Halban: 31 books

Cover of Herzl
by Steven Beller
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012

Theodor Herzl (1860—1904) was the Paris correspondent of the Austrian Neue Freie Presse when he took a momentous decision in June 1895: he would bring about the creation of a state for the Jews. In his attempt to realise this dream, he became the greatest figure of modern Jewish history and is today...
Cover of Heine
by Ritchie Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) is one of Germany's greatest writers. His agile mind and brilliant wit expressed themselves in lyrical and satirical poetry, travel writing, fiction, and essays on literature, art, politics, philosophy and history. He was a biting satirist, and a perceptive commentator on...
Cover of Pictures, Passions and Eye

Pictures, Passions and Eye

A Life at Sotheby's

by Michel Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013

Michel Strauss embarked on an enduring love affair at the age of six when he saw for the first time paintings by Manet, Monet and Degas: the passion aroused by these artists never left him. This passion, this 'eye' as he calls it led to his becoming Head of the Impressionist Department at Sotheby's...
Cover of Yasmine
by Eli Amir
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012

"I'm an Arab Jew. I listen to classical music in the morning and Arabic music in the evening." Surprisingly for someone so young, Nuri Imari (whose family we encountered in The Dove Flyer), is appointed advisor on Arab affairs to the Israeli government. With little guidance he is asked by...
Cover of Ahad Ha'am Elusive Prophet

Ahad Ha'am Elusive Prophet

Ahad Ha'am and the origins of Zionism

by Steven J Zipperstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012

An incisive biography of the guiding intellectual presence - and chief internal critic - of Zionism, during the movement's formative years between the 1880s and the 1920s. Ahad Ha'am ('One of the People') was the pen name of Asher Ginzberg (1856-1927), a Russian Jew whose life intersected nearly every...
Cover of Conversations with Isaiah Berlin
by Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011

An illuminating and witty dialogue with one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Ramin Jahanbegloo's interview with Isaiah Berlin grew into a series of five conversations which offer an intimate view of Berlin and his ideas. They include discussions on pluralism and liberty...
Cover of Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew
by Dan Vittorio Segre
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012

The author's childhood was spent in Fascist Italy of the 1920s and 1930s. Assimilated Jews, the family's relationship to their country was stronger than to their religion. Their subsequent fortunes and misfortunes were intricately tied to what would prove to be conflicting loyalties. Segre emerged...
Cover of Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment
by David Sorkin
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012

Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the premier Jewish thinker of his day and one of the best-known figures of the German Enlightenment, earning the sobriquet 'the Socrates of Berlin'. He was thoroughly involved in the central issue of Enlightenment religious thinking: the inevitable conflict between...
Cover of A Middle Eastern Affair
by Ellis Douek
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012

"Wherever I have found myself has seemed the proper place for me to be. I have never been an exile." When Ellis Douek was nine years old, his mother insisted that he take up embroidery - in case he decided to be a surgeon when he grew up. Of course she was right, as she always was, for he...
Cover of Community of Faith
by Jonathan Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

Chief Rabbi Emeritus Lord Jonathan Sacks evaluates of the role of the synagogue in Jewish life today. In it he explores the choices faced by religious leadership in the modern world, and the ways in which the synagogue embodies a living community of faith. His book Faith in the Future, described by...
Cover of A Rocky Road

A Rocky Road

Memoirs

by Abraham Levy, Simon Rocker
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017

Born into the 300-year-old Jewish community in Gibraltar, Abraham Levy spent his early years, which coincided with the Second World War, on the island of Madeira before returning to “The Rock”. There the family remained secure within a relatively observant community. By the age of eight he was...
Cover of Blood Libels
by Clive Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

"I am convinced, " says Jake Silkstone, the hypochondriac narrator of Clive Sinclair's still provocative novel, "that if Rabbi Nathan hadn't tried to rape Helga, our German au pair, during the course of my barmitzvah celebrations at the Café Royal on the evening of 21 May 1961, things...
Cover of A Persian Requiem
by Simin Daneshvar
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012

Tribal leaders in opposition to the government, the corruption of occupation, society torn apart by shifting political loyalties... this is the background to one woman's powerful story. A Persian Requiem is a powerful and evocative novel. Set in the southern Persian town of Shiraz in the last years...
Cover of The Reluctant Mullah
by Sagheer Afzal
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011

In a moment of idle curiosity, Musa tries on the modest garb of a Muslim woman to experience for himself what it's like to be veiled. While this causes much mirth among his fellow students at the Madrasah, the elders are not amused, viewing Musa's experimentation as a prank too far. Back at home he...
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