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Peter Balakian
Peter Balakian (born 1951)

poet, historian

  • Brown University, New York University

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Black dog of fate
Black dog of fate
The Burning Tigris
June-tree
Ozone Journal
Dyer's Thistle
Theodore Roethke's far fields
Sad days of light
The Burning Tigris
Reply from Wilderness Island
Yad Vashem
Ziggurat
Father Fisheye
The burning Tigris
Die Hunde vom Ararat. Eine armenische Kindheit in Amerika
Ziggurat
Declaring generations
Burning Tigris
The oriental rug
Art out of atrocity
Invisible estate
Luysi tkhur ōrerě
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)

political activist, Judaic scholar, autobiographer, translator, journalist, humanist, philosopher, playwright

  • Faculty of Arts of Paris

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La Nuit
La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour
King Solomon and his magic ring
Night with Related Readings
Célébration biblique
Sages and Dreamers
Wise Men and Their Tales
Célébration hassidique
From the kingdom of memory
Et la mer n'est pas remplie
Tous les fleuves vont à la mer
Rashi
Juif aujourd'hui
Five Biblical portraits
Juifs du silence
Tikvah
Four Hasidic masters and their struggle against melancholy
Somewhere a Master
Contre la mélancolie
From the kingdom of memory
A Jew today
Célébrations
All rivers run to the sea
Paroles d'étranger
Memoir in Two Voices
Night with Related Readings
Mémoires
Open Heart
Célébration talmudique. Portraits et légendes
Signes d'exode
Célébration prophétique
Un Juif aujourd'hui
Mtshan Mo
Rescuing the Children
Open Heart
Five Biblical Portraits
Five Biblical Portraits
After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring
Yehude ha-demamah
King of Children
Élie Wiesel en hommage
Natten
Nach'isŭ wa Yudaein
Elie Wiesel 1928-2016
Đêm =
Un judio, hoy
Coeur ouvert
--și marea nu se umple
Paměti 2
Nait'ŭ
Rashi
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
Prentice Hall Literature--Florida--Language and Literacy
Le Cinquième fils
Words of Ages
The Accident
A journey of faith
Conversations with Elie Wiesel
Portes de la forêt
Crépuscule, au loin
Mal et l'exil
Prentice Hall Literature -- Grade Ten
Juges
Legends of Our Time
Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Mendiant de Jérusalem
The Holocaust in Romania
Chant des morts
After the darkness
Serment de Kolvillàg
Dawn
The time of the uprooted
The six days of destruction
Against silence
Le crépuscule, au loin
Day
Désir fou de danser
Un di Velt Hot Geshvign
Ville de la chance
Procès de Shamgorod tel qu'il se déroula le 25 février 1649
Entre deux soleils
Beggar in Jerusalem
Oublié
Passover Haggadah
Un di Velt Hot Geshvign
Hostage
A Mad Desire to Dance
Dimensions of the Holocaust : lectures at Northwestern University / Elie Wiesel ... [et al.] ; annotated by Elliot Lefkovitz
Telling the tale
Le serment de Kolvillàg
Ethics and memory =
Elie Wiesel
The Oath
L' aube
Les juifs du silence
Les portes de la forêt
The judges
Memoirs
Un di Velt Hot Geshvign
The Sonderberg case
The Golem
The testament
Le Golem
In dialogue and dilemma with Elie Wiesel
Le Mendiant de Jérusalem
The Forgotten
Entretiens avec Elie Wiesel, 1984-2000
La noche, el alba, el día
Un desir fou de danser
Le Testament Dun Poete Juif
L' oublié
La ville de la chance
Vremi Ła neprikai Łannykh
A journey of faith based on and expanded from the WNBC-TV broadcast
Die Richter
The Oath
Le Temps des déracinés
Carry forward one page of memory
Le Chant des morts
In dialogue and dilemma with Elie Wiesel
The Sonderberg case
IASI Pogrom, June-July 1941
Night
Telling the Tale
A mad desire to dance
Testament, The
Le procès de Shamgorod tel qu'il se déroula le 25 février 1649
Les juges
Le mal et l'exil
Un désir fou de danser
Silences et mémoire d'hommes
The Sonderberg case
Dimensions of the Holocaust
Un di ṿelt hoṭ geshṿign
L'oublie
Noah oder die Verwandlung der Angst. Biblische Porträts
Night with Connected Readings
Ani maamin
Schweigen ist unmöglich
La Haggadah de Pâque
Alle Flüsse fließen ins Meer
D'où viens-tu ?
Die Nacht
Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle Against Melancholy (Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language and Literature ; V. 9)
La Haggadah de Pâque
One Generation After
Et où vas-tu ?
Filled with Fire and Light
Der Vergessene. Roman
The oath [by] Elie Wiesel
Souls On Fire-Portraits&Legends of Hasidic Masters
Town Beyond the Wall
Elie Wiesel at the National Press Club
Songes, énigmes et paraboles, suivi de "Le chant qui habite le chant"
Gesang der Toten
Le Golem raconté par Elie Wiesel
Le Jour
All Rivers Run to the Sea
Les portes de la fôret
Ethical Compass
God, Faith and Identity from the Ashes
The Tale of a Niggun
Twilight
The Fifth Son
Le Serment de Kolvillag
Medical and psychological effects of concentration camps on Holocaust survivors
Friendship - Bread for the Journey
Migrations et Errances
Gesang der Toten. Erinnerungen und Zeugnis
Light of Jerusalem
Sledui͡ushchee pokolenie
Der fünfte Sohn. Roman
Twentieth Century Novelists
Adam oder das Geheimnis des Anfangs. Legenden und Porträts
Jerusalem
...und das Meer wird nicht voll. Autobiographie 1969 - 1996
Le testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Messengers of God (Works / Elie Wiesel)
Dawn
All rivers run to the sea
Inside a library ; and, The stranger in the Bible
Splinters
TRILOGÍA DE LA NOCHE
Le\Testament d'un Poete Juif Assassine
Un di Velt Hot Geshvign
Out of the Depths
El Olvidado
Chassidismus - ein Fest für das Leben. Legenden und Porträts
Geschichten gegen die Melancholie. Die Weisheit der chassidischen Meister
Testament
Jew Today (Elie Wiesel Collection Ser.)
Selected and Annotated Resource List of Materials on the Holocaust
Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle Against Melancholy
Durghatna
Le roi Salomon et sa bague magique
Alle rivieren stromen naar de zee
And the Sea Is Never (Signed)
Memoria a DOS Voces
Gates of the Forest
Efoh ha-Yehudim sheli?
Passover Haggadah
Dia
Zalmen ou la folie de Dieu
Day
Souls on Fire
Esperar a Pesar de Todo
Town Beyond the Wall
Open Heart
It Is Impossible to Remain Silent
Die Nacht zu begraben, Elischa
Gece
Twilight
Por Que Recordar?
Todos Los Torrentes Van a la Mar
[Hagadah shel Pesaḥ] =
Le cas Sonderberg
The judges
Dawn
Contra La Melancolia
Surgunler Cagi
Zalmen Madness of God
Elie Wiesel Reading from His Works
Le mendiant de Je rusalem
The dark side of peace? (Conversazione)
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Bluebird Book
All Rivers Run to the Sea
La locura de Dios
L' oublié
Le cas Sonderberg
Twilight
Ma vigne à moi
Ethics and Memory / Ethik und Erinnerung
Le\Fantome de Canterville
Were We Our Brothers' Keepers?
Discours d'Oslo
Zalmen or Madns God
Al sorgere delle stelle
Le\Crepescule au Loin
La noche, el alba, el día
Celebrating Elie Wiesel
The gates of the forest
Zalmen, or the madness of God
Souls on Fire (Elie Wiesel Collection Ser.)
Ethical issues for today (Louis Nizer lecture on public policy)
The Jew
Elie Wiesel
Oath (Elie Wiesel Collection Ser.)
Retratos Y Leyendas Jasidicas
Le Mendiant de Jérusalem
Et où vas-tu ?
Safak Vakti
The testament
Les Juifs du silence, témoignage
Jewish Folklore
Twilight
Ethics and Memory; Ethik und Erinnerung
Le Cinquieme Fils
Het proces-Sonderberg
Images from the Bible
Jews of Silence (Elie Wiesel Collection Ser.)
Hanukkah Lights
One Generation After (Elie Wiesel Collection Ser.)
Against despair
Hostage
Elie Wiesel Shelf Talker
Messengers of God
Mendicante Di Gerusalemme
Le\Cinquieme Fils
Zavet
Messengers of God
Zalman, Or, the Madness of God (Works/Elie Wiesel)
עיר המזל
Two images, one destiny
Las puertas del bosque
Will Soviet Jewry survive?
A meditation on hope
Zalmen or the madness of God
Dimensions of the Holocaust
Az eskü
Dimensions of the holocaust
Hostage
The gates of the forest
The accident
Holocausto
Dimensions of the Holocaus
Elie Wiesel reading from his works
Dawn
A beggar in Jerusalem
The gates of the forest
Shaʻare ha-yaʻar
The accident
Parashat Zonderberg
Dawn
Yahadut ha-demamah
Mémoire à deux voix
Elias
The Sonderberg case
Think higher
Farṭog
The gates of the forest
Die Nacht zu begraben, Elischa
El quinto hijo
Reimagined
Dimensions of the Holocaust
Otage
ʻIr ha-mazal
2nd Annual Gershon Jacobson Memorial Lecture
El mendigo de Jerusalem
Vse txu cõi chret
Legends of our time
Fortvivl ikke
Noch'. Rassvet. Neschastnyĭ sluchaĭ
La locura de Dios
El mendigo de Jerusalem
The Power of forgiveness
Hagadah shel Pesaḥ =
Tsaṿaʾato shel meshorer
Denʹ
Żebrak z Jerozolimy
ha-Neshamah ha-Ḥasidit
ʻIm shaḥar (trilogyah)
Against despair
Linneas Windowsill Garden
Les portes de la forêt
Ani maʼamin
Der Schwur von Kolvillág
Zaveshchanie ubitogo evreĭskogo poėta
Munro Price
Munro Price (born 1963)

historian of Modern Age, historian

  • University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge

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The Fall of the French Monarchy
Preserving the Monarchy
Napoleon
QSI Henry Holt Production Demo
The Road To Apocalypse The Extraordinary Journey Of Lewis Way
The perilous crown
Resilience and Recovery at Royal Courts, 1200-1840
The Fall of the French Monarchy
Road from Versailles
G.H. Hardy
G.H. Hardy (1877-1947)

mathematician, academic

  • University of Cambridge, Cranleigh School

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Bertrand Russell and Trinity
Hardy, 1877-1947
The integration of functions of a single variable
Orders of Infinity
Ramanujan
An introduction to the theory of numbers
A Course of Pure Mathematics
Some famous problems of the theory of numbers and in particular Waring's problem
A mathematician's apology
Inequalities
The general theory of Dirichlet's series
Collected Papers of G.H. Hardy
Lectures on the mathematical work of Ramanujan
Divergent series
Fourier series
Mr. S. Ramanujan's mathematical work in England
Trinity College lecture room
Calculus and analysis
Theo Kobusch
Theo Kobusch (born 1948)

philosopher

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Querdenker
Christliche Philosophie
Christliche Philosophie: die Entdeckung der Subjektivit at
Gesundheit im Spiegel der Disziplinen, Epochen, Kulturen
Die Entdeckung der Person
Studien zur Philosophie des Hierokles von Alexandrien
Philosophical debates at Paris in the early fourteenth century
Sein und Sprache
Metaphysik und Religion
Platon Als Mythologe
Selbst - Singularitat - Subjektivitat
Geschichte der Philosophie.
Religion-Metaphysik(kritik)-Theologie Im Kontext der Moderne/Postmoderne
Warum Noch Philosophie?
Metaphysik der Freiheit
Platon
Philosophen des Mittelalters
Platon in der abendländischen Geistesgeschichte
Selbst, Singularität, Subjektivität
Selbstwerdung und Personalität
Reginald Johnston
Reginald Johnston (1874-1938)

diplomat, Hofmeister, sinologist

  • University of Edinburgh, University of Oxford

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Twilight in the Forbidden City
Confucianism and modern China
From Peking to Mandalay
From Peking to Mandalay
A Chinese appeal to Christendom concerning Christian missions
Lion and dragon in northern China
Twilight in the forbidden city
Buddhist China
Lion and dragon in northern China
Letters to a missionary
A Chinese appeal to Christendom concerning Christian mission
The Chinese drama
From Peking to Mandalay
Lion and dragon in northern China
Zi jin cheng de huang hun
Remarks on the province of Shantung
Lars Gyllensten
Lars Gyllensten (1921-2006)

physician, pathologist

  • Karolinska Institutet, Norra Real

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Minnen, bara minnen
Sju vise mästare om kärlek
Baklängesminnen
Testament of Cain
Hack i häl på Minerva
Ragnar Josephson
Sokrates död
Huvudskallebok
Grottan i öknen
Anteckningar från en vindskupa
Kains memoarer
Så var det sagt
Nihilistiskt credo
Det himmelska gästabudet
Rätt och slätt
Kistbrev
Senilia
Lapptäcken, livstecken
Senatorn
Im Schatten Don Juans
Barnabok
Desperados
Ljuset ur skuggornas värld
Klipp i 70-talet
Sokrates död
Skuggans återkomst, eller, Don Juan går igen
Till en konstnärssjäl
Juvenilia
Carnivora
Michael Grant
Michael Grant (1914-2004)

historian, classical philologist, archaeologist, numismatist, classical scholar, administrator, historian of classical antiquity, scientist, academic administrator, actor, film director, opinion journalist, translator

  • Harrow School, University of Cambridge

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Jesus
The classical Greeks
The collapse and recovery of the Roman Empire
The Roman emperors
Greek and Roman historians
Saint Paul
Constantine the great
The twelve Caesars
Cleopatra
The classical Greeks
St. Paul
The Emperor Constantine
Saint Peter
Julius Caesar
My first eighty years
The Roman emperors
Gli imperatori romani
The Roman emperors
Cleopatra
Kleopatra
Saint Paul
Kleopatra
Dis Klassischen Griechen
The climax of Rome
The world of Rome
Art in the Roman Empire
The fall of the Roman Empire
Myths of the Greeks and Romans
The army of the Caesars
The history of ancient Israel
Roman myths
Roman history from coins
The ancient Mediterranean
Cities of Vesuvius
From Alexander to Cleopatra
Caesar
The Routledge atlas of classical history
Who's who in classical mythology
Greek and Latin authors, 800 B.C.-A.D. 1000
The Etruscans
The Jews in the Roman world
The Rise of the Greeks
History of Rome
Ancient History Atlas
A guide to the ancient world
The visible past
The birth of Western civilization: Greece and Rome
The Antonines
From Rome to Byzantium
Dawn of the Middle Ages
Nero, Emperor in revolt
Cambridge
Roman literature
From imperium to auctoritas
The Roman forum
Dictionnaire de la mythologie
The founders of the western world
The Severans
A short history of classical civilization
The civilizations of Europe
Greek literature in translation: translations from Greek prose and poetry
Nero
The Hellenistic Greeks
Eros a Pompei
Readings in the classical historians
Roman imperial money
Lies
Roman anniversary issues
A social history of Greece and Rome
Latin literature
The ancient historians
Myths of the Greeks and Romans.
The civilizations of Europe
Aspects of the principate of Tiberius
Greeks and Romans
Roman readings
Herod the Great
Ancient history
Gladiators
Who's who in classical mythology
The six main aes coinages of Augustus
Greeks
Greek literature ; an anthology
Roman readings
Myths of the Greeks and the Romans
The world of Rome
Civilization of the ancient Mediterranean : Greece and Rome
Erotic art in Pompeii
The rise of the Greeks
Dawn of the Middle Ages, A.D. 476-814
The birth of Western civilization
The civilization of Europe
The ancient historians
History of Rome
Eros e Pompei
Mittelmeerkulturen in der Antike
Del imperium de Pompeyo a la auctoritas de Augusto
Cambridge
The Etruscans
The art and life of Pompeii and Herculaneum
Romans
Greece and Rome
Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum
The sayings of the Bible
Gods and mortals in classical mythology
The climax of Rome
Ancient history. --
The climax of Rome
The civilization of Europe
The world of Rome
Greeks
Romans
Romans
The world of Rome
Von Alexander bis Kleopatra
THE CIVILIZATIONS OF EUROPE
Rätselhafte Etrusker
The ancient Mediterranean
Dawn of the Middle Ages, A.D. 476-814
Civilization of the ancient Mediterranean
Cities of Vesuvius
Ancient history atlas
Gods and mortals in classical mythology
The Birth of Western civilization
The rise of the Greeks
The world of Rome
Myths of the Greeks and Romans
The world of Rome
Myths of the Greeks and Romans
Greeks
Le città sepolte del Vesuvio
ʻOlamah shel Romi
Ancient history
The coinage of Tiberius in Cyprus