Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust, and the Literary Imagination, Paperback - Holli Levitsky

DescriptionThis volume provides for the first time a collection of writing that investigates the stories and struggles of survivors in the context ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Brent Hayes EdwardsIn 1941 Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke copyrighted "Epistrophy, " one of the best-known compositions o...

Focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants - Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. Wood finds that all t...

Transgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the...

Reducere. Barbara Wolfenden received her MA from Brown University and has worked as a technical writer, Spanish teacher and co-founder of Tampa Preparatory S...

Hot on the heels of the Lizzie Borden case from 1893-1894, newspapers around the world began closely following a new and unusual case in upstate Ne...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters' greatest voices, ponder...

DescriptionIn this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked witho...

This book seeks to explore aspects of the Holocaust as it is remembered and reflect ultimately on parallels with the world we live in today.Publish...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Barry TrachtenbergNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 28Cover type: Har...

In December 1938, a young Englishman canceled a ski vacation and went instead to Prague to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Nazi...

Reducere. On May 24, 1977, Trudy Resnick Farber was abducted from her home by a masked, armed intruder, taken to a remote wooded mountainside and buried aliv...

Reducere. Christ and Apollo juxtaposes Christian definiteness to romantic mythologizing. A strong warning might be in order: anyone coming to this book expec...

Reducere. Through fiction, memoir, music, photography, and art, In the Catskills highlights the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its continui...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Andre BazinTranslator: Natasa DurovicovaNumber of pages: 436Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Reducere. "The Shelter and the Fence is a well-written, well-researched story of Holocaust rescues. . . . makes it clear that despite the saving of almost 1,...

Reducere. A unique memoir of Holocaust atrocities and life under their heavy influencePoland, 1942. "My mom told me how her sister, Cirella, threw her two-ye...

One of Britain's foremost writers of place takes an evocative journey along the western coast of Ireland and Scotland to chart the perennial allure...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through...

Reducere. Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, is recited in a time of deep sorrow. In it, the sacredness of the Almighty One is affirmed. In her new gat...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Paul R. (Florida Gulf Coast University, USA) BartropIllustration(s): 20 bw illusNumber of ...

Like Maus, Introducing the Holocaust is a classic illustrated guide to the horrors of the Holocaust. With a trenchant text by Israeli filmmaker and...

Reducere. Most literary works have one primary voice, a discourse that expresses an author's dominant culture and ideology. The whole Bible, however, should ...

Andrew Kornbluth offers the first account of the August Trials, Poland's halting judicial reckoning with wartime collaboration. As evidence of popu...

Reducere. Hawk and Fisher: partners, husband and wife, Captains in Haven's City Guard. Known, respected, and mostly feared, Hawk and Fisher fight crime, purs...

Reducere. Return to Haven Point for one last summer by the lake... Samantha Fremont may still be grappling with her mother's death, but this summer she's det...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat do you do if you are a reluctant soldier, having been shot at, seen your friends killed, and can no longer even remember what your ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat do you do if you are a reluctant soldier, having been shot at, seen your friends killed, and can no longer even remember what your ...

New essays by prominent scholars in German and Holocaust Studies exploring the boundaries and confluences between the fields and examining new tran...

This book brings together political, cultural and social insights into the life of Jews in Southeast Europe in the 20th century, with a special foc...

Reducere. Making her way up the cedar-lined driveway, tears fill her eyes at the sight of the cottage's faded trim and peeling turquoise shutters. Taking a d...

DescriptionWith his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the...

Reducere. Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazi regime systematically murdered hundreds of thousands of children and adults with disabilities as part of its "euthan...

Reducere. Experiencing another's past could end her future . . .Kiera Brayleigh is a memory surgeon. In the ten years since her "gift" manifested, she's help...

'Maps of the Imagination' takes us on a magic carpet ride over terrain both familiar and exotic. Using the map as a metaphor, fiction writer Peter ...

At time children are unable or unwilling to access or engage with emotional and mental health support services. Often members of a child's support ...

Michael Edelstein was headstrong and independent, a self-described mamzer. He was 10 years old when he rolled under barbed wire and escaped the rou...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Using small-town life as a springboard to explore the loftiest of ideas, Haven Kimmel's irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a ro...

Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's classic novel of the pivotal summer in one woman's life is a brilliant excursion into the terrifying gulf between yo...

Reducere. Jung and the Alchemical Imagination illustrates the spiritual nature of Jungian psychology and the debt it owes to the tradition of esoteric religi...