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Commodore Levy: A Novel of Early America in the Age of Sail
ISBN: 9780896728813 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "An American "Dreyfus Affair""
By all accounts, Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish commodore in the U.S. Navy, was both a principled and pugnacious man. On his way to becoming a flag officer, he was subjected to six courts-martial and engaged in a duel, all in response to antisemitic taunts and harassment from his fellow officers. Yet he never lost his love of country or desire to serve in its navy. When the navy tried to boot him out, he took his case to the highest court and won. This richly detailed historical novel closely follows the actual events of Levy s life: running away... "An American "Dreyfus Affair""
By all accounts, Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish commodore in the U.S. Navy, was both a principled and pugna... |
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184,98 |
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Tales of the Hasidim: V. 1-2 in 1v.
ISBN: 9780805209952 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This new paperback edition brings together volumes one and two of Buber's classic work Takes of the Hasidim, with a new foreword by Chaim Potok. Martin Buber devoted forty years of his life to collecting and retelling the legends of Hasidim. "Nowhere in the last centuries," wrote Buber in Hasidim and Modern Man, "has the soul-force of Judaism so manifested itself as in Hasidim... Without an iota being altered in the law, in the ritual, in the traditional life-norms, the long-accustomed arose in a fresh light and meaning." These marvelous tales--terse, vigorous, often...This new paperback edition brings together volumes one and two of Buber's classic work Takes of the Hasidim, with a new foreword by Chaim Po... |
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110,23 |