Marek Halter

Born into a world of luxury in the ancient Sumerian city of Ur, Sarah flees the arranged marriage planned by her father, a decision that leads to an encounter with Abram, a member of a nomadic tribe of outsiders, with whom she is reunited many years later in her exalted position as high priestess of the goddess Ishtar. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

A Novel

Sarah

Focuses on the life of Zipporah, the adopted Ethiopian daughter of Jethro, high priest of the Midianites, who became the consort of Moses and who played a vital role in supporting Moses in returning to Egypt to lead the Israelite slaves to freedom.

Zipporah, Wife of Moses

I can't be with those who throw stones at women and children.It's beyond me.Beyond my love for Ezra.Beyond my respect for God. In 397 BC, in Susa, the opulent capital of the Persian empire, where the Jews are living in exile, young Lilah is destined for a happy life: she is due to marry Antinoes, a great Persian warrior well known at the king's court.But her beloved brother Ezra, with whom she has been close since childhood, is opposed to this marriage with a foreigner.If Lilah insists, she will have to renounce Ezra, and that is something she cannot do, for she senses that he has been chosen by God to lead the exiled Jews to Jerusalem and, after centuries of displacement, revive the laws of Moses: laws which promote justice and give human life a meaning. Abandoning the promise of a golden future, Lilah urges her brother to leave for Jerusalem and gives him new hope that a return to the Promised Land is possible. But Ezra, blinded by faith, orders the rejection of all foreign wives. At the risk of losing the one person she still has left in her life, Lilah opposes her brother's fanaticism, thereby ensuring the survival of the women and children condemned to leave the city. But her opposition comes at great personal cost . . . Lilah concludes Marek Halter's trilogy about Biblical heroines. Sarah, Abraham's barren wife, brought her personal destiny to bear in the creation of a new religion. Zipporah, Moses wife, fought against racism and exclusion. By speaking out against religious extremism, of which women are the first victims, Lilah proves herself a champion of freedom.

Lilah

A provocative fictional account of the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus, captures the turbulent world of an idealistic young woman who risks everything to bring a much-needed miracle to her people and describes the influence on her of the three most important men in her life--her father, a rebel, and Joseph, a family friend. 60,000 first printing.

Mary of Nazareth

The Birobidzhan Affair

David Reubeni is a 16th century Jewish prince from the lost kingdom of Chabor. Arriving in Venice, he begins spreading his own gospel of the return of the Jews to a homeland in Palestine. Reubeni scours the European courts for support, ultimately pleading his cause to Pope Clement VII, to whom he promises control of the holy sites of Jerusalem in return for the Pontiff's aid. Upon his arrival at each new country on his quest, Reubeni attracts throngs of followers, mostly comprised of Jews longing for and expecting the Messiah. Will Reubeni attain his vision and lead his people to regain their homeland?

The messiah

Les aventures de la reine de Saba. De sa rencontre avec Salomon, roi d'Israël, naît le plus beau chant d'amour. Alors que le royaume de Saba regorge d'or, de myrrhe et d'encens, le projet de construction du temple ruine Salomon... Makeda, élevée dans le but de devenir reine, propose alors au roi légendaire une alliance commerciale. Un accord qui doit permettre à Israël et à Saba de s'émanciper...

roman

La reine de Saba

Tous les matins, Marek Halter rencontre un juif avec qui il noue conversation et partage avec lui un nouvel objet de colère.

Je me suis réveillé en colère

The Canaan Trilogy

Juifs, chrétiens et musulmans ont le même ancêtre – Abraham, Ibrahim – et une bonne partie de leur histoire en commun. Cette histoire commune est le socle sur lequel sont inscrites certaines des plus belles valeurs de l’humanité. Pourtant, au nom de leur religion, les peuples s’entretuent. Chaque jour, l’actualité nous le rappelle. En France, les actes antisémites se multiplient et l’islamophobie se répand. En écrivant Khadija, le premier volume de la trilogie Les Femmes de l’islam, Marek Halter a provoqué de nombreuses interrogations de lecteurs et de lectrices passionnés par la vie la première épouse de Mahomet. Le roman ne peut répondre à toutes. De là est née l’idée de Réconciliez-vous !, plaidoyer pour l’entente. Or on ne peut pas s’entendre si on ne se comprend pas. Si on écarte les questions qui tourmentent aujourd’hui une bonne partie de la société européenne : qu’est-ce qui pousse des musulmans, parfois si jeunes qu’ils sont presque des enfants, à aller faire le djihad ? Quel avenir leur réservons-nous et quel présent leur offrons-nous pour qu’ils choisissent de tout quitter ? Dans une époque où règnent le pessimisme et la désillusion, les religions peuvent proposer quelque chose d’immédiatement positif, un engagement moral qui donne un sens à l’existence. C’est en cela qu’elles sont fortes et qu’elles se sont imposées depuis des siècles. Mais elles sont perverties par la volonté d’anéantissement des extrémistes. Depuis toujours Marek Halter s’oppose, avec beaucoup de courage et de constance, à ceux qui réduisent la dimension universelle de nos différentes cultures au seul rapport de destruction. Parce qu’il est un homme de paix, parce qu’il a inlassablement prôné le dialogue interreligieux, parce qu’il s’est sincèrement attaché à apprendre et à comprendre les trois religions monothéistes, il est celui qui peut dire : «La Bible, le Nouveau testament et le Coran, c’est une histoire universelle qui s’adresse à tous les hommes et à toutes les femmes, c’est la grande histoire de l’humanité.»

Réconciliez-vous !

" Soixante-quinze ans après la Shoah, qui décima un peuple plusieurs fois millénaire dont je me réclame, après qu'on a juré d'une voix presque unanime "Plus jamais ça', ce "ça' envahit à nouveau nos trottoirs. En particulier dans l'Europe de l'Ouest, dont la France, patrie des droits de l'homme. Pourquoi toujours les juifs ? " Cet essai d'une sobriété percutante passe en revue tous les faux procès faits aux juifs – religieux ou non – au cours des périodes troublées de l'Histoire. Seront-ils encore les boucs émissaires d'une société sans rêves ni prophètes qui, après avoir mis en danger la Terre, ne parvient toujours pas à se libérer de la peur ?

Pourquoi les Juifs ?

" Existe-t-il une personne au monde qui ignorerait le nom de Marie, mère de Jésus, celle qui engendra le plus grand bouleversement spirituel depuis la naissance du monothéisme. Pourtant, ce que nous disent les Evangiles se résume à quelques versets elliptiques et mystérieux. Durant les années nécessaires à la rédaction de ce roman, dressant le portrait de "ma Marie", je me suis efforcé d'imaginer qui avait pu être cette Miryem de Nazareth, née en Galilée dans le chaotique royaume d'Israël en butte à l'occupation romaine. Né en Pologne, où le culte de Marie domine l'Eglise catholique, j'ai été depuis mon enfance fasciné par le destin de cette jeune juive à l'origine du christianisme. Un jour il fallait bien que je parte à sa recherche. Aujourd'hui, j'aimerais partager cette histoire passionnante avec vous. " Marek Halter.

Marie

The story begins in Jerusalem in 70 AD as Abraham the Temple scribe flees the destruction of his home. Two thousand years and a hundred generations later, another Abraham perishes, immolated in the fires of the Warsaw Ghetto.

The Book of Abraham

« Oui, en 1941, dans le ghetto de Varsovie de mon enfance, l’amour était présent.
Dans tes yeux raconte l’histoire d’un rêve d’amour et celle du mal absolu.
Ce mal dont je suis l’un des survivants. L’un des témoins.
Mais témoigner du mal nous préserve-t-il de son retour ?
Dans tes yeux est le cri d’amour d’une jeune fille.
Une jeune fille qui pensait comme Anne Frank, alors que celle-ci connaissait d’avance son destin tragique :
Je continue à croire que les hommes sont fondamentalement bons et généreux. »

Dans ce roman où résonne le cantique des cantiques, le plus beau chant que la Bible nous ait légué, Marek Halter livre un message bouleversant d’amour, de mémoire et de paix.
Grand romancier du peuple juif et des figures majeures des trois religions monothéistes, Marek Halter a consacré sa vie à promouvoir la paix et la fraternité entre les peuples.

Dans tes yeux - Un amour dans le ghetto

The ancient world and its politics come to life through the eyes of a young Jewish woman, Mary of Nazareth Miriam–also known as Mary–was born into a Palestine oppressed by Herod the Great; she is accustomed to living with uncertainty and unrest. But when her beloved father is wrongly imprisoned by the Romans, she takes action. She calls upon a well-known rebel by the name of Barabbas, and together they set out to save her father. A daring escape is accomplished and, against staggering odds, Miriam’s father is saved from crucifixion. Barabbas, flush with the success of the rescue, is intent on leading a full-scale rebellion against Herod and the Romans. Along with Mary and her father, he speaks before Jewish leaders who have gathered from various communities. Miriam feels great frustration as the men endlessly debate morality, the wisdom of rebellion, and the nature of God’s will. Having almost lost her father, and knowing she will be ostracized, she nevertheless speaks out against the use of violence. And to her surprise, one man, Joseph, listens. He offers to take her to Magdala, where she will be allowed to study in the company of intelligent, well-read women. This rare opportunity sets into motion a series of events that will change Miriam’s life–and the history of the Jewish people–forever. Based on extensive historical and biblical scholarship, Mary of Nazareth is a revealing, utterly captivating portrait of a woman whose story we only thought we knew.

** The latest provocative book by the international bestselling author, Marek Halter ** Seventy-five years after the Holocaust, which decimated a people several thousand years old, after we swore in an almost unanimous voice, "Never again," the scourge of anti-Jewish sentiment invades our sidewalks again, especially in Western Europe, including France, the homeland of human rights. Marek Halter, a Jew himself, asks, "Why always the Jews?" This hard-hitting essay examines all the false trials of Jews—religious or otherwise—during troubled periods throughout the world's history.

The Need to Scapegoat

Why the Jews?

Sarah's story begins in the cradle of civilization: the Sumerian city-state of Ur, a land of desert heat, towering gardens, and immense wealth. The daughter of a powerful lord, Sarah balks at the marriage her father has planned for her. On her wedding day, she impulsively flees to the vast, empty marshes outside the city walls, where she meets a young man named Abram, son of a tribe of outsiders. Drawn to this exotic stranger, Sarah spends one night with him and reluctantly returns to her father's house. But on her return, she secretly drinks a poisonous potion that will make her barren and thus unfit for marriage. Many years later, Abram returns to Ur and discovers that the lost, rebellious girl from the marsh has been transformed into a splendid woman, the high priestess of the goddess Ishtar. But Sarah gives up her exalted life to join Abram's tribe and follow the one true God, an invisible deity who speaks only to Abram. It is then that her journey truly begins. From the great ziggurat of Ishtar to the fertile valleys of Canaan to the bedchamber of the mighty Pharaoh himself, Sarah's story reveals an ancient world full of beauty, intrigue, and miracles.

A Novel (LP)

People may know that Abraham, the great Patriarch of the Old Testament, was the first man to spread God's word. But how many know of his wife, Sarah? How she was born into a wealthy and powerful family in the Sumerian city of Ur? Or how, at the age of twelve, escaping her own wedding ceremony, she ran to the banks of the Euphrates river and into the arms of a young stranger camped on the outskirts of the city. His name was Abraham and, although he was a member of a poor nomadic tribe, their encounter that night was enough to convince Sarah that their future lay together. And so Sarah abandoned everything - wealth, family and status - to follow Abraham and his alien God; a God of whom no one had ever heard; a God who was invisible and who appeared to communicate solely through her husband; a God who, one day, would command Abraham to kill their beloved son in his name, and before whom Sarah would beg for mercy... Set against the epic backdrop of the Sumerian cities of Ur and Babylon four thousand years ago, and in the arid wastelands of the Arabian desert, Marek Halter brings an ancient world vividly to life through the eyes of a beautiful and passionate woman.

Sarah: A Heroine Of The Old Testament

Chronicling nearly two thousand years of history, this panoramic saga follows the destiny of Abraham, a Jewish scribe, and his descendants from the burning of Jerusalem under the Romans to the 1943 battle of the Warsaw ghetto

Praga 1600. La violenza sta per devastare la città. Solo un segreto millenario potrà salvarla.Praga, 1600. I cristiani minacciano il ghetto della città, ne assediano le porte, tentano di entrare per metterlo a ferro e fuoco.Gli ebrei sembrano impotenti di fronte al terribile eccidio che rischia di consumarsi. Persino l’imperatore Rodolfo II, che fino a poco tempo prima li aveva protetti, finge di non vedere quale massacro sta per abbattersi su di loro.Solo l’intervento del MaHaRaL Judah Loew, il Gran Rabbino di Praga, sarà in grado di salvare la comunità ebraica. Grazie alla sua conoscenza della Cabala e al suo sapere esoterico, Judah riuscirà a creare dal fango un essere soprannaturale, dotato di una forza spaventosa e che risponde ciecamente al suo volere: il Golem.A narrare la straordinaria storia del gigante d’argilla sarà David Gans, l’allievo prediletto del MaHaRaL. Sarà lui, diviso tra lo studio dei testi sacri e la passione per le scoperte scientifiche di Copernico e Galileo, tra la purezza della fede e la pulsione verso l’amore proibito per Eva, la nipote del MaHaRaL, a condurci in un passato così lontano nel tempo, ma dal fascino antico e misterioso.Tra storia e leggenda, scienza e magia, un grande romanzo tradotto in Spagna, Portogallo, Polonia, Romania e Repubblica Ceca.Diventerà presto un film.Marek Halternato in Polonia nel 1936, a cinque anni lascia con la famiglia il ghetto di Varsavia per andare a vivere in Russia. Nel 1950 arriva in Francia. Artista poliedrico, oltre ad aver firmato una ventina di libri di successo dedicati all’epopea del popolo ebraico, è anche pittore e regista cinematografico. È tra i fondatori del movimento SOS Racisme, che si batte per promuovere la pace in Medioriente. Intellettuale di fama internazionale, Halter collabora regolarmente con alcune delle più prestigiose testate giornalistiche del mondo, incluse le più importanti in Italia. Tra i suoi libri ricordiamo: Perché sono ebreo, Intrigo a Gerusalemme e La regina di Saba.

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