New Releases by Amos

Die Hauptfigur dieses Briefromans, der international renommierte Gelehrte Alexander Gideon, hat mit einer vergleichenden Studie zum Thema Faschismus von sich reden gemacht und verkörpert als problematischer Charakter eben den Typus, den er selber kritisch durchleuchtet. Ein leidvolles Porträt der israelischen Wirklichkeit, wäre da nicht Boas. Der Junge entwickelt sich zum hoffnungsvollen Neuling in dieser Welt, während seine Eltern noch die Black Box, den Flugschreiber ihrer abgestürzten Träume, entziffern.

"This book consists of six conversations between Amos Oz and Shira Hadad, who worked closely with Oz as the editor of his novel Judas. The interviews, which took place toward the end of Oz's life, about a decade after the publication of his memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness, capture the writer's thoughts and opinions on many of the subjects that occupied him throughout his life and career, including writing and creation, guilt and love, death and the afterlife. In the first interview, "A Heart Pierced by an Arrow," Oz discusses how he became a writer, along with his writing process and its attendant challenges. "Sometimes" explores Oz's reflections on men, women, and relationships across his experience and work. "A Room of Your Own" sketches his development as a writer on the kibbutz and his eventual decision to leave. In "When Someone Beats up Your Child," Oz discusses the critical reception of his work, and in "What No Writer Can Do" he describes his experience teaching literature, including his thoughts on contemporary modes of literary instruction. In the concluding piece, "The Lights Have Been Changing Without Us for a Long Time," he reflects on other writers and on changes he has observed in himself and others over time. The title comes from a passage in the first interview: Oz says, "What makes an apple? Water, earth, sun, an apple tree, and a bit of fertilizer. But it doesn't look like any of those things. It's made of them but it is not like them. That's how a story is: it certainly is made up of the sum of encounters and experiences and listening.""--

A Raid on the Red Sea is the thrilling, real-life tale of illegal gun-running in the Middle East. In this firsthand account, Amos Gilboa gives the harrowing details of the secret close-working relations between Israeli and American intelligence in the seizure of the Karine A ship, the most successful Israeli intelligence operation since the legendary Entebbe hostage rescue. At 0400 hours, January 3, 2002, two fast boats of Israel's naval commando unit closed in on the stern of the Palestinian Authority's Karine A. The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had clandestinely loaded its cargo: fifty-six tons of high-grade, long-range weapons destined for the Gaza Strip. The Israelis' plan to seize it went awry when they found nothing but a confused group of Egyptians, Jordanians, and Palestinians. Had they boarded the wrong ship? Was there going to be an international incident disgracing Israel? This drama has more than its share of plot twists. The story's hero, a low-level female intelligence analyst, was the first to grasp the grave danger posed by the Karine A. Analyzing piles of disinformation, she kept on the scent of the ship, tracking it from Egypt to Sudan to Dubai. Only through the joint efforts of Israeli and U.S. naval intelligence, Mossad and the CIA, was the ship stopped and calamity averted. Seizing the ship led to a fateful reorientation of U.S. policy regarding the Middle East with consequences to this day, from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the 2020 assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force chief Qasem Soleimani.

This is the original pilgrim allegory where a pilgrim tours through the world to find meaning, purposefulness and substantive living. Yet, even with the help of his guides, Mr. Ubiquitous and Mr. Delusion, he can only find vanity and violence in every involvement. Frustrated with Pilgrim's lack of decisiveness, his guides abandon him. At this lonely spot Pilgrim meets Christ and his life is transformed... God sends Pilgrim back to the world he just traversed to be light, truth and contrast to all who he might encounter.--Publisher.

“Superb… The first critical analysis of Israel written from within... It's a deliberate act of self-awareness, exploring how a people got where they are.” — Time “The most illuminating, even-handed, candid appraisal of the contemporary Jewish condition yet to appear” — Newsweek “[A] penetrating, profound, explosive essay-analysis of the Israelis and the Jews... Elon is that very rare writer of contemporary history who can sincerely and honestly see and sympathize with the irreconcilable forces of so suicidal a death-embrace as the Israeli-Arab struggle... a moving, enlightening, stimulating book... this book is a beacon.” — David Schoenbrun, The New York Times “Amos Elon should be praised... he has written the most acute, even-handed portrait yet of the perennially controversial Israelis... he has created a portrait that is as complex as it is palpable.” — Roger Jellinek, The New York Times “An instant bestseller in Hebrew, and in English from 1971, it became required reading in schools and mirrored the lives of Israelis.” — The Guardian “[A] superb book” — The Nation “Amos Elon’s The Israelis stands out as a uniquely valuable book” — Commentary Magazine

This book provides students, researchers, and practitioners of speechwriting with a unique insight in the theory, history, and practice of speechwriting. The combination of theory and practice with case studies from the United States and Europe makes this volume the first of its kind. The book offers an overview of the existing research and theory, analysing how speeches are written in political and public life, and paying attention to three central subjects of contemporary speechwriting: convincing characterization of the speaker, writing for the ear, and appealing with words to the eye. Chapters address the ethics and the functions of speechwriting in contemporary society and also deliver general instructions for the speechwriting process. This book is recommended reading for professional speechwriters wishing to expand their knowledge of the rhetorical and theoretical underpinnings of speechwriting, and enables students and aspiring speechwriters to gain an understanding of speechwriting as a profession.

The acclaimed author presents "three passionate lectures about the state of politics in Israel" in this "humorous, mournful, enraged, and uplifting" volume ( Kirkus). A National Jewish Book Award Finalist Israeli author Amos Oz has won numerous awards for his novels capturing the cultural and political complexities of his country, including the Frankfurt Peace Prize, the Primo Levi Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award. But these essays on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures, on the Jewish roots of humanism and the need for a secular pride in Israel, and on the geopolitical standing of Israel in the wider Middle East and internationally, "may contain his most urgent message yet." (Ruth Eglash, Washington Post). These essays were written, Oz states, "first and foremost" for his grandchildren: they are a patient, learned telling of history, religion, and politics, to be thumbed through and studied, clung to even, as we march toward an uncertain future. "Concise, evocative . . . Dear Zealots is not just a brilliant book of thoughts and ideas—it is a depiction of one man's struggle, who for decades has insisted on keeping a sharp, strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness." —David Grossman, winner of the Man Booker International Prize

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Fiction and reality merge inside the mind of a famous Israeli author in this "hilarious and profound . . . slyly philosophical novel" ( Booklist). In this novel, Amos Oz offers a prismatic portrait of the storytelling impulse, with an extended glimpse inside the mind of a celebrated, unnamed Author. On a stiflingly hot night, the Author is in Tel Aviv to give a reading from his new book. As his attention wanders, he begins to invent lives for the strangers he sees around him: here, a self-styled cultural guru, Yakir Bar-Orian Zhitomirski; there, a love-starved professional reader, Rochele Reznik; to say nothing of Ricky the waitress, the real object of his desires. Reality and fiction blend in this ingenious, poignant work by the author of A Tale of Love and Darkness, a winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award. "A fable on themes of sex, death and writing pitched somewhere between the fictional universes of JM Coetzee and Milan Kundera." — The Guardian "The witty and melancholy recorder of his country''s brilliant sufficiencies. . . . Now Oz takes an equally witty, equally melancholy look at his role as a writer." — Los Angeles Times "From the prodigious Oz comes a delightfully elusive . . . story of imagination, talent and the transitory nature of fame. . . . Stamped with Oz''s charm and graceful skill in creating rich characters." — Publishers Weekly

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings. He is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs, but after several years he marries and accepts his new existence. With the appearance of the television-handed ghostess, however, comes a possible route of escape. 'Tutuola ... has the immediate intuition of a creative artist working by spell and incantation.' V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman

An illuminating New Testament study depicts the power and beauty of language that speaks with the words of God and man. Words call man to battle or summon him to prayer. More and more, today man is analyzing his language and asking: What is the purpose of language? What do the words we speak mean? What is their religious significance? Dr. Wilder's extraordinary work attempts to answer these questions and, in particular, to study the qualities of the language that ushered in a new religion, the early Christian faith.

《爱与黑暗的故事》 It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. 《爱与黑暗的故事》是当今以色列最富影响力的作家阿摩司·奥兹的自传体长篇小说，一向被学界视为奥兹最优秀的作品。短短五年，便翻译成二十多种文字，曾夺得2005年“歌德文化奖”，2007年入围“国际布克奖”。小说以耶路撒冷做为主要背景，以娓娓动人的笔法向读者展示出百余年一个犹太家族的故事与民族历史，既带你走进一个犹太家庭，了解其喜怒哀乐；又使你走近一个民族，窥见其得失荣辱。

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: A " gorgeous, rueful collection of eight linked stories" capturing the collective dreams of Israel in the 1950s ( Chicago Tribune). These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterful profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the twentieth century. A devoted father who fails to challenge his daughter''s lover, an old friend, a man his own age; an elderly gardener who carries on his shoulders the sorrows of the world; a woman writing perversely poignant letters to her husband''s mistress. Each of these stories is a luminous human and literary study; together they offer an eloquent portrait of an idea, and of a charged and fascinating epoch. Award-winning writer Amos Oz, who spent three decades living on a kibbutz, is at home and at his best in this "lucid and heartbreaking" award-winning collection ( The Guardian). "Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pinpoint descriptions are pared to perfection . . . His people twitch with life." — The Scotsman "A collection of stories . . . that boasts the sense, scope and unity of a novel . . . Breathtaking." — Irish Examiner "A complex and melancholic vision of people struggling to transcend their individuality for the sake of mundanely idealist goals." — The Times Literary Supplement

From an acclaimed historian and social critic, a passionate and poignant history of German Jews from the mid-eighteenth century to the eve of the Third Reich As it's usually told, the story of the German Jews starts at the end, with their tragic demise in Hitler's Third Reich. Now, in this important work of historical restoration, Amos Elon takes us back to the beginning, chronicling a period of achievement and integration that at its peak produced a golden age second only to the Renaissance. Writing with a novelist's eye, Elon shows how a persecuted clan of cattle dealers and wandering peddlers was transformed into a stunningly successful community of writers, philosophers, scientists, tycoons, and activists. He peoples his account with dramatic figures: Moses Mendelssohn, who entered Berlin in 1743 through the gate reserved for Jews and cattle, and went on to become "the German Socrates"; Heinrich Heine, beloved lyric poet who famously referred to baptism as the admission ticket to European culture; Hannah Arendt, whose flight from Berlin signaled the end of the German-Jewish idyll. Elon traces how this minority-never more than one percent of the population-came to be perceived as a deadly threat to national integrity, and he movingly demonstrates that this devastating outcome was uncertain almost until the end. A collective biography, full of depth and compassion, The Pity of It All summons up a splendid world and a dream of integration and tolerance that, despite all, remains the essential ennobling project of modernity.

Although many books on terrorism and religious extremism have been published in the years since 9/11, none of them written by Western authors call for the curtailment of religious freedom and freedom of expression for the sake of greater security. Issues like torture, domestic surveillance, and unlawful detentions have dominated the literature in this area, but few, if any, major scholars have questioned the vast allowances made by Western nations for the freedoms of religion and speech. Freedom from Religion challenges the almost sacrosanct inviolability of these two civil liberties. By drawing the connection between politically-correct tolerance of extremist speech and the rise of terrorist activity, this book sets the context for its unique proposal that governments should introduce new limits on religious practice within their borders. To demonstrate the wisdom of this course, the author presents the disparate policies and security circumstances of five countries: the U.S., the UK, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Israel. The book benefits not just from the author's own counter-terrorism experience in Israel and the U.S. but also from an international advisory group of leading scholars from all five of the countries under review. This second edition includes significant new material analyzing the trial of Warren Jeffs, self-censorship in the face of religious sensitivity, religious extremism and violence in Israel, and the complicated tension in the Netherlands between speech and religion. In it, Guiora responds to public discussion and criticism provoked by the proposal presented in the first edition that governments impose limits on religious extremist practices and speech within their borders. In doing so, Guiora sheds new light on the existential and practical predicaments confronting civil democratic society: how much intolerance should the nation-state tolerate and to whom does government owe a duty.

Proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents a vision of a world that can be made to move toward peace as firmly as it has spiraled in recent years toward brutality and war. - from publisher information.

This intuitive yet rigourous introduction derives the core results of digital communication from first principles. Theory, rather than industry standards, motivates the engineering approaches, and key results are stated with all the required assumptions. The book emphasizes the geometric view, opening with the inner product, the matched filter for its computation, Parseval's theorem, the sampling theorem as an orthonormal expansion, the isometry between passband signals and their baseband representation, and the spectral-efficiency optimality of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). Subsequent chapters address noise, hypothesis testing, Gaussian stochastic processes, and the sufficiency of the matched filter outputs. Uniquely, there is a treatment of white noise without generalized functions, and of the power spectral density without artificial random jitters and random phases in the analysis of QAM. This systematic and insightful book, with over 300 exercises, is ideal for graduate courses in digital communication, and for anyone asking 'why' and not just 'how'.

"While the struggle for disability rights has transformed secular ethics and public policy, traditional Christian teaching has been slow to account for disability in its theological imagination. Amos Yong crafts both a theology of disability and a theology informed by disability. The result is a Christian theology that not only connects with our present social, medical, and scientific understanding of disability but also one that empowers a set of best practices appropriate to our late modern context"--Publisher description.

This book is a scholarly reader's edition of a volume that nineteenth-century American philosopher and educator A. Bronson Alcott had intended to publish as the culmination of his ministry of transcendental talk. This volume of transcripts of conversations conducted at various locations in New England and the Midwest has been made from unpublished manuscripts in the Alcott collection at Harvard University and Concord Free Library, as well as published, contemporary articles in The Radical, New York Daily Tribune, and Chicago Tribune. Alcott held conversations on broad aspects of human culture, on literature, on philosophical idealism, on women's role and accomplishments, on abolition--on a whole range of social, literary, and religious reforms. The book includes a preface, as well as an introduction to his career as a professional conversationalist and a glossary of names and terms.

The Pentecostal movement has had an incredible impact on the shape of worldwide Christianity in the past century. Estimates are that Pentecostals and charismatics make up approximately one-fourth of Christians worldwide, and the numbers are only expected to grow. With these developments comes the need for thoughtful Christians of all persuasions to better understand Pentecostal theology. In fact, Amos Yong believes that Pentecostal theology can be a great gift to the church at large. Yong presents a thoroughly Pentecostal theology of salvation, the church, the nature of God, and creation. He also provides a fascinating survey of the state of worldwide Pentecostalism, examining how Pentecostal theology is influencing Christian churches in other countries.

This novel is at once a haunting love story and a reflective portrait of place."--Jacket.

This book explores the ideology of Jewish identity not on the land but in texts of the modern classical heritage. this book also takes us into the minds of two major literary figures.

Amos Oz, Israel''s preeminent writer, once again displays his mastery of human nature as he spins a rich tapestry of character and political intrigue out of the birth of Israel. The year is 1947, the last days of the British mandate in Palestine, and 12-year-old Proffy is accused of treason for his friendship with a kindly British soldier.

Juif errant du XXe siècle, Elisha Pomerantz incarne toutes les fuites, toutes les quêtes d'une hypothétique Terre promise. Son périple, poétique mais tragiquement circulaire, le mène du fracas des canons nazis dévastant les forêts de Pologne au grondement des chars syriens sur les hauteurs du Golan. Aux fureurs humaines, Pomerantz, maître ès mathématiques et musicien, oppose son art. C'est en échappant en quelque sorte aux lois de la gravité qu'il fuit les Allemands, en résolvant un paradoxe essentiel qu'il est reçu dans le sein de la terre d'Israël avec sa femme enfin libérée des griffes de l'Ours russe. L'onirisme et l'ironie, la tragédie et la comédie s'entremêlent.

This collection brings together political, personal and literary essays by Israel s most celebrated living writer. Lively and undogmatic, Oz s compelling insight makes for consistently stimulating reading, while his commentary on Israel s cultural and political situation seems more relevant than ever in the light of recent events. These essays, which offer a unique perspective on the author s own experience and development, will win for Oz new readers, while delighting those already familiar with his writings.

Pour échapper à son existence étriquée, un homme se lève et s'en va, laissant tout derrière lui. L'histoire serait banale si ce départ n'avait pris les proportions d'une désertion. Car, en quittant le kibboutz où il est né, Jonathan Lifschitz, fils d'un des fondateurs de l'Etat d'Israël, lance en quelque sorte une gifle à la face des idéaux sionistes et socialistes de la génération dont il est issu. Cet univers de Kibboutznik, le bouillant Azaria Guitlin rêve au contraire de s'y faire admettre en étonnant ses aînés par sa culture et son intelligence. Entre ces deux hommes animés d'un mouvement contraire de s'y faire admettre en étonnant ses aînés par sa culture et son intelligence. Entre ces deux hommes animés d'un mouvement contraire, une femme, Rimona, va être le lien qui aidera chacun à trouver un juste repos. Autour d'eux, des personnages sages ou fous, humbles ou orgueilleux, dont Amos Oz nous fait partager les doutes et les espoirs dans un Israël sur lequel plane la menace de la guerre des Six jours.

"גיבור הספר פנתר במרתף הוא נער המכונה "פרופסור" מפני שאינו מפסיק לבדוק מילים, להפוך אותן, להרכיבן ולסדרן מחדש. בימים של חרדה ושל עוינות הדדית הוא מתיידד עם שוטר בריטי תימהני ומואשם על ידי חבריו בבגידה. בתוך כך הוא מגלה את עצמו מחדש, בודק, מהפך ומרכיב מחדש את עולמו, את יחסו להוריו, לאויב, ולעצמו. זהו סיפור עלילה מרתק, חכם ושובה לב, פרי עטו של אחד מבכירי הסופרים העבריים בימינו." -- מעטפת אחורית

Traduit dans plus de dix pays, Mon Michaël confirme tous les espoirs qu'avait fait naître le premier roman d'Amos Oz, Ailleurs peut-être. Il nous montre Hanna, qui, déçue par son mari, par ses amis, par la vie, devient peu à peu étrangère au monde qui l'entoure. Tout lui paraît atteint d'une implacable érosion à laquelle elle-même ne peut échapper. Dans son journal, qu'elle tient comme pour se prouver sa propre existence, fiction et réalité se mêlent. C'est à travers ces pages d'une langue admirable que nous la voyons s'enliser dans la nostalgie de son enfance en Palestine, dans des fantasmes où deux jumeaux arabes reflètent à la fois ses obsessions sexuelles et les terreurs d'un peuple qui ne peut vivre en paix. La guerre du Sinaï est proche. Labyrinthe de rues et de rocs, Jérusalem que cernent d'imprécises menaces, étouffe. Hanna a peur. Elle va entrer dans la guerre comme on sombre dans la mer. Ce bouleversant portrait de femme est aussi une remarquable analyse d'un pays toujours entre guerre et paix.

Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "magnificent", this moving novel is set in Israel just before the Six-Day War, and describes life on a kibbutz, where the founders of Israel and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. "(Oz''s) strangest, riskiest, and richest novel".--Washington Post Book World.

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