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Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374505926
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)
Download or read book In My Father's Court written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1966 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of: Mayn otaotn's beas-din-shotub.
Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374213437
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)
Download or read book More Stories from My Father's Court written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the original Yiddish, this follow-up to Singer's acclaimed "In My Father's Court", which contains 28 stories, shows the world as it appeared to a young boy, depicting the "beth din" in his father's home in Warsaw, where people sought advice and counsel.
Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140053913
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (539 download)
Download or read book In My Father's Court written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich men. This rememberance of Singer's pious father, his rational yet adoring mother, and the never-ending parade of humanity that marched through their home is a portrait of a magnificent writer's childhood self and of the world, now gone, that formed him.
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Publisher : Goodreads Press
ISBN 13 : 9781632922748
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (227 download)
Download or read book In My Father's Court written by and published by Goodreads Press. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most iconic books, In My Father's Court is a poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father. This collection of vignettes is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and wanderers who filled Krochmalna Street - the alley-like block that contained an entire universe of Jewish life, which Singer forever memorialized in this volume. The remembrance of Singer's pious father, his rational yet adoring mother, his sister and brother, and the never-ending parade of humanity that marched through their home is a portrait of a magnificent writer's young self and of the world, now gone, that formed him. Praise: "In My Father's Court is no more a book about court cases than Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches is about hunting. For what Mr. Singer has done is to recreate that boiling, God-haunted world of Russian and Polish Jewry that existed within the larger world of Czarist Russia--a sphere that must have seemed to their neighbors puzzling, queer and impenetrable. . . . It was a world that was crumbling, that was ruined in World War I, obliterated in World War II. This memoir brings it to life again, not as a museum piece but with its people and its life intact." - The New York Times Review of Books "The sort of book . . . only a writer at the height of his powers, firmly in command of his created world, his mind charged with vivid memories, can somehow shake effortlessly out of his sleeve . . . [The writing is] often close to the Biblical directness of feeling that Tolstoy prescribed for the 'universal art of the future.'" ― The New Leader "A world that no longer exists reaches us through one of the greatest literary artists of our time." ― Saturday Review
Author : Adam Langer
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0385530285
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book My Father's Bonus March written by Adam Langer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To his friends, Seymour Langer was one of the brightest kids to emerge from Chicago’s Depression-era Jewish West Side. To his family, he was a driven and dedicated physician, a devoted father and husband. But to his Adam, youngest son, Seymour was also an enigma: a somewhat distant figure to whom Adam could never quite measure up, a worldly man who never left the city of Chicago during the last third of his life, a would-be author who spoke for years of writing a history of the Bonus March of 1932, when twenty thousand World War I veterans descended on the nation’s capital to demand compensation. Using this dramatic but overlooked event in U.S. history as a means of understanding his relationship with his father, Adam Langer sets out to uncover why the Bonus March intrigued Seymour Langer, whose personal history seemed to be artfully obscured by a mix of evasiveness and exaggeration. The author interweaves the story of the Bonus March and interviews with such individuals as history aficionado Senator John Kerry and the writer and critic Norman Podhoretz with his own reminiscences and those of his father’s relatives, colleagues, and contemporaries. In the process, he explores the nature of memory while creating a moving, multilayered portrait of both his father and his father’s generation.
Author : Ariel Sabar
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565129962
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)
Download or read book My Father's Paradise written by Ariel Sabar and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born. Yona's son Ariel grew up in Los Angeles, where Yona had become an esteemed professor, dedicating his career to preserving his people’s traditions. Ariel wanted nothing to do with his father’s strange immigrant heritage—until he had a son of his own. Ariel Sabar brings to life the ancient town of Zakho, discovering his family’s place in the sweeping saga of Middle-Eastern history. This powerful book is an improbable story of tolerance and hope set in what today is the very center of the world’s attention.
Author : Jannali Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925936704
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (367 download)
Download or read book My Father's Shadow written by Jannali Jones and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaya is completing her Higher School Certificate when she is woken in the middle of the night by her mother. They are to pack immediately and go to their holiday home in the Blue Mountains. Her father is 'not coming back'. He has been involved in a court case to give evidence against some dangerous criminals. Months later, they are still in hiding and the mysteries are multiplying. Kaya is not sure who to trust: her mother's new friend, the policeman or her new friend, Eric, from the local store. She is also recovering from memory loss caused by PTSD after a chilling encounter with the criminals. She is seeing a psychologist in an attempt to recall the evidence she might have to give in a forthcoming trial. Her best friend, Jenna, has gone overseas and Kaya is trying to make sense of what is really happening. Jannali Jones has crafted a thrilling story which stays on the edge right to the end.
Author : Alexandra Styron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416591818
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Reading My Father written by Alexandra Styron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reading My Father" is an intimate, moving, and beautifully written portrait of the novelist William Styron by his daughter, Alexandra.
Author : Fox Butterfield
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525521631
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book In My Father's House written by Fox Butterfield and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist: a pathbreaking examination of our huge crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family--specifically one Oregon family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness. The United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world's prison population. But our reliance on mass incarceration, Fox Butterfield argues, misses the intractable reality: As few as 5 percent of families account for half of all crime, and only 10 percent account for two-thirds. In introducing us to the Bogle family, the author invites us to understand crime in this eye-opening new light. He chronicles the malignant legacy of criminality passed from parents to children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren. Examining the long history of the Bogles, a white family, Butterfield offers a revelatory look at criminality that forces us to disentangle race from our ideas about crime and, in doing so, strikes at the heart of our deepest stereotypes. And he makes clear how these new insights are leading to fundamentally different efforts at reform. With his empathic insight and profound knowledge of criminology, Butterfield offers us both the indelible tale of one family's transgressions and tribulations, and an entirely new way to understand crime in America.
Author : Kwame Anthony Appiah
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199879257
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book In My Father's House written by Kwame Anthony Appiah and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent beliefs in a melting-pot society, race is as much of a problem as ever in America. In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at Harvard, explores, in his words, "the possibilities and pitfalls of an African identity in the late twentieth century." In the process he sheds new light on what it means to be an African-American, on the many preconceptions that have muddled discussions of race, Africa, and Afrocentrism since the end of the nineteenth century, and, in the end, to move beyond the idea of race. In My Father's House is especially wide-ranging, covering everything from Pan Africanism, to the works of early African-American intellectuals such as Alexander Crummell and W.E.B. Du Bois, to the ways in which African identity influences African literature. In his discussion of the latter subject, Appiah demonstrates how attempts to construct a uniquely African literature have ignored not only the inescapable influences that centuries of contact with the West have imposed, but also the multicultural nature of Africa itself. Emphasizing this last point is Appiah's eloquent title essay which offers a fitting finale to the volume. In a moving first-person account of his father's death and funeral in Ghana, Appiah offers a brilliant metaphor for the tension between Africa's aspirations to modernity and its desire to draw on its ancient cultural roots. During the Los Angeles riots, Rodney King appeared on television to make his now famous plea: "People, can we all get along?" In this beautiful, elegantly written volume, Appiah steers us along a path toward answering a question of the utmost importance to us all.
Author : Wibke Bruhns
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307372251
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book My Father's Country written by Wibke Bruhns and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A huge bestseller in Germany for over a year, My Father’s Country offers extraordinarily moving and riveting insight into the experience of being German in the last century. On August 26, 1944, Hans Georg Klamroth, officer in the German army and member of the SS, was executed for high treason for his participation in the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler. My Father’s Country is the extraordinary work of Klamroth’s daughter, Wibke, born only six years before her father’s death. Decades later, Bruhns was watching a TV documentary about the events of July 1944 when images of her father in the court room suddenly appeared on screen. “I stare at this man with the empty face. I don’t know him. But I can see myself in him — his eyes are my eyes; I know I resemble him. I know I wouldn’t be here without him. And what do I know about him? Nothing at all.” Based on an extensive collection of family letters, private diaries, photographs and even menus, My Father’s Country traces Wibke Bruhns’ father’s, and more widely, her well-to-do merchant family’s, life in the Germany of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With it, Bruhns not only brings to life the nuances of this world — its culture and its assumptions, politics and beliefs — but also comes to know, finally, the mysterious father she barely remembers.
Author : Jeffery Leving
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465023622
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Fathers' Rights written by Jeffery Leving and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1998-05-23 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of fathers are currently embroiled in the fight of their lives to win custody of their children. Wounded by the acrimony and greed that often accompany divorce proceedings, many wonder if they will ever again be an important part of their sons' and daughters' lives. With this landmark book, renowned men's rights attorney Jeffery M. Leving offers disenfranchised fathers true hope and meaningful advice certain to save years of anguish and possibly thousands of dollars.Drawing on more than fifteen years of frontline experience, Leving leads fathers through every twist and turn of the legal system and shows them how to protect their rights (and their children's)—both before and during divorce litigation.This authoritative and accessible book covers every aspect of the custody process, including protecting the parent/child relationship as a breakup occurs; finding a competent and sympathetic lawyer; drafting a “Shared Parenting Agreement”; demonstrating parental competence when falsely accused of abuse; avoiding parental alienation; determining when to settle and when to litigate; techniques for dealing effectively with psychologists, social workers, and other domestic relations experts; and much more.Illustrated with vivid real-life examples, Jeffery Leving and Kenneth Dachman's practical guide is essential reading for the scores of American fathers routinely excluded from their children's lives by a biased legal system in which avarice and recrimination too often overwhelm compassion and justice.
Author : James Gross
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1572488026
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Fathers' Rights written by James Gross and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of fathers are currently fighting for custody of their children. Many wonder if they will ever again be an important part of their children's lives. Fathers' Rights covers every aspect of the custody process, including protecting the parent/child relationship as a break-up occurs, determining when to settle and when to litigate and explanations concerning the court's determination of a fair level of child support. This new edition updates the ever-changing laws in this area and expands into additional topics of importance concerning paternity issues and fathers serving in the armed forces. Numerous court cases are used as examples to illustrate relevant situations. An extensive list of resources including agencies, organizations and websites is included as easy reference for the reader.
Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571266746
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Solitude written by Paul Auster and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A', contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of writing and story-telling.
Author : Dan Hill
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443401374
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)
Download or read book I Am My Father's Son written by Dan Hill and published by HarperCollins Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deeply moving memoir, one of Canada’s most respected singer-songwriters traces his difficult, often tumultuous relationship with his father. From the time Dan Hill picked up a guitar at age 11, he tried to win the approval of Daniel Hill Sr., a man who has been called Canada’s father of human rights. But Hill Sr. set impossibly high standards for himself and his family, especially for his eldest son, leading to conflict and alienation even as young Dan achieved international fame and success. Through vivid family stories, letters, memories and his own award-winning lyrics, Dan Hill tells the story of two parallel lives—his father’s in mid-20th-century America and his own as a young black man coming of age in suburban Canada—and the stormy but ultimately loving way each of those lives affected the other.
Author : Scott Turow
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429984708
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Laws of our Fathers written by Scott Turow and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-06-11 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drive-by shooting of an aging white woman at a gang-plagued Kindle County housing project sets in motion Scott Turow's intensely absorbing novel, The Laws of our Fathers. With its riveting suspense and indelibly drawn characters, this novel shows why Turow is not only the master of the modern legal thriller but also one of America's most engaging and satisfying novelists.
Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : PONS
ISBN 13 : 9783125615472
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Das Gehirn meines Vaters written by Jonathan Franzen and published by PONS. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2-sprachiger Lektüreband mit einer Erzählung von Jonathan Frantzen und einer Audio-CD mit dem englischen Text; für Lernende mit guten Vorkenntnissen.
