BOOKS 2024 #Magnes Publishing

The book traces the journey of the Hebrew letter across the ocean following mass Jewish immigration and tells the story of the growth of the Hebrew and Yiddish press in the United States from its beginnings in the last third of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century.

From German Orientalism to Israeli Orientalism. In-depth historical research on the history of Zionist and Israeli Orientalism. The roots of this field of knowledge - the study of Arabic, Islam and the history of the Middle East - in the German universities of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The birth of the special relationship with Europe 1957-1970. The relationship between Israel and Europe is a relationship of "haters, a love story", of rapprochement and rejection at the same time. This book returns to one of the most significant chapters in the history of the diplomacy of the young state of Israel, which is trying to get closer to Europe a few years after the Jews were rejected from it.

'Don Quixote', considered the first modern novel, crossed continents and ages and continues to be relevant to our time. Its hero, Don Quixote, and the iconic image of his fight in the windmills, are known throughout the world, even to those who have never read the novel. What is the secret of the dizzying success of the novel and its relevance?

Natural caves and caves installed for human use appear in the atlas: labyrinth caves, active spring caves, stalactite caves, a cave in volcanic rock, fireplaces, hall caves, fissure caves, hiding systems, cliff shelters and even bowl-like depressions sometimes connected to underground spaces.

Dan Perry was born and raised on Mount Carmel. His descriptions and memories of the days when he lived as a child in an estate neighborhood, which was then isolated and far from Haifa - inspire amazement. What in his album book he combines his life and family history with the love of nature and the love of the land, and stories from his work at the Tabi Nature Reserve and more.

In his book, Ariel Zinder invites us to learn about episodes in the history and poetics of forgiveness and supplication poetry in the Middle Ages. The perusal of the piyots reveals the thought embedded in them about divine forgiveness, the possibility or difficulty of obtaining it and the different paths in which the community and the individual can move towards it.

Before his death, Franz Kafka ordered Max Brod to burn all his remaining writings. Brod, not only did he not fulfill his friend's request, but in 1939 he took Kafka's manuscripts with him and brought them to Israel. Since then he devoted the rest of his life to editing the writings and distributing them. In fact, by betraying his friend's will, he saved Kafka's legacy from destruction.