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A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry
Indiana University Press 2010; US$ 29.70With scrupulous attention to landmark poetic texts and to educational and critical discourse in early 20th-century Palestine, Miryam Segal traces the emergence of a new accent to replace the Ashkenazic or European Hebrew accent in which almost all modern Hebrew poetry had been composed until the 1920s.... more...
The World's Oldest Literature
BRILL 2010; US$ 287.00To propagate the invention of writing, the Sumerians established scribal schools which preserved and transmitted the accumulated wisdom of the past, usually in poetic form. The literature thus created has been studied by the author for half a century. This title assembles his conclusions that are important for biblicists. more...
Arabic-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary
Dorling Kindersley 2009; US$ 14.95The newest edition to the Visual Bilingual Dictionary series, this title will help the international visitor?whether for business or recreational?adsorb essential vocabulary in Portuguese. more...
The Undergraduate's Companion to Arab Writers and Their Web Sites
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 49.00This companion provides information on the lives and works of about 150 authors who write primarily in Arabic, covering the first known works of Arabic literature in the 5th and 6th centuries A.D. to the present day. While concentrating on literary authors, writers from the fields of history, geography, and philosophy are also represented. The individuals... more...
Vier Epitaphe - die Basler Hebraistenfamilie Buxtorf
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 35.00This study explores a famous chapter of university, scholarly and family history, placing it in context for the first time. The Buxtorf family, which originated from Westphalia, held the Chair of Hebrew Language at the University of Basel from 1588 to 1732 ? a total of 144 years ? spanning a period of four generations. The Buxtorfs conveyed the methods... more...
Egyptian Tales: The Gold in the Grave
A&C Black 2004; US$ 6.49Tutankhamen has been buried in his rocky tomb. But there is a plot to rob the grave of its vast wealth as soon as possible after the funeral. A motley gang of villains have all the skills they need to undertake the crime - the key member of the team is young Paneb, who is small and lithe and the only one who can slip through the tunnel and into the... more...
Linguistic Variety of Judaeo-Arabic in Letters from the Cairo Genizah
BRILL 2010; US$ 146.00This work is one of the first studies presenting a comprehensive linguistic investigation into non-literary Judaeo-Arabic. Its main focus is the diachronic description of letters from the Cairo Genizah, while distinguishing between features of epistolary Arabic and vernacular phenomena. more...
The Confessions of Noa Weber
Melville House 2010; US$ 16.95Acclaimed author Noa Weber has a successful ?feminist? life: a strong career, a wonderful daughter she raised alone, and she is a recognized and respected cultural figure. Yet her interior life is bound by her obsessive love for one man?Alek, a Russian émigré and the father of her child, who has drifted in and out of her life. Trying to understand?as... more...
World Cup Wishes
Random House Group Ltd 2010; US$ 17.34Four friends get together to watch the 1998 World Cup final. One of them has an idea: let's write down our wishes for the next few years, put them away, and during the next final - four years from now - we'll get them out and see how many we've achieved. This is how World Cup Wishes opens, and from here we watch what happens to their wishes and... more...
The Good Psychologist
Henry Holt and Co. 2010; US$ 7.99"Noam Shpancer portrays the oft-hidden world of psychotherapy with unparalleled authenticity, compassion, and wit . . . An astonishing debut."?Jonathan Kellerman Noam Shpancer's stunning debut novel opens as a psychologist reluctantly takes on a new client?an exotic dancer whose severe anxiety is keeping her from the stage. The psychologist, a... more...









