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"I always thought that building] bridges is the best job there is because roads go over bridges, and without roads we'd still be like savages. In short, bridges are like the opposite of borders, and borders are where wars start." --Primo Levi, 'La chiave a stella' (The Wrench)

Primo Levi (1919-1987) was one of Italy's most distinguished writers. A survivor of the Holocaust, his memoirs on the Nazi death camps (If This Is a Man and The Truce) are internationally recognised as among the most powerful and profound testimonies to have come out of the extermination of the European...

"I always thought that building] bridges is the best job there is because roads go over bridges, and without roads we'd still be like savages. In short, bridges are like the opposite of borders, and borders are where wars start." --Primo Levi, 'La chiave a stella' (The Wrench)

Primo Levi (1919-1987) was one of Italy's most distinguished writers. A survivor of the Holocaust, his memoirs on the Nazi death camps (If This Is a Man and The Truce) are internationally recognised as among the most powerful and profound testimonies to have come out of the extermination of the European...

Wenn Nike ihre Wohnung in Berlin-Mitte verlässt, muss sie am Stolperstein ihrer Urgroßmutter vorbei. Nike ist als Jüdin in Ostberlin aufgewachsen, jede Straße trägt Erinnerung, auch schmerzhafte. Als sie ein Jobangebot in Tel Aviv bekommt, nimmt sie an. Dort trifft sie Noam, er ist Journalist, seine Geschichte ist tief und komplex. Nike lässt ihn in ihr Leben, als ersten Mann seit Jahren. Doch zwischen ihr und Noam steht Noams Onkel Asher. Der ist vereinnahmend und brutal und setzt alles daran, dass Nike aus Noams Leben verschwindet. Furchtlos und berührend erzählt Mirna Funk...

Runners' vocabulary is full of acronyms like DNS for -Did Not Start- and DNF for -Did Not Finish, - but when Mirna Valerio stepped up to the starting line, she needed a new one: DNQ for -Did Not Quit.-

Valerio has tied on her running shoes all across the country, from the dusty back roads of central New Jersey to the busy Route 222 corridor in Pennsylvania to the sweltering deserts of Arizona. When you meet her on the trail, you might be surprised to see she doesn't quite fit the typical image of a long-distance runner. She's neither skinny nor white, and she's here to show just how...

5780 Jahre Denkgeschichte für die Zukunft

Wenn es heute um jüdisches Leben geht, dreht sich die Diskussion - insbesondere in Deutschland - meist um den Holocaust, den arabisch-israelischen Konflikt oder Antisemitismus. Dabei ist das Judentum die älteste der monotheistischen abrahamitischen Religionen, das bedeutet eine jahrtausendealte Kultur und Philosophie. Mirna Funk greift in ihrem aktuellen Buch acht Theorien der jüdischen Ideengeschichte auf, und bringt sie in Dialog mit dem »Jetzt«. Dazu gehört z. B. »lashon hara«, das Verbot der üblen Nachrede,...

The UNIMARC Authorities Format was designed in the early 1990s to allow the creation of authority and reference records for the management of controlled access points in a bibliographic database. Incorporated in this work is relevant information from other IFLA working groups and from UNIMARC users. It is published under the auspices of the IFLA Cataloguing Section. This is the 3rd, completely updated and enlarged edition.

This book analyzes the ways in which women were viewed by men through a variety of literary and other discourses, from the Divine Comedy to the 20th century. A further dimension is provided by tracing the evolution of the cultural and social identity of women as perceived by women themselves.