Category: literature
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David Baddiel’s TLS book: “Jews Don’t Count”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baddiel https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baddiel https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/jews-dont-count-david-baddiel-tls-books-extract/ https://www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/buch/und-die-juden/978-3-446-27148-7/ He claims that … indicates a “hierarchy of racisms”, where anti-Semitism is perceived as being less important and less serious than other forms of prejudice against ethnic groups. I bought the original English book in the Kindle Edition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_for_Today https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/12/drama-out-of-a-crisis-a-celebration-of-play-for-today-review-when-the-play-really-was-the-thing
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a very impressive TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “The danger of a single story”
http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story a transcript of her talk is easily available as well
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book by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger: Jews and Words
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0300156472 http://www.amazon.com/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=0300156472 http://www.amazon.de/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=0300156472 Kindle edition available for around USD / EUR 10 (too little money to think twice, whether or not …) I de-DRM-ed it, and also created epub from it (I always do that), so I can quote from it freely and comment on it on Facebook and my blog, whilst reading it Update…
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Amos Oz on his novel “a tale of love and darkness” (a video)
Update 2014-10-16 (this refers to the tweet created automatically from this WordPress article): Fania Oz-Salzberger retweeted you I like this kind of appreciation.
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how to refer to a book by its ISBN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0394471466 Simply replace the number above with the ISBN you are interested in!
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John 8:7 “he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her”
http://bibeltext.com/john/8-7.htm In English: So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. In German: Als sie nun anhielten, ihn zu fragen, richtete er sich auf und sprach zu ihnen: Wer unter euch ohne Sünde ist,…
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my new book: Chinghiz Aitmatov’s “The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years”
Chinghiz Aitmatov – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_Lasts_More_Than_a_Hundred_Years – this text will help me understanding the text, keeping track of all the characters mentioned resp. adding them myself I ordered the German and the English translation a couple of days ago through Amazon, and the German version arrived first. Got it delivered to a DHL postbox…
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1989-02-14 – a fatwa was issued for the execution of Salman Rushdie (pictured) for authoring The Satanic Verses, a novel Islamic fundamentalists considered blasphemous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_controversy
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Where the Wild Things Are – a video adaptation of the Maurice Sendak classic – YouTube
Where the Wild Things Are – YouTube Another variant: And there are even more of them … In memoriam Maurice Sendak.