Download or read book Skalat Memorial Book written by Abraham Weissbrod and published by Jewishgen.Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Skalat Memorial Book is assembled using three different sources: SKALAT A Memorial Anthology for a Community Destroyed in the Holocaust Death of a Shtetl (Skalat, Ukraine) Skalat Memorial Scroll in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem (Ukraine)
Download or read book Three Minutes in Poland written by Glenn Kurtz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author's search for the annihilated Polish community captured in his grandfather's 1938 home movie. Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, David Kurtz, the author's grandfather, captured three minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in Poland on 16 mm Kodachrome color film. More than seventy years later, through the brutal twists of history, these few minutes of home-movie footage would become a memorial to an entire community--an entire culture--that was annihilated in the Holocaust. Three Minutes in Poland traces Glenn Kurtz's remarkable four-year journey to identify the people in his grandfather's haunting images. His search takes him across the United States; to Canada, England, Poland, and Israel; to archives, film preservation laboratories, and an abandoned Luftwaffe airfield. Ultimately, Kurtz locates seven living survivors from this lost town, including an eighty-six-year-old man who appears in the film as a thirteen-year-old boy. Painstakingly assembled from interviews, photographs, documents, and artifacts, Three Minutes in Poland tells the rich, funny, harrowing, and surprisingly intertwined stories of these seven survivors and their Polish hometown. Originally a travel souvenir, David Kurtz's home movie became the sole remaining record of a vibrant town on the brink of catastrophe. From this brief film, Glenn Kurtz creates a riveting exploration of memory, loss, and improbable survival--a monument to a lost world"--
Download or read book Death of a Shtetl written by Abraham Weissbrod and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pp. 85-120 contain additional testimonies of 16 survivors from Skalat, obtained by Lusia Milch in 1992-95. The last 21 pp. contain maps and photographs.
Download or read book One Step Ahead written by Avraham Azrieli and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitler's attack on Russia in the spring of 1941 and the Nazi eastward blitzkrieg form a dramatic backdrop to this true story. On the first day of Operation Barbarossa, in the midst of battle, Esther Parnes leads her family east, away from the Polish village of Skalat. A step ahead of Hitler's earth-scorching troops, Esther and her children endure hunger, disease, and bloodshed. But Hitler's four-year campaign defeats neither Mother Russia nor Esther Parnes. In an era when women were confined to traditional household roles, at a time when proud men bowed their heads as they stood at the edge of a pit waiting to be shot, this redheaded woman challenged Adolf Hitler. Based on extensive interviews and independent research into the Parnes family's plight and the Nazi war on Russia, this book tells the story of an extraordinary mother's battle to save her seven children.
Download or read book The Book of Klezmer written by Yale Strom and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2002.
Download or read book Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century written by John-Paul Himka and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing Beyond Pen and Parchment written by Ricarda Wagner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can stories of magical engraved rings or prophetic inscriptions on walls tell us about how writing was perceived before print transformed the world? Writing beyond Pen and Parchment introduces readers to a Middle Ages where writing is not confined to manuscripts but is inscribed in the broader material world, in textiles and tombs, on weapons or human skin. Drawing on the work done at the Collaborative Research Centre “Material Text Cultures,” (SFB 933) this volume presents a comparative overview of how and where text-bearing artefacts appear in medieval German, Old Norse, British, French, Italian and Iberian literary traditions, and also traces the paths inscribed objects chart across multiple linguistic and cultural traditions. The volume’s focus on the raw materials and practices that shaped artefacts both mundane or fantastical in medieval narratives offers a fresh perspective on the medieval world that takes seriously the vibrancy of matter as a vital aspect of textual culture often overlooked.
Download or read book Their Brothers Keepers written by Philip Friedman and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the tales of scores of Christian heroes and heroines from all walks of life, in various European countries, who aided the oppressed escape the Nazi terror. Christians in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, France, Italy, Hungary and Eastern Europe defied Gestapo truncheons to be their brothers’ keepers. Fully documented addition to material which has not been treated before in this way. “...One of the most thrilling stories of our generation, excitingly written and well-documented...it serves as an inspiration for all those who have the courage to express their love to their fellowman...”—The Very Rev. JAMES A. PIKE, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York “...a major document of human solidarity, this story testifies to the survival of the spirit of heroism, as well as of martyrdom, in behalf of humanitarian ideals.”—Professor SALO W. BARON, Columbia University “...I commend this work to all who are interested in seeing how people reached up gentle hands and took Christ’s law of love out of the sky and...put it into practice...I hope it is read by millions.”—Rev. JOHN A. O’BRIEN, University of Notre Dame
Download or read book The Black Book of Polish Jewry written by Jacob Kenner and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reconstructing the Old Country written by Eliyana R. Adler and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and students of American Jewish history and literature in particular will appreciate this internationally focused scholarship on the continuing reverberations of the Second World War and the Holocaust.
Download or read book Norse Magical and Herbal Healing written by Ben Waggoner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in Iceland around the year 1500, the little book now known only as AM 434a is a treasure trove of medieval medical knowledge. The book lists healing uses for over ninety different herbs. It gives advice on health matters ranging from bloodletting to steam baths to the influence of the moon on health and human life. And it contains a number of magical spells, charms, prayers, runes, and symbols to bring health, wealth, and good fortune. The roots of the healing traditions in AM 434a go back thousands of years before the book itself was written. We are honored to present the first complete English translation of AM 434a. Complete notes and commentary explain this texts's historical and cultural background. Medievalists, historians of science and magic, herbalists, and anyone interested in medieval Scandinavian lore and life will find this book indispensable.
Download or read book Hrafnagaldur Odins written by Annette Lassen and published by Viking Society for Northern Research University College. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anonymous poem in eddic style is shown in this edition to have probably originated in Skálholt in the mid seventeenth century. The main title probably meant 'Song of Óðinn's ravens', i.e. one of the reports said to have been brought to Óðinn from all over the world every evening.
Download or read book Some Jewish Witnesses for Christ written by Rev. A. Bernstein B.D. and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Building in Revolutionary Ukraine written by Stephen Velychenko and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State Building in Revolutionary Ukraine examines six attempts to create governments on Ukrainian territories between 1917 and 1922. Focusing on how political leaders formed and staffed administrations, this study shows that in Ukraine during this time, there was an available pool of able administrators sufficiently competent in Ukrainian to work as bureaucrats in the independent national governments. These people could sometimes implement policies, a significant accomplishment in light of the upheavals of the time. Stephen Velychenko compares Ukrainian efforts to create an independent national government with the analogous successful efforts made in Russia, Poland, Ireland and Czechoslovakia. He questions the notion that Ukrainian attempts at national independence failed because its society was 'incomplete' and its leaders unable to organize an effective administration. Pointing out that Bolshevik administrations at the time were no more effective in implementing policies than their rivals, Velychenko argues that more effective governance was not one of the reasons for the Russian Bolshevik victory in Ukraine.
Download or read book An Ancient Lineage written by Edward Gelles and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genealogy of the author's family who lived mainly in Poland and Austrian Galizia.
Download or read book Memorial Books of Eastern European Jewry written by Rosemary Horowitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Russian civil wars through the Nazi years, the Jews of Eastern Europe were targets of violence during the first half of the twentieth century. During the Holocaust especially, entire communities were wiped out. In response, survivors sometimes compiled memorial books, or Yizker books, in an attempt to preserve historical, biographical, and cultural information about their shtetls. This multipart collection provides a concise history of the memorial books and their cultural contexts; eight analytical essays on or using Yizker books; key reviews, in some cases translated from the Yiddish, from the 1950s and later; and a bibliographic overview of secondary sources and collections.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic written by Richard Slade Harrell and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic volume presents the core vocabulary of everyday life in Morocco--from the kitchen to the mosque, from the hardware store to the natural world of plants and animals. It contains myriad examples of usage, including formulaic phrases and idiomatic expressions. Understandable throughout the nation, it is based primarily on the standard dialect of Moroccans from the cities of Fez, Rabat, and Casablanca. All Arabic citations are in an English transcription, making it invaluable to English-speaking non-Arabists, travelers, and tourists--as well as being an important resource tool for students and scholars in the Arabic language-learning field.
