back, enduring the unimaginable in hopes of finding her lost children. Based on two fragments from the Cairo Genizah—a repository of more than three hundred thousand manuscripts and documents stored in the upper chamber of a synagogue in Old Cairo—Stefan Hertmans has pieced together a remarkable work of imagination, re-creating the tragic story of two star-crossed lovers whose steps he retraces almost a millennium later. Blending fact and fiction, and with immense imagination and stylistic ingenuity, Hertmans painstakingly depicts Vigdis’s terrible trials, bringing the Middle Ages to life and illuminating a chaotic world of love and hate.
Loss And Gain The Story Of A Convert
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Author : John Newman
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-08-15
Loss And Gain The Story Of A Convert written by John Newman and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-15 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Loss And Gain Or The Story Of A Convert By John Henry Newman Third Edition
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Author : John Henry Newman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
Loss And Gain Or The Story Of A Convert By John Henry Newman Third Edition written by John Henry Newman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1853 with categories.
Wise Men And Their Tales
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Author : Elie Wiesel
language : en
Publisher: Schocken
Release Date : 2009-01-16
Wise Men And Their Tales written by Elie Wiesel and has been published by Schocken this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-16 with Religion categories.
In Wise Men and Their Tales, a master teacher gives us his fascinating insights into the lives of a wide range of biblical figures, Talmudic scholars, and Hasidic rabbis. The matriarch Sarah, fiercely guarding her son, Isaac, against the negative influence of his half-brother Ishmael; Samson, the solitary hero and protector of his people, whose singular weakness brought about his tragic end; Isaiah, caught in the middle of the struggle between God and man, his messages of anger and sorrow counterbalanced by his timeless, eloquent vision of a world at peace; the saintly Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi, who by virtue of a lifetime of good deeds was permitted to enter heaven while still alive and who tried to ensure a similar fate for all humanity by stealing the sword of the Angel of Death. Elie Wiesel tells the stories of these and other men and women who have been sent by God to help us find the godliness within our own lives. And what interests him most about these people is their humanity, in all its glorious complexity. They get angry—at God for demanding so much, and at people, for doing so little. They make mistakes. They get frustrated. But through it all one constant remains—their love for the people they have been charged to teach and their devotion to the Supreme Being who has sent them. In these tales of battles won and lost, of exile and redemption, of despair and renewal, we learn not only by listening to what they have come to tell us, but by watching as they live lives that are both grounded in earthly reality and that soar upward to the heavens.
Gentile Tales
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Author : Miri Rubin
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2004-05-03
Gentile Tales written by Miri Rubin and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-03 with History categories.
During the late medieval period, accusations that Jews had abused Christ by desecrating the Eucharist created a powerful anti-Jewish movement and violent clashes quickly spread throughout Europe.
The Complete Sea Tales Of Joseph Conrad
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Author : Joseph Conrad
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2017-07-06
The Complete Sea Tales Of Joseph Conrad written by Joseph Conrad and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with Fiction categories.
This unique collection of "The Complete Sea Tales of Joseph Conrad” has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. TABLE OF CONTENTS Novels & Short Stories: The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Sea The Shadow Line Typhoon 'Twixt Land and Sea A Smile of Fortune The Secret Sharer Freya of the Seven Isles The Rescue Falk: A Reminiscence An Outcast of the Islands Autobiographical: A Personal Record; or Some Reminiscences The Mirror of the Sea Notes on Life & Letters Biography & Critical Essays: Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh Walpole Joseph Conrad by John Albert Macy A Conrad Miscellany by John Albert Macy Joseph Conrad by Virginia Woolf
The King S Converts
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Author : Lauren Fogle
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2018-11-26
The King S Converts written by Lauren Fogle and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-26 with History categories.
In the Middle Ages, Jews who converted to Christianity occupied a shadowy and often dangerous place between the two religions. Rejected by their former community, and sometimes not accepted fully as Christians, converts were often destitute and at the mercy of noble benefactors. Only in London was there an official, royally sanctioned and funded, policy of conversion. When Henry III founded the Domus Conversorum, in 1232, he created a unique institution, one intended to house, protect, and instruct converts from Judaism. This book provides an analysis of Jewish conversion in England and continental Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries and offers a detailed look at London’s Domus Conversorum: its finances, its administration, and its inhabitants. Using royal records, financial accounts and receipts, Church letters and documents, London wills and assizes, and chronicles, this book presents the most in depth account of Jewish conversion in London to date.
The Family Save All A System Of Secondary Cookery By The Editor Of Enquire Within
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Author : Robert Kemp Philp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1861
The Family Save All A System Of Secondary Cookery By The Editor Of Enquire Within written by Robert Kemp Philp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1861 with categories.