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Author Simms, Norman Toby, author

Title Jews in an illusion of paradise : dust and ashes. Volume One, Comedians and catastrophes / by Norman Simms
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 403 pages) : illustrations
Summary The focus of this volume is on essential themes, images and generic patterns, beginning with a Talmudic legend about four scholars. They, by means of daring mystical interpretations of Scripture, entered a Paradise, representing different means of imaginative reading, perception, memory and application of the law. One of them died, one went mad, another became a heretic and the other came back as a traditional exegete and teacher. Based on that legend, this book examines a small group of late 19th and early 20th century European Jewish intellectuals and artists in the light of their dreams,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Jews -- Europe -- History -- 19th century -- Biography
Jews -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Biography
Religion: general.
Literature & literary studies.
Philosophy.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Jews.
Europe.
Genre/Form Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443878524
1443878529
Other Titles Comedians and catastrophes