14.10.2020

“Mudras of India: A Comprehensive Guide to the Hand Gestures of Yoga and Indian Dance” by Cain Carroll and Revital Carroll (expanded edition)

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"Mudras of India: A Comprehensive Guide to the Hand Gestures of Yoga and Indian Dance" by Cain Carroll and Revital Carroll (expanded edition)
"For thousands of years hand mudras have been used in India for healing, storytelling, emotional expression, and to evoke and convey elevated spiritual states. For the first time, the elaborate system of mudras-as applied in yoga and Indian dance-has been organized into a comprehensive, fully-indexed and cross-referenced format that allows readers access to this still esoteric body of knowledge. Mudras of India presents over 200 photographed hand mudras each with detailed instructions on technique, application, health and spiritual benefits and historical background. The authors have extensively researched the usage of mudras and their significance in the larger context of Indian spiritual systems, and taken painstaking efforts to ensure each mudra is rendered with correct Sanskrit...>>
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13.10.2020

“Yiddish Folktales” by Beatrice Weinreich

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"Yiddish Folktales" by Beatrice Weinreich
"Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred marvelous tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe. Collected from people of all walks of life, they include parable and allegories about life, luck, and wisdom; tales of magic and wonder; stories about rebbes and their disciples; and tales whose only purpose is to entertain. Long after the culture that produced them has disappeared, these enchanting Yiddish folktales continue to work their magic today."...>>
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13.10.2020

“Lilith’s Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural” by Howard Schwartz

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"Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural" by Howard Schwartz
"Once upon a time in the city of Tunis, a flirtatious young girl was drawn into Lilith's dangerous web by glancing repeatedly at herself in the mirror. It seems that a demon daughter of the legendary Lilith had made her home in the mirror and would soon completely possess the unsuspecting girl. Such tales of terror and the supernatural occupy an honored position in the Jewish folkloric tradition. Howard Schwartz has superbly translated and retold fifty of the best of these folktales, now collected into one volume for the first time. Gathered from countless sources ranging from the ancient Middle East to twelfth-century Germany and later Eastern European oral tradition, these captivating stories include Jewish...>>
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