Aleppo Tales
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Aleppo Tales
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Author : Hayim Sabato
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Aleppo Tales written by Hayim Sabato and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.
The Jewish community of Aleppo, Syria, the biblical Aram Soba, is one of the worlds most ancient. The community serves as guardian of the famous Keter Torah scroll, and boasts of a synagogue dating back to the Second Temple Period. This three-story collection interlaces the fictionalized history of Sabatos Aleppo family with social and political turmoil spanning more than a century, from Syria to France and Israel. Sabato skillfully describes how religious values, practice, and faith provide the strength for the Aleppo Jewish community and its descendants to live through difficult times and build meaningful lives.
Stories Of Spirit And Faith
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Author : David Sutton
language : en
Publisher: Mesorah Publications, Limited
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Stories Of Spirit And Faith written by David Sutton and has been published by Mesorah Publications, Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Aleppo
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Author : Philip Mansel
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-02-28
Aleppo written by Philip Mansel and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-28 with History categories.
'Every time gardens welcomed us, we said to them,Aleppo is our aim and you are merely the route.' Al-Mutanabbi Aleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness, most of its population has fled. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are as ancient and diverse as Aleppo - one of the oldest, continuously inhabited cities in the world - successively ruled by the Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Ottoman and French empires. Under the Ottomans, it became the empire's third largest city, after Constantinople and Cairo. It owed its wealth to its position at the end of the Silk Road, at a crossroads of world trade, where merchants from Venice, Isfahan and Agra gathered in the largest suq in the Middle East. Throughout the region, it was famous for its food and its music. For 400 years British and French consuls and merchants lived in Aleppo; many of their accounts are used here for the first time. In the first history of Aleppo in English, Dr Philip Mansel vividly describes its decline from a pinnacle of cultural and economic power, a poignant testament to a city shattered by Syria's civil war.
Syrian Coffee
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Author : Angela M. Formby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Syrian Coffee written by Angela M. Formby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Folktales Of The Jews V 3 Tales From Arab Lands
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Author : Dan Ben Amos
language : en
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Release Date : 2011-05-01
Folktales Of The Jews V 3 Tales From Arab Lands written by Dan Ben Amos and has been published by Jewish Publication Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of the books in this series possible: Lloyd E. Cotsen; The Maurice Amado Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Tales from Arab Lands presents tales from North Africa, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in the latest volume of the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. This is the third book in the multi-volume series in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg?s timeless classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA), named in Honor of Dov Noy, at The University of Haifa, a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition.
Folktales From Syria
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Author : Andrea Rugh
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2004-11-01
Folktales From Syria written by Andrea Rugh and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Syrian poet Samir Tahhan collected folktales from old men sitting outside their houses in Aleppo, drinking tea. Afraid these stories would disappear with the passing of this generation, Tahhan also went to halls and events to hear professional storytellers and record their performances. Anthropologist Andrea Rugh helped translate the resulting two volumes of stories from the original Arabic and wrote the informative introduction to this one-volume collection. Some of the tales appeared in rhyming verse in Arabic and some were based on events that are said to have actually taken place in Aleppo. Rugh explains the concepts of the most popular types of Syrian story structures: the gissa, the hikaya, and the hudutha. With two of the poems, the Arabic and the English are shown side by side in order to demonstrate the internal poetic structures of the original rhymes. With their emphasis on morality and social values, the tales will be familiar to Western audiences. Another value for the reader is finding the accepted social values and behaviors that Arab adults try to inculcate in their younger generation, often through complex characterizations. Teasing out these meanings gives the reader an appreciation for the act of translation and hints of the power of the Arabic language in prose and poetry. Professional illustrator Douglas Rugh has provided the book's black-and-white prints based on the stories and his experiences as a child growing up in the Middle East.
States Of Passion
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Author : Nihad Sirees
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2018-09-06
States Of Passion written by Nihad Sirees and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with Fiction categories.
A mysterious tale-within-a-tale of family secrets by the most prominent Syrian author working today The world is so strange, The strangest things are the stories you overhear. When a hapless bureaucrat finds himself stranded in the countryside during a raging storm, he seeks refuge in a grand yet isolated mansion, inhabited by only an elderly gentleman and his unwelcoming servant. The tale of family secrets he encounters while sheltering there begins with a faded photograph in yellowed newspaper, of a beautiful woman stepping off a train at Aleppo station many years ago. It transports him to Syria's golden age, to the heart of the mysterious, unconventional banat al-ishreh – the infamous women who live, dance and play music together – and into a tangled web of forbidden love. Nihad Sirees was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1950. After working as an engineer, he became an acclaimed novelist, playwright and screenwriter, but found himself under increasing surveillance and pressure from the Syrian government. In 2012, he left for Egypt and now lives and works in exile. Pushkin Press also publish The Silence and the Roar, banned in Syria, and his first novel to be published in English. He now lives in Berlin, Germany.
The Tales Of Haunted Nights Gothic Horror Bulwer Lytton Series
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Author : Edward Bulwer-Lytton
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-11-14
The Tales Of Haunted Nights Gothic Horror Bulwer Lytton Series written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-14 with Fiction categories.
This meticulously edited and formatted collection is designed to whet your appetite for the supernatural and occult fiction of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the master storyteller: Zanoni A Strange Story The Coming Race Falkland Zicci (Prequel to Zanoni) The Haunted and the Haunters, or The House and the Brain The Incantation
On The Road To Aleppo
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Author : Dan Tsalka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
On The Road To Aleppo written by Dan Tsalka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Short stories categories.
Religious Minorities In The Middle East
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Author : Anne Sofie Roald
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-11-11
Religious Minorities In The Middle East written by Anne Sofie Roald and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-11 with Social Science categories.
Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary perspective.