Return Of The Exiles

Author : Elisabeth de Waal
Publisher : Picador
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Malcolm Cowley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : 44,7 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 : Jonathan Stökl,Caroline Waerzeggers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Leonard Jay Greenspoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Israel
ISBN : 1557538751

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Next Year in Jerusalem by Leonard Jay Greenspoon Pdf

Proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish civilization, the Harris Center for Judaic Studies, and the Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, October 30-31, 2016.

Author : Renald Showers
Publisher : Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0915540800

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What on Earth Is God Doing? by Renald Showers Pdf

Walk from creation to eternity in a way guaranteed to change your view of the world. You'll finally understand the war Satan is waging against God and how that conflict has affected history, including the persecution of Jewish people and Christians.

Author : Ann Mosely Lesch,Ian Lustick
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Bruce D. Chilton,Porton,Louis H. Feldman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Donia Bijan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Mary H. Herbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786936282

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Return of the Exile by Mary H. Herbert Pdf

With the dragon overlords dead and the last of the dragon eggs seized by the Tarnak conquerors, Linsha Majere, herself a captive, must find a way to preserve the last of the dragon eggs and banish the dark forces before Southern Ansalon is destroyed, with her only hope being the power of the bond of knight to dragon. Original.

Author : Zainab Saleh
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Fawaz Turki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032422266

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Exile's Return by Fawaz Turki Pdf

Further - much to his surprise - Turki is not immune to the sting of the bitter anti-American attitudes he encounters in the West Bank.

Author : Oded Lipschitz,Manfred Oeming
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781575061047

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Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period by Oded Lipschitz,Manfred Oeming Pdf

In July 2003, a conference was held at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), focusing on the people and land of Judah during the 5th and early 4th centuries B.C.E.-- the period when the Persian Empire held sway over the entire ancient Near East. This volume publishes the papers of the participants in the working group that attended the Heidelberg conference. Participants whose contributions appear here include: Y. Amit, B. Becking, J. Berquist, J. Blenkinsopp, M. Dandamayev, D. Edelman, T. Eskenazi, A. Fantalkin and O. Tal, L. Fried, L. Grabbe, S. Japhet, J. Kessler, E. A. Knauf, G. Knoppers, R. Kratz, A. Lemaire, O. Lipschits, H. Liss, M. Oeming, L. Pearce, F. Polak, B. Porten and A. Yardeni, E. Stern, D. Ussishkin, D. Vanderhooft, and J. Wright. The conference was the second of three meetings; the first, held at Tel Aviv in May 2001, was published as Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period by Eisenbrauns in 2003. A third conference focusing on Judah and the Judeans in the Hellenistic era was held in the summer of 2005, at Münster, Germany, and will also be published by Eisenbrauns.

Author : Bethany Adams
Publisher : AW Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780997532043

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Exiled by Bethany Adams Pdf

Author : Ehud Ben Zvi,Christoph Levin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110221787

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The Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and its Historical Contexts by Ehud Ben Zvi,Christoph Levin Pdf

In ancient Israelite literature Exile is seen as a central turning point within the course of the history of Israel. In these texts “the Exile” is a central ideological concept. It serves to explain the destruction of the monarchic polities and the social and economic disasters associated with them in terms that YHWH punished Israel/Judah for having abandoned his ways. As it develops an image of an unjust Israel, it creates one of a just deity. But YHWH is not only imagined as just, but also as loving and forgiving, for the exile is presented as a transitory state: Exile is deeply intertwined with its discursive counterpart, the certain “Return”. As the Exile comes to be understood as a necessary purification or preparation for a renewal of YHWH’s proper relationship with Israel, the seemingly unpleasant Exilic conditions begin, discursively, to shape an image of YHWH as loving Israel and teaching it. Exile is dystopia, but one that carries in itself all the seeds of utopia. The concept of Exile continued to exercise an important influence in the discourses of Israel in the Second Temple period, and was eventually influential in the production of eschatological visions.