BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Alfred and Emily (2008) is an interesting puzzle in the sense of fiction, memory and autobiography progress hand in hand to produce a compelling artistic dance. It’s not merely a book; it is the combination of the different elements, a hybrid creation that is able to rely on both of the worlds and fictions and biographies without borders. Lessing does not just opt for a biographical account of her parents, Alfred an…

Reference · Wikidata

ethnoreligious group and nation from the Levant

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Jews, or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of ancient Israel and Judah. They traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, religion, and community are highly interrelated, as Judaism is an ethnic religion, though many ethnic Jews do not practice it. Jews regard converts to Judaism as members of the Jewish nation, pursuant to the long-standing conversion p…

Book · DOAB

Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, as a young adult she broke both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist Russia, with her German Junker husband, …

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

This video consists of an interview with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi concerning his relationship with Thomas Merton and beliefs espoused by Merton. There are several questions posed to Zalman throughout the interview including: How did Zalman come to meet Merton, questions of ecumenism, the removal of iconography in Catholicism, what does monasticism have to do with Judaism, and how does Zalman interpret the drea…