Birds of Heaven and Other Stories. E-book. Formato PDF Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko   -  Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019  - 

Of all of the more modern authors of Russia, perhaps none holds a higher rank than Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko. He was born in 1853 in Zhitomir, in the southern part of the Government of Volhynia. His works show an extensive knowledge of Russia, through which he travelled very extensively (partly due to the fact that he was one time banished for political reasons), and a very keen appreciation of the beauties and moods of nature. Even more than this, however, he appreciates very keenly the hardships and pleasures of the life of the people and while depicting them realistically, he succeeds in casting over even sordid and unpleasant scenes, a veil of poetic beauty and of spiritual significance, which elevate his work above much of that produced by his contemporaries. The stories in this volume date from the last part of the nineteenth century, for the most part, and give a very good idea of the range and variety of the themes handled by Korolenko and of the almost mystical treatment which he sometimes employs and his works in this respect are, if anything, more typically Russian than are those of his contemporaries who strive for a brutal and often repulsive realism. Contents Birds of heaven -- Isn't it terrible? -- "Necessity" -- On the Volga -- The village of God.  

Toward the Understanding of Jesus. E-book. Formato PDF Vladimir G. Simkhovitch   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The present study was first published with two other historical essays in 1921 under the title, Toward the Understanding of Jesus and Other Historical Studies.

La scelta di Abramo: Saggio sulle identità ebraiche. E-book. Formato PDF Vladimir Goldkorn   -  Bollati Boringhieri, 2020  - 

Abramo si appresta a compiacere l’ordine impartitogli da Dio e sale sul monte Moriah per uccidere il proprio figlio Isacco. All’ultimo però, un angelo – la sua coscienza – lo ferma, e così Abramo fa una scelta, si oppone a Dio e dialoga con lui perché cambi idea. Dio cambia idea, Isacco è salvo.L’ebraismo è da sempre una tradizione plurale che non dà quasi nulla per scontato; non si china neppure alla divinità: semmai la sfida e la interroga.Ci sono mille modi di essere ebreo, mille sfumature, tanto che una definizione di «ebreo» è sempre risultata elusiva e parziale.Wlodek Goldkorn costruisce in queste pagine un saggio denso, toccante, poetico e lacerante  che riguarda tutti. Parla di Shoah e di Israele, di vittime e carnefici, di antisemitismi e di complottismi, e lo fa con voce potente, scavando nei nodi insoluti della contemporaneità.