Share

A Journey to the End of the Millennium

2012-07-05 Fiction
Download A Journey to the End of the Millennium PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2012-07-05
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 50X/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis A Journey to the End of the Millennium by : A.B. Yehoshua

Download or read book A Journey to the End of the Millennium written by A.B. Yehoshua. This book was released on 2012-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 999 A.D. Christians in Europe are preparing themselves for the arrival of the Messiah at the millennium and religious fervour is in the air. Sailing from the North African port of Tangier to a small, distant town called Paris are a Jewish merchant, Ben Attar, his two beloved wives and his Arab partner, Abu Lutfi. They have come for a meeting with their third partner the widower, Raphael Abulafia who has been forced to turn his back on their previous trading partnership because of his new wife's distrust of the dual marriage of Ben Attar. The latter turns this annual trading voyage into a personal quest to legitimise his second wife, restore his honour and, equally important, to show others the richness and humanity in his way of life. A confrontation ensues between people of different cultures whose ways of living and loving are so different, and yet who are of the same religion, believe in the same God and in the same morality. Thus we enter a profound human drama whose moral conflicts of fidelity and desire resonate deeply with our times. A. B. Yehoshua has imaginatively recreated a medieval world with its merchant trade in great depth and sensuous detail. His evocation of one man's love is lyrical, erotic even, and A Journey to the End of the Millennium will rank with the best of Yehoshua's work.

A Journey to the End of the Millennium

2000-05-01 Fiction
Download A Journey to the End of the Millennium PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2000-05-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 058/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis A Journey to the End of the Millennium by : A. B. Yehoshua

Download or read book A Journey to the End of the Millennium written by A. B. Yehoshua. This book was released on 2000-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A masterpiece” about faith, race, and morality at a medieval turning point, from the National Jewish Book Award winner and “Israeli Faulkner” (The New York Times). It’s edging toward the end of the year 999 when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant from Tangiers, takes two wives—an act of bigamy that results in the moral objections of his nephew and business partner, Raphael Abulafia, and the dissolution of their once profitable enterprise of importing treasures from the Atlas Mountains. Abulafia’s repudiation triggers a potentially perilous move by Attar to set things right—by setting sail for medieval Paris to challenge his nephew, and his nephew’s own pious wife, face to face. Accompanied by a Spanish rabbi, a Muslim trader, a timid young slave, a crew of Arab sailors, and his two veiled wives, Attar will soon find himself in an even more dangerous battle—with the Christian zealots who fear that Jews and others they see as immoral infidels will impede the coming of Jesus at the dawn of a new millennium. From the author of A Woman in Jerusalem, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, this is an insightful portrait of a unique moment in history as well as the timeless issues that still trouble us today. “The end of the first millennium comes to represent only one of many breaches—between north and south, Christians and Jews, Jews and Muslims, Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews, men and women—across which A. B. Yehoshua's extraordinary novel delivers us.” —The New York Times

מסע אל תום האלף

1999 Charlemagne type
Download מסע אל תום האלף PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 1999
Genre : Charlemagne type
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis מסע אל תום האלף by : Abraham B. Yehoshua

Download or read book מסע אל תום האלף written by Abraham B. Yehoshua. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Journey to the End of the Millennium

1999 Artists' books
Download A Journey to the End of the Millennium PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 1999
Genre : Artists' books
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis A Journey to the End of the Millennium by : אברהם ב יהושע

Download or read book A Journey to the End of the Millennium written by אברהם ב יהושע. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theological Stains

2020-11-20 Music
Download Theological Stains PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2020-11-20
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 663/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Theological Stains by : Assaf Shelleg

Download or read book Theological Stains written by Assaf Shelleg. This book was released on 2020-11-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theological Stains offers the first in-depth study of the development of art music in Israel from the mid-twentieth century to the turn of the twenty-first. In a bold and deeply researched account, author Assaf Shelleg explores the theological grammar of Zionism and its impact on the art music written by emigrant and native composers. He argues that Israeli art music, caught in the tension between a bibliocentric territorial nationalism on the one hand and the histories of deterritorialized Jewish diasporic cultures on the other, often features elements of both of these competing narratives. Even as composers critically engaged with the Zionist paradigm, they often reproduced its tropes and symbols, thereby creating aesthetic hybrids with 'theological stains.' Drawing on newly uncovered archives of composers' autobiographical writings and musical sketches, Shelleg closely examines the aesthetic strategies that different artists used to grapple with established nationalist representations. As he puts the history of Israeli art music in conversation with modern Hebrew literature, he weaves a rich tapestry of Israeli culture and the ways in which it engaged with key social and political developments throughout the second half of the twentieth century. In analyzing Israeli music and literature against the backdrop of conflicts over territory, nation, and ethnicity, Theological Stains provides a revelatory look at the complex relationship between art and politics in Israel.

You may also like...