Sedarot
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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Sedarot. Portions of the
Pentateuch read in the Jewish
synagogue on the
Sabbath. Each sidrah (sing.) has a distinctive name taken from the first important word in the text. The Pentateuch is divided into fifty-four sedarot so that the entire work is read each year.
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Jean Giraudoux.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 1/1/2007; ; 417 words
; Giraudoux, Jean Jean Giraudoux. Jacques Body. Paris: Gallimard, 2004. 934 pp. $39.00. Body's biography of Jean Giraudoux is a master work of scholarly research that will undoubtedly become...
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Obituary: Jean-Pierre Aumont
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...in the Swiss director Jean Choux' Jean de la Lune, playing opposite the...peasant opposite Madeleine Renaud and Jean Gabin. Aumont appeared in 1935 as...Simenon's Quartier negre (1936) to Jean Giraudoux' fantasy version of history Amphytrion...
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JEAN-LOUIS BARRAULT; ACTOR, DIRECTOR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 1/23/1994; 622 words
; ...contemporary French playwrights Henri de Montherlant, Jean Anouilh and Jean Giraudoux, Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett. During the...audacious moves was the staging of "The Screens" by Jean Genet, a confessed thief who spent years in prison...
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Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...eponymous main character. This is fitting, since Jean-Luc Godard is arguably film's most anecdote-friendly...digress at length about secondary matters--works by Jean Giraudoux and Jean Cocteau that figure in Breathless, for instance...
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PROMETEO KICKS OFF NEW YEAR WITH PLAY BY LATE FRENCH AUTHOR JEAN ANOUILH
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 1/3/2006; 397 words
; ...written in 1937 by French author Jean Anouilh and will now be directed...influenced by the way Louis Jouvet and Jean Giraudoux created theater. WHAT: Traveler...Luggage ; Play by late French Author Jean Anouilh: WHEN: February 10, 11...
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Fascist ideology and theater under the Occupation: the case of Anouilh. (Jean Anouilh's work during World War II)
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...theatre sain, et fort, et noble'. In the same vein, Jean Turlais, the drama critic of Les Cahiers francais, writes in |Le Theatre de Jean Anouilh' in May 1943 that whereas Giraudoux belongs to |the age we want to vomit' [read the Third...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Lean and artful staging helps `Enchanted' wink at absurdity.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 11/2/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...brisk and calculated approach to Jean Giraudoux's "The Enchanted," which...This lean, swift staging honors Giraudoux's belief in the literary value...com. The Enchanted What: By Jean Giraudoux. Directed by Jon Micheels Leiseth...
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'Madwoman Of Chaillot': Ethereal Killer
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/18/2000; ; 700+ words
; Jean Giraudoux's "Madwoman of Chaillot" is an oddly...balloon on the wind, you can see where Giraudoux wants his play to go--up and away...air. The Madwoman of Chaillot, by Jean Giraudoux. Directed by Jim Petosa. Lights...
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What Fools These Gods Be; The Laughs in 'Amphitryon 38' Are Ancient but Apt
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/24/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...principal of "Amphitryon 38," Jean Giraudoux's witty, sexy romp about gods...himself," Alkmena says. Indeed, Giraudoux's most memorable insights drip...folly royally. Amphitryon 38, by Jean Giraudoux, adapted by S.N. Behrman...
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Lettres a Suzanne, 1915-1943, vol. 2.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 3/22/2006; ; 514 words
; Giraudoux, Jean Lettres a Suzanne. Vol. II, no. 32: 1915-1943. Jean Giraudoux. (Vol. I, no. 31: 1913-1915...political role of the novelist-diplomat Jean Giraudoux. Jacques Body. Le Monde des Livres...
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Jean Giraudoux
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jean Giraudoux The plays and novels of the French author and diplomat Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) are marked by the use...original, somewhat precious style. Jean Giraudoux was born on Oct. 29, 1882, in the...
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Giraudoux, (Hippolyte) Jean
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Giraudoux, (Hippolyte) Jean (1882–1944), French...of the finest plays of the period. Giraudoux was already a well-known novelist...Troie n'aura pas lieu (1935), Giraudoux traced the causes of the Trojan War...
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Giraudoux, Jean
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Giraudoux, Jean (1882–1944) French novelist and dramatist. He is best known for his stylized plays based on Greek myths, including Amphitryon '38 (1929), Intermezzo (1933), and Tiger at the Gates (1935).
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Jean Anouilh
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Jean Anouilh The French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) was an accomplished...views of the human predicament. Jean Anouilh was born in C é risole...Profoundly impressed by the plays of Jean Giraudoux and Luigi Pirandello, which broke...
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Jouvet, Louis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...association with playwright Jean Giraudoux: produced Giraudoux's subsequent plays; 1932...to Paris with production of Giraudoux's La Folle de Chaillot. Died...Revenant (Christian-Jaque) (as Jean-Pierre); Copie conforme...
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