Anita Diamant Libros

This updated classic guide explores the cultural and spiritual treasures of Judaism, reflecting significant changes in the modern Jewish community over the past 15 years. It offers insights into the evolving practices and beliefs within Judaism, making it a valuable resource for both newcomers and those familiar with the tradition.

The classic guide to the cultural and spiritual treasures of Judaism is now updated for the first time in 15 years to reflect changes in the modern Jewish community. Living a Jewish Life describes Judaism as not just a contemplative or abstract system of thought but as a blueprint for living fully and honorably.

The definitive guide to the conversion process—for a new generation of Jews-by-choice. However you choose to fashion your personal journey to Judaism, Anita Diamant is the perfect guide. In this comprehensive, wide-ranging book you will learn how to choose a rabbi, a synagogue, a denomination, and a Hebrew name; how to discuss your decision with your birth family; what happens at the mikveh (ritual bath) and at the hatafat dam brit (circumcision ritual for those already circumcised); how to find your footing in a new spiritual family and create a new Jewish identity; and how you and your children can maintain bonds to your family of origin. Also included are suggestions for readings, prayers, and poems that can personalize conversion rituals; a glossary of terms; and a short history of conversion in Judaism. This revised edition contains a completely updated chapter on how the mikveh is used in the conversion process and an updated list of online resources and books for further reading. Whether you are just beginning to consider converting or have already started down the path to Judaism, here is everything you will need to make the process joyous, sacred, and meaningful.

"Explores the subject of menstruation, from toxic historic and religious roots to how young activists are challenging the silence and shame that can erode self-esteem and even threaten lives ..."--Page 4 of cover.

A New York Times Bestseller A decade after the publication of this hugely popular international bestseller, Picador releases the tenth anniversary edition of The Red Tent. Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that tell of her father, Jacob, and his twelve sons. Told in Dinah's voice, Anita Diamant imagines the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of the mothers--Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah--the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through childhood, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinah's story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history and creates an intimate connection with the past. Deeply affecting, The Red Tent combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of biblical women's lives.

Now completely revised and updated, this definitive guide provides a wealth of options for creating a Jewish wedding - whether totally traditional or cutting edge contemporary, that combines spiritual meaning and joyous celebration.

This empowering anthology looks at the growth and accomplishments of Jewish feminism and what that means for Jewish women today and tomorrow. It features the voices of women from every area of Jewish life-the Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative, Orthodox and Jewish Renewal movements; rabbis, congregational leaders, artists, writers, community service professionals, academics, and chaplains, from the United States, Canada, and Israel-addressing the important issues that concern Jewish women: Women and Theology, Women, Ritual and Torah, Women and the Synagogue, Women in Israel, Gender, Sexuality and Age, Women and the Denominations, Leadership and Social Justice. Book jacket.

"Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine--a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, who has asked her "How did you get to be the woman you are today." She begins in 1915, the year she found her voice and made friends who would help shape the course of her life. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, Addie recalls her adventures with compassion for the naive girl she was and a wicked sense of humor."--

Follows the growing friendship between fifty-nine-year-old Kathleen, recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and the slightly younger Joyce, increasingly distant from her teenage daughter and struggling to write a second novel.

Román Po noci přijde den vychází z neobyčejného příběhu, který se skutečně odehrál v říjnu 1945. Tehdy bylo osvobozeno přes 200 židovských zajatců z palestinského internačního tábora Atlit, v němž byli zadržováni britskými ozbrojenými silami coby „ilegální“ přistěhovalci. Příběh je líčen očima čtyř mladých zajatkyň, které přežily holokaust: Polky, která bojovala proti Němcům se skupinou partyzánů; pařížské krásky, přinucené za války k prostituci; holandské Židovky, která se za války ukrývala a teď se snaží zapomenout; a ženy, která přežila Osvětim. Čtyři mladé ženy, které uprchly do Izraele z nacistické Evropy, sužované nepopsatelně krušnými vzpomínkami a ztrátami, nacházejí spásu v přátelství a pospolitosti a zároveň se pokoušejí přivyknout nové zemi. Pronásledují je nepopsatelné vzpomínky, bojí se začít znovu doufat. Román Po noci příjde den je výjimečně ztvárněný příběh útrap, nezdolnosti a soudržnosti. Dotýká se druhé světové války, holokaustu a založení státu Izrael. Anita Diamant má obdivuhodný dar vytvářet nezapomenutelné postavy, svůj příběh zasadila do strhujícího historického románu, v němž jde především o spásnou moc ženského přátelství, zotavení z těžkých ran osudu a lásku. Je to nezapomenutelný příběh utrpení a nových začátků, zachycující historický okamžik s mistrovskou výmluvností, z nějž dojímá i mrazí. Kniha Po noci přijde den je klenotem mezi romány.