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Postcard From Truskawiec Spa

Author : George Oscar Lee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781469111834
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Postcard From Truskawiec Spa written by George Oscar Lee and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-04-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emilla Rubinstein is the only child of a wealthy entrepreneur in pre-war Poland. She leads a carefree, privileged life, and while vacationing in Truskawiec meets the handsome, young Czartoryski, presumably of noble birth. They fall in love. Czartoryski charms his way into the Rubinstein family, claiming his own family lost all wealth.. The Rubinsteins object to their relationship due to the difference in religion. Nonetheless, they help him financially for the sake of their pampered daughter. The hot romance is soon interrupted by the outbreak of W.W. II. Emilia is caught into the web of Holocaust and is forced to mature very quickly. She becomes separated from her parents and every day is a struggle for survival. She assumes an Aryan name of Jadwiga (Jadzia) Slowikowska and joins the Underground. She exhibits great heroism. At the same time, Czartoryski's greed and anti-Semitism brings out his opportunistic nature. Jadzia (Emilia) learns to her dismay, that her former lover is responsible for the death of her parents. Czartoryski denounces her to the Gestapo. Sent to Treblinka she manages to escape from the train. Wounded, she is being taken care of by a 14 year old peasant girl, whom she later adopts. She rejoins the partisans and eventually joins the Polish-Soviet Army where she ultimately rises to a high ranking position. In Jadzia's survival, increases her determination to free her country and bring the guilty to justice. In the Army she meets Capt. Lucjan Lisowski , who proves to be her true love. Together they hunt down Czartoryski, who claims to be the victim. His criminal activities are exposed and appropriate punishment is meted out. Jadzia and Lisowski get married and having overcome many hurdles , escape the Communist Poland via Czechoslovakia and Germany. Lisowski a Catholic is very sympathetic to the plight of Jews and is willing to emigrate to Israel, however they wind up in Australia and become very successful.

Uncle Berl

Author : George Oscar Lee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453501649
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Uncle Berl written by George Oscar Lee and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of sixty-nine short stories and one poem combines works providing glimpses into life during the Holocaust, W.W. II and post-war period. UNCLE BERL tells the story of author’s maternal uncle and how he and his family survived the Holocaust. The final story in the collection “Quid pro Quo” gives us a look into the life of Berl’s son, a colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces and military attaché to Argentina. This collection of wry and humorous stories will strike a chord of recognition in the reader, as the tales focus on what is universal in human experience. George Oscar Lee with his uncanny wit and understanding of human nature, will certainly make you laugh, and sometimes cry, as he cover life under good and sometimes not-so-good conditions."

A Prometheus on a Human Scale - Ignacy Łukasiewicz

Author : Piotr Franaszek
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783631792919
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book A Prometheus on a Human Scale - Ignacy Łukasiewicz written by Piotr Franaszek and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to the life and work of Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish pharmacist whose world-renowned achievements include construction of the world's first oil refinery and invention of the modern kerosene lamp. The authors also portray the history of the Galician oil industry and set it in the context of political, social and technological changes taking place in the 19th-century Central and Eastern Europe. "The work adds substantially to existing scholarship in English. As the author of the only English-language academic monograph devoted to a general history of the Galician oil industry, I can attest that this manuscript adds significant and important information, details, depth of investigation that is not provided in my book or any other book. It therefore makes a novel contribution that will be very valuable to anyone looking for a truly detailed account of Ignacy Lukasiewicz's contribution within the context of the Galician oil industry in general." Alison Frank Johnson Professor of History and of Germanic Languages and Literatures Harvard University, Center for European Studies "The authors sketch the profiles of two outstanding Poles, pioneers of the oil industry - Ignacy Lukasiewicz, MSc. in Pharmacy, and mining engineer and geologist Witold Zglenicki, called the Polish Nobel (...) This scientific work is an interesting and captivating read. It can be used not only by scientists and students, but also by everyone who is interested in industrial cultural heritage (...)." Krzysztof Broński Professor and Head of Department of Economic and Social History Economic University in Kraków

The Dybbuk

Author : S. An-Ski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780871400659
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Dybbuk written by S. An-Ski and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stempenyu

Author : Sholem Aleichem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Stempenyu written by Sholem Aleichem and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Creating Defensible Space

Author : Oscar Newman
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788145282
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Creating Defensible Space written by Oscar Newman and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appearance of Oscar Newman's Defensible SpaceÓ in 1972 signaled the establishment of a new criminological subdiscipline that has come to be called by many Crime Prevention Through Environmental DesignÓ or CPTED. Over the years, Mr. Newman's ideas have proven to have significant merit in helping the Nation's citizens reclaim their urban neighborhoods. This casebook will assist public & private organizations with the implementation of Defensible Space theory. This monograph draws directly from Mr. Newman's experience as consulting architect. Illustrations.

Viral Modernism

Author : Elizabeth Outka
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231546319
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Viral Modernism written by Elizabeth Outka and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries combined. Yet despite these catastrophic death tolls, the pandemic faded from historical and cultural memory in the United States and throughout Europe, overshadowed by World War One and the turmoil of the interwar period. In Viral Modernism, Elizabeth Outka reveals the literary and cultural impact of one of the deadliest plagues in history, bringing to light how it shaped canonical works of fiction and poetry. Outka shows how and why the contours of modernism shift when we account for the pandemic’s hidden but widespread presence. She investigates the miasmic manifestations of the pandemic and its spectral dead in interwar Anglo-American literature, uncovering the traces of an outbreak that brought a nonhuman, invisible horror into every community. Viral Modernism examines how literature and culture represented the virus’s deathly fecundity, as writers wrestled with the scope of mass death in the domestic sphere amid fears of wider social collapse. Outka analyzes overt treatments of the pandemic by authors like Katherine Anne Porter and Thomas Wolfe and its subtle presence in works by Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and W. B. Yeats. She uncovers links to the disease in popular culture, from early zombie resurrection to the resurgence of spiritualism. Viral Modernism brings the pandemic to the center of the era, revealing a vast tragedy that has hidden in plain sight.

All this is your World

Author : Anne E. Gorsuch
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780199677931
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book All this is your World written by Anne E. Gorsuch and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All this is your World offers an exploration of the revolutionary integration of the Soviet Union into global processes of cultural exchange. Anne E. Gorsuch examines what it meant to be "Soviet" in a country no longer defined as Stalinist.

Being Poland

Author : Tamara Trojanowska
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442622520
Total Pages : 853 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Being Poland written by Tamara Trojanowska and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland’s return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of critical scholarship on Poland’s cultural restoration, Being Poland illuminates the continuities, paradoxes, and contradictions of Poland’s modern and contemporary cultural practices, and challenges the narrative typically prescribed to Polish literature and film. Reflecting the radical changes, rifts, and restorations that swept through Poland in this period, Polish literature and film reveal a multitude of perspectives. Addressing romantic perceptions of the Polish immigrant, the politics of post-war cinema, poetry, and mass media, Being Poland is a comprehensive reference work written with the intention of exposing an international audience to the explosion of Polish literature and film that emerged in the twentieth century.

Inventing Eastern Europe

Author : Larry Wolff
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804727020
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Eastern Europe written by Larry Wolff and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolff explores how Western thinkers contributed to defining and characterizing Eastern Europe as half-civilized and barbaric.

Hunting the 1918 Flu

Author : Kirsty Duncan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802094562
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Hunting the 1918 Flu written by Kirsty Duncan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of Kristy Duncan's experiences as she organized a multi-national, multi-discipline scientific expedition to exhume the bodies of a group of Norwegian miners, victims of the 1918 Spanish flu.

The Jewish King Lear

Author : Jacob Gordin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300108750
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Jewish King Lear written by Jacob Gordin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish King Lear, written by the Russian-Jewish writer Jacob Gordin, was first performed on the New York stage in 1892, during the height of a massive emigration of Jews from eastern Europe to America. This book presents the original play to the English-speaking reader for the first time in its history, along with substantive essays on the play’s literary and social context, Gordin’s life and influence on Yiddish theater, and the anomalous position of Yiddish culture vis-�-vis the treasures of the Western literary tradition. Gordin’s play was not a literal translation of Shakespeare’s play, but a modern evocation in which a Jewish merchant, rather than a king, plans to divide his fortune among his three daughters. Created to resonate with an audience of Jews making their way in America, Gordin’s King Lear reflects his confidence in rational secularism and ends on a note of joyful celebration.

In Polish Woods

Author : Joseph Opatoshu
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789121523
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book In Polish Woods written by Joseph Opatoshu and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Polish Woods, which was first published in its English translation from its original Yiddish in 1938, is a historical novel describing the devolution of the Kotzker dynasty between the age of Napoleon and the Polish Revolt of 1863. Author Joseph Opatoshu reflects on the conflicting and even opposite tendencies in development of the Jewish ideology during this era, which would largely determine the future of the Jewish people: Hasidism, enlightenment, and assimilation. A thoroughly engaging read.

Poyln

Author : Alter Kacyzne
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780805068290
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Poyln written by Alter Kacyzne and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Jewish Book Award In 1921, photographer Alter Kacyzne was comissioned by the New York Yiddish daily, Forverts, to document images of Jewish life in the "old country." Kacyzne's assignment was to become a ten-year journey across "Poyln," as Poland's three million Yiddish-speaking Jews called their home, from the crowded ghettos of Warsaw and Krakow to the remote villages of Otwock and Kazimierz. Candid and intimate, tender and humorous, Kacyzne's portraits-- of teeming village squares and primitive workshops, cattle markets and spinning wheels, prayer groups and summer camps-- tell the story of a way of life that is no more. For the last sixty years, Kacyzne's Forverts photographs-- the sole fragment of his vast archive to survive World War II-- lay unseen. Now the work of this lost master is restored to the world in a volume of extraordinary force and beauty.

Next Year in Marienbad

Author : Mirjam Zadoff
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207556
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Next Year in Marienbad written by Mirjam Zadoff and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the last decades of the nineteenth century through the late 1930s, the West Bohemian spa towns of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad were fashionable destinations for visitors wishing to "take a cure"—to drink the waters, bathe in the mud, be treated by the latest X-ray, light, or gas therapies, or simply enjoy the respite afforded by elegant parks and comfortable lodgings. These were sociable and urbane places, settings for celebrity sightings, match-making, and stylish promenading. Originally the haunt of aristocrats, the spa towns came to be the favored summer resorts for the emerging bourgeoisie. Among the many who traveled there, a very high proportion were Jewish. In Next Year in Marienbad, Mirjam Zadoff writes the social and cultural history of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad as Jewish spaces. Secular and religious Jews from diverse national, cultural, and social backgrounds mingled in idyllic and often apolitical-seeming surroundings. During the season, shops sold Yiddish and Hebrew newspapers, kosher kitchens were opened, and theatrical presentations, concerts, and public readings catered to the Jewish clientele. Yet these same resorts were situated in a region of growing hostile nationalisms, and they were towns that might turn virulently anti-Semitic in the off season. Next Year in Marienbad draws from memoirs and letters, newspapers and maps, novels and postcards to create a compelling and engaging portrait of Jewish presence and cultural production in the years between the fin de siècle and the Second World War.

The Golden Age Shtetl

Author : Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691168512
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age Shtetl written by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither a comprehensive history of Eastern European Jewish life or the shtetl, Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, focuses on three provinces Volhynia, Podolia, and Kiev of the then Russian Empire during what he deems the golden age period, 1790 - 1840, when the shtetl was "the unique habitat of some 80 percent of East European Jews."

Risk Terrain Modeling

Author : Joel M. Caplan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520958802
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Risk Terrain Modeling written by Joel M. Caplan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine using an evidence-based risk management model that enables researchers and practitioners alike to analyze the spatial dynamics of crime, allocate resources, and implement custom crime and risk reduction strategies that are transparent, measurable, and effective. Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) diagnoses the spatial attractors of criminal behavior and makes accurate forecasts of where crime will occur at the microlevel. RTM informs decisions about how the combined factors that contribute to criminal behavior can be targeted, connections to crime can be monitored, spatial vulnerabilities can be assessed, and actions can be taken to reduce worst effects. As a diagnostic method, RTM offers a statistically valid way to identify vulnerable places. To learn more, visit http://www.riskterrainmodeling.com and begin using RTM with the many free tutorials and resources.