Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld remembers the Yom Kippur of his childhood surrounded by the mournful cries of his fellow worshippers, so it is not surprising that he grew up with an image of Yom Kippur as a purely solemn day.
A narrativa em primeira pessoa conta a historia de um sertanejo nordestino, simples e tranquilo, que de repente passa a receber as visitas periódicas de uma entidade feminina ,que tem como objetivo ensinar lhe 'as verdades da vida' O auge da narrativa ocorre quando ele, não suportando a pressão da esposa, acaba se separando dela para seguir a 'sua deusa'.
This volume explores how different forms of Christianity shape people's visions of pasts and futures, and how the transcendent is brought into human time.
Das Arbeitsfeld des „Spiritual Care“ entwickelt sich interdisziplinär an den Schnittstellen von Medizin, Pflege, Sozialer Arbeit, Psychotherapie, Seelsorge und anderen relevanten Bereichen.
Es war ein fataler Fehler von Wissenschaftlern und politischen Beobachtern, in den islamistischen Bewegungen Vertreter einer scheinbar „authentischen“ Modernisierung zu sehen und dadurch an der Delegitimierung der säkularen Kräfte in den muslimischen Ländern und Milieus als „kulturfremde Eliten“ mitzuwirken.
Stanley Aylett's remarkable account of six years' service as a front-line surgeon with the British Army is that rare thing: a complete narrative from the first week of the Second World War until months after the fi nal capitulation of Nazi Germany.
Zwischen 1933-1941 verließ knapp die Hälfte der aufgrund ihrer jüdischen Wurzeln verfolgten Münchner Bürger ihre Heimatstadt, um sich im Ausland ein neues Leben aufzubauen.
Als eine der großen Veteranenorganisationen und rechte Sammlungsbewegung war der "Stahlhelm – Bund der Frontsoldaten" ein bedeutender politischer Akteur der Weimarer Republik.
This passionate polemic addresses itself to the ultimate questions of Jewish destiny and proclaims the primacy of Israel as the locus of the Jewish future.
This collection of papers presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference explores the complex relations of religion and state in history, language and society of Altaic cultures, reflecting the unique interdisciplinary approach of the PIAC.
This handbook explores a diverse range of artistic and cultural responses to modern conflict, from Mons in the First World War to Kabul in the twenty-first century.
This book explores the strong links between sustainability and the humanities, which go beyond the inclusion of social sciences in discussions on sustainability, and offers a holistic discussion on the intellectual and moral aspects of sustainable development.
This book explores everyday realities of young Muslim women in Britain, who are portrayed as antithetical to the British way of life in media and political discourse.
The Holocaust the murder of approximately six million Jewish men, women and children by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in the Second World War was a crime of unprecedented and unparalleled proportions, perpetrated in innumerable locations across the European continent.
This book addresses the challenge of providing for the free exercise of religion without allowing religious exercise by some individuals and groups to impinge upon the conscientious convictions of others.
This book focuses on the strict orthodox Jewish (Haredi) community, which comprises many sects whose communal identity plays a central role in everyday life and spatial organization.
A comprehensive and detailed illustrated examination of the development and combat performance of US battle tanks from World War I to the end of World War II.
Through the analysis of 10 oral witness testimonies of local residents and a previously undocumented letter correspondence between a Jewish Holocaust survivor and her gentile friend, The Jewish Purging of a Small German Town provides new insights into how the Nazi persecution of the Jewish people unfolded in small towns and communities around Germany.
There is an academic cottage industry on the "e;Jewish Freud,"e; aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought.
This edited volume offers a new critical approach to the study of Zionist history and Israeli-Palestinian relations, based on the encounter between history and anthropology.
This edited volume offers a new critical approach to the study of Zionist history and Israeli-Palestinian relations, based on the encounter between history and anthropology.
An "e;amazingly detailed"e; and "e;inspiring"e; account of the only daytime air expedition to help Polish freedom fighters during World War II (Books Monthly).
Dieses Buch bietet eine Untersuchung von Gershom Scholems frühen Schriften zur Frage der Sprache und entwickelt eine neue Methodologie, um Texte des modernen jüdischen Denkens in Bezug auf Gender-Fragen zu lesen.
This book aims to present a theoretical study of the concept of collaboration during the Second World War, which is understood as social behaviour and actions within specific conditions of military occupation, based on the theories of social behaviour and action by Max Weber and the theory of action by Pierre Bourdieu.
In this work, respected scholar Andrew Lester discusses and incorporates the newest behavioral research models, contemporary biblical and theological scholarship, constructivist philosophy, and narrative theory into a comprehensive pastoral theology of anger.
