Titre : | Tongue of the Prophets : The Life Story of Eliezer Ben Yehuda |
Auteurs : | St. John Robert, Auteur |
Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Editeur : | North Hollywood [USA] : Wilshire Book Company, 1952 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 9780879801662 |
Format : | 377 p. / 15 p. hors texte photos N&B |
Langues: | Anglais |
Index. décimale : | LK (Biographies profanes) |
Résumé : |
"This is a story about a Jew written by a non-Jew for non-Jews as well as Jews to read... It might better have written by a Hebrew scholar, but no Hebrew scholar had done it. Besides, it then would have been a book interesting only to other Hebrew scholars. The story is too pulsating with human struggle to be written exclusively for students of philology.
"It is the story of a man who made it possible for several million people to order groceries, drive cattle, make love, and curse out their neighbors in a language which until his day had been fit only for Talmudic argument and prayer. "It is the story of a faithful fanatic who had two great love affairs, made enemies of his best friends, went to prison for his beliefs, was always on the verge of death from tuberculosis, yet fathered eleven children, gathered the material for a sixteen-volume dictionnary unlike any other philological work ever conceived, authored plays, a geography, and two of the most urgent 'appeals' ever adressed to his own people, and died while working on the word for 'soul' " |
Note de contenu : |
- Prologue - 1. Thy will be done 2. Czar Alexander outwitted 3. Thanks to Robinson Crusoe 4. Two curls + two girls 5. Growing pains 6. Convert No. 1 7. Cognac celebration 8. Detective, scholar, magician, midwife 9. Determined chess 10. Two is company 11. One gold Louis 12. Like Spinoza 13. Twice born 14. One tree 15. Miracle of the rain 16. Time for Deborah 17. Thrice death 18. Intrigue and bribery 19. Industrial childbirth 20. Love by mail 21. To become a princess 22. "Shalom doddah!" 23. Lika a beautiful flame 24. Printer's ink 25. Saul killed thousands 26. Behind bars 27. On bail 28. Words everywhere 29. Burned career 30. Oriental fashion 31. If you will it 32. Garden of Eden 33. Eliezer's Paris 34. Hemda's London 35. Hide-and-seek 36. Two bearded crusaders 37. Three iron chests 38. Overnight hotel - Jews only 39. "Is this reality?" 40. Love, revolution, art 41. Hats in hand 42. Language war 43. 1914! 44. 1917! 45. Hebrew comes of age 46. Friend Vs friend 47. Only ten lines - Epilogue - Index |
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LKb 004 | LKb 004 | Livre | Bibliothèque principale | Livres empruntables | Prêt possible Disponible |