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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This is the classic work that tells the true story surrounding the
miraculous visions of St. Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes, France
in 1858. Werfel, a highly respected anti-Nazi writer from Vienna,
became a Jewish refugee who barely escaped death in 1940, and wrote
this moving story to fulfill a promise he made to God. While hiding
in the little village of Lourdes, Werfel felt the Nazi noose
tightening, and realizing that he and his wife might well be caught
and executed, he made a promise to God to write about the "song of
Bernadette" that he had been inspired by during his clandestine
stay in Lourdes. Though Werfel was Jewish, he was so deeply
impressed by both Bernadette and the happenings at Lourdes, that
his writing has a profound sense of Catholic understanding.
Originally titled For the Sake of Heaven, Gog and Magog is a
fictional religious chronicle in which the heroes are Hasidic
rabbis. The setting for the novel is Poland and Hungary during the
Napoleonic wars at the end of the eighteenth century. Although
magic and superstition play their parts in the story, it is really
Martin Buber's effort to articulate two approaches to the question:
May men use evil to accomplish good? May men take power into their
own hands - even to do the work of redemption - without submitting
first to the will of God? More particularly, Buber unfolds the
inner world of messianic longing and expectations that
characterized Judaism then and continues to characterize it to the
present day.
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