Download or read book Klara s Brother The Woman He Loved written by Ben G. Frank and published by Amazon/Kindle Direct Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tumultuous Love Story of Endurance and Separation! What started out as an infatuation between teenagers who met during the savage Russian Civil War becomes a tumultuous love story. From the moment Soviet Commissar Mischa Rasputnis embraces Basya Abramskaya, a Soviet spy, the couple's fate is pitted against the Kremlin's secret police who warn the couple never to communicate with each other again. Wrenched from the arms of his loved one, Mischa often dreams he sees Basya in the sunflower fields of Ukraine, on the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, along the beaches of Tel Aviv, and in the teeming alleyways of Shanghai. Will their love endure years of separation and deception to evade the long reach of the Soviet spies he turned on. This suspenseful tale, "Klara's Brother & The Woman He Loved," Volume III of The Klara Trilogy, ends the saga of the Klara Rasputnis clan's battle for survival. An historical novel in one of the bloodiest and most irrational periods in the 20th century. - "With acute attention to historical details, Ben Frank pulls us into the lives of two lovers caught at the intersection of national loyalty and personal desire. It is a sizzling, affecting romance set in the grip of the Russian war. Tensions rise in the quest for survival. Loss is at stake. And we are left at the edge of this gripping narrative as we watch and root for the protagonists to overcome their hurdles and find their way back to each other." - Tochi Eze, Teaching Assistant, The Writing Program, Florida Atlantic University. "In Mischa, Ben Frank has created one of the unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction." - Lewis Burke Frumkes, Author, Radio Show Host. Ben G. Frank is the author of Klara's Journey, Klara's War, The Scattered Tribe, A Travel Guide to Jewish Europe (4 editions); A Travel Guide to Jewish Russia and Ukraine, A Travel Guide to the Jewish Caribbean and South America. He has published articles in Hadassah Magazine, Jerusalem Post, The Forward, Moment Magazine, JTA, and the New Haven Register. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, B.A., cum laude; and Columbia University, M.A. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, he lived for many years in the New York area, with his late wife, Riva. He now resides in Palm Beach County, FL.
Download or read book A Love of Reading The Second Collection written by Robert Adams and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen brilliant new reviews from the author of A Love of Reading. Passionate, thought provoking, and witty. A Love of Reading, the Second Collection contains 14 new reviews of modern classics from a discriminating, highly entertaining, and prodigiously well-read guide. In a stimulating selection, ranging from Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace to Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, and from Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain to Sheri Holman’s The Dress Lodger, popular literary critic Robert Adams skilfully interweaves a nimble and enlightening discussion of plot, theme, and characterization with fascinating historical, biographical, and literary context. Adams is repeatedly drawn to the spectacle of less-than-perfect humans making their way in a hostile world, and as a result his reviews are a hugely satisfying mix of rich pathos and abundant humour. In the words of the Calgary Herald, they are “a bibliophile’s dream.”
Download or read book When Sonia Met Boris written by Anna Shternshis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soviet Jews lived through a record number of traumatic events: the Great Terror, World War II, the Holocaust, the Famine of 1947, the Doctors' Plot, the antisemitic policies of the postwar period, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. But like millions of other Soviet citizens, they married, raised children, and built careers, pursuing life as best as they could in a profoundly hostile environment. One of the first scholars to record and analyze oral testimonies of Soviet Jews, Anna Shternshis unearths their everyday life and the difficult choices that they were forced to make as a repressed minority living in a totalitarian regime. Drawing on nearly 500 interviews with Soviet citizens who were adults by the 1940s, When Sonia Met Boris describes both indirect Soviet control mechanisms?such as housing policies and unwritten quotas in educational institutions?and personal strategies to overcome, ignore, or even take advantage of those limitations. The interviews reveal how ethnicity was rapidly transformed into a negative characteristic, almost a disability, for Soviet Jewry in the postwar period. Ultimately, Shternshis shows, after decades living in a repressive, nominally atheistic state, these Jews did manage to retain a complex sense of Jewish identity, but one that fully disassociates Jewishness from Judaism and instead associates it with secular society, prioritizing chess over Talmud, classical music over Hasidic tunes. Gracefully weaving together poignant stories, intimate reflections, and witty anecdotes, When Sonia Met Boris traces the unusual contours of contemporary Russian Jewish identity back to its roots.
Download or read book Peacebuilding with Women in Ukraine written by Maureen P. Flaherty and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years post-independence Ukraine remains split, still floundering toward viable democracy. Active participation in civic affairs required for democracy is unfamiliar for most Ukrainian citizens, having internalized centuries of divisive oppression under a series of authoritarian regimes. Democracy-building and peace-building require participant agency and voice; rising out of oppression, people often need support to speak about and transform their lived experiences. Peacebuilding with Women in Ukraine: Using Narrative to Envision a Common Future, by Maureen P. Flaherty, explores the roles women's shared narrative, dialogue, and group-visioning play in the support of personal empowerment and bridge building between diverse communities. Despite participants' initial beliefs that their regional counterparts shared little in common with them, in the process of telling their personal life stories women were able to reflect upon their own values and strengths, and with this rooting, they were then able to reach out to others. Rather than looking for differences, participants sought ways to express a shared vision for an inclusive, functional, peace-building future for themselves, their families, and Ukraine as a whole. Peacebuilding with Women in Ukraine is a model for emancipatory social action and social change, while the women's stories offer a window into the formative years and present-day lives of eighteen women born and raised in the Soviet Union. This study is a unique contribution to peace studies and to the history and building of a country that has most often had its history written for it.
Download or read book The Oxymoron Factor 3 written by Frank Stiffel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-02-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE OXYMORON FACTOR 3, Italian Interlude #2, is the 3-rd part of a 4-Part Holocaust memoir. In it, the Author and the Reader enter the tunnel of gloomy darkness, an Underground Railroad from Poland to the West used by the surviving Jews after Hitlers final debacle in his anti-Jewish WANNSEE CRUSADE. Along with Frank you will be inching your way toward the glimmering light at the end of that tunnel. Once out, you will follow Franks search for the Spirit of Redemption, the mystical Girl of the Ring, a vibrant young woman, whom eventually he finds in the flesh.
Download or read book The Invisible Bridge written by Julie Orringer and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical novel set in 1937 Europe tells the story of three Hungarian Jewish brothers bound by history and love, of a marriage tested by disaster, of a Jewish family's struggle against annihilation by the Nazis and of the dangerous power of art in the time of war.
Download or read book Neither With Them Nor Without Them written by Elena M. Katz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debates over the Jewish theme in Russian literature have been long dominated by the old dichotomy between anti and philo-Semitic discourses. Rather than analyzing “the image of the Jew” in terms of negative or positive characteristics, and branding the authors respectively, as anti- or philo-Semitic, the author explores the complexity and the ambiguity of the construction of Jewishness as the “Other” in the works of three of Russia’s greatest nineteenth-century authors. Katz identifies Gogol, Dostoevsky and Turgenev as creators of special modes of the emerging Jewish discourse in Russian literature. She tackles the traditionally read tropes of Jews in light of both sociohistoric and cultural contexts of the time and the writers’ own politics and aesthetics.
Download or read book Love with No Tomorrow written by Mindelle Pierce and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love with No Tomorrow shares a spark of light by sharing true love stories of the Holocaust. This heart-wrenching book uses hundreds of hours of interviews with survivors and their children to present first-hand accounts of the relationships that blossomed in extermination camps, sparking hope in the darkest of times.
Download or read book Enticed by Her Island Billionaire written by Becky Wicks and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tempted… By a man she can’t have! Dr. Mila Ricci is excited to visit the stunning Indonesian island where Sebastian Becker is pioneering a technique to heal scars. But he’s the exact opposite of the rich celebrity surgeon she’d been expecting—and Mila is immediately attracted to him! Wrestling his own demons, Sebastian might be sexy but he’s no superficial playboy; he craves a home and family. Things Mila feels are not for her, especially not with him…
Download or read book Harlequin Medical Romance September 2020 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Sue MacKay and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Medical Romance brings you a collection of three new titles, available now! Enjoy these stories packed with pulse-racing romance and heart-racing medical drama. This Harlequin Medical Romance box set includes: THE NURSE’S SECRET by Sue MacKay Surgeon Noah has walked back into Stacy’s hospital, ready to rekindle their passion. But is he ready to learn he’s a dad? ENTICED BY HER ISLAND BILLIONARE by Becky Wicks Sebastian is not the superficial celebrity surgeon Dr Mila expected, and she is instantly attracted — to a man who’s firmly off the table! FALLING AGAIN FOR THE SINGLE DAD by Juliette Hyland Eli’s always put work first, but now he’s bringing up his niece everything’s changed! Dare Amara allow herself another chance at love?
Download or read book Eduard M rike written by Margaret Mare and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1957, this was the first biography and full account of Eduard Mörike’s works to appear in English. One of the greatest German lyric poets, Mörike is, according to some critics equal to Goethe as a lyricist. This book was the first attempt to analyse Mörike’s highly suggestive drawings, some of which are reproduced in the book. The contents of poems are summarized, so no prior knowledge of German is assumed, and a large number of poems are quoted in full.
Download or read book Alienated Women written by Gra?yna Borkowska and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Women's studies are still in their infancy in Poland and this book is one of the most comprehensive and well-researched studies on nineteenth-century Polish women prose writers. Selecting writers that reflect the most turbulent time in Polish women's literature, such as Klemenntyna Hoffmanowa, Narcyza Zmichovska, Eliza Orzeszkowa and Zofia Nalkowska. Borkowska's approach of major feminist theories and post-feminist thought results in findings that throw new light on Polish women writers and their contribution to European thought." "This study is suitable for all students and scholars of Polish literature, women s studies and feminist theory."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The Great War in Post Memory Literature and Film written by Martin Löschnigg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960s until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) ‘national’ memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its ‘remembrance’ in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.
Download or read book Klara s Truth written by Susan Weissbach Friedman and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is May 2014, and Dr. Klara Lieberman—forty-nine, single, professor of archaeology at a small liberal arts college in Maine, a contained person living a contained life—has just received a letter from her estranged mother, Bessie, that will dramatically change her life. Her father, she learns—the man who has been absent from her life for the last forty-three years, and about whom she has long been desperate for information—is dead. Has been for many years, in fact, which Bessie clearly knew. But now the Polish government is giving financial reparations for land it stole from its Jewish citizens during WWII, and Bessie wants the money. Klara has little interest in the money—but she does want answers about her father. She flies to Warsaw, determined to learn more. In Poland, Klara begins to piece together her father’s, and her own, story. She also connects with extended family, begins a romantic relationship, and discovers her calling: repairing the hundreds of forgotten, and mostly destroyed, pre-War Jewish cemeteries in Poland. Along the way, she becomes a more integrated, embodied, and interpersonally connected individual—one with the tools to make peace with her past and, for the first time in her life, build purposefully toward a bigger future.
Download or read book Snow White s Destiny written by Jacinta Laurenti and published by Jacinta Laurenti. This book was released on with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MELANIE KLEIN written by Phyllis Grosskurth and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently underestimated in America, Melanie Klein was a leading figure in psychoanalytic circles from the 1920s until her death in 1960. Parent of object-relations theory, she saw the development of children, and of the female in particular, in a way that was both an extension of and a challenge to orthodox Freudian thinking. Now, drawing on a wealth of hitherto unexplored documents as well as extensive interviews with people who knew and worked with Klein, Phyllis Grosskurth has written a superb account of this important, complicated woman and her theories—theories that are still growing in influence both here and abroad. Melanie Klein was not only a highly original theorist and effective practitioner, but a thoroughly fascinating woman. This brilliant, definitive book on her life is a major contribution to psychoanalytic history.
Download or read book Destruction Ethics and Intergalactic Love written by Peter Admirand and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga offers a creative and accessible exploration of the two comic book series, examining themes like nonviolence; issues of gender and war; heroes and moral failures; forgiveness and seeking justice; and the importance of diversity and religious pluralism. Through close interdisciplinary reading and personal narratives, the author delves into the complex worlds of Y and Saga in search of an ethics, meaning, and a path resonant with real-world struggles. Reading these works side by side, the analysis draws parallels and seeks common themes around the four central ideas of seeking and making meaning in a meaningless world; love and parenting through oppression and grief; peacefulness when surrounded by violence; and the perils and hopes of diversity and communion. This timely and thoughtful study will resonate with scholars and students of comic studies, media and cultural studies, philosophy, theology, literature, psychology, and popular culture studies.
