![]() On various regions and cities of Spain before the Expulsion (1492). ![]() The Abulafias (the name has an Arabic/Moorish prefix) left their mark Its author, David Abulafia (1949-), is a British-born andĬambridge-educated Sephardi who wears his Sephardic heritage on his sleeve, so The book has numerous connections to Jews-Sephardic (or Spanish) Jews of myīackground. It covers, in 38 chapters, the Mediterranean Sea’s human history from the year 22000 BC to 2010 AD. It is a true colossus both physically and in coverage: nearly 800 pages long and two inches thick. It is called The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean and was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. ![]() The Mediterranean and the Jews Through the Eyes of David Abulafia The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterraneanĩ78-0199315994 Reviewed by Bension Varon 1Ī few months ago, I came across a fabulous book in a book fair and promptly bought it. ![]()
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![]() In an essay for Random House, Mitchell wrote: "I knew I wanted to be a writer since I was a kid, but until I came to Japan to live in 1994 I was too easily distracted to do much about it. After another stint in Japan, he currently lives in Ireland with his wife Keiko and their two children. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England. ![]() ![]() David Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England, raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have already donated, we sincerely thank you. Hi readers, it seems you use Catholic Online a lot that's great! It's a little awkward to ask, but we need your help. The Last Judgment will reveal that God's justice triumphs over all the injustices committed by his creatures and that God's love is stronger than death.(628) We shall know the ultimate meaning of the whole work of creation and of the entire economy of salvation and understand the marvelous ways by which his Providence led everything towards its final end. Then through his Son Jesus Christ he will pronounce the final word on all history. Only the Father knows the day and the hour only he determines the moment of its coming. Coming of Christ and the Last Judg ment, 1040ġ040 The Last Judgment will come when Christ returns in glory. "Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring."(172) Therefore the Spirit and the Church pray: "Come, Lord Jesus,"(173) since his coming will deliver us from the Evil One. This is the judgment of this world, and the prince of this world is "cast out."(170) "He pursued the woman"(171) but had no hold on her: the new Eve, "full of grace" of the Holy Spirit, is preserved from sin and the corruption of death (the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God, Mary, ever virgin). ![]() 2853 Victory over the "prince of this world"(169) was won once for all at the Hour when Jesus freely gave himself up to death to give us his life. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow shatters forever the stereotype of George Washington as a stolid, unemotional figure and brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods. ![]() With a breadth and depth matched by no other one volume biography of George Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his adventurous early years, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president. ![]() I cant recommend it highly enoughas history, as epic, and, not least, as entertainment." Hendrik Hertzberg, The New YorkerĬelebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president of the United States. ![]() "Until recently, Id never believed that there could be such a thing as a truly gripping biography of George Washington. well-researched, well-written and absolutely definitive biography" ≺ndrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography From the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() The entire time I was reading this book I was wondering how Ruby, or anyone, has survived so long without taking a shower. Throughout the book, Ruby finds herself alone, and instead of making great choices on the path to safety, Ruby fumbles her way through life. Ruby battles an unknown threat, but unlike your typical dystopian heroine, Ruby is a normal 15-year-old who makes some stupid life-threatening decisions and gets lucky. H2O is up there with my favorite books of all times. ![]() That is what Ruby has to face in H20-deadly rain and deadly water, with no explanation why. ![]() Imagine how fast everyone would die without any warning. What if one day out of nowhere all the rain and water-including water from the sink, the water in the toilet, etc.-is all poison and just one drop will kill you. What to read next in YA dystopian fiction? Our intrepid fangirl Sarah Kloth reviews some of her favorites. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hugo Pratt managed to successfully capture the last days of the colonial world of the beginning of the 20th century and the arrival of the rebellion of the peoples of the Third World.īut the adventures of a Maltese sailor set against the background of this fascinating era would not be so fascinating, had Pratt not combined the adventure-filled content with refined poetic climes. And yet, there is something enchanting about them, even 40 years after their first release. Hugo Pratt’s comic books may have been somewhat too sophisticated to appeal to the mass reader’s taste. Perhaps Corto Maltese arrived here too late, when the comic book’s heyday in the West had already subsided. ![]() ![]() On the banks of the Vistula it has yet to attract readers’ interest. Hugo Pratt’s epic work has been translated into dozens of languages but remains relatively unknown in Poland. Can we celebrate the birthday of a comic book character? Of course we can, if it is an exceptional character, a symbol of 1970s Western pop-culture on a par with the photographs of Helmuth Newton or the creations of Yves Saint-Laurent. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() King’s children cling to their youthful idealism and romantic vigor, but these elements are always imperiled by Almost every Stephen King adolescent is under siege many of them must undergo rites of passage in which the innocence of adolescence must confront adult realities, a journey that is always fraught with violence and danger. Some of these children, such as Carrie White ( Carrie), Charlie McGee ( Firestarter), and Danny Torrance ( The Shining), are gifted with supernatural abilities others, such as Gordie Lachance ( Stand by Me) and Marty Coslaw ( Silver Bullet), are endowed with imaginative capacities that make them exceptional beings, particularly when they are compared to the adults against whom these children must alternately flee and combat. ![]() They inhabit a landscape of dread, loneliness, and a primal fear of abandonment. They may appear psychologically adjusted on the outside, but their young lives are often terribly troubled. They may live with parents who supply them with material comforts, but they seldom experience love from these people. The cinemagraphic children of Stephen King are simultaneously blessed and cursed, but mostly they are lost. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers will be eager for the next in the series. The Alaskan wilderness is a character all its own, and Goddard expertly ratchets up suspense as Autumn and Grier look for the killer. As the body count rises, Autumn and Grier join to track down the killer, who may have a link to their own pasts. Grier has his own reasons for keeping under the radar but can’t avoid getting tangled up in the town’s goings-on, as he crosses paths with Autumn and an attraction builds that feels almost fated by God. While unrealistic in many ways, Goddard’s second installment of her Rocky Mountain Courage series is a whirlwind adventure from the first chapter to the conclusion. Soon she meets town newcomer Grier Brennan, who is evasive about his background, and while this isn’t unusual (“People often came to Alaska to start fresh or disappear,” she acknowledges), Autumn wonders if he’s hiding something. Going to try to turn off my romantic-suspense cynicism for this review, because Deadly Target by Elizabeth Goddard does not deserve it. Autumn Long, police chief of Shadow Gap, is dealing with a crime wave-murders, a missing woman-that’s undermining public confidence in her leadership and imperiling her job. In this first installment of the Missing in Alaska series, Goddard ( Perilous Security Detail) weaves a gripping mystery set in southeast Alaska. ![]() ![]() Here’s the most famous line from Henry’s whole speech: ‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers’. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers įor he to-day that sheds his blood with me This will last forever – until the end of the world. ![]() This story shall the good man teach his son įrom this day to the ending of the world,Įvery good man will teach his son about the battle, so that not a single year will go by when the battle is not remembered on St Crispin’s Day. But then this was probably deliberate anachronism on Shakespeare’s part: he needed to mention the names of figures his audience would recognise from the popular history (and earlier plays, such as his own trilogy of Henry VI plays), otherwise Henry’s claim that these names would be ‘familiar … as household words’ in years to come might sound comically wide of the mark. ![]() ![]() ![]() When opportunity to seek refuge in Chile arises, they take it, boarding a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda to the promised ‘long petal of sea and wine and snow’ over the seas. ![]() Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser Bruguera, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life – and the fate of his country – forever changed. “That September 2, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles’ splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Surprisingly, there is a very different blurb for the Amazon in America. Normally, I do not include the blurbs of books, however, considering the wide scope of “A Long Petal of the Sea” it makes sense to first introduce its premise. Wow! I had no idea the emotional and intellectual journey ahead in this most remarkable of books. I was overjoyed and that same evening started the book. In the early days as a member, I happily clicked on new books, then failed to find the time to either read or review.Īgainst all expectations, I was accepted to review “A Long Petal of the Sea”. Ideally, NetGalley want 80% of books delivered to be reviewed -let’s say my stats are nowhere near this figure. As a huge fan of her work, I coveted the book but I doubted my chances. ![]() |