From Berlin to Jerusalem portrays the dual dramas of the author's total break from his middle-class German Jewish family and his ever-increasing dedication to the study of Jewish thought. Played out during the momentous years just before, during, and after World War I, these experiences eventually led Scholem to immigrate to Palestine in 1923.

Friedman wrote a 17-page epilogue for the first paperback edition (Anchor Books, 1990) concerning the potential for peaceful resolution in Israel and Palestine.

In this book the author seeks to understand the political causes and psychological effects of the conflicts in the Middle East. He sketches the prelude to the troubles, and places the events of 1979 to 1988 in their historical context while examining the course and meaning of the Lebanese civil wars, the Syrian self-mutilation at Hama, the refugee-camp massacres at Sabra and Sh...(展开全部)

Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) hat sich an seinem 80. Geburtstag selbst das schönste Geburtstagsgeschenk geschaffen: seine Jugenderinnerungen an das jüdische Milieu im noch stillen Berlin des beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts. Im Stil eines Chronisten, gelassen, souverän, heiter, witzig, jeder Satz faktengesättigt, beschreibt er seine Herkunft und Kindheit, seine Familie, das Schicksal...(展开全部)

There is a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother. There is an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. There is a widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but a...(展开全部)

A writer called Amit Chaudhuri arrives in Bombay on a book-related visit,and finds himself in search of the city he grew up in.In a city shaken to its core not long ago by the 2008 terrorist strikes,his errant local friend,Ramu,a six-foot-tall Kannadiga and one-time junkie who cannot reconcile himself to modern-day adult life,is an unlikely protagonist,Bombay incarnate.The writ...(展开全部)

InFriend of My Youth, a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on his mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit's last remaining connection to the city he once called home. Amit Chaudhuri's new novel is about ...(展开全部)

There is a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother. There is an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. There is a widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but a...(展开全部)

加西亚•马尔克斯（Gabriel García Márquez） 1927年出生于哥伦比亚马格达莱纳海滨小镇阿拉卡塔卡。童年与外祖父母一起生活。1936年随父母迁居苏克雷。1947年考入波哥大国立大学。1948年因内战辍学，进入报界。五十年代开始出版文学作品。六十年代初移居墨西哥。1967年《百年孤独》问世。1982年获诺贝尔文学奖。2004年出版《苦妓回忆录》。2014年4月17日于墨西哥病逝。