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Author: Barbara Bietz
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Published: 2009-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781592871377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTen-year-old Ben has a lot on his mind: the league soccer championship, a bully at school and having to share a bedroom with his grandfather. But his grandfather's retelling of the Hanukkah story inspires him to be strong like the Maccabees.
Author: Tilda Balsley
Publisher: Kar-Ben
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0761362347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRetelling of the story of Hanukkah, the festival that celebrates the victory of the Maccabees over the mighty armies of the Syrian king.
Author: David C. Carson
Publisher: David C. Carson
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9781432701659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe year is 167 BCE. The bloodthirsty Syrian king Antiochus IV has reneged on the promise of religious freedom made to the Jews by his forebear Alexander the Great. Antiochus sets out to abolish every semblance of Jewish religion and culture, replacing it with the revered ways of the Greeks. Hundreds are slaughtered in the courts of the temple as they resist the king s desecration of their altar. Antiochus changes the face of Jerusalem, erecting a gymnasium where the men follow the common Greek practice of exercising nude. Many of the young Jewish men betray their heritage by having their circumcisions surgically reversed to hide their distinction as Jews. One elderly priest determines it would be better to die than see their nation thus corrupted. With his five sons, Mattathias ben Hasmoneus launches a guerilla war against the hated Syrians. Judas, his middle son, proves to be the genius in battle and becomes known throughout Judea as the Maccabee, the hammer. As Judas leads the nation in the struggle for freedom, one of his continuing motivations is love for the woman promised him since childhood but who has been caught in the midst of the conflict. Only when Jerusalem is delivered from the Syrians can she become his. Maccabee draws extensively on the ancient writings of Josephus and the apocryphal works 1 and 2 Maccabees. An additional chapter has been placed at the end of Maccabee,Author s Historical Notes, for those interested in separating the fiction from the actual events.
Author: Raymond A. Zwerin
Publisher: Urj Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780807404454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcome to a special puppet show. It is about the Maccabees. Who were the Maccabbees? Let's find out.
Author: Barbara Bietz
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Published: 2017-01-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781939160942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShabbat is very lonely for a boy and his parents when they move to a small town in the "Wild West," until he begins asking townsfolk if they like chicken soup.
Author: Miriam Feinberg Vamosh
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9789652801159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn-depth survey looks at what people of the Bible ate, hunted, caught, and more.
Author: Joel ben Izzy
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0698141660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt last a great American Hanukkah story! This very funny, very touching novel of growing up Jewish has the makings of a holiday classic. One lousy miracle. Is that too much to ask? Evidently so for Joel, as he tries to survive Hannukah, 1971 in the suburbs of the suburbs of Los Angeles (or, as he calls it, “The Land of Shriveled Dreams”). That’s no small task when you’re a “seriously funny-looking” twelve-year-old magician who dreams of being his own superhero: Normalman. And Joel’s a long way from that as the only Jew at Bixby School, where his attempts to make himself disappear fail spectacularly. Home is no better, with a family that’s not just mortifyingly embarrassing but flat-out broke. That’s why Joel’s betting everything on these eight nights, to see whether it’s worth believing in God or miracles or anything at all. Armed with his favorite jokes, some choice Yiddish words, and a suitcase full of magic tricks, he’s scrambling to come to terms with the world he lives in—from hospitals to Houdini to the Holocaust—before the last of the candles burns out. No wonder his head is spinning: He’s got dreidels on the brain. And little does he know that what’s actually about to happen to him and his family this Hanukkah will be worse than he’d feared . . . And better than he could have imagined.
Author: Henry Cotton
Publisher: Ravenio Books
Published:
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Five Books of Maccabees in English is a comprehensive collection of the Maccabean texts, which chronicle the heroic struggle of the Jewish people against oppression and their fight for religious freedom. This volume brings together all five books, offering a complete account of the Maccabean Revolt and its aftermath. Henry Cotton's translation provides readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to these significant historical and religious texts.
Author: Ann D. Koffsky
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781681155227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Hanukkah approaches, a caring older brother discovers that it is not an outward show of strength that wins the trust of his little sister, but inner strength as he bravely agrees to have the vaccination that will protect them both from threatening illnesses.
Author: Amit Arad
Publisher:
Published: 2019-06-16
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781091425422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen one falls The other rises... Jerusalem, 180 BCE. For 800 years the Zadokite priesthood has led the Jewish People. But the world is changing. Without, Rome is rising, crushing the other powers of the ancient world beneath it. Within, a power struggle inside the House of Zadok is a golden opportunity for interlopers, who seek to unseat them from the throne. The delicate balance which has allowed the Jewish Nation to survive in this age of Empires is threatened. On the background of these tumultuous times, Judah, scion of a minor priestly lineage, comes of age in Judea. While experiencing love, friendship, and conflict he slowly transforms into the warrior and leader his people are waiting for. This is the incredible story of Matityahu the Priest, Judah Maccabee and his brothers, and the Hellenizer Eupolemus. Together, they embark on a struggle for the survival of the Jewish people against the powerful Seleucid Empire.
