Автор: Chaim Potok Название: The Chosen ISBN: 0141040777 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040776 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the 20th century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, but they use honesty with each other as a shield and it proves an impenetrable protection.
Автор: Walden Daniel Название: Conversations with Chaim Potok ISBN: 1578063469 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781578063468 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 26400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
One of America's most popular Jewish writers, Chaim Potok (b. 1929) is the author of such novels as The Chosen (1967), The Promise (1969), The Book of Lights (1981), and Davita's Harp (1985). Each of his novels explores the tension between tradition and modernity, and the clash between Jewish culture and contemporary Western civilization, which he calls core-to-core culture confrontation.
Although primarily known as a novelist, Potok is an ordained Conservative rabbi and a world-class Judaic scholar who has also published children's books, theological discourses, biographies, and histories.
Conversations with Chaim Potok presents interviews ranging from 1976 to 1999. Potok discusses the broad range of his writing and the deep influence of non-Jewish novels-in particular, Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man-on his work. Interviews bear witness to Potok's many other influences-Orthodox Jewish doctrine, Freudian psychoanalytical theory, Picasso's Guernica, and Jewish kabbalah mysticism.
Though labeled an American Jewish writer, Potok argues that Flannery O'Connor should then be called an American Catholic writer and John Updike an American Protestant writer. In his mind, editor Daniel Walden writes, just as Faulkner was a writer focused on a particular place, Oxford, Mississippi, . . . so Potok's territory was a small section of New York City.
Potok often explores conflict in his writings and in his interviews. Strict Jewish teachings deem fiction an artifice and therefore unnecessary, yet since the age of sixteen Potok has been driven to write novels. At the root of all of these conversations is Potok's intense interest in the turmoil between Jewish culture, religion, and tradition and what he calls Western secular humanism.
As he discusses his work, he continually includes broader issues, such as the state of Jewish literature and art, pointing out with pride and enthusiasm his belief that Jewish culture, in the twentieth century, has finally begun to have a significant role in producing and shaping the world's art and literature. Whether discussing the finer details of Talmudic textual analysis or his period of chaplaincy during the Korean War, Potok is articulate and philosophical, bringing deep consideration into what may seem small subjects. Although his novels and histories take place primarily in the recent past, the Chaim Potok that emerges from this collection is a writer deeply rooted in the tensions of the present.
Автор: Walden Daniel Название: Chaim Potok: Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition ISBN: 0271059826 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780271059822 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 40760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A collection of essays exploring the work of Jewish American novelist Chaim Potok, with emphasis on his efforts to reconcile the appeal of modernity and the pull of traditional Judaism.
Автор: Walden Islay Название: Walden`s Miscellaneous Poems .. ISBN: 135927006X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781359270061 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 37950.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Schwarz Leo Walder Название: The Redeemers: A Saga of the Years, 1945-1952 ISBN: 1258398966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258398965 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 48990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Walder Andrew G Название: China Under Mao ISBN: 0674975499 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674975491 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 27400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
China's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976--an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong.
"Walder convincingly shows that the effect of Maoist inequalities still distorts China today... It] will be a mind-opening book for many (and is a depressing reminder for others)." --Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator
"Andrew Walder's account of Mao's time in power is detailed, sophisticated and powerful...Walder takes on many pieces of conventional wisdom about Mao's China and pulls them apart...What was it that led so much of China's population to follow Mao's orders, in effect to launch a civil war against his own party? There is still much more to understand about the bond between Mao and the wider population. As we try to understand that bond, there will be few better guides than Andrew Walder's book. Sober, measured, meticulous in every deadly detail, it is an essential assessment of one of the world's most important revolutions." --Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement
Автор: Walder Liz Название: History, Design, and Legacy: Architectural Prizes and Medals ISBN: 191126527X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911265276 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 65520.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In 1846, in consultation with Queen Victoria, Thomas Phillip Robinson and Earl de Grey, first President of the Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London, established a gold medal that would be awarded for outstanding contribution in the field of architecture. This work is solely focused upon the history, design, and legacy of RIBA's Royal Gold Medal. It considers both the historical context and the future, along with winners, nominations, formal procedure and modern press campaigns, to place this British architectural medal alongside others awarded internationally. Sitting in a group of 25 other Royal Prize Medals, awarded by the monarch of the day, the RIBA Medal is unique in that it is the only one awarded by a professional body. This work brings together press statements announcing the winner(s); recipient speeches; obituary notices, letters of correspondence; minute books from RIBA Council and jury meetings; contemporary published and unpublished material;, press releases; face-to-face conversations with winners and supporters; and other documents in RIBA's archive. Living medallists were interviewed to reveal their views about the medal and how they perceived its value. Also contained is statistical analysis concentrating on aspects common to all winners, yet had never been considered as part of the criteria for winning the medal; gender, nationality, family background, age, health, profession, and posthumous winners. The political background of winners is also considered; looking at such agendas as refusals, partnerships, war, and royal presentations. The conclusion of this work will outline what has been achieved through collation of this data, and will offer a blueprint for a future medallists drawing on statistical analysis. It will also suggest qualities and achievements a future medallist needs to possess in order to succeed. History, Design, and Legacy was successfully submitted as a Doctoral thesis to the School of Architecture, University of Liverpool by Liz Walder MA FRSA MCIPR in September 2012.
Автор: Thompson Robert Walder Название: How to Lace ISBN: 1258458497 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258458492 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 25690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Gale Cengage Learning Название: A Study Guide for Chaim Potok`s My Name Is Asher Lev ISBN: 1375384961 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781375384964 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 13430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Walder Andrew G. Название: Agents of Disorder: Inside China`s Cultural Revolution ISBN: 067423832X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674238329 Издательство: Harvard University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 43240.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Why did the Chinese Communist Party state collapse so rapidly during the Cultural Revolution? Consulting over 2,000 local annals chronicling some 34,000 revolutionary episodes across China, Andrew Walder offers a new answer, showing how the army, brought in to quiet brewing rebellions, escalated the violence that took nearly 1.6 million lives.
