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of the Cairo Geniza, with Peter Cole
Schocken/Nextbook, April 2011
“A small masterpiece. The romance of Hebrew scholarship has never been so vividly conveyed. This book is extraordinary in characterization, thought, and prose style. It will teach common readers, Jewish and Gentile, how much spiritual tradition owes to the greatest scholars. This teaching comes through delight.”
–Harold Bloom
“Sacred Trash is a jewel of a book: a lively and deeply informed account of the Cairo Geniza, a magnificent Egyptian treasure-house of Jewish religion, literature and history that was forgotten for centuries, and of the extraordinary crew of scholars and impresarios who saved the documents, fitted the scraps back together and made them speak and sing.”
–Anthony Grafton
“Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole spin an extraordinary tale of intellectual adventure and lasting scholarly accomplishment. The men and women who brought the Cairo Geniza to light are presented here in painstaking detail, their quirks and their brilliance exposed in equal measure. Carefully researched and beautifully written.”
–James Kugel
“One hundred and twenty years ago, time travel was all at once realized: with the discovery of the Cairo Geniza, medieval Jewish life in all its sacred and mundane efflorescence came tumbling out in thousands of manuscript fragments, each one a distinct and living voice of an ancestral civilization. No longer can we speak of the seven wonders of the world — in this astounding and acutely relevant tale, Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole have uncovered a remarkable eighth; and in its connection to our own humanity, it surpasses all the rest.” –Cynthia Ozick
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My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness “Luminous ... Hoffman presents readers with a subtle, moving evocation of the human realities of the Palestinian experience, rooted in land and memory.” “[A] superb biography ... Hoffman writes with a narrative brio ... A remarkable achievement.”
–Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books
“Beautifully written ... [This] is not only the biography of a remarkable man; it is an act of reclamation against the erosions of memory.”
–Eric Ormsby, The Times Literary Supplement
“I would place My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness among the five 'must read' books on the Israel-Palestine tragedy.” “A remarkable book ... A triumph of personal empathy and historical insight, and a beacon for anyone who knows that 'more joins than separates us.'”
–Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
One of Booklist's top ten biographies of 2009 One of Barnes & Noble Review's best books of 2009 One of the Seminary Co-op Bookstore's best 20 books of 2009 Winner of the UK's 2010 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize. |
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House of Windows “The writing is as poignant and layered as the subjects she writes about–and by detailing the ways history and culture play out in the day-to-day lives of the residents of one of the world's most contentious cities, she adds nuance and complexity to a much-studied subject.” “This remarkable work of non-fiction, wonderfully written, takes us deep inside the lives ... of the people who are virtually invisible outside of Israel.” |
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