Download or read book Dobryd written by Ann Charney and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “marvelous” autobiographical novel of a Jewish girl emerging from hiding in Poland after the defeat of the Nazis, and rediscovering freedom and hope (Publishers Weekly). By the time I was five years old I had spent half my life hidden away in a barn loft. I had vague memories of the world outside and I listened to stories people around me told of that world, but it was hard for me to believe in its existence. Was there really anything beyond the wails of this barn? I knew that there were people out there, people other than my mother, my aunt, my cousin and another family who shared our hide-out, but it was hard for me to imagine them . . . After two and a half years, a little girl returns to the world, liberated by Soviet soldiers who have driven out the Germans. Amid the rubble and chaos, her mother wants only to look to a new future—while her aunt, on the other hand, recounts tales of life before the war. Moving from their devastated village to Bylau, a German town under Russian rule, and then to Warsaw and eventually Montreal, Ann Charney, a winner of the Chatelaine Fiction Prize and two National Magazine Awards, “beautifully evokes her fear-filled young narrator’s gropings toward maturity and a sense of identity in this moving and memorable novel” inspired by her own childhood experience (Publishers Weekly)—an examination of trauma and renewal that also serves as “an illuminating document of an unusual time and place” (Library Journal).
Download or read book Family Ties How a Ukrainian Nazi and a living witness link Canada to Ukraine today written by PETER MCFARLANE and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2024-09-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The standing ovation accorded in 2023 to a Second World War Ukrainian Nazi unit veteran in Canada’s House of Commons shocked Canadians – and the world. Author Peter McFarlane was not surprised. He had already spent three years learning about two people, Mikael Chomiak and Ann Charney, whose parallel lives during and after that war highlight the complex and disturbing story of Ukraine and Canada’s post-war Ukrainian Canadian community. Ann Charney was two years old when she and her Jewish mother evaded their certain death by hiding out in a hayloft in the Ukrainian countryside. Ann spent two long years in that attic. She and her mother survived the war, and ultimately made their way to Montreal. There, Ann has had a brilliant career as a novelist and journalist. Mikael Chomiak spent the war working for the German SS as the editor of an influential Ukrainian newspaper celebrating Hitler and promoting antisemitism. He and his family were easily accepted as postwar immigrants to Canada, settling in Alberta. There he continued his work as a writer and editor, avoiding public expressions of his antisemitic views or his wartime record. In this book Peter McFarlane tells the stories of these two during the war, and afterwards. He brings their stories up to date through research in Ukraine today. When he visits Chomiak’s relatives in Ukraine, he finds the themes of ethnic hatred and antisemitism strongly in play today in public support for the war with Russia. Canadian descendants of pro-Nazi Ukrainians often do not acknowledge this connection of past to present. Mikael Chomiak’s granddaughter Chrystia Freeland has a lead role in government as a senior federal cabinet minister. Like many others, she remains in denial about her grandfather’s role promoting the Nazis’ policies and the Holocaust in Ukraine. Visiting Ann Charney’s home town of Brody, Peter McFarlane finds that the local history museum celebrating Ukrainian Nazi soldiers while saying nothing about their Holocaust role, executing the town’s 10,000 Jewish residents, including all of Ann’s family and relatives. This book provides context and background for understanding the complex dynamics behind the war between Ukraine and Russia, and Canada’s role in that conflict.
Download or read book Focusing on Jewish Religious Life 1500 1900 written by Antony Polonsky and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Established in 1986 by the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, 'Polin : Studies in Polish Jewry' has acquired a well-deserved reputation for publishing authoritative material on all aspects of Polish Jewry. Contributions are drawn from many disciplines -- history, politics, religious studies, literature, linguistics, sociology, art, and architecture -- and from a wide variety of viewpoints. Under an editorial collegium headed by Antony Polonsky and François Guesnet, volumes are published annually with each volume devoted to a different theme."--
Download or read book New Canadian Library written by Janet Friskney and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1950s, much Canadian literature was out of print, making it relatively inaccessible to readers, including those studying the subject in schools and universities. When English professor Malcolm Ross approached Toronto publisher Jack McClelland in 1952 to propose a Canadian literary reprint series, it was still the accepted wisdom among publishers that Canadian literature was of insufficient interest to the educational market to merit any great publishing risks. Eventually convinced by Ross that a latent market for Canadian literary reprints did indeed exist, McClelland & Stewart launched the New Canadian Library (NCL) series in 1958, with Ross as its general editor. In 2008, the NCL will celebrate a half-century of publication. In New Canadian Library, Janet B. Friskney takes the reader through the early history of the NCL series, focusing on the period up to 1978 when Malcolm Ross retired as general editor. A wealth of archival resources, published reviews, and the NCL volumes themselves are used to survey the working relationship between Ross and McClelland, as well as the collaborative participation of those who, through the middle decades of the twentieth century, were committed to studying and nurturing Canada's literary heritage. To place the New Canadian Library in its proper historical context, Friskney examines the simultaneous development of Canadian literary studies as a legitimate area of research and teaching in academe and acknowledges the NCL as a milestone in Canadian publishing history.
Download or read book Over 20 Peace Corps Language Training Publications Country Pre departure Materials written by and published by Jeffrey Frank Jones. This book was released on with total page 1673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1,600 total pages ... Understanding a foreign language can be fun as well as challenging. It is also an important skill needed by Peace Corps Volunteers to integrate into their communities. Use our resources to learn basic phrases and greetings from some of greetings from some of the countries where Peace Corps Volunteers serve. Included languages ... plus more: Albanian Armenian Azerbaijani Bambara Bangla Bislama Bulgarian Chinese Mandarin Darija French Mali Georgian Hausa Jordan Arabic Marshallese Malagasy Macedonian Kazakhstan Russian Kyrgyz Russian Mongolian Moroccan Arabic Turkmen Romanian siSwati Thai Setswana Ukrainian Wolof
Download or read book Distantly Related to Freud written by Ann Charney and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Montreal, 1953, and eight-year-old Ellen, an only child prone to daydreaming, is living with her widowed Polish mother, a Marxist bookkeeper who maintains an optimistic view of the future. To make ends meet, she takes in post-war refugees from Europe, a group whose erratic behaviour is a source of fascination to her precocious daughter. What little Ellen knows about her own background is summed up in just a few stories and artifacts, among them a portrait of Sigmund Freud, whose status as a distant relative is a matter of great pride to her mother. The only constant in Ellen's world is change, and the refugees soon leave to make room for Ellen's Aunt Celia and Henryk Steiner, a doctor-turned-matchmaker whom Ellen learns is to be her stepfather. Suspicious of the glib Henryk, Ellen spends most of her time with her best friend Lydia, with whom she shares not only a cultural background, but also a growing sense of alienation. Together they negotiate the murky realm of sex and adolescence with all the resources they can muster, including the explicit advice of Lydia's lustful mother, Magda, whose escapades set off a series of events that will alter the course of the two girls' lives. Ann Charney's moving novel captures the pulse of a pivotal decade in the restless consciousness of a young woman seeking to know her own mind.
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethnic and Native Canadian Literature written by John P. Miska and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writers Union of Canada written by Writers' Union of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Literary Periodicals Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Definiteness in Bulgarian written by Olga M. Mladenova and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2007 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other Slavic languages, Bulgarian lacked a definite article in its earlier stages. Unlike them, it has one today. The book formulates the rules that govern the use of articles and other markers of (in)definiteness in Modern Standard Bulgarian in comparison with the seventeenth century, and constructs a model of transition from the older system to the modern one, a model which is then evaluated against broader historical and dialect data and placed in a Balkan and general Slavic context
Download or read book Les Belles trang res written by Jane Koustas and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While translation history in Canada is well documented, the history of the translation of Canadian fiction outside the nation remains obscure. Les Belles Étrangères examines the translation of Canadian English-language fiction in France. This book considers the history of this practice, the reasons for the move away from Quebec translators as well as the process and perils involved in this detour. Within a theoretical framework and drawing on primary sources, this study considers the historical, theoretical, and concrete aspects of this practice through the study of the translations of authors such as Robertson Davies, Carol Shields, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Ann-Marie MacDonald, and Alistair MacLeod. The book also includes a comprehensive bibliography of English-language novels, poetry, and plays published and translated in France over the past 240 years.
Download or read book Literary History of Canada written by William H. New and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1990-12-15 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume of the Literary History of Canada covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984. As with the three earlier volumes, this book is an invaluable guide to recent developments in English-Canadian literature and a resource for both the general reader and the specialist researcher. The contributors to this volume are Laurie Ricou, David Jackel, Linda Hutcheon, Philip Stratford, Barry Cameron, Balachandra Rajan, Robert Fothergill, Brian Parker, Cynthia Zimmerman, Frances Frazer, Edith Fowke, Bruce G. Trigger, Alan C. Cairns, Douglas Williams, Carl Berger, Shirley Neuman, Raymond S. Corteen, and Francess G. Halpenny.
Download or read book Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe Russia and Eurasia written by Mary Zirin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 2121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.
Download or read book Catalog of the Gerald K Stone Collection of Judaica written by Gerald K. Stone and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald K. Stone has collected books about Canadian Jewry since the early 1980s. This volume is a descriptive catalog of his Judaica collection, comprising nearly 6,000 paper or electronic documentary resources in English, French, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Logically organized, indexed, and selectively annotated, the catalog is broad in scope, covering Jewish Canadian history, biography, religion, literature, the Holocaust, antisemitism, Israel and the Middle East, and more. An introduction by Richard Menkis discusses the significance of the Catalog and collecting for the study of the Jewish experience in Canada. An informative bibliographical resource, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Canadian and North American Jewish studies.
Download or read book Annual Report written by Massachusetts. Board of State Charities and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
