Israel: 385 books

Talks on the Parasha recreates the warm, intimate atmosphere of a personal encounter with Rabbi Steinsaltz. While providing insights that are meaningful for the Jewish collective, it speaks to every individual as well. To Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, the Torah contains within it many worlds....

Author Israel Zangwill best typifed the comic spirit of London's Jewish ghetto by immortalizing the schnorrer (beggar) — in particular, the character of Manasseh Bueno Barzillai Azevedo da Costa, a Sephardic panhandler who developed begging into a fine art. The robust and often hilarious tale tells...

I cannot pretend that my ambition to paint the Man of Sorrows had any religious inspiration, though I fear my dear old dad at the Parsonage at first took it as a sign of awakening grace. And yet, as an artist, I have always been loath to draw a line between the spiritual and the beautiful; for I have...

This book is beautiful. Not beautiful like lovely writing in particular, though certainly israel zangwill wrote well, but beautiful in intricacy and fun and a level of cleverness so profound it boggles the mind. I suspect that the king of the schnorrers impact on later jewish humorists has been vastly...

UN MERAVIGLIOSO RACCONTO TRATTO DA UNA PRIMAVERA TARDIVA, LA RACCOLTA DI RACCONTI INEDITI DI ISRAEL J. SINGER.Come definireste una storia lineare, inventata, che racconta vita, morte (non sempre) e miracoli di una persona dalle caratteristiche precise: aspetto, età, abitudini, problemi matrimoniali,...

Joseph Zabara has only in recent times received the consideration justly due to him. Yet his "Book of Delight," finished about the year 1200, is more than a poetical romance. It is a golden link between folk literature and imaginative poetry. The style is original, and the framework of the...

Questions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas. Science today is more a process of collaboration than moments of individual “eurekas.” This book recreates that kind of synergy by offering a series of interconnected...

Authors do two thing best; write and read…. "If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."---Steven King, bestselling writer. However, in this age and time, prevailing circumstances have added a third item to the shopping...

Madame W is Leila Israel Weisbergs collection of family stories spanning more than a century. Early in the 20th Century her parents came to America as children from Eastern Europe. This book of memories begins with the story of their courageous journey across a continent and an ocean to a new beginning....

Most people know little about the Hebrew Bible. They know what they were taught in grade school and perhaps what they hear in sermons. But sermons are designed to teach moral lessons, not disclose the Bible's true meaning. In this book, Dr. Israel Drazin, a noted Bible scholar, reveals insights from...

From the time he was a little boy, born the second of six siblings, D. L. Israel found his place as a leader. He was raised by a single mother on welfare and worked throughout high school to help his family. By the time he was in his midtwenties, he had saved $10,000, purchased a home, and established...

People that gain rest in this life possesses some secrets that are available to all but possibly out of lack in knowledge about it or carelessness some did not or refuse to make use of those secrets or principles. The consequence has being pain and agony in their old age. Why would a couple be paying...

Every serious business person places great value on his or her customers. Why? Because they are great assets. What is an asset? Asset is somebody or something useful and contributes to the success of something. Assets are valuable things. So customers are value and valuables that add value to you,...

God’s Favour For Prosperity What is favour?  What does it do?  How important is it in a man’s life?  This book tells us what favour truly is.  But according to the author, contrary to popular belief, God’s favour, not man’s skills or struggles, is what causes one to prosper in life.  This...