A Mortuary Of Books

Author : Elisabeth Gallas,Alex Skinner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479809875

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A Mortuary of Books by Elisabeth Gallas,Alex Skinner Pdf

Winner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish Book Council The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the Holocaust In March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide that accompanied the Nazis’ systematic acts of mass murder. The depot built a short-lived lieu de memoire—a “mortuary of books,” as the later renowned historian Lucy Dawidowicz called it—with over three million books of Jewish origin coming from nineteen different European countries awaiting restitution. A Mortuary of Books tells the miraculous story of the many Jewish organizations and individuals who, after the war, sought to recover this looted cultural property and return the millions of treasured objects to their rightful owners. Some of the most outstanding Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century, including Dawidowicz, Hannah Arendt, Salo W. Baron, and Gershom Scholem, were involved in this herculean effort. This led to the creation of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc., an international body that acted as the Jewish trustee for heirless property in the American Zone and transferred hundreds of thousands of objects from the Depot to the new centers of Jewish life after the Holocaust. The commitment of these individuals to the restitution of cultural property revealed the importance of cultural objects as symbols of the enduring legacy of those who could not be saved. It also fostered Jewish culture and scholarly life in the postwar world.

Author : Arjan Louwen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9464280018

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Breaking and Making the Ancestors by Arjan Louwen Pdf

This book delves into the richness of funerary practices reflected in some 3000 urnfield graves excavated throughout the Netherlands in order to reconstruct the mortuary process associated with this fascinating funerary legacy from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age.

Author : John Szabo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780810845879

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Mortuary Science by John Szabo Pdf

Szabo presents a thorough bibliographical examination of the funeral industry and related subjects. Most citations are annotated, with special notes on editions and reprints.

Author : Peter Metcalf,Richard Huntington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521423759

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Celebrations of Death by Peter Metcalf,Richard Huntington Pdf

Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction to the second edition -- 1. Preliminaries -- Part I. Universals and Culture: 2. Emotional reactions to death -- 3. Symbolic associations of death -- Part II. Death as Transition: 4. The living and the dead: a re-examination of Hertz -- 5. Death rituals and life values: rites of passage reconsidered -- Part III. The Royal Corpse and the Body Politic: 6. The dead king -- 7. The immortal kingship -- Part IV. Seeing Ourselves Anew: 8. American deathways -- Bibliography -- Index.

Author : Todd Harra,Ken McKenzie
Publisher : Citadel
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806541396

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Mortuary Confidential by Todd Harra,Ken McKenzie Pdf

From rookie mistakes and runaway corpses to screaming dead men and unusual requests, a collection of stories by funeral directors.

Author : Michelle Williams
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781849014632

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Down Among the Dead Men by Michelle Williams Pdf

Michelle Williams is young and attractive, she has close family ties as well as a busy social life - but she is far from usual. She is a mortuary technician and her job involves dealing with those things in life that many people do not wish to experience directly. Yet life in the mortuary is neither gruesome nor sad. Told with good humour and common sense, we are introduced to a host of characters - the pathologists, many of them eccentric, some downright mad; the undertakers, the hospital porters and the man from the coroner's office who sings to Michelle every morning. The incidents too ensure that no two days are ever the same. From the tragic to the hilarious they include: The fitness fanatic who was run over as he did pressups in the road on a dark night The decapitated motorcyclist The guide dog who led his owner on to the railway tracks - and left him there The forty stone man for whom an entire refrigerated lorry had to be hired because he wouldn't fit in the mortuary cooler Over the course of her first year Michelle has to deal with situations and emotions that few of us will ever experience, and does so while retaining a sense of humour and a sense of perspective.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479833955

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A Mortuary of Books by Anonim Pdf

The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the Holocaust In March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide that accompanied the Nazis’ systematic acts of mass murder. The depot built a short-lived lieu de memoire—a “mortuary of books,” as the later renowned historian Lucy Dawidowicz called it—with over three million books of Jewish origin coming from nineteen different European countries awaiting restitution. A Mortuary of Books tells the miraculous story of the many Jewish organizations and individuals who, after the war, sought to recover this looted cultural property and return the millions of treasured objects to their rightful owners. Some of the most outstanding Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century, including Dawidowicz, Hannah Arendt, Salo W. Baron, and Gershom Scholem, were involved in this herculean effort. This led to the creation of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc., an international body that acted as the Jewish trustee for heirless property in the American Zone and transferred hundreds of thousands of objects from the Depot to the new centers of Jewish life after the Holocaust. The commitment of these individuals to the restitution of cultural property revealed the importance of cultural objects as symbols of the enduring legacy of those who could not be saved. It also fostered Jewish culture and scholarly life in the postwar world.

Author : Nancy L. Stair
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 082393568X

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Choosing a Career in Mortuary Science and the Funeral Industry by Nancy L. Stair Pdf

Explores career opportunities for those interested in becoming a funeral director, embalmer, coroner, medical examiner, or pathologist.

Author : Kris Hollington,Peter Everett
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781785785535

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Corrupt Bodies by Kris Hollington,Peter Everett Pdf

** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION ** In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he'd gone from lowly assistant to running the UK's busiest murder morgue. He couldn't believe his luck. What he didn't know was that Southwark, operating in near-Victorian conditions, was a hotbed of corruption. Attendants stole from the dead, funeral homes paid bribes, and there was a lively trade in stolen body parts and recycled coffins. Set in the fascinating pre-DNA and psychological profiling years of 1985-87, this memoir tells a gripping and gruesome tale, with a unique insight into a world of death most of us don't ever see. Peter managed pathologists, oversaw post mortems and worked alongside Scotland Yard's Murder Squad - including on the case of the serial killer, the Stockwell Strangler. This is a thrilling tale of murder and corruption in the mid-1980s, told with insight and compassion.

Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393245950

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty Pdf

"Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Author : Carla Valentine
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Autopsy
ISBN : 0751565342

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Past Mortems by Carla Valentine Pdf

A day in the life of Carla Valentine - curator, pathology technician and 'death professional' - is not your average day. She spent ten years training and working as an Anatomical Pathology Technologist: where the mortuary slab was her desk, and that day's corpses her task list. Past Mortems tells Carla's stories of those years, as well as investigating the body alongside our attitudes towards death - shedding light on what the living can learn from dead and the toll the work can take on the living souls who carry it out. Fascinating and insightful, Past Mortems reveals the truth about what happens when the mortuary doors swing shut or the lid of the coffin closes.

Author : Jen Violi
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1423134850

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Putting Makeup on Dead People by Jen Violi Pdf

In the spring of her senior year, Donna Parisi finds new life in an unexpected place: a coffin. Since her father’s death four years ago, Donna’s been stuck in her grief, cut off from friends and family, and clueless about what to do after high school graduation. That is, until she’s standing in front of the dead body of a classmate at Brighton Brothers Funeral Home. At that moment, Donna realizes that what might give her life purpose is comforting others in death. That maybe she really wants to be . . . a mortician? This discovery sets in motion a life Donna never imagined was possible. By taking one big risk, Donna comes into her own. And she finally understands that moving forward doesn’t mean forgetting someone you love. Jen Violi’s heartfelt and funny debut novel is a story of transformation—how one girl learns to grieve and say good-bye, turn loss into a gift, and let herself be exceptional . . . at loving, applying lipstick to corpses, and finding life in the wake of death.

Author : Kimberly D. Williams,Lesley A. Gregoricka
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683400936

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Mortuary and Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Bronze Age Arabia by Kimberly D. Williams,Lesley A. Gregoricka Pdf

This volume brings together expert s in archaeology and bioarchaeology to examine continuity and change in ancient Arabian mortuary practices. While most previous investigations have been limited geographically to Egypt and the Levant, this volume focuses on the lesser-studied southeastern Arabian Peninsula, showing what death and burial can reveal about the lifestyles of the region’s prehistoric communities. In case studies from Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain, contributors explore the transition from the earliest to the most complex mortuary monuments in the Bronze Age and beyond. They consider sociopolitical and environmental factors that may have influenced mortuary practices and what skeletal biogeochemistry can reveal about changing mobility and access to food resources. They also discuss sites that illustrate more nuanced shifts in burial traditions that took place during the evolution of the Hafit to the Umm an-Nar cultures, a period of transformation often neglected because the semi-nomadic lifestyle of this intermediary culture left behind a limited archaeological record. Burial patterns reveal a shift from cairns to communal tombs that offers new insight into the relationship between the mortuary landscape and the living, while the presence of animal bones interred with human remains embodies the significance of herd management as symbols of both territoriality and reproduction. By using skeletal remains as a rich source of scientific data that complements studies of burial context, this volume represents an important turning point for mortuary research in the region. Its novel interdisciplinary and international perspective provides a synthesis of new ideas and interpretations that will guide future archaeological research in Arabia and beyond. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen Contributors: Eugenio Bortolini | Charlotte Marie Cable | Guillaume Gernez | Jessica Giraud | Richard Thorburn Howard Cuttler | Aurea Izquierdo Zamora | Olivia Munoz | Jill A. Weber | Benjamin W. Porter | Alexis Boutin | Debra L. Martin | Kathryn M. Baustian | Anna J. Osterholz | Peter Magee

Author : Harry Crécy Yarrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCBK:C106169221

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Introduction to the Study of Mortuary Customs Among the North American Indians by Harry Crécy Yarrow Pdf

Author : Emma Jane Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781489251039

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One Last Dance by Emma Jane Holmes Pdf

A sassy, heart-breaking and jaw-dropping memoir of life behind the scenes in a funeral home and strip club, written with all the panache, honesty and sensitivity of Rosie Waterland's The Anti-Cool Girl and Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner. Emma Jane Holmes had her dream job, working in the funeral industry, caring for those who could no longer care for themselves. But when the bills mounted after her marriage breakdown, she turned to her other dream - dancing on stage as a showgirl - and her glittering alter ego Madison was born. Emma Jane kept Madison a secret. Madison kept Emma Jane an even bigger one. But what happens when death touches the neon world of the strip club? And sex - in the form of a cute co-worker - encroaches on the funeral home? Could the answer be life, lived in the day, because that's the only day you have? Emma Jane Holmes' debut will take you into the mortuary, cemetery and crematorium - and behind the scenes in night clubs - and answer all the questions you never wanted to ask ... PRAISE 'A beautiful insight into two industries we're all curious about, full of warmth and wit' - Carly Findlay OAM, author of Say Hello 'Meet Australia's most outrageous mortician ... her stories are deadly' - news.com.au 'Emma Jane Holmes shines a beautiful light on love, death and connection' - Samantha X, author of Hooked 'We're all going to die sometime ... Emma Jane Holmes brings so much light to the subject' - Andy Dowling, Andy Social podcast