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Book A Daughter of Two Mothers

Download or read book A Daughter of Two Mothers written by Miriam Cohen and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by best-selling author Miriam Cohen, A Daughter of Two Mothers is the incredible, true account of a handicapped widow's forced separation from her infant daughter, the years of longing and searching, the legal battle, and the subsequent destruction brought by the Nazis. Open this book and you will step into the world of a generation gone, of pre- and post-war Hungarian Jewry, as young Leichu moves between two communities and their divergent lifestyles. This is a gripping story of separation and reunion, of pure faith and acceptance of G-d's will, and of triumph over despair.

Book The Hungarian Daughter

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Stephens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1841
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book The Hungarian Daughter written by George Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hungarian Daughter  A Dramatic Poem

Download or read book The Hungarian Daughter A Dramatic Poem written by George STEPHENS (Author of “The Manuscripts of Erdély.”.) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hungarian Girl

Download or read book The Hungarian Girl written by Mariam Tenger and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Protected Children  Regulated Mothers

Download or read book Protected Children Regulated Mothers written by Eszter Varsa and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protected Children, Regulated Mothers examines child protection in Stalinist Hungary as a part of twentieth-century (East Central, Eastern, and Southeastern) European history. Across the communist bloc, the increase of residential homes was preferred to the prewar system of foster care. The study challenges the transformation of state care into a tool of totalitarian power. Rather than political repression, educators mostly faced an arsenal of problems related to social and economic transformations following the end of World War II. They continued rather than cut with earlier models of reform and reformatory education. The author’s original research based on hundreds of children’s case files and interviews with institution leaders, teachers, and people formerly in state care demonstrates that child protection was not only to influence the behavior of children but also to regulate especially lone mothers’ entrance to paid work and their sexuality. Children’s homes both reinforced and changed existing patterns of the gendered division of work. A major finding of the book is that child protection had a centuries-long common history with the “solution to the Gypsy question” rooted in efforts towards the erasure of the perceived work-shyness of “Gypsies.”

Book The Hungarian Girl Trap

Download or read book The Hungarian Girl Trap written by Ray Dexter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Boy meets girl. Boy is English, girl Hungarian: boy has a good job at a very well-known boarding school in England; girl is an au pair who wants to get back to Hungary as soon as possible. Boy descovers he knows a man who is running an International school in Hungary and he is desperate for boy to work for him. Boy decides you can't fight that sort of coincidence, chucks in the good job at the well-known boarding school and follows the girl to Budapest ... This is a book about real life in one of Europe's most fascinating cities. Ray Dexter shows us deep inside the Hungarian soul and also inside the minds of the expats who have also ended up in the Hungarian Girl Trap"--P. [4] of cover.

Book Hedy s Journey

Download or read book Hedy s Journey written by Michelle Bisson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1941. Hedy and her family are Jewish, and the Jew-hating Nazi party is rising. Hedy's family is no longer safe in their home in Hungary. They decide to flee to America, but because of their circumstances, sixteen-year-old Hedy must make her way through Europe alone. Will luck be with her? Will she be brave? Join Hedy on her journey-where she encounters good fortune and misfortune, a kind helper and cruel soldiers, a reunion and a tragedy-and discover how Hedy is both lucky and brave. Hedy's Journey adds an important voice to the canon of Holocaust stories, and her courage will make a lasting impact on young readers.

Book The Tenth Child

Download or read book The Tenth Child written by Julianna Withey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a powerful story of Julianna, the tenth child of poor Hungarian peasants, whose life spread through the most challenging and tragic historical milestones of twentieth century Europe: Second World War, Nazi occupation of Hungary, Communist Crackdown, and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Julianna's courage and determination will inspire and touch the hearts of the readers as she shares with them the wonderful, fascinating details of her life which was completely different from those of most Americans. She conveys those historical events through her own experiences, the way they had affected and altered her childhood and eventually her entire life. Through her voice the reader will find Julianna's heart and soul that endured all the explosions of bombs, hunger and nerve-breaking fright when Hungary became the battleground between withdrawing Nazis and the Red Army. Her courage was really put to the test when after the Russian tanks brutally crushed the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 she crawled through a minefield in the dark, then on her stomach inched across a bridge, and under a hail of border guards' bullets ran for her life to reach Austria, and finally the land of her childhood dream, America.

Book The Good Master

Download or read book The Good Master written by Kate Seredy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-05-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Honor Book - from the author of The White Stag Jancsi is overjoyed to hear that his cousin from Budapest is coming to spend the summer on his father’s ranch on the Hungarian plains. But their summer proves more adventurous than he had hoped when headstrong Kate arrives, as together they share horseback races across the plains, country fairs and festivals, and a dangerous run-in with the gypsies. In vividly detailed scenes and beautiful illustrations, this Newbery Award-winning author presents an unforgettable world and characters who will be remembered forever. “A genuinely joyous and beautiful book.”—The New York Times

Book The Martian s Daughter

Download or read book The Martian s Daughter written by Marina Whitman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of Marina von Neumann Whitman

Book Daughter of the Revolution

Download or read book Daughter of the Revolution written by Peter Hargitai and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 23, 1956 For 12 days, countless Hungarian teenagers fought in the bloody Hungarian Revolution against Communist tyranny and overwhelming Soviet armor. They set up tank barricades, tossed Molotov cocktails, and with their confiscated Russian submachine guns made a stand on the streets of Budapest, hoping to hold out until help arrived from the West. But there was no help. Nobody came to their aid. This is the story of one such brave freedom fighter-a 14 year-old girl. "For 12 days in 1956, the Hungarian people caught a fleeting glimpse of their independence. Armed with little more than a love of liberty, the impatient patriots of Hungary rose up against the mighty Soviet empire. They stormed the jails and they freed political prisoners For 12 days, there was hope, but then came the response and it was terrible and ferocious. Soviet troops and tanks rumbled into Hungary, killing tens of thousands of people and condemning thousands of others to Siberian gulags." -Condoleezza Rice U.S. Secretary of State

Book The Hungarians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Lendvai
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-03-02
  • ISBN : 0691200289
  • Pages : 586 pages

Download or read book The Hungarians written by Paul Lendvai and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated new edition of a classic history of the Hungarians from their earliest origins to today In this absorbing and comprehensive history, Paul Lendvai tells the fascinating story of how the Hungarians, despite a string of catastrophes and their linguistic and cultural isolation, have survived as a nation for more than one thousand years. Now with a new preface and a new chapter that brings the narrative up to the present, the book describes the evolution of Hungarian politics, culture, economics, and identity since the Magyars first arrived in the Carpathian Basin in 896. Through colorful anecdotes of heroes and traitors, victors and victims, revolutionaries and tyrants, Lendvai chronicles the way progressivism and economic modernization have competed with intolerance and narrow-minded nationalism. An unforgettable blend of skilled storytelling and scholarship, The Hungarians is an authoritative account of this enigmatic and important nation.

Book Magda s Daughter

Download or read book Magda s Daughter written by Evi Blaikie and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To survive the long shadow of the Third Reich, many children were placed in hiding, forced to keep their true identities--names, religion, places of birth, even gender--secret. Among these "hidden children" was Evelyne Juliette, born in Paris to privileged Hungarian immigrants of high intellect and great passion. Scarcely a year following her birth, France would fall to the Nazis, plunging Europe further into chaos and placing Evi's family among hundreds of thousands on the run. Her father, forced to go underground, never again emerged. Her mother, the indomitable Magda, managed to send her young daughter to temporary safety before being imprisoned in a forced labor camp. Evi, just barely three, was eventually brought by an aunt to Budapest under her cousin's passport. "Claude Pollak" would be only the first of many false identities assumed to protect the shattered remnants of this young child's life. Brimming with novelistic detail, vivid characterizations, and a sharply observed emotional terrain, Magda's Daughter depicts, in the words of the author herself, the life of a "perpetual refugee," forced by historical circumstance to live in rootless exile, while yearning for something she never really knew--life "before." Evi Blaikie, a gifted storyteller, writes against the limits of language and defies traditional definitions of "survivorship," while reminding us that no war is ever over until the last survivor is gone.

Book Refugee Child

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bobbie Kalman
  • Publisher : St. Catharines, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780778727606
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Refugee Child written by Bobbie Kalman and published by St. Catharines, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part history, this compelling and inspiring book is a detailed look at the 1956 Hungarian Revolution through the eyes of a nine year old refugee girl.

Book Beloved Children

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katalin Péter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Beloved Children written by Katalin Péter and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Hungarian in 1996, this study of childhood during the 16th and 17th centuries draws on family papers and other sources to illustrate family life among Hungary's aristocracy. It covers topics including birth, care, family intimacy, maternal and paternal attitudes, orphanhood, and death; two case studies focus on arranged marriage and education. Includes genealogical tables for the families under discussion. Distributed by Books International. c. Book News Inc.

Book Self glorification  a Chinese play for the times  Rebecca and her daughters  a comedy  in prose  for the times  Philip Basil  or  A poet s fate  a tragedy for the times  Remarks upon the presentation of the tragedy of  Martinuzzi   acted at the Theatre Royal Lyceum

Download or read book Self glorification a Chinese play for the times Rebecca and her daughters a comedy in prose for the times Philip Basil or A poet s fate a tragedy for the times Remarks upon the presentation of the tragedy of Martinuzzi acted at the Theatre Royal Lyceum written by George Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jewishness and Beyond

    Book Details:
  • Author : Miklós Konrád
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2024-08-06
  • ISBN : 025307052X
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Jewishness and Beyond written by Miklós Konrád and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the nineteenth century, Hungary's government steadily dismantled several obstacles that kept its rapidly expanding Jewish communities from enjoying the full benefits of citizenship. The state's concerted efforts to "Magyarize" Jews promoted Hungary's language, culture, and sensibilities, but did not require Jews to abandon their faith. Even so, tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews converted to Christianity during this era, with conversion rates continuing to rise even as Judaism gained full legal equality. Jewishness and Beyond addresses this apparent paradox between motivation and changed affiliation. Miklós Konrád examines conversion from a wide variety of unique sources, including community archival materials, synagogue speeches, parliamentary diaries, daily newspapers, life writings, works of fiction, collections of jokes, and more. He finds that between 1848 and 1914, most of the Hungarian Jews who converted to Christianity were motivated by worldly concerns; that despite the egalitarian promises and laws of Hungary's liberal nationalist government, legislators and other traditional elites maintained a persistent bias against Jews that spurred particularly high conversion rates among the community's upper echelons; and that while Christians never fully forgot converted Jews' origins and increasingly thought of them in racialized terms, they also appreciated and generally rewarded conversion and the symbolic gesture of baptism. Conversion was also an uneven and ever-shifting process in which gender and occupation played key roles, and where the actual percentage of converts vis-à-vis the total Hungarian Jewish population contrasted sharply with both Christian and Jewish perceptions of its frequency and spread. Jewishness and Beyond reveals the motivations and strategies behind Hungarian Jews' conversions, the complex reactions within and outside of their communities, and converts' own grappling with conversion's expected and unforeseen outcomes.