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Le pianiste: l'extraordinaire destin d'un musicien juif dans le ghetto de Varsovie, 1939-1945
Par Wladyslaw Szpilman. 2001
Le récit poignant d'un musicien juif polonais qui a survécu à tout: le ghetto, l'extermination des siens, l'insurrection de Varsovie…
puis la destruction de la ville par les Allemands. Quand gelé et affamé, errant de cachette en cachette, il est à un pouce de la mort, apparaît le plus improbable des sauveteurs: un officier allemand, un juste nommé Wilm Hosenfeld. Hanté par l'atrocité des crimes de son peuple, celui-ci le protègera. L'auteur est mort à Varsovie en juillet 2000Par le feu et par le sang: le combat clandestin pour l'indépendance d'Israël (1936-1948)
Par Charles Enderlin. 2008
"Voici le récit captivant du combat des Juifs de Palestine depuis la révolte arabe des années 1930 jusqu'à la fondation…
d'Israël. Un combat qui fut aussi une guerre totale. Notamment à partir de 1944, lorsque les trois organisations paramilitaires juives (Haganah, Stern, Irgoun), après avoir fédéré leurs forces contre l'occupant anglais, lancent des commandos armés contre les postes de police et les bases militaires, détruisent l'hôtel King David, multiplient les attentats en Palestine et à l'étranger. Les Britanniques ripostent par des exécutions et des déportations. En ce temps-là, les têtes de Menahem Begin, d'Yitzhak Shamir et de bien d'autres futurs responsables politiques de l'État sont mises à prix pour faits de terrorisme. Et après l'indépendance, en mai 1948, ce sont eux que l'on retrouvera logiquement à la pointe du combat contre les forces arabes. Car c'est par le feu et par le sang qu'Israël a vu le jour. Fondé sur une enquête auprès des derniers témoins de cette aventure, sur des sources souvent inaccessibles en français et de nombreux dossiers inédits, ce document éclaire d'un jour décisif un épisode crucial, et pourtant des plus mal connus, de l'histoire contemporaine." -- 4e de couvLa force du nombre: récit
Par Pauline Gélinas. 2003
Journal de voyage, autobiographie, reportage et pamphlet, un livre complexe et d'une rare richesse qui déborde d'émotions : colère, rage,…
mais aussi une empathie d'une rare qualité. L'auteure y rend compte à la fois des semaines où elle a séjourné dans la bande de Gaza, témoin indigné du sort réservé au peuple palestinien, et de la douloureuse histoire familiale qui l'avait finalement contrainte à ce voyage. L'essentiel du livre - "choses vues" à Gaza, rencontres et petits faits vécus - est d'une immédiateté et d'une force redoutables. Un bel amalgame de qualités littéraires et journalistiques. Les premières pages, par leur caractère elliptique, sont toutefois d'un accès difficile. [SDMMa vie en rouge: une femme dans la Chine de Mao
Par Zhimei Zhang. 2017
"Depuis l'occupation japonaise des années trente jusqu'au retour au capitalisme des années quatre-vingt, ce témoignage montre les conséquences des perturbations…
politiques sur la vie des individus. L'auteure, envoyée en "rééducation" à la campagne en tant qu'intellectuelle, persécutée et emprisonnée pendant la Révolution culturelle à cause de ses antécédents familiaux "bourgeois", rend compte, sans hargne ni ressentiment, de la folie qui s'était emparée de la Chine maoïste. Femme de caractère, Zhimei Zhang raconte aussi avec franchise et humour ses deux divorces dans une société profondément patriarcale." -- 4e de couvOpération étoile jaune (Documents)
Par Maurice Rajsfus. 2002
Un récit en deux temps: le port obligatoire de l'étoile jaune, imposé en 1942 aux Juifs de la zone occupée…
par la Gestapo mais appliqué par les policiers français; l'arrestation de l'auteur et de sa famille et leur déportation à AuschwitzMon amie Anne Frank
Par Alison Gold. 1998
Voici le récit de la meilleure amie d'Anne Frank, qui, elle, a survécu à l'Holocauste. A travers ce témoignage, nous…
découvrons l'amitié de deux enfants juives pendant la guerre; les humiliations et les souffrances infligées par les nazis, et, dans l'horreur quotidienne des camps, un intense moment d'espoirPeace mom: le combat d'une mère américaine contre la guerre
Par Cindy Sheehan. 2007
"Texas, 26 septembre 2005, deux jours après la manifestation anti-guerre qui a rassemblé plus de cent mille personnes dans les…
rues de Washington. Cindy Sheehan, devenue l'icône du mouvement contre la guerre en Irak en campant devant le ranch de George W. Bush, est arrêtée pour avoir refusé de s'éloigner des grilles de la résidence du Président. Pourquoi ? Parce que Casey, son fils de 24 ans, est mort cinq jours à peine après son arrivée en Irak. Un mort parmi des milliers. La réponse de Washington à sa mère éplorée fut : "Il a combattu avec courage pour la démocratie". Dans Peace Mom, Cindy Sheehan raconte comment elle mit de côté sa douleur pour se lancer dans son combat acharné contre une guerre injustifiable et contre le Président qui l'a organisée. Mais son livre nous donne surtout la possibilité de mieux comprendre la société américaine, de la formidable capacité de mobilisation de son peuple à l'incroyable et coupable hypocrisie des plus grands médias". -- 4e de couvInvitation to a banquet: The story of chinese food
Par Fuchsia Dunlop. 2023
The world's most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishes. Chinese was the earliest truly…
global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. For more than a century, the overwhelming dominance of a simplified form of Cantonese cooking ensured that few foreigners experienced anything of its richness and sophistication-but today that is beginning to change. In Invitation to a Banquet, award-winning cook and writer Fuchsia Dunlop explores the history, philosophy, and techniques of Chinese culinary culture. In each chapter, she examines a classic dish, from mapo tofu to Dongpo pork, knife-scraped noodles to braised pomelo pith, to reveal a distinctive aspect of Chinese gastronomy, whether it's the importance of the soybean, the lure of exotic ingredients, or the history of Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. Meeting food producers, chefs, gourmets, and home cooks as she tastes her way across the country, Fuchsia invites listeners to join her on an unforgettable journey into Chinese food as it is cooked, eaten, and considered in its homelandThe land of hope and fear: Israel's battle for its inner soul
Par Isabel Kershner. 2023
An urgent, wide-ranging portrait of the divisions among Israelis today, and the external threats to their country, at a critical…
juncture in its history. • Through moving narratives and on-the-ground reporting, a veteran New York Times correspondent who has spent decades working in Israel reveals what holds the country together. "A wondrous tale told through the agonizing and uplifting stories of Israel’s many tribes — Jewish and Arab, religious and secular, new immigrants and veterans, soldiers and settlers."—Martin Indyk, author of Master of the Game, and former U.S. ambassador to Israel "For anyone trying to understand the reality of Israel today." —Dennis Ross, former U.S. envoy to the Middle East and the author of Doomed to Succeed Despite Israel's determined staying power in a hostile environment, its military might, and the innovation it fosters in businesses globally, the country is more divided than ever. The old guard—socialist secular elites and idealists—are a dying breed, and the state’s democratic foundations are being challenged. A dynamic and exuberant country of nine million, Israel is now largely comprised of native-born Hebrew speakers, and yet any permanent sense of security and normalcy is elusive. In The Land of Hope and Fear , we meet Israelis: Jews and Arabs, religious and secular, Eastern and Western, liberals and zealots—plagued by perennial conflict and existential threats, citizens who remain deeply polarized politically, socially, and ideologically, even as they undergo generational change and redefine what it is to be an Israeli. Who are these people and to what do they aspire? In moving narratives and with on-the-ground reporting, Isabel Kershner reveals the core of what holds Israel together and the forces that threaten its future through the lens of real people: a son of Zionist pioneers, cynical about what is to come and his people’s status in it; a woman in her nineties whose life in a kibbutz has disintegrated; a brilliant poet caught up in the political maelstrom; an Arab gallery owner archiving a lost Palestinian landscape; and a descendant of the Russian aliyah; representing millions of culturally and religiously different Jews, laying bare the question Who is an Israeli? The Land of Hope and Fear decodes Israel today at its seventy-fifth anniversary, examining the ways in which the country has both exceeded and failed the ideals and expectations of its foundersSome people need killing: A memoir of murder in my country
Par Patricia Evangelista. 2023
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A "journalistic masterpiece" ( The New Yorker ) about a nation careening…
into violent autocracy—told through harrowing stories of the Philippines’ state-sanctioned killings of its citizens—from a reporter of international renown "Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked her life to tell this story."—Tara Westover, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Educated A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Time "My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don’t wait very long." Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman Rodrigo Duterte. Some People Need Killing is Evangelista’s meticulously reported and deeply human chronicle of the Philippines’ drug war. For six years, Evangelista chronicled the killings carried out by police and vigilantes in the name of Duterte’s war on drugs—a war that has led to the slaughter of thousands—immersing herself in the world of killers and survivors and capturing the atmosphere of fear created when an elected president decides that some lives are worth less than others. The book takes its title from a vigilante whose words seemed to reflect the psychological accommodation that most of the country had made: "I’m really not a bad guy," he said. "I’m not all bad. Some people need killing." A profound act of witness and a tour de force of literary journalism, Some People Need Killing is also a brilliant dissection of the grammar of violence and an important investigation of the human impulses to dominate and resistMy hijacking: A personal history of forgetting and remembering
Par Martha Hodes. 2023
In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering…
impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970. On September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha Hodes and her thirteen-year-old sister were flying unaccompanied back to New York City from Israel when their plane was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and forced to land in the Jordan desert. Too young to understand the sheer gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Martha coped by suppressing her fear and anxiety. Nearly a half-century later, her memories of those six days and nights as a hostage are hazy and scattered. Was it the passage of so much time, or that her family couldn't endure the full story, or had trauma made her repress such an intense life-and-death experience? A professional historian, Martha wanted to find out. Drawing on deep archival research, childhood memories, and conversations with relatives, friends, and fellow hostages, Martha Hodes sets out to re-create what happened to her, and what it was like for those at home desperately hoping for her return. Thrown together inside a stifling jetliner, the hostages forged friendships, provoked conflicts, and dreamed up distractions. Learning about the lives and causes of their captors—some of them kind, some frightening—the sisters pondered a deadly divide that continues today. A thrilling tale of fear, denial, and empathy, My Hijacking sheds light on the hostage crisis that shocked the world, as the author comes to a deeper understanding of both what happened in the Jordan desert in 1970 and her own fractured family and childhood sorrowsThe arc of a covenant: The united states, israel, and the fate of the jewish people
Par Walter Mead. 2023
In this bold examination of the Israeli-American relationship, Walter Russell Mead demolishes the myths that both pro-Zionists and anti-Zionists have…
fostered over the years. He makes clear that Zionism has always been a divisive subject in the American Jewish community, and that American Christians have often been the most fervent supporters of a Jewish state, citing examples from the time of J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller to the present day. He spotlights the almost forgotten story of left-wing support for Zionism, arguing that Eleanor Roosevelt and liberal New Dealers had more influence on President Truman's Israel policy than the American Jewish community-and that Stalin's influence was more decisive than Truman's in Israel's struggle for independence. Mead shows how Israel's rise in the Middle East helped kindle both the modern evangelical movement and the Sunbelt coalition that carried Reagan into the White House. Highlighting the real sources of Israel's support across the American political spectrum, he debunks the legend of the so-called "Israel lobby." And, he describes the aspects of American culture that make it hostile to anti-Semitism and warns about the danger to that tradition of tolerance as our current culture wars heat upEighteen days in october: The yom kippur war and how it created the modern middle east
Par Uri Kaufman. 2023
October 2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a conflict that shaped the modern Middle East. The…
War was a trauma for Israel, a dangerous superpower showdown, and, following the oil embargo, a pivotal reordering of the global economic order. The Jewish State came shockingly close to defeat. A panicky cabinet meeting debated the use of nuclear weapons. After the war, Prime Minister Golda Meir resigned in disgrace, and a 9/11-style commission investigated the "debacle." But, argues Uri Kaufman, from the perspective of a half century, the War can be seen as a pivotal victory for Israel. After nearly being routed, the Israeli Defense Force clawed its way back to threaten Cairo and Damascus. In the war's aftermath both sides had to accept unwelcome truths: Israel could no longer take military superiority for granted-but the Arabs could no longer hope to wipe Israel off the map. A straight line leads from the battlefields of 1973 to the Camp David Accords of 1978 and all the treaties since. Like Michael Oren's Six Days of War, this is the definitive account of a critical moment in historyA brilliant life: My mother's inspiring true story of surviving the holocaust
Par Rachelle Unreich. 2023
The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter—a tale that reminds us of the resilience of…
the soul and the ability of the heart to heal. As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed—which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around her. And, incredibly, when giving testimony later in life, she says that it was during this time—despite witnessing the depths of man's cruelty—that she learned about "the goodness of people." Born in Czechoslovakia, Mira was only 12 years old when World War II broke out. At 88, living in Australia, she is diagnosed with cancer, and her journalist daughter decides to interview her to distract her from her illness. What Rachelle discovers about her mother helps her fit together the jigsaw pieces of her own life. A Brilliant Life portrays not only how remote a prospect it was to live through the Holocaust, but what it is like to be the child of a survivor. A story of love, loss, wonder and the deepest kind of faith, A Brilliant Life questions the role that fate, chance and destiny play in one's life. It is a tribute to family, a story of incredible resilience and a chronicle of the deep connection between mother and child that not even death can destroyBloodlands: Europe between hitler and stalin
Par Timothy Snyder. 2018
From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny , the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's politics of mass…
killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century. Americans call the Second World War "The Good War."But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war's end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history. Bloodlands won twelve awards including the Emerson Prize in the Humanities, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Leipzig Award for European Understanding, and the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought. It has been translated into more than thirty languages, was named to twelve book-of-the-year lists, and was a bestseller in six countriesThe china mirage: The hidden history of american disaster in asia
Par James Bradley. 2015
From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers , Flyboys , and The Imperial Cruise , a spellbinding history…
of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao's ascent. In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America's engagement in Asia. Now comes his most engrossing work yet. Beginning in the 1850s, Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans who made their fortunes in the China opium trade. As they — -good Christians all — -profitably addicted millions, American missionaries arrived, promising salvation for those who adopted Western ways. And that was just the beginning. From drug dealer Warren Delano to his grandson Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from the port of Hong Kong to the towers of Princeton University, from the era of Appomattox to the age of the A-Bomb, The China Mirage explores a difficult century that defines U.S.-Chinese relations to this dayArab and jew: Wounded spirits in a promised land
Par David Shipler. 2002
Arab stereotype portrays the Jew as a brutal, violent coward. The Jewish stereotype portrays the Arab as a primitive creature…
of animal vengeance and cruel desires. In this monumental Pulitzer Prize–winning work, revised in 2002, David Shipler delves into the origins of these prejudices that have been intensified by war, terrorism, and nationalism. Shipler examines the process of indoctrination that begins in schools, the far-ranging effects of socioeconomic differences, and the historical conflicts between Islam and Judaism. And he writes of the people: the Arab woman in love with a Jew; the retired Israeli military officer; the Palestinian guerrilla; the handsome actor whose father is Arab and mother is Jewish. Their stories reflect not only the reality of wounded spirits, but also a glimmer of hope for eventual coexistence in the Promised LandLe roman de Constantinople (Le roman des lieux magiques)
Par Gilles Martin-Chauffier. 2005
Les lieux, les grandes figures et les événements qui ont marqué l'histoire de l'actuelle ville d'Istanbul du sacre de Théodora,…
prostituée devenue impératrice, à la passion de Soliman le Magnifique pour son vizir, de l'impératrice Irène qui fit crever les yeux de son fils à l'intronisation de Mehmet III ordonnant la mort de ses 19 frères. Prix Renaudot essai 2005.Irak, les armes introuvables
Par Hans Blix. 2004
H. Blix, chef des inspections de l'ONU, dénonce les dessous d'une guerre programmée en Irak, les pressions subies et l'état…
des inspections. Il affirme que les Etats-Unis et la Grande-Bretagne ont menti sur la présence d'armes de destruction massive en Irak. Il analyse aussi les motifs inavoués de l'intervention et les conséquences de l'unilatéralisme sur l'équilibre du monde.Gamelin: la tragédie de l'ambition (Biographies)
Par Max Schiavon. 2021
Biographie de l'officier Maurice Gamelin (1872-1958). L'auteur tente de comprendre pourquoi cet homme a conduit les armées alliées au désastre…
en 1940. Il analyse ses choix tactiques et stratégiques, son comportement et ses failles. Il examine également les motivations de ceux qui l'ont désigné à ce poste. Il évoque sa vie publique et privée, ainsi que ses expériences.