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  | | An Introduction to Judaism(1st Edition) (Introduction to Religion) by Nicholas De Lange, N. R. M. Paperback, 269 Pages, Published 2005 by Cambridge Univ Press, West Nyack, New York, U.S.A. ISBN-13: 978-0-521-46624-0, ISBN: 0-521-46624-5 "This book offers a full and lucid account of Judaism and the Jewish people. Written for Jews and non-Jews alike, whether students, teachers, or general interest readers, the book brings out the extraordinary richness and variety of Judaism: its historical depth, and the vigor and endurance of its traditions--in the home, in the synagogue, in its literature, in individual and community life. It contains illustrative tables and maps, a fu ..." |
 | | Judaism(2nd Edition) (OPUS) by Nicholas De Lange, Judaism 2/E - Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2003 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925297-8, ISBN: 0-19-925297-1 "In this thoroughly revised new edition, Nicholas de Lange examines the basic elements of Judaism, both as a religion and a way of life. Assuming no prior knowledge, the book opens with an account of the Jewish people and the main lines of its history. The following eight chapters are structured around this historical framework and focus on the different strands that make up the fabric of Judaism. The Torah and tradition, worship, the Bi ..." |
 | | The Penguin Dictionary of Judaism(1st Edition) The Definitive Guide to Understanding the Jewish World (Penguin Reference Library) by Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-101847-8, ISBN: 0-14-101847-X "The definitive resource on JudaismThis is a remarkable feat of reference scholarship by renowned Cambridge professor and translator, Nicholas de Lange. With an approachable A to Z format, the book covers everything from Jewish traditions and biographical entries on key historical figures to theology, religious law and practice, and the history of Jewish thought. Each entry is presented with clarity, precision, and authority. With extens ..." |
 | | An Introduction to Judaism(2nd Edition) (Introduction to Religion) by Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2010 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-73504-9, ISBN: 0-521-73504-1 "There is no word for "religion" in Hebrew. The Christian-informed model of religion which focuses its examination on the two poles of public practice and private faith is vastly ill-suited to a study of Judaism. Quite rightly then, notes Nicholas de Lange in An Introduction to Judaism: "There is a Jewish religion... But it would be unrealistic to maintain that it is the Jewish religion that unites the Jewish people." De Lange's first t ..." |
 | | Introduction to Religion(2nd Edition) An Introduction to Judaism (Hardback) by Nicholas De Lange Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-51350-0, ISBN: 0-521-51350-2 "In this new edition contemporary Judaism is presented in all its rich diversity, including both traditional and modern theologies as well as secular forms of Jewish identity." |
 | | A Tale of Love and Darkness(1st Edition) by Mr Amos Oz, Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2005 by Mariner Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603252-0, ISBN: 0-15-603252-X "Winner of the National Jewish Book Award International Bestseller "[An] ingenious work that circles around the rise of a state, the tragic destiny of a mother, a boy’s creation of a new self." — The New Yorker A family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. A Tale of Love and Darkness is the story of a boy who grows up in war-torn Jerusalem, in a ..." |
 | | Panther in the Basement(1st Edition) by Amos Oz, Nicholas De Lange Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 1997 by Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-100287-0, ISBN: 0-15-100287-8 "From “a great and true voice of our time” (Washington Post Book World), comes this story of Proffy, a twelve-year-old living in Palestine in 1947. When Proffy befriends a member of the occupying British forces who shares his love of language and the Bible, he is accused of treason by his friends and learns the true nature of loyalty and betrayal. Translated by Nicholas de Lange." |
 | | Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages(1st Edition) by Colette Sirat, Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2008 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-09023-0, ISBN: 0-521-09023-7 "Hebrew manuscripts are our most important source of knowledge about Jewish intellectual, religious and everyday life in the Middle Ages, and anyone wishing to engage with medieval Jewish history needs to know about the manuscripts themselves, how to study them, and the literary genres to which they belong. Colette Sirat offers a comprehensive overview of these subjects in this illustrated introduction to Hebrew manuscript culture. This ..." |
 | | Preliminaries (Hebrew Classics S.) by S. Yizhar, Dan Miron, Nicholas De Lange Hardcover, 305 Pages, Published 2007 by Toby Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59264-190-1, ISBN: 1-59264-190-3 "After a silence of almost 30 years since his Stories of a Plain, Yizhar reasserted his position as the greatest living master of Hebrew prose with Preliminaries. Strongly autobiographical, Preliminaries progresses frame by frame, showing a boy growing up in a Jewish farming community in Palestine and in the young city of Tel Aviv between the years 1917 and 1930. The boy's sensual experience, his most primary, embryonic grasp ..." |
 | | The Same Sea(1st Edition) by Amos Oz, Nicholas De Lange Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2001 by Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-100572-7, ISBN: 0-15-100572-9 "From the internationally acclaimed Israeli author, a unique novel in verse that will take its place among the great books of our time. The Same Sea is Amos Oz's most adventurous and inventive novel, the book by which he would like to be remembered. This is Oz free of convention--literary and otherwise. Prose leads to poetry, poetry to prose. The cast of characters ranges from a prodigal son to a widowed father who has taken in his son's ..." |
 | | Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages(1st Edition) by Colette Sirat, Nicholas De Lange Hardcover, 366 Pages, Published 2002 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-77079-8, ISBN: 0-521-77079-3 "Hebrew manuscripts are our most important source of knowledge about Jewish intellectual, religious and everyday life in the Middle Ages, and anyone wishing to engage with medieval Jewish history needs to know about the manuscripts themselves, how to study them, and the literary genres to which they belong. Colette Sirat offers a comprehensive overview of these subjects in this illustrated introduction to Hebrew manuscript culture. This ..." |
 | | Unto Death(1st Edition) Crusade and Late Love (2 Novellas) by Mr Amos Oz, Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 1978 by Houghton Mifflin Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-15-693170-0, ISBN: 0-15-693170-2 "“Brilliant and insistent . . . The prose is sharp as a cameo, simple yet compelling, smoky, precise, lustrous, eerie.” — Boston Sunday GlobeHere Amos Oz captures the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews have lived, died, and struggled for understanding. In Crusade, a band of soldiers journeys toward the Holy Land, killing any Jews they encounter; but soon the Crusaders face their own reckoning, as disease and deprivation take their tol ..." |
 | | Hebrew Scholarship and the Medieval World(Reprint) by Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 262 Pages, Published 2011 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-17266-0, ISBN: 0-521-17266-7 "This book brings together specially commissioned contributions by leading scholars from around the world, who focus on the place of Hebrew scholarship in the Middle Ages. Hebrew language is at the heart of the volume, but beyond that there is a specific focus on scholarly investigation and writing, interpreted in the broad sense to include not only linguistic study pursued for its own sake but also as applied in other areas, such as bib ..." |
 | | An Introduction to Judaism (Introduction to Religion) by Nicholas De Lange Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2000 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-46073-6, ISBN: 0-521-46073-5 "This book offers a full and lucid account of Judaism and the Jewish people. Written for Jews and non-Jews alike, whether students, teachers, or general interest readers, the book brings out the extraordinary richness and variety of Judaism: its historical depth, and the vigor and endurance of its traditions--in the home, in the synagogue, in its literature, in individual and community life. It contains illustrative tables and maps, a fu ..." |
 | | Judas(1st Edition) by Amos Oz, Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-78470-195-6, ISBN: 1-78470-195-5 "International Bestseller Winner of the International Literature Prize Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize A New York Times Editors’ Choice “[A] magnificent novel . . . Oz pitches the book’s heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last.” — New York Times Book Review “Scintillating . . . An old-fashioned novel of ideas that is strikingly and compellingly modern.” — Observer Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a ..." |
 | | Khirbet Khizeh A Novel by Yizhar Smilansky, Yaacob Dweck, Nicholas De Lange, David Shulman Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2014 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53556-8, ISBN: 0-374-53556-6 ""Exhilarating . . . How often can you say about a harrowing, unquiet book that it makes you wrestle with your soul?" --Neel Mukherjee, The Times (London)It's 1948 and the Arab villagers of Khirbet Khizeh are about to be violently expelled from their homes. A young Israeli soldier who is on duty that day finds himself battling on two fronts: with the villagers and, ultimately, with his own conscience. Published just months after the ..." |
 | | Judaism (An OPUS Book) by Nicholas De Lange Hardcover, 164 Pages, Published 1986 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-219198-4, ISBN: 0-19-219198-5 "What is Judaism? What is the Jewish creed? Most people--even those who call themselves Jews--would be hard-pressed to answer this question. The reason, according to Nicholas de Lange, is that the very idea of a religion has been artificially imposed on Judaism. "The term 'religion' has been foreign to Judaism until relatively recently," he writes, "when the dialogue with Christianity has compelled Jews to recognize and use it. Inde ..." |
 | | Scenes from Village Life(Reprint) by Mr Amos Oz, Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2012 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-547-84019-2, ISBN: 0-547-84019-5 "“Scenes from Village Life is like a symphony, its movements more impressive together than in isolation. There is, in each story, a particular chord or strain; but taken together, these chords rise and reverberate, evoking an unease so strong it’s almost a taste in the mouth . . . Scenes from Village Life is a brief collection, but its brevity is a testament to its force. You will not soon forget it.”—New York Times Book Review Stran ..." |
 | | Scenes from Village Life(1st Edition) by Mr Amos Oz, Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-547-48336-8, ISBN: 0-547-48336-8 "“Informed by everything, weighed down by nothing, this is an exquisite work of art.” —The ScotsmanStrange things are happening in Tel Ilan, a century-old pioneer village. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging at night. Could it be their tenant, that young Arab? But then the young Arab hears the digging sounds too. Where has the mayor’s wife gone, vanished without trace, her note sa ..." |
 | | My Michael(1st Edition) by Mr Amos Oz, Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2005 by Mariner Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603160-8, ISBN: 0-15-603160-4 "Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: November 2005 Pages: 264 Publisher: Mariner Books One of Amos Oz's Earliest and MOST Famous novels My Michael created a Sensation upon its INITIAL PUBLICATION AS a writer of international Acclaim in 1968 and ESTABLISHED Oz. Like all great books. it has an enduring power to surprise and mesmerize. Set in 1950s Jerusalem. My Michael tells the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and ..." |
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