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Autobiografický román starší sestry dvou slavných bratrů – Isaaca Bashevise a Israela Joshuy Singerových – vyšla poprvé v jidiš v roce 1936, později byla autorčiným synem přeložena do angličtiny. Je to patrně jediný román, který dává čtenářům nahlédnout do života ženy vyrůstající v židovské rodině v Polsku na počátku dvacátého století, kdy svět tradičního štetlu zvolna ustupoval modernímu životu. Stejně jako její bratři i Esther popisuje svět zalidněný rabíny a studenty ješivy, gangstery i socialistickými rebely, pouličními...

Despite political upheavals under Muslim domination in the Middle Ages, Palestine was a center of great artistic activity recognized for its incredible dynamism. Its unique contribution to the Islamic "macrocosm," however, never became the subject of extensive study. Numerous archeological excavations on this relatively small geographic area reveal the existence of extremely well preserved monuments of high architectural quality and exceptional religious value. This is what Myriam Rosen-Ayalon exposes in this thorough introduction to Palestinian Islamic art and archeology. In chronological...

The Dance of the Demons is a major literary rediscovery. In her daring autobiographical novel, originally published in Yiddish as Der Sheydim Tanz in 1936, Kreitman vividly and lovingly depicts the world of Polish shtetls and Jewish Warsaw that many have come to know through the books of her famous literary brothers, Israel Joshua and Nobel-Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer. Replete with rabbis, yeshiva students, beggars, farmers, gangsters, seamstresses, and socialists, this world looks radically different through the eyes of a sister, who was I. B. Singer's inspiration for the story...