A Story of Jewish Experience in Mississippi, Paperback - Leon Waldoff

DescriptionThrough the story of his Russian-Jewish parents' arrival and in the Mississippi region, the author reveals the experience of the Jewish ...

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An unlikely journalist, a Mississippi murder plagued by revelations, and a fascinating true-crime story of race, money, sex, and power in the moder...

DescriptionOn October 1, 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Preceded by violen...

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DescriptionTraces the monumental battle waged by civil rights organizations and by local people to establish basic human rights for all citizens of...

Reducere. Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story--the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moo...

Reducere. In April 1967, a year before his run for president, Senator Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response f...

The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.

Meditation empowers us to transcend our material mind-set and touch the Infinite and Eternal."True meditation transforms the way we see reality.......

Reducere. My father-in-law Kurt Heppenheimer came to America as a German Jewish refugee in 1937, changed his name to Curtis Heppen, and raised a family. But ...

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" T]he amazing story of a woman who lived through one of the worst times in human history, losing family members to the Nazis but surviving with he...

"Suddenly two pairs of black boots appeared in the shrubbery near us... I looked up very, very slowly, from the boots to the uniforms and all the w...

Examines Bill Hanley's echoing impact on the entire field of sound engineering, that crucial but often-overlooked carrier wave of contemporary musi...

'The evening the men came I fled through the garden gate...'The Netherlands, World War IIWhen the Nazis invade the Netherlands in May 1940 it's cle...

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Attentive to the ways in which power structures, institutional routines, school spaces, and social relations operate in the contemporary school sto...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally an...

Reducere. The "Voice of Silence" is the personal story of an underground Hebrew teacher in the communist Soviet Union who was sentenced to prison after false...

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature - William James

Reducere. DescriptionAn unforgettable memoir about a mixed-race Jewish woman who, after fifteen years of estrangement from her racist great-aunt, helps bring...

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Reducere. A story of one family's love and courage in the Jim Crow-era Deep South In defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named ...

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Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Leon ParrishIllustration(s): 0; 0Number of pages: 96Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 1...

The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper who joined the Dutch Resistance, helped save doz...

The international bestselling and life-affirming story of female bravery, Jewish Nazi resistance and surviving the horrors of Auschwitz

The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper who joined the Dutch Resistance, helped save doz...

Reducere. When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the ...

This funny, poignant, uplifting story about lockdown celebrates how - sometimes - just keeping on going makes you a hero.Publisher: Nosy Crow LtdAu...

Reducere. A fresh look at Jewish folktales wise, witty, hilarious. After finishing school in New York, Rabbi Harvey traveled west in search of adventure and,...

DescriptionEvery work on Jewish thought and law since the twelfth century bears the imprint of Maimonides. A. N. Whitehead's famous dictum that the...

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Reducere. A writer investigates her family's secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations. Hadley Freeman k...

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Winner of the 2007 Welty Prize In 1960, Jon Edgar and Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb founded Loujon Press on Royal Street in New Orleans's French Quarter....

Eminent Marxist intellectual recounts class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium Marcel Liebman was one of post-war Europe's preeminent Marxist intellect...