Pioneers
Pioneers

Author: S. An-sky

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2017-05-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780815635048

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When young Zalmen Itzkowitz steps off the train on a dark, dreary day at the close of the nineteenth century, the residents of Miloslavka have no idea what’s in store for them. Zalmen is a freethinker who has come to the rural town to earn his living as a tutor. Yet, rather than teach Hebrew, he plans to teach his students the Russian language and other secular subjects. Residents of the town quickly become divided, with some regarding Itzkowitz as the devil’s messenger and others supportive of his progressive ideas. Set during the time of the Haskalah, the great Jewish Enlightenment that was sweeping through Europe, Pioneers is a charming tale of one ambivalent young man’s attempt to join the movement and a compassionate portrait of one shtetl on the brink of transformation.

My Dear Boy
My Dear Boy

Author: Joanie Holzer Schirm

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1640120726

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After the death of Joanie Holzer Schirm’s parents in 2000, she found hundreds of letters, held together by rusted paperclips and stamped with censor marks, sent from Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, China, and South and North America, along with journals, vintage film, taped interviews, and photographs. In working through these various materials documenting the life of her father, Oswald “Valdik” Holzer, she learned of her family history through his remarkable experiences of exile and loss, resilience and hope. In this posthumous memoir, Schirm elegantly re-creates her father’s youthful voice as he comes of age as a Jew in interwar Prague, escapes from a Nazi-held army unit, practices medicine in China’s war-ravaged interior, and settles in the United States to start a family. Introducing us to a diverse cast of characters ranging from the humorous to the menacing, Holzer’s life story is an inspirational account of survival during wartime, a cinematic epic spanning multiple continents, and ultimately a tale with a twist—a book that will move readers for generations to come. Purchase the audio edition.

Frankly, My Dear
Frankly, My Dear

Author: Molly Haskell

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010-02-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0300164378

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Haskell keeps both novel and movie at hand, moving from one to the other, comparing and distinguishing what Margaret Mitchell expresses from what obsessive producer David O. Selznick, directors George Cukor and Victor Fleming, screenplaywrights Sidney Howard and a host of fixers (including Ben Hecht and Scott Fitzgerald), and actors Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Hattie McDaniel, and others convey. She emphasizes the contributions of Selznick, Leigh, and in an entire chapter, Mitchell, drawing heavily and analytically on existing biographies, the literature of women and the Civil War, Civil War films (especially Birth of a Nation and Jezebel), and film criticism to such engaging effect as to not just revisit GWTW but to revive and intensify the enduring fascination of what Selznick dubbed the American Bible. --Olson, Ray Copyright 2009 Booklist.

Yohji Yamamoto: My Dear Bomb
Yohji Yamamoto: My Dear Bomb

Author: Yohji Yamamoto

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789055449798

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This book offers a unique opportunity to discover Yamamoto's philosophy as a man as well as a fashion designer, illustrating points in his life by means of story, verse and his own sketches. It includes a philosophical essay, exploring the 'Japanese elements in Yohji Yamamoto'.

My Dear Li
My Dear Li

Author: Werner Heisenberg

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-09-27

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0300225016

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Personal letters reveal the quandary of a prominent German physicist during the Nazi years and the strength he shared with his loving wife Nobel Prize–winning physicist Werner Heisenberg lived far from his wife, Elisabeth, during most of the Second World War. An eminent scientist, Werner headed Germany’s national atomic research project in Berlin, while Elisabeth and their children lived more safely in Bavaria. This selection of more than 300 letters exchanged between husband and wife reveals the precarious nature of Werner’s position in the Third Reich, Elisabeth’s increasingly difficult everyday life as the war progressed, and the devoted relationship that gave strength to them both. These letters provide a fascinating new perspective on Werner’s much-debated wartime work and his attitude toward the atomic bomb. They also shed light on his reluctance to emigrate despite the urging of friends. An excerpt from his private diary, an introduction and notes by his daughter, and a selection of personal family photographs complete this compelling volume.

My Dear Bessie
My Dear Bessie

Author: Chris Barker

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2015-02-05

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1782115684

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AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, Nina Twenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are in the same world, and by some strange chance loving me. In September 1943, Chris Barker was serving as a signalman in North Africa when he decided to brighten the long days of war by writing to old friends. One of these was Bessie Moore, a former work colleague. The unexpected warmth of Bessie's reply changed their lives forever. Crossing continents and years, their funny, affectionate and intensely personal letters are a remarkable portrait of a love played out against the backdrop of the Second World War. Above all, their story is a stirring example of the power of letters to transform ordinary lives.

My Dear Ellie
My Dear Ellie

Author: Aisha Urooj

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2020-01-06

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781656295972

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What would you do for your Best friend?Cassandra Grace will live through heartbreaks over a thousand lifetimes. Ellie (Eleanor James) wants to be a superstar. She has natural beauty and talent but is super impatient in achieving her goals. She drops out of High School to pursue acting. She achieves greater success but it comes at a cost. She dwells deeper into darkness as fame becomes a dangerous drug to her. Cassie (Cassandra Grace) is sweet and loving. She is terribly indecisive about what she wants to do in life but will follow Ellie anywhere, including dropping out of High School. After a few years, she decides to go back to University and discovers her love for English literature. As her life gains purpose, she doesn't realize how much her friend Ellie is drifting into despair. Can she save her? She vows to be there for Ellie and to get her the life she deserves to have, even if it means challenging Fate...and losing everything she loves to save her. 'My Dear Ellie' is Aisha Urooj's debut novel and is the first in the Love & Friendship trilogy series. She is currently working on her second novel 'Eleanor's Travels' which will chronicle Ellie's once-in-a-lifetime trip around the world, a extraordinary present given by her parents on her twenty-first birthday. Read 'My Dear Ellie' to learn about the two best friends and the two extraordinary girls, Ellie and Cassie. Join them in their triumphs, their struggles, their adventures and misadventures, and most of all join them for the love and friendship shared between them growing up from little girls to young ladies.

From the Brink of Death & the Gates of Hell
From the Brink of Death & the Gates of Hell

Author: Joseph Hentosz

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 166558047X

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English family tragic life of living hell. After we sailed from Liverpool England to Warsaw poland to live in our mother, Polish husband and our Polish Father. Tiny Polish Village of Treblinka. Our home was a one room rat infested. Cold damp cellar with no electricity. Lighting-heating-washing or cooking facilities only old rotten furniture. The German soldiers had left behind at the end of World War Two.