Shalom: 37 books

Iconoclastes, hilarants et incroyablement touchants, les mémoires d'un jeune juif du New Jersey élevé dans la plus stricte tradition orthodoxe. Entre Chaïm Potok, Woody Allen et Philip Roth, un régal de drôlerie et d'émotion, un vrai morceau de bravoure contre tous les fondamentalismes religieux. Quand...

Practical advice and tools to help leaders at all levels elevate their skills What can truly set an organization apart? There is only one asset that offers guaranteed differentiation: leadership. Leadership is a deliberate act that requires effort but yields enormous payback. According to the...

At its best, educational television can provide children with enormous opportunities and can serve as a window to new experiences, enrich academic knowledge, enhance attitudes and motivation, and nurture social skills. This volume documents the impact of educational television in a variety of subject...

The Democratic Peace Thesis holds that democracies rarely make war on other democracies. Political scientists have advanced numerous theories attempting to identify precisely which elements of democracy promote this mutual peace, often hoping that Democratic Peace could be the final and ultimate antidote...

Cresciuto in una comunità ebrea ortodossa nello stato di New York, fra mille divieti e sotto la costante minaccia di un Dio vendicativo, Shalom Auslander ha fatto di tutto per affrancarsi da quell'ambiente, eppure si ritrova, anche da adulto, a lottare per scrollarsi di dosso la sua ossessione. Perché...

Après La Lamentation du prépuce et Attention : dieu méchant, le grand retour de Shalom Auslander avec un roman encore plus iconoclaste, provocateur et hilarant. Entre Woody Allen, Philip Roth et Franz Kafka, un régal de drôlerie et de profondeur sur la légitimité de l'art après l'Holocauste,...

Violent rabbis, lovelorn wives, a busy Grim Reaper, shame-filled simians, and one seriously angry deity populate this humorous and disquieting collection. Shalom Auslander's stories in Beware of God have the mysterious punch of a dream. They are wide ranging and inventive: A young Jewish man's inexplicable...

A New York Times Notable Book, and a “chaotic, laugh riot” (San Francisco Chronicle) of a memoir. Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up and was estranged from his community, his religion and its traditions, he could not find the path to a life...

“We find that the story of Abraham and Isaac rises almost spontaneously in the mind of one generation after another.... Constantly past and present react to and upon each other, and life is given an order, a coherence, by the themes which govern the Holy Scriptures and the reinterpretations of those...

The Yom Kippur War was a watershed moment in Israeli society and a national trauma whose wounds have yet to heal some four decades later. In the years following the war many studies addressed the internal and international political background prior to the war, attempting to determine causes and steps...

The Chief Commander’s DaughterAdored and valued by her father, Julliet Sabts is not the type of a girl you would easily find with your name in her heart let alone give you a minute’s respect. She is not only the most spoiled brat ever lived but an irresponsible one too, capable of snaring...

Ones and Threes is a short book that explores the odd frequency of their, Ones and Threes, arrival in every day life. At least mine. I'd love to hear if they are in yours as well.

Is there a need to remodel constructivism to be more politically attuned? Author Piki Ish-Shalom calls for an activist academy that engages society and the polity to prevent the watering down of democracy, while helping to create a space for criticism. In this book, he suggests several concrete measures...

Crossing the River is a personal memoir—and more. Against the backdrop of Lithuania’s occupation—first by the Red Army, next by the Germans, and then again by the Russians—it is a story reflected through the prism of a sharp-eyed young child, Shalom Eilati. His story starts in the occupied...