Uncle Berl

Author : George Oscar Lee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781453501641

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Uncle Berl by George Oscar Lee Pdf

"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."

Author : Claire Datnow
Publisher : Media Mint Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780984277834

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Behind the Walled Garden of Apartheid by Claire Datnow Pdf

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.

Author : Mary Antin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101522820

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The Promised Land by Mary Antin Pdf

Interweaving introspection with political commentaries, biography with history, The Promised Land (1912) brings to life the transformation of an East European Jewish immigrant into an American citizen. Mary Antin recounts "the process of uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimitization, and development that took place in my own soul," and reveals the impact of a new culture and new standards of behavior on her family. A feeling of divisions—between Russia and America, Jews and Gentiles, Yiddish and English—ever-present in her narrative, is balanced by insights, amusing and serious, into ways to overcome them. In telling the story of one person, The Promised Land illuminates the lives of hundreds of thousands. This Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition includes eighteen black-and-white photographs from the book's first edition and reprints for the first time Antin's essay "How I wrote The Promised Land."

Author : Boris Draznin
Publisher : Schreiber Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781887563901

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Stepchildren of Mother Russia by Boris Draznin Pdf

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.

Author : Bernard Cohen
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0838678483

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Sociocultural Changes in American Jewish Life as Reflected in Selected Jewish Literature by Bernard Cohen Pdf

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.

Author : David Assaf
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814337332

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Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl by David Assaf Pdf

The first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town.

Author : Naomi Pasachoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-12-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780195099393

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Links in the Chain by Naomi Pasachoff Pdf

Presents biographical essays on individuals who have shaped Jewish history, including Hillel, Moses Mendelssohn, and Theodor Herzl.

Author : Leon Schwartz
Publisher : Worthy Shorts Inc
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780981845357

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A Scion of the Times by Leon Schwartz Pdf

Author : Lisa Cooper
Publisher : Urim Publications
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789655242164

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A Forgotten Land by Lisa Cooper Pdf

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.

Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher,Michael P. Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521796997

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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature by Hana Wirth-Nesher,Michael P. Kramer Pdf

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.

Author : Dan Perry,Alfred Ironside
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 078645105X

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Israel and the Quest for Permanence by Dan Perry,Alfred Ironside Pdf

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.

Author : Bernard Smith
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595150854

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Shark by Bernard Smith Pdf

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.

Author : Jeffrey Gale
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798887937601

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The Secret of Redemption by Jeffrey Gale Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Ireland
ISBN : MINN:31951000746505G

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The Dublin University Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : M. E. Ravage
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780813548661

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An American in the Making by M. E. Ravage Pdf

At the turn of the twentieth century, M. E. Ravage set off in steerage for America, one of almost two million Jews who, like millions of others from eastern and southern Europe, were lured by tales of worldly success. Seventeen years after arriving on Ellis Island, Ravage had mastered a new language, found success in college, and engagingly penned in English this vivid account of the ordeals and pleasures of departure and assimilation. Steven G. Kellman brings Ravage's story to life again in this new edition, providing a brief biography and introduction that place the memoir within historical and literary contexts. An American in the Making contributes to a broader understanding of the global notion of "America" and remains timely, especially in an era when massive immigration, now from Latin America and Asia, challenges ideas of national identity.