Exile And Return

Author : Jonathan Stökl,Caroline Waerzeggers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110419528

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Exile and Return by Jonathan Stökl,Caroline Waerzeggers Pdf

Many books of the Hebrew Bible were either composed in some form or edited during the Exilic and post-Exilic periods among a community that was to identify itself as returning from Babylonian captivity. At the same time, a dearth of contemporary written evidence from Judah/Yehud and its environs renders any particular understanding of the process within its social, cultural and political context virtually impossible. This has led some to label the period a dark age or black box – as obscure as it is essential for understanding the history of Judaism. In recent years, however, archaeologists and historians have stepped up their effort to look for and study material remains from the period and integrate the local history of Yehud, the return from Exile, and the restoration of Jerusalem’s temple more firmly within the regional, and indeed global, developments of the time. At the same time, Assyriologists have also been introducing a wide range of cuneiform material that illuminates the economy, literary traditions, practices of literacy and the ideologies of the Babylonian host society – factors that affected those taken into Exile in variable, changing and multiple ways. This volume of essays seeks to exploit these various advances.

Author : Elisabeth de Waal
Publisher : Picador
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250045799

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The Exiles Return by Elisabeth de Waal Pdf

WITH A FOREWORD BY EDMUND DE WAAL, AUTHOR OF THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES SET IN THE ASHES OF POST–SECOND WORLD WAR VIENNA, A POWERFUL, SUBTLE NOVEL OF EXILES RETURNING HOME FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER FLEEING HITLER'S DEADLY REIGN Vienna is demolished by war, the city an alien landscape of ruined castles, a fractured ruling class, and people picking up the pieces. Elisabeth de Waal's mesmerizing The Exiles Return is a stunningly vivid postwar story of Austria's fallen aristocrats, unrepentant Nazis, and a culture degraded by violence. The novel follows a number of exiles, each returning under very different circumstances, who must come to terms with a city in painful recovery. There is Kuno Adler, a Jewish research scientist, who is tired of his unfulfilling existence in America; Theophil Kanakis, a wealthy Greek businessman, seeking to plunder some of the spoils of war; Marie-Theres, a brooding teenager, sent by her parents in hopes that the change of scene will shake her out of her funk; and Prince "Bimbo" Grein, a handsome young man with a title divested of all its social currency. With immaculate precision and sensitivity, de Waal, an exile herself, captures a city rebuilding and relearning its identity, and the people who have to do the same. Mesmerizing and tragic, de Waal has written a masterpiece of European literature, an artifact revealing a moment in our history, clear as a snapshot, but timeless as well.

Author : Anne Golomb Hoffman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791405419

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Between Exile and Return by Anne Golomb Hoffman Pdf

This innovative study of the modern Hebrew writer, S. Y. Agnon, offers new insight into his literary transformations of Jewish themes and sources. With particular attention to Kafka, Hoffman situates Agnon in the context of twentieth-century literature and examines such central issues in Agnon’s art as the relationship of the literary text to traditions of sacred writings, the place of the book in culture, and the relationship of writing to the body.

Author : Mary Chamberlain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351503860

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Narratives of Exile and Return by Mary Chamberlain Pdf

In this original and compelling book, Mary Chamberlain explores the nature and meaning of migration for Barbadians who migrated to Britain and elsewhere. It is a unique oral and social history, based on life-story interviews across three or more generations of Barbadian families. Locating migration within the contemporary debate on modernity, Narratives of Exile and Return highlights the continuing role of migration in shaping the culture and history of Barbados. But it does more by providing post-modern theorizing with concrete national and ethnic settings.

Author : E. J. Patten
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442420335

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Return to Exile by E. J. Patten Pdf

On the eve of his twelfth birthday, Sky, who has studied traps, puzzles, science, and the secret lore of the Hunters of Legend, realizes his destiny as a monster hunter.

Author : Ann Mosely Lesch,Ian Lustick
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : 0812238745

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Exile and Return by Ann Mosely Lesch,Ian Lustick Pdf

The Israeli, Palestinian, and American contributors to this volume consider the catastrophic failure of the Oslo peace process and the years of bloody violence that ensued.

Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Palestine
ISBN : 0297774522

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Exile and Return by Martin Gilbert Pdf

Author : Malcolm Cowley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101662670

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Exile's Return by Malcolm Cowley Pdf

The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "The Lost Generation" are brought to life here by one of the group's most notable members. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Crowley, and many other writers "escaped" to Europe, some forever, some as temporary exiles. As Cowley details in this intimate, anecdotal portrait, in renouncing traditional life and literature, they expanded the boundaries of art.

Author : Raymond E. Feist
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061742033

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Exile's Return by Raymond E. Feist Pdf

Following Talon of the Silver Hawk and King of Foxes, here is the third exciting volume in the Conclave of Shadows trilogy from the acclaimed author “in the forefront of contemporary fantasy adventure” (Library Journal) Tal Hawkins has succeeded in wreaking revenge on Kaspar, the evil Duke of Olasko. Banished to a distant land, Kaspar begins a journey that will take him halfway around the world. Reduced to the role of farm-hand, then common laborer, the former ruler endures dangers and horrors beyond his imagination as he struggles to return home. But fate, or some dark agency, has more in store for the man who was once tyrant of Olasko. As he travels, he is chosen to play a part in a much larger drama, a struggle between good and evil ages in the making. Dark powers are again in motion, and Kaspar discovers the herald of a threat not seen across the land since the legendary Riftwar and Serpentwar: A dark empire in a distant realm seeks entrance to Midkemia and Kaspar has unwittingly discovered the key. Now it is up to this unlikely hero to save Midkemia from the threat of unconditional defeat—and utter destruction.

Author : Zainab Saleh
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503614123

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Return to Ruin by Zainab Saleh Pdf

This volume of exiles’ accounts “[uses] the stories as springboards to discussing Iraqi history, politicization, and diasporic experiences in depth” (International Journal of Middle East Studies). With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba’th coup and support of Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1980s, to the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 invasion and occupation. Zainab Saleh shares the experiences of Iraqis she met over fourteen years of fieldwork in Iraqi London—offering stories from an aging communist nostalgic for the streets she marched since childhood, a devout Shi’i dreaming of holy cities and family graves, and newly uprooted immigrants with fresh memories of loss, as well as her own. Focusing on debates among Iraqi exiles about what it means to be an Iraqi after years of displacement, Saleh weaves a narrative that draws attention to a once-dominant, vibrant Iraqi cultural landscape and social and political shifts among the diaspora after decades of authoritarianism, war, and occupation in Iraq. Through it all, this book illuminates how Iraqis continue to fashion a sense of belonging and imagine a future, built on the shards of these shattered memories.

Author : Donia Bijan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616207120

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The Last Days of Café Leila by Donia Bijan Pdf

“A glorious treat awaits you at the literary table of Donia Bijan.” —Adriana Trigiani Set against the backdrop of Iran’s rich, turbulent history, this exquisite debut novel is a powerful story of food, family, and a bittersweet homecoming. When we first meet Noor, she is living in San Francisco, missing her beloved father, Zod, in Iran. Now, dragging her stubborn teenage daughter, Lily, with her, she returns to Tehran and to Café Leila, the restaurant her family has been running for three generations. Iran may have changed, but Café Leila, still run by Zod, has stayed blessedly the same—it is a refuge of laughter and solace for its makeshift family of staff and regulars. As Noor revisits her Persian childhood, she must rethink who she is—a mother, a daughter, a woman estranged from her marriage and from her life in California. And together, she and Lily get swept up in the beauty and brutality of Tehran. Bijan’s vivid, layered story, at once tender and elegant, funny and sad, weaves together the complexities of history, domesticity, and loyalty and, best of all, transports readers to another culture, another time, and another emotional landscape.

Author : Jonathan Stökl,Caroline Waerzeggers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110419283

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Exile and Return by Jonathan Stökl,Caroline Waerzeggers Pdf

Many books of the Hebrew Bible were either composed in some form or edited during the Exilic and post-Exilic periods among a community that was to identify itself as returning from Babylonian captivity. At the same time, a dearth of contemporary written evidence from Judah/Yehud and its environs renders any particular understanding of the process within its social, cultural and political context virtually impossible. This has led some to label the period a dark age or black box – as obscure as it is essential for understanding the history of Judaism. In recent years, however, archaeologists and historians have stepped up their effort to look for and study material remains from the period and integrate the local history of Yehud, the return from Exile, and the restoration of Jerusalem’s temple more firmly within the regional, and indeed global, developments of the time. At the same time, Assyriologists have also been introducing a wide range of cuneiform material that illuminates the economy, literary traditions, practices of literacy and the ideologies of the Babylonian host society – factors that affected those taken into Exile in variable, changing and multiple ways. This volume of essays seeks to exploit these various advances.

Author : John Neubauer,Borbála Zsuzsanna Török
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783110217735

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The Exile and Return of Writers from East-Central Europe by John Neubauer,Borbála Zsuzsanna Török Pdf

This is the first comparative study of literature written by writers who fled from East-Central Europe during the twentieth century. It includes not only interpretations of individual lives and literary works, but also studies of the most important literary journals, publishers, radio programs, and other aspects of exile literary cultures. The theoretical part of introduction distinguishes between exiles, émigrés, and expatriates, while the historical part surveys the pre-twentieth-century exile traditions and provides an overview of the exilic events between 1919 and 1995; one section is devoted to exile cultures in Paris, London, and New York, as well as in Moscow, Madrid, Toronto, Buenos Aires and other cities. The studies focus on the factional divisions within each national exile culture and on the relationship between the various exiled national cultures among each other. They also investigate the relation of each exile national culture to the culture of its host country. Individual essays are devoted to Witold Gombrowicz, Paul Goma, Milan Kundera, Monica Lovincescu, Milos Crnjanski, Herta Müller, and to the "internal exile" of Imre Kertész. Special attention is devoted to the new forms of exile that emerged during the ex-Yugoslav wars, and to the problems of "homecoming" of exiled texts and writers.

Author : Bruce D. Chilton,Porton,Louis H. Feldman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004497719

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Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions by Bruce D. Chilton,Porton,Louis H. Feldman Pdf

The exiles of Israel and Judah cast a long shadow over the biblical text and the whole subsequent history of Judaism. Scholars have long recognized the importance of the theme of exile for the Hebrew Bible. Indeed, critical study of the Old Testament has, at least since Wellhausen, been dominated by the Babylonian exile of Judah. In 586 BC, several factors, including the destruction of Jerusalem, the cessation of the sacrificial cult and of the monarchy, and the experience of the exile, began to cause a transformation of Israelite religion which supplied the contours of the larger Judaic framework within which the various forms of Judaism, including the early Christian movement, developed. Given the importance of the exile to the development of Judaism and Christianity even to the present day, this volume delves into the conceptions of exile which contributed to that development during the formative period.

Author : Eugene W. Faulstich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0940887029

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History, Harmony, the Exile and Return by Eugene W. Faulstich Pdf