Road Trip The Prankster In Pranksville

Author : Edna Nahshon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231541077

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New York’s Yiddish Theater by Edna Nahshon Pdf

In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the audiences on Broadway. Though these productions were in Yiddish and catered to Eastern European, Jewish audiences (the largest immigrant group in the city at the time), their artistic innovations, energetic style, and engagement with politics and the world around them came to influence all facets of the American stage. Vividly illustrated and with essays from leading historians and critics, this book recounts the heyday of "Yiddish Broadway" and its vital contribution to American Jewish life and crossover to the broader American culture. These performances grappled with Jewish nationalism, labor relations, women's rights, religious observance, acculturation, and assimilation. They reflected a range of genres, from tear-jerkers to experimental theater. The artists who came of age in this world include Stella Adler, Eddie Cantor, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers. The story of New York's Yiddish theater is a tale of creativity and legacy and of immigrants who, in the process of becoming Americans, had an enormous impact on the country's cultural and artistic development.

Author : Sara Williams
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781550504613

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Creating the Prairie Xeriscape by Sara Williams Pdf

Create a yard that is pleasing in design and usefulness, yet low in maintenance and not another threat to our fragile environment. Everything you need to know about xeriscaping.

Author : Solomon Northup
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788726609059

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Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup Pdf

Filmatized in 2013 and the official recipient of three Oscars, Solomon Northup's powerful slave narrative 'Twelve Years a Slave' depicts Nortup's life as he is sold into slavery after having spent 32 years of his life living as a free man in New York. Working as a travelling musician, Northup goes to Washington D.C, where he is kidnapped, sent to New Orleans, and sold to a planter to suffer the relentless and brutal life of a slave. After a dozen years, Northup escapes to return to his family and pulls no punches, as he describes his fate and that of so many other black people at the time. It is a harrowing but vitally important book, even today. For further reading on this subject, try 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Solomon Northup (c.1807-c.1875) was an American abolitionist and writer, best remembered for his powerful race memoir 'Twelve Years a Slave'. At the age of 32, when he was a married farmer, father-of-three, violinist and free-born man, he was kidnapped in Washington D.C and shipped to New Orleans, sold to a planter and enslaved for a dozen years. When he gained his freedom, he wrote his famous memoir and spent some years lecturing across the US,on behalf of the abolitionist movement. 'Twelve Years a Slave' was published a year after 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe and built on the anti-slavery momentum it had developed. Northup's final years are something of a mystery, though it is thought that he struggled to cope with family life after being freed.

Author : Vasiliĭ Peskov
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Abakan River Valley (Russia)
ISBN : UVA:X002528396

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Lost in the Taiga by Vasiliĭ Peskov Pdf

The sole surviving family member, the daughter Agafia, lives by herself in the Lykov family cabin to this day.

Author : Rax King
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780593312728

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Tacky by Rax King Pdf

An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the 2000s in the age of Hot Topic, Creed, and frosted lip gloss—from the James Beard Award-nominated writer of the Catapult column "Store-Bought Is Fine” Tacky is about the power of pop culture—like any art—to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one's commitment to "good" taste. These fourteen essays are a nostalgia-soaked antidote to the millennial generation's obsession with irony, putting the aesthetics we hate to love—snakeskin pants, Sex and the City, Cheesecake Factory's gargantuan menu—into kinder and sharper perspective. Each essay revolves around a different maligned (and yet, Rax would argue, vital) cultural artifact, providing thoughtful, even romantic meditations on desire, love, and the power of nostalgia. An essay about the gym-tan-laundry exuberance of Jersey Shore morphs into an excavation of grief over the death of her father; in "You Wanna Be On Top," Rax writes about friendship and early aughts girlhood; in another, Guy Fieri helps her heal from an abusive relationship. The result is a collection that captures the personal and generational experience of finding joy in caring just a little too much with clarity, heartfelt honesty, and Rax King's trademark humor. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Penmanship
ISBN : 0920701043

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Canadian Handwriting. [Book E] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Penmanship
ISBN : UVA:X030485802

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American Penman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rukhl Fishman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814325416

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אזוי וויל איך פאלן by Rukhl Fishman Pdf

I Want To Fall Like This showcases the inspired poetry of Ruhkl Fishman (1935-1984), the youngest and only American-born Yiddish poet of the "Yung Yisroel." This group of young poets and prose writers from across the world settled in Israel after World War II, and used Yiddish, instead of Hebrew, to bridge the gaps across time and place. Readers can trace Fishman's American influences to Malka Heifetz Tussman, the Yiddish modernist poet, who was Fishman's mentor and role model and from whom she derives her literary style, as seen in her preference for free verse and sparing use of rhyme, her delight in puns and wordplay. Yet in subject matter, Fishman's poetry differs greatly from the poetry of her contemporaries. Neither erotic, biblical, nor political, her poetry concentrates instead on simple subjects - nature and animals and the world around her. What makes her poems brilliant are their ability to illuminate these subjects with fresh curiosity and intimacy. Her later poetry reveals a far less rosy view of the world around her, paralleling changes in her own life. As Fishman matured and her health turned poor, she began to ponder the passage of time by viewing nature through a darker and more restrictive lens, creating some of her most thoughtful and stirring work, all of which is captured and expertly translated in I Want to Fall Like This.

Author : National Learning Corporation
Publisher : Career Examination Passbooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 0837324572

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Superintendent of Sanitation by National Learning Corporation Pdf

The Superintendent of Sanitation Passbook(R) prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: Record keeping; Supervision; Work scheduling; Practices, procedures, and equipment used in rubbish and garbage collection; Understanding and interpreting written material; and more.

Author : Melissa Gijsbers
Publisher : Junior Writers Club
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0648960315

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A Most Unusual Pet by Melissa Gijsbers Pdf

Pets are awesome, although when most people think of a pet, they generally think of dogs, cats, birds, or fish. What about a pet thylacine, hedgehog, alien, or even a pet ruler? In this anthology, forty-two talented young writers from around Australia share stories about their unusual pets.

Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385673556

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The National Dream by Pierre Berton Pdf

In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old—it's population well below the 4 million mark—determined that it would build the world's longest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored. This decision—bold to the point of recklessness—was to change the lives of every man, woman and child in Canada and alter the shape of the nation. Using primary sources—diaries, letters, unpublished manuscripts, public documents and newspapers—Pierre Berton has reconstructed the incredible decade of the 1870s, when Canadians of every stripe—contractors, politicians, financiers, surveyors, workingmen, journalists and entrepreneurs—fought for the railway, or against it. The National Dream is above all else the story of people. It is the story of George McMullen, the brash young promoter who tried to blackmail the Prime Minister; of Marcus Smith, the crusty surveyor, so suspicious of authority he thought the Governor General was speculating in railway lands; of Sanford Fleming, the great engineer who invented Standard Time but who couldn't make up his mind about the best route for the railway. All these figures, and dozens more, including the political leaders of the era, come to life with all their human ambitions and failings.

Author : Lee Mckelvey,Martin Crozier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1108403379

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Cambridge International AS & A Level Further Mathematics Coursebook by Lee Mckelvey,Martin Crozier Pdf

Cambridge International AS & A Level Further Mathematics supports students following the 9231 syllabus. This single coursebook comprehensively covers all four modules of the syllabus and helps support students in their studies and develops their mathematical skills. Authored by experienced teachers of Further Mathematics, the coursebook provides detailed explanations and clear worked examples with practice exercises and exam-style questions. Answers are at the back of the book.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0811219011

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Telegraph Pa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Benjamin Yudin
Publisher : Mosaica Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1937887162

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Rabbi Benjamin Yudin on the Parsha by Benjamin Yudin Pdf

Rabbi Yudin's warm personality and divrei Torah have inspired tens of thousands of his community members, students and radio listeners for over three decades. In this volume - his first book - readers will be intrigued by original, fascinating questions and inspired by deep and uplifting explanations. Crafted over thirty years of popular radio drashos and beloved by listeners both old and young, these thoughts are ideal to bring to your Shabbos table. Rabbi Benjamin Yudin has been Rav of Congregation Shomrei Torah in Fair Lawn, New Jersey since 1969, and has taught at Yeshiva university for decades. Most famously, Rabbi Yudin gives a popular weekly radio drasha on JM in the AM.

Author : Chaim Jachter,Rabbi Chaim &,Binyamin Jachter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0464990122

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Depths of Yonah by Chaim Jachter,Rabbi Chaim &,Binyamin Jachter Pdf

The Depths of Yonah is a fresh and thorough exploration of what is for many a highlight of the Yom Kippur service, the book of Yonah. This work is a beautiful blend of classic, contemporary and new insights into the beloved book of Yonah with an eye as to why Yonah cuts to the core of what we should be accomplishing on Yom Kippur. Readers of the Depths of Yonah will emerge with a deep appreciation for the richness of the book of Yonah and invigorated for a more meaningful Yom Kippur.