The Jewish American Family Album
The Jewish American Family Album

Author: Dorothy Hoobler

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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The American Family Album series tells the often heroic stories of American immigrant groups, largely through their own words and pictures. Like any family album, the pages contain period photographs, memorabilia, selections from diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspapers. Each book is a pictorial and written record of the country left behind, the journey to America, and the group's contributions to the United States. 164 illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Monsters
The Monsters

Author: Dorothy Hoobler

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2009-05-30

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0316075728

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The authors of the award-winning In Darkness, Death share the remarkable true story of Frankenstein's origins and the curse on its creators.

The Family Album
The Family Album

Author: Yeon-Soo Kim

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0838756107

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This book is an examination of the use of the family album in contemporary Spanish culture. Through the analysis of films, narratives, painting, and a photographic exhibition produced from the end of Franco's dictatorship to the present, Kim interrogates how the family album serves as a critical instrument to reflect on the treatment of the past in contemporary Spain, the recuperation of repressed identities, nostalgia for collective memory symptomatic of the cultural discontent with the erosion of a national boundary due to globalization and the increasing claim of diversity, and ethical concerns for immigration. This study explores a broad range of works by canonical as well as less studied writers and artists, including Juan Goytisolo, Carlos Saura, and Marta Balletbo-Coll. Yeon-Soo Kim is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Rutgers University.

Captain John Smith
Captain John Smith

Author: Thomas Hoobler

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2008-04-21

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0470314982

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"America was the place Smith had dreamed of his whole life.There, his character, determination, and ambition had propelled him to the top of society. He spent the rest of his life trying to return. Though he failed, he pointed the way for others, who were drawn by the dream that opportunity was here for anyone who dared seize it . . . Smith founded more than a colony. He gave birth to the American dream." --from Captain John Smith Captain John Smith tells the real story behind the swashbuckling character who founded the Jamestown colony, wrote the first book in English in America, and cheated death many times by a mere hairbreadth. Based on rich primary sources, including Smith's own writings and newly discovered material, this enlightening book explores Smith's early days, his forceful leadership at Jamestown that was so critical to its survival, and his efforts upon his return to England to continue settlements in America. This unique volume also reveals the truth behind Smith's relationship with Pocahontas, a tale that history has greatly distorted. Bringing to life heroic deeds and dramatic escapes as well as moments of great suffering and hardship, Captain John Smith serves as a great testament to this important historical figure.

The Jewish Community of Baltimore
The Jewish Community of Baltimore

Author: Lauren R. Silberman

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738553979

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When Jews arrived in the mid-1700s, Baltimore was little more than a backwater port with an uncertain future. As the city grew so did its Jewish community, forming its first congregation in 1830 and hiring the first ordained rabbi in America in 1840. Today Baltimore is home to one of the nation's largest and most diverse Jewish communities, with approximately 100,000 Jews living in the metropolitan area. Through photographs and documents drawn primarily from the collection of the Jewish Museum of Maryland, The Jewish Community of Baltimore chronicles this fascinating history. More than 200 historic images portray the progress of Baltimore's Jews from a handful of immigrants starting new lives in a growing port city, to an established network of clergy, businesspeople, educators, philanthropists, and civic leaders. From the family-owned delis on Lombard Street and the grand department stores on Howard Street, to the majestic synagogues on Eutaw Place and the current epicenter of Jewish life on Park Heights Avenue, Jews have left an indelible mark on Baltimore.

GI Jews
GI Jews

Author: Deborah Dash MOORE

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0674041208

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Through memoirs, oral histories, and letters, Deborah Dash Moore charts the lives of 15 young Jewish men as they faced military service and tried to make sense of its demands.

A Timeless People
A Timeless People

Author: Saul Hillel Landa

Publisher: Gefen Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789652294869

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In August of 1654, a few Ashkenazic Jews arrived in the Dutch colonial settlement of New Amsterdam (later renamed New York), and thus began the astonishing saga of American Jewry. In this stunning book of narrative and photographs, Dr. Saul Landa gives us a glimpse of its beauty.

The Jew Within
The Jew Within

Author: Steven M. Cohen

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2000-11-22

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780253337825

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Eisen, two of the keenest observers and analysts of American Jewish life, probe beneath the surface to explore the foundations of belief and behavior among moderately affiliated American Jews."--BOOK JACKET.