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Book Synopsis Of Tortoises and Other Jews by : Hannah Yakin
Download or read book Of Tortoises and Other Jews written by Hannah Yakin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Of Tortoises and other Jews" is the story of Hannah Yakin's childhood in Holland during the Second World War. Being the daughter of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father Hannah has to make sense of many unexpected and unexplained situations. Hannah and Abraham Yakin live in Jerusalem, Israel. They have eight children, many grandchildren and a growing number of great-grandchildren. Their colorful website, does not only represent their own art but also that of their talented offspring.
Book Synopsis The genuine works of Flavius Josephus: Containing four books of the Jewish war by : Flavius Josephus
Download or read book The genuine works of Flavius Josephus: Containing four books of the Jewish war written by Flavius Josephus and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On the Backs of Tortoises by : Elizabeth Hennessy
Download or read book On the Backs of Tortoises written by Elizabeth Hennessy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably linked to our own in a rapidly changing world. Finalist for the 2020 E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, sponsored by PEN America Literary Awards The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. This book tells the story of the islands’ namesakes—the giant tortoises—as coveted food sources, objects of natural history, and famous icons of conservation and tourism. By doing so, it brings into stark relief the paradoxical, and impossible, goal of conserving species by trying to restore a past state of prehistoric evolution. The tortoises, Elizabeth Hennessy demonstrates, are not prehistoric, but rather microcosms whose stories show how deeply human and nonhuman life are entangled. In a world where evolution is thoroughly shaped by global history, Hennessy puts forward a vision for conservation based on reckoning with the past, rather than trying to erase it. “Fresh, insightful . . . Hennessy’s melding of human and natural history makes for thought-provoking reading.” —Booklist (starred review) “Gripping . . . well-researched and thought-provoking . . . whether you’re well-versed in the intricacies of conservation or have only just begun to long for a look at the tortoises yourself. On the Backs of Tortoises is a natural history that asks important questions, and challenges us to think about how best to answer them.” —Genevieve Valentine, NPR “Wonderfully interesting, informative, and engaging, as well as scholarly.” —Janet Browne, author of Charles Darwin: Voyaging and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place
Book Synopsis Over schildpadden en andere Joden by : Hannah Yakin
Download or read book Over schildpadden en andere Joden written by Hannah Yakin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of a Jew born in 1933. She survived the war thanks to her non-Jewish father Jan van Hulst (1903-1975). In 1940, he changed the medical records of his wife, née Paula Horowitz (who died of illness in 1944), in order to "de-Jew" his family. This enabled Hannah and her two sisters to go to school, and to be outside and play with her tortoises. The tortoises were killed and eaten by NSB soldiers who raided their house in Amstelveen in January 1945. The sister, aunt, and mother of Paula were deported to the Schouwburg. Jan van Hulst managed to release them. He was active in the Dutch resistance during the war, and was instrumental in preventing Jews from being deported and killed. He built a double wall in the house, and many people were hiddden there.
Download or read book Public Opinion written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notices of the Jews by the classic writers of antiquity by : John Gill (independent minister.)
Download or read book Notices of the Jews by the classic writers of antiquity written by John Gill (independent minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notices of the Jews by the Classic Writers of Antiquity; being a collection of facts and opinions from the works of ancient heathen authors previous to A.D. 500 by : John GILL (Independent Minister, of Witham, Essex.)
Download or read book Notices of the Jews by the Classic Writers of Antiquity; being a collection of facts and opinions from the works of ancient heathen authors previous to A.D. 500 written by John GILL (Independent Minister, of Witham, Essex.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children's Exodus written by Vera K. Fast and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two, Britain rushed to evacuate nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi occupied territories. Through the unprecedented cooperation of religious and governmental organizations, the Kindertransport spared thousands of Jewish children from the terror of the Third Reich and provided them with host families in Britain. "Children's Exodus" offers an in-depth look at the people and politics behind the various chains of rescue as well as the personal narratives of the children who left everything behind in the hope of finding safety. Drawing on unpublished interviews, journals, and articles, Vera K. Fast examines the religious and political tensions that emerged throughout the migration and at times threatened to bring operations to a halt. "Children's Exodus" captures the life-affirming stories of child refugees with vivid detail and examines the motivations - religious or otherwise - of the people that orchestrated one of the greatest rescue missions of all time.
Book Synopsis The Jewish Alchemists by : Raphael Patai
Download or read book The Jewish Alchemists written by Raphael Patai and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monumental work, Raphael Patai opens up an entirely new field of cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the field of alchemy. Here, drawing on an enormous range of previously unexplored sources, Patai reveals that Jews were major players in what was for centuries one of humanity's most compelling intellectual obsessions. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century by : Sorrel Kerbel
Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century written by Sorrel Kerbel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.
Download or read book The Edinburgh Encyclopædia written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The pictorial Bible, with notes by J. Kitto by : John Kitto
Download or read book The pictorial Bible, with notes by J. Kitto written by John Kitto and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Generation J written by Lisa Schiffman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm not alone. I am part of a generation of fragmented Jews. We're in a kind of limbo. We're suspended between young adulthood and middle age, between Judaism and atheism, between a desire to believe in religion and a personal history of skepticism. Call us a bunch of searchers. Call us post-Holocaust Jews. Call us Generation J." Generation J is the ambivalent generation: unaffiliated seekers, men and women who have grown up questioning the bounds of organized religion. Lisa Schiffman is one of these seekers, and Generation J chronicles her journey through the contradictory landscape of Jewish identity. Moving from the personal to the universal, from autobiography to anthropology, from laughter to tears, Schiffman shows us the many ways in which one can be religious. Whether dipping into a ritual bath, getting henna-tattooed with the Star of David, unravelling the mysteries of the kabbalah, or confronting what Jewish tradition has to say about gay marriage, Schiffman reveals the conflicts of meaning and connection common to all who try to chart their own spiritual path. And, through it all, with humor and sensitivity, she confronts the reasons for her own quest and begins to untangle some of the thorniest questions about identity, community, and religion in America today. This engaging exploration of what it means to be Jewish is every bit as much a fascinating tour of the varieties of contemporary Jewish practice as it is an unusual personal quest. Smart, funny, and provocative, Schiffman brilliantly explores the problems and possibilities facing any spiritual seeker today.
Book Synopsis The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia: Astrophanometer by :
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Book Synopsis The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia: Lighthouse by : Sir David Brewster
Download or read book The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia: Lighthouse written by Sir David Brewster and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Jewish Fiction by : Gerald Shapiro
Download or read book American Jewish Fiction written by Gerald Shapiro and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A varied anthology of Jewish-American short fiction includes works by turn-of-the-century immigrant authors; famous authors such as Singer, Bellow, and Roth; and the more recent contemporary writers, all demonstrating the rich emotional breadth of the genre. Simultaneous. UP.
Book Synopsis The Pictorial Bible ... With Original Notes ... by John Kitto ... A New Edition with Additional Notes, Etc by :
Download or read book The Pictorial Bible ... With Original Notes ... by John Kitto ... A New Edition with Additional Notes, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
