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Heartbeats: The Insider's Guide to Israel. A Non-Conventional Anthology by Leading Tour Educators
By Ya’acov Fried, Gilad Peled, and Yishay Shavit Heartbeats invites you to step off of the well-worn tourist paths and enjoy rare access to the nuances, contradictions, and complexities that make up the State of Israel. This fascinating anthology is penned and compiled by Israeli expert tour educators who each share their experience of Israel through their own personal lens, background, and vantage point. Reading this book before, during, and after your journey to Israel will give you an exciting opportunity to delve deeper, not just into the country but into yourselves. We hope that this guide will serve as a map through which your curiosity will be able to run free and will enable you to experience and appreciate the diverse fabric of Israeli society.
237 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 24, 2021
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June 28, 2023
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewer; I received this book for free in return for an honest review.
Ya'acov Fried and Yishay Shavit in their book "The Beating Heart", aspire to revive Judaism and thus break the shame caused by communist repression.
An incredible number of trips to each of the suppressed countries tell us how the Jewish religion developed; It is an apology for the evolution of Jewish culture over the centuries, in a multitude of countries! We thus discover a surprising mosaic of a plurality of peoples, all proud to have honored Judaism, through historical, cultural, political, social, ethnic, ideological paths, etc.
All have in common, this quest, visceral and anchored in their genes, to promote, or to revive from their ashes, their Jewish religion, hidden, flouted, crushed under the yoke of the oppressor!
A fantastic book that traces country by country, and to the end of the world, community by community, how Jewish identity was forged and how it was able to survive. They thus defied the Holocaust. Above all, the fact, today, of believing it and disseminating it widely, that nothing is fixed. Everything is constantly changing, as is the current perception of Our Reality!
Read this book! I loved! Enlightening and relevant, at a time when values are collapsing one after the other.
The Jewish flame does not go out. Its spiritual dimension is burning with a new fire!
Thank you for this enriching reading, in particular the chapter devoted to Judaism in India, which fascinated me! A quality multi-ethnic search and escape!
Ya'acov Fried and Yishay Shavit in their book "The Beating Heart", aspire to revive Judaism and thus break the shame caused by communist repression.
An incredible number of trips to each of the suppressed countries tell us how the Jewish religion developed; It is an apology for the evolution of Jewish culture over the centuries, in a multitude of countries! We thus discover a surprising mosaic of a plurality of peoples, all proud to have honored Judaism, through historical, cultural, political, social, ethnic, ideological paths, etc.
All have in common, this quest, visceral and anchored in their genes, to promote, or to revive from their ashes, their Jewish religion, hidden, flouted, crushed under the yoke of the oppressor!
A fantastic book that traces country by country, and to the end of the world, community by community, how Jewish identity was forged and how it was able to survive. They thus defied the Holocaust. Above all, the fact, today, of believing it and disseminating it widely, that nothing is fixed. Everything is constantly changing, as is the current perception of Our Reality!
Read this book! I loved! Enlightening and relevant, at a time when values are collapsing one after the other.
The Jewish flame does not go out. Its spiritual dimension is burning with a new fire!
Thank you for this enriching reading, in particular the chapter devoted to Judaism in India, which fascinated me! A quality multi-ethnic search and escape!
November 4, 2023
Timely read with all going on in Israel. Meaningful after just traveling there in 2022.
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