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Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Rivka is a twelve-year-old Jewish girl whose life is forever changed when her father suddenly dies. She is forced to move in with her traditional Jewish relatives and to attend their synagogue. Along the way, Rivka learns life lessons that take her faith to new a new level.
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Levertov was the quintessential romantic. She wanted to live vividly, intensely, passionately, and on a grand scale. Once she acclimated herself to America, the dreamy lyric poetry of her early years gave way to the joy and wonder of ordinary life. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, her poems began to engage the issues of her times. The crystalline and luminous poetry of her last years stands as final witness to a lifetime of searching for...
11) The kingdom
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the world. Gripped by the tale of a Messiah whose blood we drink and body we eat, the genre-defying author Emmanuel Carrère revisits the story of the early Church in his latest work. With an idiosyncratic and at times iconoclastic take on the charms and foibles of the Church fathers, Carrère ferries readers through his "doors" into the biblical narrative. Once...
Author
Series
Texts and studies in religion volume 17
Publisher
E. Mellen Press
Pub. Date
©1983
Language
English
16) A new spirit
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The dramatic biopic tells the story of two brothers, Jacob and Shmuel, whose religious differences shook their entire family.
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Language
English
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Description
By 1943, Anna Zadok, a Jewish Christian living in Prague, has lost everything, including her career as a concert violinist and almost her entire family. The only person she has left is her beloved grandmother, and she's determined to keep her safe. But protecting Grandmother won't be easy--not with a Nazi officer billeted below them. Anna must keep a low profile. There's one thing she refuses to give up, though. Despite instruments being declared...