A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales
10 best books like A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales (Ruth Calderon): The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, The Weight of Ink, פתאום דפיקה בדלת, A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle, If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir, Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
| Author | David Wallace-Wells |
| ISBN | 0525576703 |
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...
An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book.
Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester...
I’ve been wanting to read more works by Etgar Keret ever since I finished The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories. And I was pleasantly surprised to find that this particular collection had a lot more short stories that resonated with me than the aforementioned one.
Exuding...
A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change
| Author | Douglas Thomas |
| ISBN | 1456458884 |
The twenty-first century is a world in constant change. In A New Culture of Learning, Doug Thomas and John Seely Brown pursue an understanding of how the forces of change, and emerging waves of interest associated with these forces, inspire and invite us to imagine a future of learning that is as powerful...
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
| Author | Daniel Mendelsohn |
| ISBN | 0060542977 |
Depuis qu’il est enfant, Daniel Mendelsohn sait que son grand-oncle Shmiel, sa femme et leurs quatre filles ont été tués, quelque part dans l’est de la Pologne, en 1941. Comment, quand, où exactement ? Nul ne peut lui en dire plus. Et puis il découvre ces lettres désespérées écrites en...
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
| Author | Daniel H. Pink |
| ISBN | 1594481717 |
The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.
Drawing on research from around the world, Pink (author...
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations...
| Author | Ilana Kurshan |
| ISBN | 0646152602 |
At the age of 27, alone in Jerusalem in the wake of a painful divorce, Ilana Kurshan joined the world s largest book club, learning daf yomi, Hebrew for daily page" of the Talmud, a book of rabbinic teachings spanning about 600 years and the basis for all codes of Jewish law. A runner, a reader and a romantic,...
| Author | Glückel von Hameln |
| ISBN | 0805205721 |
Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewish widow, mother of fourteen children, tells how she guided the financial and personal destinies of her children, how she engaged in trade, ran her own factory, and promoted the welfare of her large family. Her memoir, a rare account of an...
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
| Author | Yossi Klein Halevi |
| ISBN | 0062844938 |
New York Times bestseller
"A profound and original book, the work of a gifted thinker."--Daphne Merkin, The Wall Street Journal
Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly...
One People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and an Orthodox Rabbi Explore the Issues That Divide Them
| Author | Ammiel Hirsch |
| ISBN | 0805211403 |
After being introduced by a mutual friend in the winter of 2000, Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch and Orthodox Rabbi Yosef Reinman embarked on an unprecedented eighteen-month e-mail correspondence on the fundamental principles of Jewish faith and practice. What resulted is this book: an honest, intelligent,...
Ortografía y ortotipografía del español actual
| Author | José Martínez de Sousa |
En un mundo totalmente interrelacionado, en el que la comunicación nos pone en contacto con nuestros antípodas de forma instantánea, cada día cobra mayor importancia el conjunto de normas y excepciones de escritura a que llamamos ortografía.
El ordenador ha cambiado radicalmente...
| Author | Theresa Cheung |
| ISBN | 1786781611 |
Reviewing this book is not an easy task, as it is impossible to do so without addressing one's personal views on premonition and other experiences which transcend the sensory perception. I have my own beliefs on the matter, of course, and I am not a skeptic; otherwise, I probably wouldn't have...
The Ghost of Hannah Mendes
| Author | Naomi Ragen |
| ISBN | 0312281250 |
When Catherine da Costa, a wealthy Manhattan matron, learns she has only a short time to live, she realizes that her family tree will die unless she passes on its legacy and traditions to her granddaughters. But Suzanne and Francesca, beautiful young women caught up in trendy causes and ambitious careers,...
Hidden on the Mountain: Stories of Children Sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambon
| Author | Deborah Durland DeSaix |
| ISBN | 0823419282 |
Hidden on the Mountain tells the stories of various Jewish children that sheltered from Nazis in Le Chambon, a former Huegonot refuge in southern France. The book provides several maps and a timeline of events in World War II and follows with two chapters of background information on the War and France's...
| Author | Naomi Ragen |
| ISBN | 0312570171 |
When life is at its best, the unimaginable can shatter everything you think you know… Abigail Samuels has no reason to feel anything but joy on the morning her life falls apart. The epitome of the successful Jewish American woman, she is married to a well-known and respected accountant and...
inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity
| Author | Tina Seelig |
| ISBN | 0062020706 |
Imaginative. Innovative. Ingenious. These words describe the visionaries we all respect and admire. And they can describe you, too. Contrary to common belief, creativity is not a gift some of us are born with. It is a skill that all of us can learn. International bestselling author and award-winning...
New York 1, Tel Aviv 0: Stories
| Author | Shelly Oria |
| ISBN | 0385681666 |
Sharply observed, beautifully rendered stories about gender, sexuality, and nationality by a fresh new voice
The stories in New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 speak to a contemporary generation and explore the tension between an anonymous, globalized world and an irrepressible lust for connection....
