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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."
Book Synopsis Behind the Walled Garden of Apartheid by : Claire Datnow
Download or read book Behind the Walled Garden of Apartheid written by Claire Datnow and published by Media Mint Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of the draconian apartheid regime, Behind the Walled Garden of Apartheid, Datnow’s memoir of growing up in South Africa deftly conjures up the era's blatant racism and the rich African landscape. The author vividly recreates her growing up years as white and Jewish at the height of the apartheid regime from 1948-1965, and her struggle as a young adult to come to terms with the wrongdoings of that dark era. The memoir is both a fascinating historical account and an intriguing personal narrative painted with humor and sensitivity.
Book Synopsis Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl by : Yekhezkel Kotik
Download or read book Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl written by Yekhezkel Kotik and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-09 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town. Originally published in Warsaw in 1913, this beautifully written memoir offers a panoramic description of the author’s experiences growing up in Kamieniec Litewski, a Polish shtetl connected with many important events in the history of nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewry. Although the way of life portrayed in this memoir has disappeared, the historical, cultural, and folkoric material it contains will be of major interest to historians and general readers alike. Kotik’s story is the saga of a wealthy and influential family through four generations. Masterfully interwoven in this tale are colorful vignettes featuring Kotik’s family and neighbors, including rabbis and zaddikim, merchants and the poor, hasidim and mitnaggedim, scholars and illiterates, believers and heretics, matchmakers and informers, and teachers and musicians. Stories of personal warmth and despair intermingle with descriptions of the rise and decline of Jewish communal institutions and descriptions or the relationships between Jews, Russian authorities, and Polish lords. Such events as the brutal decrees of Tsar Nicholas I, the abolishment of the Jewish communal board known as the Kahal, and the Polish revolts against Russia are reflected in the lives of these people. The English edition includes a complete translation of the first volume of memoirs and contains notes elucidating terms, names, and customs, as well as bibliographical references to the research literature. The book not only acquaints new readers with the talent of a unique storyteller but also presents an important document of Jewish life during a fascinating era.
Download or read book The Promised Land written by Mary Antin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1912 classic of the Jewish-American immigrant experience, whose author arrived in Boston from Russia as a child in the 1890s, offers a moving narrative of Old and New World cultures.
Book Synopsis Escape From Vienna by : Trudie Richman
Download or read book Escape From Vienna written by Trudie Richman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trudie Richman considers herself a lucky Holocaust survivor. She, along with her five siblings and both parents, escaped the horrors of Nazi Europe. Escape from Vienna is a redemptive and ultimately uplifting memoir, beginning with Trudie at just three years of age losing her biological mother. Richman´s story takes another dramatic turn when Hitler annexes Austria. A sheltered, naive and terrified 14-year old Richman struggles on her own to reach America´s secure shores. Escape from Vienna´s narrative has an innocent quality and is not horrific like other Holocaust memoirs, thought it does have some sad vignettes. The memoir is also appropriate for young readers, who would be inspired with Richman´s ability as a teenager to learn English, graduate high school early and earn a scholarship to college. Richman is an accomplished poet and musician. Two of her folk recordings are on the prestigious Smithsonian Folkways label. Visit her website: www.TrudieRichman.com.
Book Synopsis Stepchildren of Mother Russia by : Boris Draznin
Download or read book Stepchildren of Mother Russia written by Boris Draznin and published by Schreiber Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a Jewish family living under Communism in the USSR through the 20th century, and how the Communist regime consistently marginalized Jewish life to the point where it became unlivable.
Book Synopsis Sociocultural Changes in American Jewish Life as Reflected in Selected Jewish Literature by : Bernard Cohen
Download or read book Sociocultural Changes in American Jewish Life as Reflected in Selected Jewish Literature written by Bernard Cohen and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In non-technical language and in an objective spirit, the author provides insight into the changing patterns of living and thinking of three generations of American Jews.
Book Synopsis Links in the Chain by : Naomi Pasachoff
Download or read book Links in the Chain written by Naomi Pasachoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents biographical essays on individuals who have shaped Jewish history, including Hillel, Moses Mendelssohn, and Theodor Herzl.
Book Synopsis A Scion of the Times by : Leon Schwartz
Download or read book A Scion of the Times written by Leon Schwartz and published by Worthy Shorts Inc. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Forgotten Land written by Lisa Cooper and published by Urim Publications. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on recorded conversations Lisa Cooper’s father had with his mother, Pearl, about her early life in Ukraine, A Forgotten Land is the story of one Jewish family in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, set within the wider context of pogroms, World War I, the Russian Revolution, and civil war. The book weaves personal tragedy and the little-known history of the period together as Pearl finds her comfortable family life shattered first by the early death of her mother and later by the Bolshevik Revolution and all that follows.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature by : Hana Wirth-Nesher
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature written by Hana Wirth-Nesher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.
Book Synopsis The Controversial Sholem Asch by : Ben Siegel
Download or read book The Controversial Sholem Asch written by Ben Siegel and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is the first critical biography in English of Sholem Asch, who did little in his lifetime to make such a task an easy one. Asch was not a "tidy" writer. He lived in many cities and countries, wrote tirelessly, and kept little record of his numerous novels, stories, and essays--much less of the countless Yiddish, Hebrew, and European periodicals and newspapers (most of them now long defunct), or editions and translations, in which his writings appeared.
Book Synopsis Israel and the Quest for Permanence by : Dan Perry
Download or read book Israel and the Quest for Permanence written by Dan Perry and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, the conflict between Jews and Arabs has affected Middle East politics. In their struggle to establish a Jewish state in a hostile region, the founding citizens of Israel put aside their cultural and religious differences to fight as a unified nation. Ironically, it was the prospect of peace that brought these differences back into the light. Israel became challenged by deep divisions within. The founders did not envision this divided nation--but the founders are gone. Today's Israelis must decide how to carry the founding vision forward. How will Israel's past shape its future? How will its people answer the looming questions of race, religion, citizenship--and nationhood itself? The answers lie in an extraordinary history--and a future only to be imagined.
Download or read book Shark written by Bernard Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Peter Van Damm finds himself passed over for the rank of admiral and retires. The Company makes him an offer he can't refuse: command of his old Triton sub, Oregon, and a large sum of money if he will take his old sub out on a shakedown cruise with an untried heavy water power plant. He ends up with a sub half full of women, the other half consists of retired sailors and marines, and everyone trying to sink the sub.
Book Synopsis Three Novels: Uncle Moses, Chaim Lederer's Return, Judge Not- by : Sholem Asch
Download or read book Three Novels: Uncle Moses, Chaim Lederer's Return, Judge Not- written by Sholem Asch and published by New York, G. P. Putnam's sons. This book was released on 1938 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Truth and Nothing But the Truth by : Aleks Faitelson
Download or read book The Truth and Nothing But the Truth written by Aleks Faitelson and published by Gefen Publishing House Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the authors twelfth book, Faitelson tells the exhaustive and authentic story of the escape from the Ninth Fort at Kovno. Faitelsons original account was published in seven languages. This new edition presents a broad gallery of cynical and cruel Nazi murderers wild beasts on two legs, the organisers and leaders of the mass murder of the Jews of Kovno, as well as the thousands of Jews brought to the Ninth Fort from central and western Europe. At the same time, there is a description of the Actions the mass murders of men, women, children and the elderly whose only crime was to be born to a Jewish mother. At the heart of the story are the corpse-burners, the preparations they made to escape from hell, the escape itself and the fate of the escapees.
Book Synopsis The Secret of Redemption by : Jeffrey Gale
Download or read book The Secret of Redemption written by Jeffrey Gale and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is November 2013, nearly thirty years after Rabbi Levin taught and comforted refusenik families in the former Soviet Union and presided over the twinning of his bat mitzvah student, Simone Da Costa, with Sanna Tsivkin of Leningrad. Rabbi Levin is currently serving a synagogue in northern Manhattan which consists of a substantial number of Holocaust survivors. As his congregation observes the seventy-fifth anniversary of Kristallnacht, he is acutely aware of hatred of the other in America. Inequality, discrimination, segregation, violence against racial minorities, anti-Semitic incidents, and anti-immigrant bias were in full force. ICE was bearing down hard upon illegal immigrants. Many have taken refuge in religious institutions to avoid deportation and family separation. The ghosts of 1938 have reappeared on the synagogue's doorstep. Both Kristallnacht and its aftermath and the plight of Soviet Jewry seem as if they had only happened yesterday. Thousands of miles away, Rabbi Levin's daughter, Bracha, engages in graduate work at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and works for a human rights organization. She is on the front lines of the ongoing Israel-Palestinian conflict As a lover of Zion who is saddened by acts of terrorism perpetrated against her own people, she witnesses prejudice and violations of human rights and becomes disillusioned. A famous saying attributed to the Baal Shem Tov states that forgetfulness leads to exile, but remembrance is the secret of redemption. The upcoming observance of Kristallnacht sets off a chain of events which would lead to communal challenges and would move Rabbi Levin's community work in an unpredictable direction. Bracha's experiences would lead to serious questioning that would shape her career path. As both father and daughter embark upon a journey of remembrance, face the challenges of the present, and envision a brighter future for humanity, they discover the real secret of redemption.
