City Of Promise

Author : Beverly Swerling
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439156700

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City of Promise by Beverly Swerling Pdf

A “vivid tableau of 1870s Manhattan” (Entertainment Weekly), City of Promise continues Beverly Swerling’s acclaimed epic saga as New York emerges from the Civil War into the Gilded Age—a city marked by soaring expansion and dazzling glamour. Beverly Swerling’s epic saga continues as New York emerges from the Civil War into the Gilded Age—a city marked by soaring expansion and teeming with unbridled ambition and dazzling glamour. Joshua Turner returns home from the war with only one leg yet determined to make his fortune. He aspires to build the city’s first apartment houses for Everyman, a daring vision that will make him the city’s first real estate titan but attracts the attention of a shadowy figure from his past. Mollie Brannigan, raised by her Auntie Eileen in the toniest bordello in town, is resigned at age twenty-two to spinsterhood. Then Joshua finds her at Macy’s, the city’s largest emporium, and takes her coaching in Central Park. In his love Mollie finds a world of possibilities, but a secret Eileen thought left behind in Ireland will force Mollie to employ all her wits to protect not just her chance at happiness but her life. Vividly imagined and awash in period detail, City of Promise delivers not only suspense and intrigue, daring plot twists and bitter rivalries, but also the captivating love story of two people struggling to forge their own destiny.

Author : Howard B. Rock,Deborah Dash Moore,Jeffrey S. Gurock,Annie Polland,Daniel Soyer,Diana L. Linden
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780814724880

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City of Promises by Howard B. Rock,Deborah Dash Moore,Jeffrey S. Gurock,Annie Polland,Daniel Soyer,Diana L. Linden Pdf

Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award, presented by the National Jewish Book Council New York Jews, so visible and integral to the culture, economy and politics of America’s greatest city, has eluded the grasp of historians for decades. Surprisingly, no comprehensive history of New York Jews has ever been written. City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, a three volume set of original research, pioneers a path-breaking interpretation of a Jewish urban community at once the largest in Jewish history and most important in the modern world. Volume I, Haven of Liberty, by historian Howard B. Rock, chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York (then New Amsterdam) in 1654 and highlights their political and economic challenges. Overcoming significant barriers, colonial and republican Jews in New York laid the foundations for the development of a thriving community. Volume II, Emerging Metropolis, written by Annie Polland and Daniel Soyer, describes New York’s transformation into a Jewish city. Focusing on the urban Jewish built environment—its tenements and banks, synagogues and shops, department stores and settlement houses—it conveys the extraordinary complexity of Jewish immigrant society. Volume III, Jews in Gotham, by historian Jeffrey S. Gurock, highlights neighborhood life as the city’s distinctive feature. New York retained its preeminence as the capital of American Jews because of deep roots in local worlds that supported vigorous political, religious, and economic diversity. Each volume includes a “visual essay” by art historian Diana Linden interpreting aspects of life for New York’s Jews from their arrival until today. These illustrated sections, many in color, illuminate Jewish material culture and feature reproductions of early colonial portraits, art, architecture, as well as everyday culture and community. Overseen by noted scholar Deborah Dash Moore, City of Promises offers the largest Jewish city in the world, in the United States, and in Jewish history its first comprehensive account.

Author : Martin J. Schiesl,Mark M. Dodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064750535

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City of Promise by Martin J. Schiesl,Mark M. Dodge Pdf

"By the end of the 20th century, Los Angeles had become the biggest multicultural center in the nation boasting an extraordinary racial diversity. The authors of the essays in City of Promise, drawing upon a wide range of primary and secondary materials, provide a rich description and discussion of this monumental development. They show that nonwhite newcomers withstood much discrimination, formed a variety of cultural and social institutions, established permanent communities, and gained political power. The result is an addition to the understanding of the history of race and race relations in Los Angeles and the urban American West."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David Schnasa Jacobsen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532613913

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Toward a Homiletical Theology of Promise by David Schnasa Jacobsen Pdf

Promise has a long pedigree in the history of Christian understandings of the gospel. This volume gathers together leading homileticians to consider the breadth of its understanding today in light of the struggle to reconcile God’s grace with God’s justice. Assuming that promise is a core sense of the gospel, how does this relate to the variety of contexts in which homiletical theology is done? In this final volume in the series, six homileticians from a variety of contexts and perspectives try to move specifically toward a homiletical theology of promise as a way to articulate the central theological gift and task that is preaching the gospel today.

Author : Samuel L. Baily
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0801435625

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Immigrants in the Lands of Promise by Samuel L. Baily Pdf

Most studies of immigration to the New World have focused on the United States. Samuel L. Baily's eagerly awaited book broadens that perspective through a comparative analysis of Italian immigrants to Buenos Aires and New York City before World War I. It is one of the few works to trace Italians from their villages of origin to different destinations abroad. Baily examines the adjustment of Italians in the two cities, comparing such factors as employment opportunities, skill levels, pace of migration, degree of prejudice, and development of the Italian community. Of the two destinations, Buenos Aires offered Italians more extensive opportunities, and those who elected to move there tended to have the appropriate education or training to succeed. These immigrants, who adjusted more rapidly than their North American counterparts, adopted a long-term strategy of investing savings in their New World home. In New York, in contrast, the immigrants found fewer skilled and white-collar jobs, more competition from previous immigrant groups, greater discrimination, and a less supportive Italian enclave. As a result, rather than put down roots, many sought to earn money as rapidly as possible and send their earnings back to family in Italy. Baily views the migration process as a global phenomenon. Building on his richly documented case studies, the author briefly examines Italian communities in San Francisco, Toronto, and Sao Paulo. He establishes a continuum of immigrant adjustment in urban settings, creating a landmark study in both immigration and comparative history.

Author : Trevor J. Burke,Keith Elliott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004268272

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Paul and the Corinthians: Studies on a Community in Conflict by Trevor J. Burke,Keith Elliott Pdf

This volume has 1 and 2 Corinthians as its main focus where the various contributors address significant aspects of text, language, background, theology and exegesis. The first part of the volume deals with the issues of textual criticism and traditions available to Paul, while the second section is interdisciplinary in nature and integrates different methodologies such as social-scientific and rhetorical criticism in order to provide new insights into the text. The third and longest section addresses the varied theological problems which the community raised with Paul, including sexual matters, the timing of the resurrection the resurrection body, authority and headship, soteriology, and the question of Paul's faithfulness and integrity. The final section concentrates on the identity of Paul's opponents, his visions and apologetics.

Author : Alexander STEWART (Rev. of Cromarty.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017113571

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The Tree of Promise; Or, the Mosaic Economy a Dispensation of the Covenant of Grace. By ... A. S., ... With a Biographical Notice [by A. Beith. Edited by C. C. S., I.e. C. C. Stewart.] by Alexander STEWART (Rev. of Cromarty.) Pdf

Author : Nicola Davies
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781536221718

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The Promise by Nicola Davies Pdf

“This tale is a sturdy one that is made even more emphatic by Davies’s terse writing style. The text is heightened in every way by Carlin’s outstanding mixed-media artwork.” — Booklist (starred review) On a mean street in a mean, broken city, a young girl tries to snatch an old woman’s bag. But the frail old woman says the thief can’t have it without giving something in return: the promise. It is the beginning of a journey that will change the girl’s life — and a chance to change the world, for good.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026443752

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The Word of Promise: a Handbook to the Promises of Scripture. [Selections from the Bible.] By Horatius Bonar by Anonim Pdf

Author : Philip A. F. Church,Tim Bulkeley,Tim Meadowcroft,Peter Walker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608995455

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The Gospel and the Land of Promise by Philip A. F. Church,Tim Bulkeley,Tim Meadowcroft,Peter Walker Pdf

Today the "land of promise" is a spark in the tinder dry atmosphere of Middle Eastern affairs. Events there continue to wield influence among peoples and in places well beyond the region itself. This raises for Christians the acute theological problem of how to relate to the "land of promise" today and in light of the land of the Bible. Our hope is that this volume of essays will contribute to a more informed and theologically coherent response to the "Land of Promise." It is offered here in the name of peace for all peoples in that place and among those who continue to look to her as a place of promise.

Author : David O. Daulton
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781490840529

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Heir’S Journey of Promise by David O. Daulton Pdf

Very often, the Father gives to His children special presents! They are given, along with thousands of other blessings, on a daily basis, and if we are truly honest with ourselves and look at these presents, we will be all the more grateful! This is an account based on the facts presented in the Bible, and largely on the prophetic Scriptures. I realize that many in the churchthose who claim to be Christianswill not allow themselves to believe on these Scriptures. This is heartbreaking, for I believe this will be to their great harm! This book will try to convince the reading Christian of how truly dear he or she is to the Father, and how He longs for us to be close to Him in His Son. (And no, it isnt inspired, but God did through His Word turn the lights on!) This is more than a bedtime story for children of all ages. My hope is that it will be a great encouragementfor though we may grow a bit weary in our journey, we still enjoy the good fight. We are very dear to the One who has already won it, and He looks forward to greeting us on the other side . . . And men everywhere should seek Him with a new zeal, for He will soon rise to shake violently the earth! Even so, come Lord Jesus!

Author : Herman Norton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368866600

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Signs of Danger and of Promise by Herman Norton Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

Author : Job Y. Jindo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004368187

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Biblical Metaphor Reconsidered by Job Y. Jindo Pdf

How do we understand the characteristically extensive presence of imagery in biblical prophecy? Poetic metaphor in prophetic writings has commonly been understood solely as an artistic flourish intended to create certain rhetorical effects. It thus appears expendable and unrelated to the core content of the composition—however engaging it may be, aesthetically or otherwise. Job Jindo invites us to reconsider this convention. Applying recent studies in cognitive science, he explores how we can view metaphor as the very essence of poetic prophecy—namely, metaphor as an indispensable mode to communicate prophetic insight. Through a cognitive reading of Jeremiah 1-24, Jindo amply demonstrates the advantage and heuristic ramifications of this approach in biblical studies.

Author : Marc Boston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0998689904

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A Promise to Grow by Marc Boston Pdf

CJ imagines his future and decides to give back to his community. A Promise to Grow is a story that demonstrates how a community that comes together, thrives.

Author : John Ross MacDuff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Christian life
ISBN : OXFORD:600088276

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Bow of promise; or, The sure grounds of the believer's expectations, by the author of 'The faithful witness' etc by John Ross MacDuff Pdf