BOOKS 2024 #הוצאת כרמל

For many years, Armenian, Ezidi, Tutsi and Bosnian women fell victim to systematic rape, as part of the practice of genocide. Through research that included interviews with women who were victims of genocide, Dr. Naomi Halbertal Landau investigates the horrifying phenomenon that is being realized even these days, showing its roots and consequences.

The dozens of articles and lists collected in the book add up to a wonderful storyline. They unfold the history of Hebrew literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, from the struggles of the Haskalah movement for the secularization of Hebrew culture in the Diaspora to the flourishing of rich and sophisticated Israeli literature

Ruth Netzer presents in this book the articles and actions of Carl Gustav Jung, one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, during World War II. Again and again it was argued against him that his conduct was pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic, but the subject is loaded with prejudice and ignorance, and the metaphorical vagueness of his style also caused a misunderstanding of his words.

Hagi Ehrlich, one of Ethiopia's leading historians, and who raised generations of Orientalists in Israel, describes the adventures of his research from the beginning of the journey in the 1960s to the present day. Ehrlich spans his life between the campuses of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Addis Ababa, London and the USA and describes his work as a fascinating collecting adventure, as a writing experience with heavy responsibility, and the impact of his research on the people of action. In this, fundamental chapters in the history of Ethiopia are discussed

Max Nordau, born in Hungary who lived most of his days in Paris, was a popular doctor and writer in the years before the First World War. He wrote 'Heart Thread' - originally called 'Practice' - for his only home Maxa, a talented girl who was born to him when he was 50 years old. At the root of the legends in the book is a life of human distress (poverty, longing for a child, unrequited love for an animal, difficulty in making peace between enemies), but the solution to the difficulties is often supernatural