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Book Synopsis Mondays with Moishe by : maurice yacowar
Download or read book Mondays with Moishe written by maurice yacowar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11-28 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sharp, often bawdy satire, a young WASP man profits from his friendship with an old Jewish pawnbroker.
Book Synopsis Mondays with Moishe by : maurice yacowar
Download or read book Mondays with Moishe written by maurice yacowar and published by . This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't need a professor to teach you life lessons. Sometimes your model for humanity can be found right under your nose ' if it's not lifted too high. Mondays with Moishe tells of one young man's relationship with an aging Jewish pawnbroker who deals in millennia-old wisdom. Whether learned, ironic, ribald or just plain thick-headed, this man has truths and insights for us all. Of course, Tuesdays with Morrie conveyed similar wisdom with compassion, tenderness and poignancy. Maybe there's a little of that here, too. But this is a day earlier. What the critics might be saying:'If you liked Tuesdays with Morrie, you'll be disgusted by Mondays with Moishe.''Where is Mel Brooks when we need him?''If The Pawnbroker was not already a film, maybe this could have been. Maybe. Or maybe not.''From the irreverent satirist who gave us The Bold Testament ' Why can't he leave the Jews alone and do the Italians for a change?'
Book Synopsis The Castle on Hester Street by : Linda Heller
Download or read book The Castle on Hester Street written by Linda Heller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie's grandmother deflates many of her husband's tall tales about their journey from Russia to America and their life on Hester Street.
Download or read book The Main written by Trevanian and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Main is Montreal’s teeming underworld, where the dark streets echo with cries in a dozen languages, with the quick footsteps of thieves and the whispers of prostitutes. It is a world where violence and brutality are a way of life. To the people of the Main, police lieutenant Claude LaPointe is judge and jury, father confessor and avenging angel. Montreal’s police force has changed over time, but LaPointe has not. His commitment to justice is total, as is his devotion to the Main and its underworld community. But when a cold-blooded murderer invades LaPointe’s territory, he is forced to examine his long-held beliefs and secrets and to confront his own loneliness and mortality. With a cast of unforgettable supporting characters and an unusual and remarkable hero, The Main is another gripping tale of death and danger, of action and mystery, by the incomparable Trevanian. Look for these other Trevanian classics from Three Rivers Press: The Eiger Sanction, The Loo Sanction, Shibumi, and The Summer of Katya. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Book Synopsis Young Moshes Diary by : Moshe Flinker
Download or read book Young Moshes Diary written by Moshe Flinker and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shlomo's Stories by : Shlomo Carlebach
Download or read book Shlomo's Stories written by Shlomo Carlebach and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-06-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories by the late, world-renowned rabbi and folk singer Shlomo Carlebach.
Book Synopsis Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board by : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Download or read book Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board written by United States. National Labor Relations Board and published by . This book was released on 1992-12 with total page 1476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catastrophe and Meaning by : Moishe Postone
Download or read book Catastrophe and Meaning written by Moishe Postone and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-11-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should we understand the relation of the Holocaust to the broader historical processes of the century just ended? How do we explain the bearing of the Holocaust on problems of representation, memory, memorialization, and historical practice? These are some of the questions explored by an esteemed group of scholars in Catastrophe and Meaning, the most significant multiauthored book on the Holocaust in over a decade. This collection features essays that consider the role of anti-Semitism in the recounting of the Holocaust; the place of the catastrophe in the narrative of twentieth-century history; the questions of agency and victimhood that the Holocaust inspires; the afterlife of trauma in literature written about the tragedy; and the gaps in remembrance and comprehension that normal historical works fail to notice. Contributors: Omer Bartov, Dan Diner, Debòrah Dwork, Saul Friedländer, Geoffrey Hartman, Dominick LaCapra, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Anson Rabinbach, Frank Trommler, Shulamit Volkov, Froma Zeitlin
Book Synopsis My Mother's Wars by : Lillian Faderman
Download or read book My Mother's Wars written by Lillian Faderman and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed writer on her mother’s tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York and her life-long guilt when the Holocaust claims the family she left behind in Latvia A story of love, war, and life as a Jewish immigrant in the squalid factories and lively dance halls of New York’s Garment District in the 1930s, My Mother’s Wars is the memoir Lillian Faderman’s mother was never able to write. The daughter delves into her mother’s past to tell the story of a Latvian girl who left her village for America with dreams of a life on the stage and encountered the realities of her new world: the battles she was forced to fight as a woman, an immigrant worker, and a Jew with family left behind in Hitler’s deadly path. The story begins in 1914: Mary, the girl who will become Lillian Faderman’s mother, just seventeen and swept up with vague ambitions to be a dancer, travels alone to America, where her half-sister in Brooklyn takes her in. She finds a job in the garment industry and a shop friend who teaches her the thrills of dance halls and the cheap amusements open to working-class girls. This dazzling life leaves Mary distracted and her half-sister and brother-in-law scandalized that she has become a “good-time gal.” They kick her out of their home, an event with consequences Mary will regret for the rest of her life. Eighteen years later, still barely scraping by as a garment worker and unmarried at thirty-five, Mary falls madly in love and has a torrid romance with a man who will never marry her, but who will father Lillian Faderman before he disappears from their lives. America is in the midst of the Depression, Hitler is coming to power in Europe, and New York’s garment workers are just beginning to unionize. Mary makes tentative steps to join, despite her lover’s angry opposition. As National Socialism engulfs Europe, Mary realizes she must find a way to get her family out of Latvia, and she spends frenetic months chasing vague promises and false rumors of hope. Pregnant again, after having submitted to two wrenching back-room abortions, and still unmarried, Mary faces both single motherhood and the devastating possibility of losing her entire Eastern European family. Drawing on family stories and documents, as well as her own tireless research, Lillian Faderman has reconstructed an engrossing and essential chapter in the history of women, of workers, of Jews, and of the Holocaust as immigrants experienced it from American shores.
Download or read book Solitaire written by Graham Masterton and published by Ipso Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immense diamond pits two brothers in bitter rivalry in this “multifaceted and fascinating” story of nineteenth century South Africa by the author of Railroad (The New York Times). Kimberley, South Africa, 1868: As colonial powers vie for control of the diamond-rich land, Englishman Barney Blitz goes searching for his brother Joel across the South African countryside. When he finally finds him, arrested and condemned to death, Barney performs a daring rescue—but his act of heroism will ultimately lead him down a path of greed, betrayal, and doom. Obsessed with pillaging the greatest diamond field in the world, Barney and Joel soon discover the Natalia Star: a flawless and priceless 350 carat specimen. But to whom does this brilliant and hypnotic diamond belong? Acclaimed author Graham Masterton takes his readers on an epic adventure of passion and tragedy in this “robust, stirring, and thought-provoking tale” (Publishers Weekly). “Engrossing.” —The New York Times “A gleaming adventure, sharply faceted with splendid period background, diamond-mining details, and rapacity that could cut glass.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Book Synopsis Escape Into Darkness by : Sonia Games
Download or read book Escape Into Darkness written by Sonia Games and published by SP Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and gripping wartime saga from a real-life heroine who impersonated an Aryan Christian and fought the Nazis by smuggling weapons to the underground during World War II. From the smoldering streets to the blackened battlefields of several countries, Games lived a fugitive's life--often a whim away from instant death.
Download or read book The Main Trevanian written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tales for an Unknown City by : Dan Yashinsky
Download or read book Tales for an Unknown City written by Dan Yashinsky and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales for an Unknown City is a vibrant selection of almost fifty stories from among the many told at One Thousand and One Friday Nights of Storytelling, a weekly open gathering in Toronto begun by Dan Yashinsky in 1978 and still going strong. There are tales from Canada and many other parts of the world; each followed by a brief word from the teller, giving us the flavour of the "Friday Nights."
Book Synopsis The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia by : Julien Hirszhaut
Download or read book The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia written by Julien Hirszhaut and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The near-annihilation of Europe's Jews in the Second World War destroyed not only much of their history, but also knowledge of the contributions they made to the regions in which they lived. In The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia, Valerie Schatzker rescues the almost-forgotten story of the Jews who became the "wildcatters" and oil barons in one of the world's first petroleum industries. Combining a history of Galicia's petroleum industry with an annotated English translation of Julien Hirszhaut's Yiddish novel Di yiddishe naftmagnatn (The Jewish Oil Magnates), Schatzker traces the near-century-long boom and bust cycle that took place in the Austro-Hungarian province - from the perilous, back-breaking work of digging for oil by hand, to the introduction of the Canadian drill that increased production. Galician Jews worked in the industry from its beginning to its final days under German occupation. They were pioneers in exploration, refining, and marketing, and in the first part of the twentieth century were prominent among its technical, scientific, and managerial leaders. After the First World War, as borders shifted and minorities clashed, oil resources declined. During the Second World War, Nazi occupiers, using Jewish slave labourers, squeezed out the last barrels for their war effort. Schatzker’s study and Hirszhaut’s novel illuminate and inform each other: her monograph provides the historical context for the novel and his novel provides colour and detail, personalizing the history. Together, they offer a valuable glimpse into Jewish life in a vanished era.
Book Synopsis Gods of the City by : Robert A. Orsi
Download or read book Gods of the City written by Robert A. Orsi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fascinating insights into modern urban religious practice make Orsi's collection a must-read." -- Publishers Weekly "The essays provide insight into the cultural creativity, reinterpretation of worship and religious ingenuity of city people over the last 50 years." -- Library Journal "At last, a major dissection of the great mystery in modern Americanlife -- how religion and spirituality prospered amidst industrialization,urbanization, and rampant technological change after 1880!" -- Jon Butler, Yale University "Urban religion" strikes many as an oxymoron. How can religion thrive in the alienated, secular, fast-paced, and materialistic world of the modern, Western city? The authors in this collection believe that cities not only can provide the settings for religious expression, but also are material to the experiences which give rise to those religious expressions. In this book, they explore the distinctly urban forms of religious experience and practice that have developed in relation to the spaces, social conditions, and history of American cities.
Download or read book Kabbalah written by Shahar Arzy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new perspective: that of the human brain. In lieu of the theological, sociological, and psychoanalytic approaches that have generally dominated the study of ecstatic mystical experiences, the authors endeavor to decode the brain mechanisms underlying these phenomena. Arzy and Idel analyze first-person descriptions to explore the Kabbalistic techniques employed by most prominent Jewish mystics to effect bodily reduplications, dissociations, and other phenomena, and compare them with recent neurological observationsand modern-day laboratory experiments. The resultant study offers readers a scientific, more brain-based understanding of how ecstatic Kabbalists achieved their most precious mystical experiences. The study further demonstrates how these Kabbalists have long functioned as pioneering investigators of the human self"--
Download or read book Mr. Monday written by Meyer Sluyser and published by Five Star Publications (AZ). This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of short stories, renowned Dutch author Meyer Sluyser preserves forever the images and personalities that comprised his childhood neighborhood in pre-World War II Amsterdam. A friend once told him, Yesterday never returns. With laughter and tears, however, Sluyser has thankfully brought alive for readers everywhere the yesterdays of his life. Translated by Mels Sluyser.
