Mira Z. Amiras

Malkah's Notebook (eBook, ePUB)

A Journey into the Mystical Aleph-Bet
Illustrator: Baum, Josh

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Musing through a space that's somewhere between an illuminated, psalmic narrative poem and a graphic novel attuned to the soul, Malkah's Notebook is an intimate trip through Jewish mysticism and feminist theology." -Foreword Reviews Malkah is a child when her father tries teaching her to read Torah. But they don't get very far. As Malkah studies, her questions multiply. She discovers an earlier, hidden story of creation within the Hebrew Aleph-Bet letters in the first line of Genesis. And a door opens. Malkah's discovery takes her on a lifelong journey in search of her beginnings-into Jewish mystical texts, far-off places, archaeological digs, ancient gods, and ultimately into the nature of existence itself. Part bedtime story, part poem, part journal, and coupled with highly evocative illustrations, Malkah's Notebook is a love letter to the Hebrew alphabet that unlocks life's greatest mysteries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781685550004
• Artikelnr.: 68422629

Autorenporträt

Mira Z. Amiras is an anthropologist, author, and award-winning filmmaker. She was raised on her mother’s accounts of the Inquisition and Holocaust, her father’s tales of the creation and beauty of the universe, and her grandparents’ foods, folklore and music of ancient Sefarad. Mira has lived, studied, and traveled throughout the Middle East and North Africa, camped out 7,000 miles through Africa, and traveled overland from Istanbul to the Nepalese border. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and is Professor Emerita of Comparative Religion and Middle East Studies at San Jose State University. Mira is past president of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, and was a member of the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association. She lives in San Francisco with her family.