Simorgh tells the story of conflict and friendship in a Jewish-Muslim world. Revealing life in Afghanistan and Palestine in the first half of the 20th century, the novel brings together reality and imagination, cruelty and innocence, against the backdrop of the tensions between a Jewish minority and a Muslim majority. Following its main protagonist the novel juxtaposes two Jewish worlds: Afghanistan, where poverty prevails and daily life is a struggle to survive, and life in the Land of Israel, where despite all the hardship, there is a surprising amount of possibility.

edition-tethys: uebersetzungen / translations
Softcover, 423 Pages, (A5)
Language: English
22 Euro (+ shipping: within Germany 3,50 Euro / international by arrangement)
Bestellbar ab / Available from 01.03.2024

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ISBN: 978-3-942527-18-7

Praise for Simorgh

Eric Bloom (critic): „This is a fascinating historical-family-romantic novel that began about 100 years ago in Afghanistan and describes with sensitivity and rich language the transition from a traditional patriarchal world to a modern and democratic world… The book describes the difficulties, challenges and traumas experienced by a Jewish family.“  

Prof. Nurit Govrin (Tel Aviv University): „Anyone exposed to the work of Ben-Zion Yehoshua is captivated by its charm… He provides a great deal of pleasure within a literary, linguistic, cultural and emotional experience… His great power lies in the sweeping and captivating plot and his talent to interest the reader in the story of real deeds and the destinies of people. The sentiments, the sex, the permitted and forbidden desires, are an inseparable part of the world of its heroes, men and women alike. He does not judge his characters but regards them with a mixture of identification, pity, mocking and a lot of humor… One eye cries tears of sadness, the other tears of joy. His ability to identify with the lives and suffering of his female characters reflects his great love for and gratitude to his mother.“

edition-tethys: wissenschaft / science Vol. 7

Hardcover, 110 pages, landscape format (297×230), 44 full-page colour plates and approx. 70 illustrations in colour/black and white.

English version of Drumze -Metamorphosen des tibetischen Teppichs.
Catalogue of the exhibition „Drumze. Tibetische Teppiche“
Teppichmuseum Schloss Voigtsberg, Oelsnitz, Vogtland,
16 October 2021 – 31 December 2022.

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ISBN: 978-3-942527-16-3

edition-tethys: wissenschaft / science Vol. 6

In cooperation with the Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences

7 Articles on Czech and Slovak Tibetologist and their work

edited by: Luboš Bělka, Daniel Berounský, Petr Jandáček, Jarmila Ptáčková

Softcover, 167 Pages
68 Colour and b/w fotographs

Inhalt / Contents: Contents-Experiencing Tibet-2022

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ISBN: 978-3-942527-15-6 // ISBN: 978-80-85425-70-3

NEU Eingetroffen: Die 2. Auflage. Restposten der Ersten Auflage zum reduzierten Preis von 30 Euro (plus Versand) erhältlich – solange der Vorrat reicht…

Katalog zur Ausstellung „Drumze. Tibetische Teppiche“ im Teppichmuseum Schloss Voigtsberg, Oelsnitz im Vogtland. Vom 16. Oktober 2021 bis 31. Dezember 2022https://www.schloss-voigtsberg.de/museen/sonderausstellung/drumze-tibetische-teppiche

Hardcover, 102 Seiten, Querformat (297×230), 44 ganzseitige Farbtafeln und ca. 70 Abbildungen in Farbe/SW

Rezension Michael Buddeberg: „…für jeden Liebhaber tibetischer Kultur schlicht unverzichtbar.“

Rezension Daniel Wohjahn (Asian Ethnology 81, 1&2) „…The authors
advance our scholarly understanding of Tibetan tapitology…“

42 Euro (+ Versand: innerhalb Dtl 5 Euro / + shipping: international by arrangement)
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ISBN: 978-3-942527-13-2

edition-tethys: Begegnungen Bd. 5

Herausgegeben von: Olaf Günther und Thomas Loy
Broschur, 137 Seiten, Potsdam 2021

16 Euro (keine Versandkosten innerhalb Dtl)

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ISBN: 978-3-942527-12-5

Daniel Wojahn, „Teaching the Living through the Tibetan Book of the Dead: Exploration into the Context and Content of an 18th-century Mongolian Block Print,“ in: New Currents on the Neva River. Papers Presented at the 5th International Semianr of Young Tibetologists, edited by Franz Xaver Erhard, Natalia Moskaleva, Daniel Wohjan, Jed Forman, and Maria Smirnova. Vol. 3, edition tethys: wissenschaft/science. Potsdam: edition tethys, 2020, pp. 160-180 pp. 520–550.

Hardcover available here / Das Buch im Ganzen hier…

DOI: 10.36201/tethys.science.3.24

Maria Smirnova, „Study of the Tibetan Linguistic Picture of the World Using Computer Ontology,“ in: New Currents on the Neva River. Papers Presented at the 5th International Semianr of Young Tibetologists, edited by Franz Xaver Erhard, Natalia Moskaleva, Daniel Wohjan, Jed Forman, and Maria Smirnova. Vol. 3, edition tethys: wissenschaft/science. Potsdam: edition tethys, 2020, pp. 473-492.

Hardcover available here / Das Buch im Ganzen hier…

DOI: 10.36201/tethys.science.3.22

Alla Sizova, „Tibetan Manuscript on Birchbark from the Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS,“ in: New Currents on the Neva River. Papers Presented at the 5th International Semianr of Young Tibetologists, edited by Franz Xaver Erhard, Natalia Moskaleva, Daniel Wohjan, Jed Forman, and Maria Smirnova. Vol. 3, edition tethys: wissenschaft/science. Potsdam: edition tethys, 2020, pp. 460-472.

Hardcover available here / Das Buch im Ganzen hier…

DOI: 10.36201/tethys.science.3.21