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Wie es für eine Frau ist, in der Gemeinschaft der Satmarer Chassiden aufzuwachsen, das hat Deborah Feldman in »Unorthodox« Hundertausenden Leser*innen eindrücklich erzählt. Aber wie erleben eigentlich Jungen und Männer in dieser Gemeinschaft ihr Dasein? Als Akiva Weingarten auf die Welt kommt, ist sein Werdegang schon beschlossene Sache. Er wird in der Thora unterwiesen werden, er wird früh heiraten, Rabbiner und Vater zahlreicher Kinder werden. Und vor allem: Die Grenzen seiner Gemeinschaft werden die Grenzen seiner Welt sein.Aber das da draußen ist zu verlockend, und die Welt drinnen viel zu eng und bedrückend für den ebenso neugierigen wie unglücklichen jungen Mann. Dieses Buch erzählt von Selbstwerdung und Befreiung in einer Welt, die für alles eine Regel hat. Eine manchmal bittere, oft verstörende aber immer spannende Geschichte.

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Die Deutsche Reichsbahn war der größte Arbeitgeber in der DDR. 1990 wurde auch sie zum Sanierungsfall. Wolfgang Scherz, damals in der Hauptverwaltung der Deutschen Bundesbahn in Frankfurt am Main tätig, kam im Frühjahr 1990 nach Berlin-Lichtenberg. Sein Auftrag: die Bahnbetriebe der beiden deutschen Staaten zusammenzuführen. Die Problematik dabei: Die Deutsche Bundesbahn ist zu diesem Zeitpunkt ein schwer defizitäres Unternehmen. Fachlich gewappnet, aufgeschlossen und vorurteilsfrei dem ehemaligen Staatsbetrieb gegenüber, leitete er in den nächsten vier Jahren diese Fusion, die 1994 in die Gründung der Deutschen Bahn AG mündete. Er lernte 'Reichsbahner' kennen, die gleichermaßen qualifiziert wie engagiert waren. Scherz nimmt den geschichts- wie eisenbahninteressierten Leser mit in ein spannendes Kapitel der deutschen Wiedervereinigung und berichtet als exklusiver Zeitzeuge.

Um Gilgamesch, den König der sumerischen Stadt Uruk in Mesopotamien, rankt sich ein Bestand mythisch-sagenhafter Erzählungen, die berichten, wie er nach allerhand großen Heldentaten dem Schicksal seiner Endlichkeit zu entgehen versucht. Unsterblichkeit aber, das muss der Held einsehen, ist nur den Göttern gegeben, Sterben dagegen Teil der menschlichen Natur. Das Gilgamesch-Epos stammt aus dem babylonischen Raum und ist eine der ältesten überlieferten Dichtungen der Menschheit. Hier geht es gewaltige viertausend Jahre zurück in die Vergangenheit und hinab zu den tiefsten Wurzeln literarischer Gestaltungskraft.- Die älteste Dichtung der Welt- Das Gilgamesch-Epos ist das bekannteste Werk der akkadischen und der sumerischen Literatur. Es stammt vor allem aus dem babylonischen Raum und ist eine der ältesten überlieferten, schriftlich fixierten Dichtungen - Thomas Mann hat in 'Joseph und seine Brüder' Elemente der Gilgamesch-Mythologie in die Josephs-Legende verwoben

One man, his piano and their miraculous survival.<BR><BR>'Extraordinary' Baroness Julia Neuberger<BR>'Powerful and gruelling ... an almost unimaginable story of horror and survival' Mail on Sunday<BR>'Stunning. A beautiful blend of action, poetry, thought-provoking comment and music ... just brilliant' James Ainscough OBE<BR>'A gripping narrative of suffering, loss and survival, with music at its heart' Fiona Maddocks<BR><BR>All future, freedom and success lay ahead of young pianist Stephen de Bastion in 1930s Hungary. Life whirled headily around cocktails, romance, applause and the buzz of Budapest late into the night. Then, 1939. Stephen's world disintegrates and this becomes a story of his brutal descent, of his time in labour camps, of Mauthausen and Gunskirchen and the unimaginable horrors he endured during the Holocaust as a man of Jewish descent. Yet, this is also a tale of extraordinary escape ... and the piano, waiting for him.<BR><BR>The same piano that Roxanne de Bastion, his granddaughter, inherits when her father dies. It has been in the family over one hundred years but it is only when, deep in grief, she discovers a cassette recording of Stephen, that the astonishing history of the piano, the man and her family begins to unravel. Weaving together his original recordings, unpublished memoirs, letters and documents, Roxanne sings out her grandfather's story of music and hope, lost and found. Luminous and profoundly moving, this book captures the great spirit of one man in the face of darkness and the hope that echoes down through generations.

BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024<BR><BR>A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament, by the former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics<BR><BR>'The most exceptional political memoir I've ever read' ALAN JOHNSON<BR>'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE<BR>'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS<BR><BR>Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise.<BR><BR>Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow our democracy and government had become.<BR><BR>Cronyism, ignorance and sheer incompetence ran rampant. Around him, individual politicians laid the foundations for the political and economic chaos of today. Stewart emerged battered but with a profound affection for his constituency of Penrith and the Border, and a deep direct insight into the era of populism and global conflict.<BR><BR>Uncompromising, candid and darkly humorous, Politics On the Edge is his story of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life and a remarkable portrait of our age.<BR><BR>**A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TIMES, OBSERVER, i NEWSPAPER, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT, CHURCH TIMES AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**<BR><BR>Politics on the Edge was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller from 09.09.23-16.09.23, and 09.12.23-16.12.23, and 30.12.23-06.01.24

The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer<BR><BR>'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times<BR><BR>'A picturesque portrayal of a world that sounds as thoroughly maniacal as it was modern' Daily Telegraph<BR><BR>'I just called myself Ker-Seymer Photographs,' Barbara said. 'I didn't think it was necessary to have your sex displayed on the photographs.'<BR><BR>Vivacious, sassy, out to have fun, Ker-Seymer was committed to independence.<BR><BR>One of a handful of outstanding British photographers of her generation, Ker-Seymer's work defined a talented, forward-looking network of artists, dancers, writers, actors and musicians, all of whom flocked to her Bond Street studio. Among her sitters were Evelyn Waugh, Margot Fonteyn, Cyril Connolly, Jean Cocteau and Vita Sackville-West. Barbara Ker-Seymer (1905-1993) disdained lucrative 'society' portraits in favour of unfussy 'modern' images. Her work was widely admired by her peers, among them, Man Ray and Jean Cocteau. Her images as a gossip-column photojournalist for Harper's Bazaar were the go-to representations of the aristocracy and Bright Young Things at play. Yet as both a studio portraitist and a photojournalist, she broke with convention.<BR><BR>Equally unconventional in her personal life, Ker-Seymer was prefigurative in the way she lived her life as a bisexual woman and in her contempt for racism, misogyny and homophobia. Fiercely independent, for much of her life she rejected the idea of family, preferring her wide set of creative friends, with the artist Edward Burra, ballet dancer William 'Billy' Chappell and choreographer Frederick Ashton at its core.<BR><BR>Today, Ker-Seymer's photographs are known for whom they represent, rather than the face behind the camera, an irony underpinned by the misattribution of some of her most daring images to Cecil Beaton. Yet her intelligence, sparkle, wit and genius enabled her to link arms with the surrealists, the Bloomsbury Group, the Bright Young Things and, most gloriously, the worlds of theatre, cabaret and jazz.<BR><BR>With unprecedented access to private archives and hitherto unseen material, Sarah Knights brings Barbara Ker-Seymer and her brilliant bohemian friends vividly to life.

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