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A stirring look at nonviolent activism, from American suffragists
to civil rights to the climate change movementWe Are Power brings
to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent
activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as,
what is nonviolent resistance and how does it work? In an age when
armies are stronger than ever before, when guns seem to be
everywhere, how can people confront their adversaries without
resorting to violence themselves? Through key international
movements as well as people such as Gandhi, Alice Paul, Martin
Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and Vaclav Havel, this book discusses
the components of nonviolent resistance. It answers the question
"Why nonviolence?" by showing how nonviolent movements have
succeeded again and again in a variety of ways, in all sorts of
places, and always in the face of overwhelming odds. The book
includes endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.
A stirring look at nonviolent activism, from American suffragists
to Civil Rights to the Climate Change Movement  We Are Power
brings to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent
activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as
what is nonviolent resistance and how does it work? In an age when
armies are stronger than ever before, when guns seem to be
everywhere, how can people confront their adversaries without
resorting to violence themselves? Through key international
movements as well as people such as Gandhi, Alice Paul, Martin
Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and Václav Havel, this book discusses
the components of nonviolent resistance. It answers the question
“Why nonviolence?” by showing how nonviolent movements have
succeeded again and again in a variety of ways, in all sorts of
places, and always in the face of overwhelming odds. The book
includes endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.
Stylistically daring, morally perplexing, and outrageously funny,
Todd Hasak-Lowy's The Task of This Translator marks the debut of a
writer of extraordinary talent. In these seven stories, Hasak-Lowy
captures the absurdity that often arises when very personal crises
intersect with global issues such as ethnic violence, obesity, and
the media.
A journalist sets out to write an investigative piece on a dieting
company that uses bodyguards to protect overeaters from themselves
but loses his bearings when he becomes a client and is paired up
with a bodyguard of his own. In the coffee shop of Israel's
Holocaust memorial museum, a stale pastry triggers a brawl between
an American tourist and the Israeli cashier. A man misplaces his
wallet shortly before a nuclear exchange between India and
Pakistan. An unwilling and mostly unqualified slacker finds himself
cast into the role of translator for the bitter reunion of a family
torn apart years earlier by unspecified brutality.
A standout story collection, The Task of This Translator is funny,
intricate, and deeply human.
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An Egyptian Novel (Paperback)
Orly Castel-Bloom; Translated by Todd Hasak-Lowy
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The hero of Castel-Bloom's latest novel-an exploration of Jewish
identity and family history-can trace her roots back on her
father's side to the expulsion of the Jews of Spain in 1492, when
seven brothers of the Kastil family landed on the Gaza coast after
a long series of trials and tribulations. Her mother claims their
family goes back even further, 3,000 years, to the only clan that
Jewish history has ignored: the one that said `No' to Moses and
stayed behind in Egypt. Mixing historical and biographical facts,
made-up legends plus other fictions and exaggerations, Castel-Bloom
has written an unconventional saga of her family, the Kastils:
family meals and get-togethers, deaths and funerals, sayings and
stories, and all those things that are not to be mentioned.
*A Possibility of Violence has now been adapted for television in a
new series called The Calling out in November 2022* The threat to
the innocent. An explosive device is found outside a nursery in Tel
Aviv. The children are taken to safety; a man is caught fleeing the
scene. The fear of the father. Chaim Sara, taking care of his
children alone, watches with anticipation as the police search for
clues and his sons grow more unsettled. The suspicion of the
guilty. Inspector Avraham is sure that off the street, and in the
home, a darker possibility hides. If he is right, a child is in
danger. If he is right.
The emergence of Zionism in the late nineteenth century and the
evolution of Zionist society in Palestine were profoundly
influenced by the Hebrew literature of the day. As Todd Hasak-Lowy
cogently argues in this book, Hebrew authors wrote with the belief
that accurately representing Jewish society - including its history
- in their texts would both record the past and establish its
future course.Hasak-Lowy traces the tensions between the
extraliterary - the historical, social, and political - and the
literary - the aesthetic, formal, and stylistic - in Hebrew
fiction. Focusing on canonical texts by S. Y. Abramovitz, Y. H.
Brenner, S. Y. Agnon, and S. Yizhar, the author establishes how
modern Hebrew writers galvanized Jewish nationalism in
nineteenth-century Europe and later articulated its character in
twentieth-century Palestine.
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