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Portrait of Israel is a lively, informative introduction to a young, beleaguered nation and its indomitable people. Written by Moshe Brilliant, an American born journalist who has lived in Israel for many years, it is a skillful blend of history, current affairs, and fascinating personal observations of life in Israel today, presented in an informal, anecdotal style that will appeal to armchair travelers as well as to readers actually planning trips to Israel. Illuminating the narrative are more than one hundred superb photographs, most of them taken specifically for this volume by Micha Bar-Am, a prize winning photographer. The author's text deals not only with Israel's amazing accomplishments, but with its problems as well. Friction between Orthodox Jews and those who believe in the separation of religion and government; the difficulties of absorbing Oriental Jews from primitive cultures into the European-dominated society; the role of the Israeli Arabs; and most critical of all, of course, the struggle of a small state surrounded by hostile neighbors to survive, and much much more. ... Read more

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“Islam and the Muslim World” will help people understand the fastest growing religion in the United States and the dominant religion in a wide area of the rest of the world. This informative and interesting new encyclopedia explores an increasingly important force in the modern world, looking at Islam's role in the modern world, in the context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries, and contains thematic articles, biographies of key figures, definitions, and more, filling a need in this key area of religious studies and serving as a resource for those eager to become better informed.

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This autobiography was published in 1913.

From the book's Preface:

It may not be uninteresting to the reader to know how this
autobiography came to be written, and what the author con-
siders to be its excuse for being.In my travels in this country,
ever since I left New York City, in the winter of 1893, and
during the years of my ministry in the Middle West and in
Boston, I was called upon on numerous occasions to tell the
story of my life.I told this story, in brief, at many church
and club meetings, before schools and at hospitable firesides,
never thinking tht it possessed any greater merits than to
entertain an audience for the space of an hour, or give an
interested group of friends the pleasure of a rather novel con-
versation.

In the summer of 1912, while on a visit to the famous summer
resort, Manchester-by-the Sea, Massachusetts, I was enter-
tained at a beautiful and hospitable home where the gracious
members of the family requested me to tell them my "interesting
story".Deeming the narrative worthy to be published, they
brought it to the attention of the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
In that highly esteemed magazine, under the general title,
"A Far Journey", several chapters of this autobiography
appeared, and are here reprinted (with much new material
added) by courtesy of the editor.

This narrative's excuse for being is, I believe, to be found,
first, in the fact that it is the story, not of an individual, but
of a type.There are many others of the children of other
lands who have come to the New World as learners of the
modes of life and thought of a superior people; who have
succeeded in discovering America on its ideal side, and who
know and love this country as that Commonwealth of free,
enlightened, and beneficent citizens.Second, this story
justifies its existence by being a testimony to the unparalleled
opportunities of America.Here, as nowwhere else on this
plant, the "talented foreigner" finds the ample room and noble
incentives necessary to reveal his talents and to enable him to
attain the more abundant intellectual, political, social and moral
life.

While writing the earlier chapters of this story I often seemed
to myself to be portraying another life than my own; the
periods of childhood and youth appeared to belong to a remote
order of things definitely detached from the one in which I now
find myself.Yet, in a large sense, the impassable gulf between
my Syrian life and my American life is only seeming, and not
real.I am conscious of no loss of continuity.Just as manhood
fulfills rather than destroys childhood, so does America's
large, tumultuous life tend to realize the possibilities with
which the ancient, mystic, dreamy Orient endowed me.So
to Syria, my loving, untutored mother, as to America, my
virile, resourceful teacher, I offer my profound and lasting
gratitude.


A. M. R.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Abraham Mitrie Rihbany (1869-1944; (sometimes spelled Ribhany) was an Eastern Mediterranean immigrant to America who wrote on matters of religion and politics."In debt and nearly penniless on his arrival in New York, he went on to become a respected clergyman and nationally recognized community leader.His best-known book, The Syrian Christ (1916), was highly influential in its time in explaining the cultural background to some situations and modes of expression to be found in the Gospels.It is still cited in both Biblical Studies and Sociolinguistics.

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