Bitter Reckoning

Bitter Reckoning

Author: Dan Porat

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0674243137

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Beginning in 1950, the state of Israel prosecuted and jailed dozens of Holocaust survivors who had served as camp kapos or ghetto police under the Nazis. At last comes the first full account of the kapo trials, based on records newly declassified after forty years. In December 1945, a Polish-born commuter on a Tel Aviv bus recognized a fellow rider as the former head of a town council the Nazis had established to manage the Jews. When he denounced the man as a collaborator, the rider leapt off the bus, pursued by passengers intent on beating him to death. Five years later, to address ongoing tensions within Holocaust survivor communities, the State of Israel instituted the criminal prosecution of Jews who had served as ghetto administrators or kapos in concentration camps. Dan Porat brings to light more than three dozen little-known trials, held over the following two decades, of survivors charged with Nazi collaboration. Scouring police investigation files and trial records, he found accounts of Jewish policemen and camp functionaries who harassed, beat, robbed, and even murdered their brethren. But as the trials exposed the tragic experiences of the kapos, over time the courts and the public shifted from seeing them as evil collaborators to victims themselves, and the fervor to prosecute them abated. Porat shows how these trials changed Israel’s understanding of the Holocaust and explores how the suppression of the trial records—long classified by the state—affected history and memory. Sensitive to the devastating options confronting those who chose to collaborate, yet rigorous in its analysis, Bitter Reckoning invites us to rethink our ideas of complicity and justice and to consider what it means to be a victim in extraordinary circumstances.


A bitter reckoning; or, Violet Arleigh

A bitter reckoning; or, Violet Arleigh

Author: E. Burke Mrs. Collins

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-07-11

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13:

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"A bitter reckoning; or, Violet Arleigh" by E. Burke Mrs. Collins. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.


Winter's Bone

Winter's Bone

Author: Daniel Woodrell

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2007-07-11

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 0316007382

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Daniel Woodrell's modern classic is an unforgettable tale of desperation and courage that inspired the award-winning film starring Jennifer Lawrence. Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive. Living in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, Ree learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. But, as an unsettling revelation lurks, Ree discovers unforeseen depths in herself and in a family network that protects its own at any cost. "The lineage from Faulkner to Woodrell runs as deep and true as an Ozark stream in this book...his most profound and haunting yet." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review


History of English Drama 1660-1900

History of English Drama 1660-1900

Author: Nicoll

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-08-16

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 9780521109338

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Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.


The Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [53 Books]

The Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [53 Books]

Author: Catholic Way Publishing

Publisher: Aeterna Press

Published: 2014-08-13

Total Pages: 11460

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THE SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO COLLECTION [53 BOOKS] SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO - 53 Books: 50 by the Author, 3 About the Author - Over4.6 Million Words in one E-Book - Includes the Complete Edition of Expositions on the Book of Psalms: Volumes I-VI, Psalms 1-150 - Includes an Active Index and Table of Contents for each book with Layered NCX Navigation - Includes Illustrations by Gustave Dore Saint Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 - 28 August 430) was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings were very influential in the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was bishop of Hippo Regius (present-day Annaba, Algeria) located in the Roman province of Africa. Writing during the Patristic Era, he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in the West. Among his most important works are City of God and Confessions. The Confessions of Saint Augustine Translated by Frank Sheed. Expositions on the Book of Psalms Complete Edition Volumes I-VI. Psalms 1-150. Translated by John Henry Parker. All other books by the author part of the Church Fathers edited by Philip Schaff. INCLUDED BOOKS: -MAIN BOOKS- The Confessions of Saint Augustine The City of God On Christian Doctrine Letters of St. Augustin -DOCTRINAL TREATISES OF SAINT AUGUSTIN- On The Trinity The Enchiridion On the Catechising of the Uninstructed A Treatise on Faith and the Creed Concerning Faith of Things Not Seen On the Profit of Believing On the Creed -MORAL TREATISES OF SAINT AUGUSTIN- On Continence On the Good of Marriage Of Holy Virginity On the Good of Widowhood On Lying Against Lying Of the Work of Monks On Patience On Care to Be Had for the Dead -THE ANTI-MANICHAEAN WRITINGS- On The Morals Of The Catholic Church On The Morals Of The Manichaeans On Two Souls, Against The Manichaeans Acts Or Disputation Against Fortunatus The Manichaean Against The Epistle Of Manichaeus, Called Fundamental Reply To Faustus The Manichaean Concerning The Nature Of Good, Against The Manichaeans -THE ANTI-DONATIST WRITINGS- On Baptism, Against the Donatists Answer To The Letters of Petilian, The Donatist The Correction Of The Donatists -SAINT AUGUSTIN'S ANTI-PELAGIAN WORKS- A Treatise On The Merits And Forgiveness Of Sins, And On The Baptism Of Infants A Treatise On The Spirit And The Letter A Treatise On Nature And Grace A Treatise Concerning Man's Perfection In Righteousness A Work On The Proceedings Of Pelagius A Treatise On The Grace Of Christ, And On Original Sin On Marriage And Concupiscence A Treatise On The Soul And Its Origin A Treatise Against Two Letters Of The Pelagians A Treatise On Grace And Free Will A Treatise On Rebuke And Grace A Treatise On The Predestination Of The Saints A Treatise On The Gift Of Perseverance -MISCELLANEOUS- Our Lord's Sermon On The Mount The Harmony Of The Gospels Sermons On Selected Lessons Of The New Testament Lectures Or Tractates On The Gospel According To St. John Ten Homilies On The First Epistle Of John To The Parthians Two Books Of Soliloquies Expositions On The Book Of Psalms -ABOUT THE AUTHOR- Saint Augustin by Louis Bertrand Explanation of the Rule of Saint Augustine by Hugh of Saint Victor St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo by Rev. Fr. Alban Butler PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING