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You should read the book the Golem and the Jinni. It’s actually a really good book. A man asks a disgraced rabbi to make him a golem woman because he wants a wife and is having trouble getting one. Then they go to the US.
With the Boers to the south, give it some time.
Besides, I am kinda hoping that Israel gets to take some land in Alaska that they shall rename Sitka and allow us to dream of Jewish noir stories about working the beat as a Jewish cop as one of the Chosen Frozen of the great Israel Empire!
That is absolutely going to happen. The depth and nuance on this show. Soon, it’ll be listed here for great minds to ponder:
https://www.amazon.com/Popular-Culture-and-Philosophy-125-book-series/dp/B0897GS1YK
You can't go wrong with James A. Michener. His renowned writing style brings people and lands of the world to life. I've loved each one I've read, but be warned, his novels are long with most over 1000 pages long. However, it's necessary in order to cover the topic from its very beginning to the present. You'll get an entertaining history education!
Jewish history from the beginning to the present: The Source
From 1310: The Caribbean
He covers many histories of the world, try Tales of the South Pacific, Chesapeake, Hawaii, Poland, Alaska, and more*.*
Well, in Hungarian the title is "Sorstalanság" which literally means "Fatelessness".
(fate=sors; -less=-talan; -ness=-ság)
However, in Hungarian, the word sounds okay, it's a pretty common structure, we have a lot of words similar to this.
>“Outside Of Fate”? “Without Fate”?
I would have sounded better, but the official English title of the book is Fatelessness.
If you are a newbie and a fan of stuff, there's a series called "Pop Culture and Philosophy" that starts with some pretty famous properties and discusses some ideas related to those.
I can see you've gotten help already, but if it's of any interest there's a great anthology of Yiddish folktales by Beatrice Weinreich which I love!
I'll attach an Amazon link if you want to look into it: https://www.amazon.com/Yiddish-Folktales-Pantheon-Folklore-Library/dp/0805210903
I loved "Fatelessness" of Imre Kertész. (I knew him personally by chance. He died a short time ago.) https://www.amazon.com/Fatelessness-Imre-Kertesz/dp/1400078636 I wrote about it before it got the Nobel Price. http://sfsalvo.com/Lit/kozma7.htm#A Review of Imre Kertesz's Fateless
I do go to survivors and make interviews with them. Unfortunately not in English. Mostly they are in their 80s and 90s. Not all of them likes to talk about that. But some do. You are right it is very inspiring sometimes.
It's about the history of religions in the middle East, from the earliest primitive man's wonder about mysterious things to the rise of Christianity and Islam, and all of the conflict in the area.
It bounces back and forth between modern archaeologists excavating tell Makor and the historical accounts of what happened there. I'm not a religious person but i found the whole thing absolutely fascinating and i was able to gain some insight into the long story of how religion influenced culture in the middle East.
I would say The Golem and the Jinni.https://www.amazon.com/Golem-Jinni-Novel-P-S/dp/0062110845/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469853610&sr=8-1&keywords=helen+wecker
Or The Magicians by Lev Grossman. https://www.amazon.com/Magicians-Novel-Trilogy/dp/0452296293/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1469853727&sr=8-2&keywords=the+magicians
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
It Won the Hugo and Nebula Award a few years ago
>For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end. Homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. And in the cheap hotel where Landsman has washed up, someone has just committed a murder—right under his nose. When he begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy, word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, and Landsman finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, evil, and salvation that are his heritage. At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written.
A good book supposing this is Michael Chabon's THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION.
It's The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon, and we're discussing it on February 21st.
I really enjoyed the book and finished it earlier today. It's not something I would have chosen for myself but I couldn't put it down. Can't wait to discuss it!
People who want to exterminate Jews are scary. I agree. I also agree that the Israelis who won the 1948 war were courageous and smart. I dunno why the invasion force didn't win, but I resist the idea that they weren't smart and courageous...I dunno, I just figure it had to be something more complex than that.
>Consider what the Dome of the Rock is. It's a mosque built on top of a Jewish temple. That's what makes it "holy".
Really? I had no idea? I thought it was because they also think that cave thingy is holy?
>I have not read the book you mentioned.
OK. I don't want to be overly dramatic or anything but you need to read it.
>The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 novel by American author Michael Chabon. The novel is a detective story set in an alternative history version of the present day, based on the premise that during World War II, a temporary settlement for Jewish refugees was established in Sitka, Alaska, in 1941, and that the fledgling State of Israel was destroyed in 1948. The novel is set in Sitka, which it depicts as a large, Yiddish-speaking metropolis.
Here you go. The above synopsis is from the wikipedia page though.
The book in question:
It's a colonialist, racist, self-destructive ideology. Zionism is not only guilty of ethnically cleansing the Palestinians, but it is also guilty of destroying the image and progressive nature of the Jewish people.
Zionism presents itself as a solution to Anti-semitism, yet in practice, it achieved the exact opposite: It transformed the Jewish people from righteous victims to brutal oppressors seeking to build a Ethnocracy on the corpses of the indigenous population, thereby squandering the sympathy the Jewish people received after the Holocaust and fueling the rise of Antisemitic sentiments, all while pursuing a continued policy of aggression towards Palestinians and Arabs which would guarantee hostility for many years to come.
Right now, Israel is getting away with everything because of the unwavering support and protection it receives from the US, which will not last forever. When the world frees itself of the USA's dominance, Israel would just be another pariah state with very few friends and many enemies waiting to destroy it, and rightfully so. Only then would the Jewish victims of Zionism - the Israelis, realise the damage that this ideology and their blind adherence to it inflicted upon them, when it is already too late.
Alan Hart, a pro-Jewish but anti-Zionist journalist who is familiar with both sides of the conflict and covered it extensively since 1967 explains why Zionism is doomed to fail in his books:
http://www.amazon.com/Zionism-Real-Enemy-False-Messiah/dp/0932863647
Take some Jews, give them some police badges and autonomy, throw them at Alaska and and there you go -- a decent novel!
Now, off to Amazon with you! (Or wherever you get yer books.)
There's a novel called The Yiddish Policemen's Union, so I'm guessing B.