Download or read book Letters to Auntie Fori written by Martin Gilbert and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Martin Gilbert, renowned author of many authoritative works of history and biography, speaks in a charming, personal voice in this fascinating volume, the saga of five thousand years of Jewish life laid out in a series of intimate, storytelling letters to a lifelong friend. Sir Martin first met “Auntie Fori” in 1958,when he arrived in New Delhi with a letter of introduction from her son, a fellow Oxford student. Their friendship flourished for forty years through correspondence and visits to the capitals where her husband, the diplomat B. K. Nehru, was posted. Then, at her ninetieth birthday celebration in 1998, Auntie Fori told her “adopted nephew” that she was not of Indian birth but was actually Hungarian–and Jewish. She did not know what this Jewish identity involved–historically or spiritually–and she asked him to enlighten her. In response, Sir Martin embarked on the series of letters that have been gathered to form this book, shaping each one as a concise, individually formed story. He presents Jewish history as the narrative expression–the timeline–of the Jewish faith, and the faith as it is informed by the history. Starting with Adam and Eve, he then brings us to Abraham and his descendants, who worshiped a God who repeatedly, and often dramatically, intervened in their lives. The stories of Genesis and Exodus lead seamlessly on to those of the eras when the land was ruled by the Israelite kings and then by Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome–the Biblical and post-Biblical periods. In Sir Martin’s hands, these stories are rich in incident and achievement. He then traces the long history of the Jews in the Diaspora, ending with an unexpected visit to an outpost of Jewry in Anchorage, Alaska. Ranging through almost every country in the world–including China and India–he maintains a chronological structure, weaving in the history of other peoples and faiths, to give Auntie Fori–and us–a sense of the larger stage on which Jewish history has played out. The last fifty letters are devoted to an explanation of Jewish faith and worship, intertwined with the history and observance of holy days and festivals. These letters are fascinating in their objectivity and at the same time infused with a deep personal warmth. Written for one beloved friend,Letters to Auntie Foribrings to life the events and sequence of Jewish history with a special charm that will endear this volume to readers old and young.

Download or read book The Story of the Jewish People written by Martin Gilbert and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Judaism written in letters from historian Martin Gilbert to his acquaintance in India, who wants to learn more about her ancestry. At her ninetieth birthday celebration in New Delhi, “Auntie Fori” revealed to her longtime acquaintance, Sir Martin Gilbert, that she was not of Indian birth but actually Hungarian—and Jewish. She did not know what this Jewish identity involved, historically or spiritually, and asked him to enlighten her. In response, Gilbert embarked on the series of letters that have been gathered to form this book, shaping each one as a concise, individually formed story. He presents Jewish history as the narrative expression—the timeline—of the Jewish faith, and the faith as it is informed by the history. In Sir Martin’s hands, these stories are rich in incident and achievement, starting with Adam and Eve through the Biblical and post-Biblical periods, to the long history of the Jews in the Diaspora, and ending with an unexpected visit to an outpost of Jewry in Anchorage, Alaska. Ranging through almost every country in the world—including China and India—he maintains a chronological structure, weaving in the history of other peoples and faiths, to give Auntie Fori, and us, a sense of the larger stage on which Jewish history has played out. “Compact, breezy, and thoroughly enjoyable . . . For those, like Auntie Fori, hoping to understand the Jewish past and present, this book is a treasure.” —Booklist

Download or read book Aunt Sadie s Letters of Hope Healing written by Shari Lyn Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quarantined at ten years old, my mother was one of 9,086 reported cases of polio in the United States in 1941. She endured four months of recovery and rehabilitation in hospital. Through it all, she received daily letters from her Aunt Sadie, an inspiring lifeline to the outside world?Through these letters, my Aunt Sadie taught my mother how to be a kind and good person despite adversity. Sadie brought the outside world to that hospital room in small but significant ways. At a time when there were no cell phones or computers, a letter every day was warm and meaningful. I know each one brought my mother great comfort and connection.May these beautiful poems and letters, written to an isolated ten-year-old girl eighty years ago, bring solace to those who are going through hard, isolating times today.

Download or read book Dear Auntie written by Journals Soul and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever written a letter to your Aunt? This "Letters to my Auntie" style Journal allows you to sit down and write a personal letter to one of the most important people in the world, your Aunt. Treat this book as your personal communication/memory book with your Aunt. Have a real open and honest conversation with her, you can write anything you like, maybe you would like to thank her for the things she has done for you or perhaps fill it with special memories of great times shared. Perhaps you have never told your auntie just how much you love her; this journal can be a special place to write all those unsaid words. Why not fill out this "letters to my Auntie" journal and give it to her as a gift for a special occasion such as her birthday. What a surprise it would be! Once it is filled with words and love surprise your auntie with what will be her favourite most treasured gift of all time.

Download or read book Letters to My Mother written by Teresa Cardenas and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrator of Letters to My Mother is a young Afro-Cuban girl who, upon the death of her mother, must live with her aunt and cousins. Dependent on them and their good will, she finds their taunts about how dark her skin is and their attacks on her behavior, including her choice not to straighten her hair, deeply wounding. To keep her mother alive somehow, and to remember that she was once deeply loved, she writes letters telling Mamita what she is suffering and feeling. Over the course of this powerful and moving novel, the heroine grows up. Her inner strength helps her to overcome her pain and the racism of at least some of the people around her. And her position in the family changes as she learns to accept herself and others.

Download or read book Travels with My Aunt written by Graham Greene and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Henry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager, who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot and breaks all currency regulations.

Download or read book To My Aunt from Your Niece with Love written by Aleq Sini and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2009-05-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to all the nieces that would like to express love, gratitude to their aunts. Most of all this book is to tell the aunt that her niece loves her and will love her for ever. Her niece wants her to be most of all happy, joyful and live life fully! "Love Letters" collection is one of the best gifts you can offer the people you love and appreciate. Please note that all books in the "Love Letters" series contain the same or very similar messages. Once you buy or receive one for yourself, you'll want to share. Share them as a present for your friend who recently lost her mother, a family member's birthday, a parent or child who needs encouragement, or to make anyone else you can think of, happy. Please share the love and help us all to make this World, the kingdom of love and happiness.

Download or read book Thank You Aunt Tallulah written by Carmela LaVigna Coyle and published by Cooper Square Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many mishaps of Bettina, who is attending summer camp, and her Aunt Tallulah, who is living at the South Pole, are described in the letters they exchange.

Download or read book Love Letters to the Dead written by Ava Dellaira and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dear Ava, I loved your book.” —Award-winning actress Emma Watson For fans of Kathleen Glasgow and Amber Smith, Ava Dellaira writes about grief, love, and family with a haunting and often heartbreaking beauty in this emotionally stirring, critically acclaimed debut novel, Love Letters to the Dead. It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more—though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. And, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her. Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was—lovely and amazing and deeply flawed—can she begin to discover her own path.

Download or read book A Letter to My Mom written by Lisa Erspamer and published by Crown/Archetype. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including letters from Melissa Rivers, Shania Twain, will.i.am, Christy Turlington, and Kristin Chenoweth Just in time for Mother's Day, the next book in the A Letter to My series (after A Letter to My Dog and A Letter to My Cat) takes on mothers, with celebrities and civilians writing letters of gratitude and admiration to the women who raised them, alongside gorgeous, intimate photos.

Download or read book My Dear Aunt Martha written by Barbara J. Shave and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Dear Aunt Martha is a 19th century pioneer epic that is based upon a collection of nearly 80 letters between Scots-Irish settlers of the Illinois Territory and the loved ones they left behind in Pennsylvania. These documents provide first-person perspectives upon ordinary and extraordinary events of the period 1811-1893 that we know only from history books. Described by one university archivist as "platinum," this is the first publication of the complete collection. My Dear Aunt Martha; a 19th Century American Epic from the Letters of Those Who Lived It was selected by the Illinois State Historical Society for its 2011 Award of Excellence. Published in that year, the book was revised in 2013. Toughened to frontier hardships by heritage, the men and women of these letters eagerly claimed land near the Mississippi River that was opened to settlement after the War of 1812. To America's heartland they brought the Presbyterian ideals of independence and the rights and responsibilities of man upon which their parents had helped to found the nation. The history of 19th century America unfolds through these unique narratives. Written on tiny scraps, sealed with wax and transported by horseback, the earliest writings related hardships, fellowships, loneliness and such frustrations as: "The available men are mighty scarce around these parts." After securing farmsteads and comfortable homes, the focus of the letters shifted to the establishment of community with commercial and medical services, a school, a church, singing groups, debating societies, and political rallies. Throughout, the writers gossiped and often concluded their messages with "Don't tell anybody...." They also wrote of working on Mississippi River steamboats and of hostilities with Mormon neighbors that culminated in the mob murder of Joseph Smith, the founder of that religious sect. They served in the Mexican War, joined gold rushes to California and Colorado, and they joined the Union cause during the Civil War. Letters from the front told of this cataclysmic struggle. One soldier wrote of his service as an officer with the U.S. 50th Colored Infantry in Mississippi and another claimed that his commanding officer, George Armstrong Custer, deserved to be shot "for he is nothing but a tyrant." While a young woman described the mournful passage of Lincoln's funeral train through her college town, a young man encouraged his friend to take an emigrant train to California where "The orchards are yellow with golden fruit" and "You'll see some of the finest scenery in the world." The 456 pages of My Dear Aunt Martha are presented in sections: The Foreword, The History (background to the letters and the letter writers), The Letters (sequential transcripts with historical and biographical annotations), The People (biographical index), The Appendix, The Muse (pertinent samplings of other articles by author, Barbara Shave), and The Epilogue. The font is 12 point for easy reading and photographs are abundant. Endorsed by academics at Illinois State University, Western Illinois University, and Brigham Young University, the content of My Dear Aunt Martha is destined to become a primary genealogy reference for Franklin County, Pennsylvania and Hancock County, Illinois. It will also serve as a significant resource for histories of the Scots-Irish in America, the development of the Midwest, the Mormon Church, the Civil War, and the movement for the equal treatment for women.

Download or read book Words in Air written by Elizabeth Bishop and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that "you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend." The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling "picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry," and she once begged him, "Please never stop writing me letters—they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I've been re-reading Emerson) for several days." Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell's death in 1977. Presented in Words in Air is the complete correspondence between Bishop and Lowell. The substantial, revealing—and often very funny—interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of America's most beloved and influential poets.

Download or read book I Lived with My Aunt written by Sandra Turner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an emerald ring, handed down from aunt to niece the story follows a matrilineal line of an Australian family, from their escape from the Russian pogroms in the mid 1800s to modern day Queensland. While primarily a work of fiction, the more bizarre occurrences are based on real events that happened in the authors family. The author read an anecdote in the Readers Digest many years ago: A man was watching his wife bake a leg of ham & she chopped off the hock before putting in the pan. He asked her why she did that & she explained it was done that way, she didnt know why but her mother had always done it that way. He went to his mother-in-law and asked why? She explained she did not know, but her mother had always done it that way. He then visited his grandmother in law at the retirement home & asked her why she always cut off the hock before baking. The old lady replied, its the only way it would fit in the pan. The emerald also does not fit in the pan.

Download or read book Auntie Loves You written by Helen Foster James and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This touching tribute to an Auntie's love celebrates the sweet bond between an aunt and her little bunny. From tender snuggles to play and giggles, author Helen Foster James and illustrator Petra Brown capture the unique relationship in loving color.

Download or read book Death of My Aunt written by C. H. B. Kitchin and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tricked into delivering a fatal dose of poison to his wealthy aunt, Malcolm Warren, a conservative stockbroker, must solve the mystery of her murder before he becomes the prime suspect...

Download or read book Gone to an Aunt s written by Anne Petrie and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty or forty years ago, everybody knew what that phrase meant: a girl or a young, unmarried woman had gotten herself pregnant. She was “in trouble.” She had brought indescribable shame on herself and her family. In those days it was unthinkable that she would have her child and keep it. Instead she had to hide. Most likely she would be sent away to a home for unwed mothers, where she would stay in secrecy until her baby was born and given up for adoption. “Gone to an aunt’s” was the usual cover story, a fiction that everyone understood but no on talked about –until now. In Gone to an Aunt’s, journalist and long-time television host Anne Petrie takes us back into these homes for unwed mothers. Most cities in Canada had at least one home, several as many as five or six, most of them run by religious organizations. Here, in institutional settings, the girls were kept out of sight until their time was up and they could return to the world as if nothing had happened. Seven women –including the author – recount their experiences in Gone to an Aunt’s, talking openly, some for the first time, about how they got pregnant; the reaction of their parents, friends, boyfriends, and lovers; why they wound up in a home; and how they managed to cope with its rules and regulations –no last names, no talking about the past –and the promise of salvation that could come only through work and prayer. Gone to an Aunt’s is a profoundly moving and compassionate –even alarming – account. It comes as a reminder that we not get too wistful for the supposedly innocent times before the sexual revolution. That innocence, Petrie shows vividly, was a charade made believable only because the thousands of girls who had broken the rules were hidden away.

Download or read book To My Aunt from Your Newphew with Love written by Aleq Sini and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2009-05-22 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to all the nephews that would like to express love, gratitude to their aunts. Most of all this book is to tell the aunt that her nephew loves her and will love her for ever. Her nephew wants her to be most of all happy, joyful and live life fully! "Love Letters" collection is one of the best gifts you can offer the people you love and appreciate. Please note that all books in the "Love Letters" series contain the same or very similar messages. Once you buy or receive one for yourself, you'll want to share. Share them as a present for your friend who recently lost her mother, a family member's birthday, a parent or child who needs encouragement, or to make anyone else you can think of, happy. Please share the love and help us all to make this World, the kingdom of love and happiness.