Sorrowful Eyes

References

• Olbracht , Ivan . 1999 . The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karajich , Edited by: Lewitová , Iris Unwin and Holub , Miroslav . Budapest, London, New York : CEU Press, the Central University Press . Miroslav Holub (1923-98) who wrote the Introduction to this novel, was an outstanding Czech poet and essayist, much of whose work was translated into English. This was one of the last things he wrote. This novel, as well as a number of others, is published by CEU Press. The General Editor of this Series is Timothy Garton Ash, member of St. Antony's College, Oxford, well known for his writings about Central Europe, where he has been traveling for over twenty years. The other titles in this series are: Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi; Prague Tales by Jan Neruda; Be Faithful Unto Death by Zsigmond Moricz; The Doll by Boleslaw Prus; The Adventures of Sindbad by Gyula Krudy. As the Guardian has rightly described this series, it gives us "Haifa continent's worth of forgotten genius."
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• Hasidim or Chasidim (Hebrew "faithful ones"). Followers of Hasidism. A popular movement of Jewish mysticism, usually traced to a persecuted sect in the latter half of the eighteenth century in Poland, characterized by an ascetic pattern of life, strict observance of the commandments, and loud ecstatic traditional Jewish practices, stressing prayer rather than study of the Torah as the means of communication with God, but as it spread though the Ukraine, Eastern Europe, eventually Western Europe and America, it was finally accepted as a part of Orthodox Judaism. It continues to flourish in the USA, especially in New York City (Cambridge Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., 498).
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• 2000 . "Muslims and Copts Clash in Gunfight," . International Herald Tribune , 4 January : 6 "Egypt officially estimates its Coptic minority at 10 percent of its mainly Muslim population of 64 million. Coptic leaders say their community numbers 10 million."
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• 2000 . Oubliez Adam Weinberger , Paris : Fayard . Treyfe: ritually unclean, not kosher, unfit for consumption by orthodox Jews (193). It is worth noting that the strict rules relating to food have been and still are kept not only by orthodox Jews but also by many of those who are or consider themselves to be liberal, progressive and modern. See, for example, Vincent Engel's beautiful novel, whose subject is the childhood and youth of its eponymous hero in a Polish town: his family, his school and schoolmates, his first love, his dreams and illusions, and his growing awareness of the great menace threatening all Jews with the rise of Hitler just before World War II. There is a humorous description of what happens at the von Statten's family picnic that he and his sister Rachel were invited to by his school friend Hans. In addition to the salad and bread, Hans' mother also serves ham. Rachel is shocked: what would her parents say if they knew? But seeing that all the others, including her brother eat of the forbidden food, she does the same. On her way home she vomits her meal. But then she begs Adam: "You won't tell anything to our parents, will you?" As Engel rightly observes, "The ancestral customs survive faith, of which they originally were the support. And they doubtlessly replace faith so as to keep the group together" (31, my translation)
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