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Book The Seder Masochism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nina Paley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-12-05
  • ISBN : 9781790700806
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Seder Masochism written by Nina Paley and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion book to her animated feature film, Seder-Masochism, Nina Paley invites the Great Mother to a stuffy American Passover Seder. The resulting radical feminist commentary is biting, but the real stars are the illustrations. Defying the Second Commandment, these graven images will entertain and delight idolaters, pagans, gentiles, and - who knows? - maybe even some Jews.

Book Hundred Dollar Drawings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nina Paley
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-01-18
  • ISBN : 9781542469166
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Hundred Dollar Drawings written by Nina Paley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adult coloring book, collecting a variety of commissioned artwork, with subjects ranging from cute animals to Ancient Goddesses by cartoonist and animator Nina Paley.

Book The Light of Days

Download or read book The Light of Days written by Judy Batalion and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists. One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters—a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full, until now. Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage, guile, and nerves of steel, these “ghetto girls” paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, and helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with German soldiers, bribed them with wine, whiskey, and home cooking, used their Aryan looks to seduce them, and shot and killed them. They bombed German train lines and blew up a town’s water supply. They also nursed the sick, taught children, and hid families. Yet the exploits of these courageous resistance fighters have remained virtually unknown. As propulsive and thrilling as Hidden Figures, In the Garden of Beasts, and Band of Brothers, The Light of Days at last tells the true story of these incredible women whose courageous yet little-known feats have been eclipsed by time. Judy Batalion—the granddaughter of Polish Holocaust survivors—takes us back to 1939 and introduces us to Renia Kukielka, a weapons smuggler and messenger who risked death traveling across occupied Poland on foot and by train. Joining Renia are other women who served as couriers, armed fighters, intelligence agents, and saboteurs, all who put their lives in mortal danger to carry out their missions. Batalion follows these women through the savage destruction of the ghettos, arrest and internment in Gestapo prisons and concentration camps, and for a lucky few—like Renia, who orchestrated her own audacious escape from a brutal Nazi jail—into the late 20th century and beyond. Powerful and inspiring, featuring twenty black-and-white photographs, The Light of Days is an unforgettable true tale of war, the fight for freedom, exceptional bravery, female friendship, and survival in the face of staggering odds. NPR's Best Books of 2021 National Jewish Book Award, 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award, 2021

Book You Are Not What We Expected

Download or read book You Are Not What We Expected written by Sidura Ludwig and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunningly intimate collection of stories is an exquisite portrait of a Jewish community — the secular and religious families who inhabit it and the tensions that exist there — that illuminates the unexpected ways we remain connected during times of change. When Uncle Isaac moves back from L.A. to help his sister, Elaine Levine, care for her suddenly motherless grandchildren, he finds himself embroiled in even more drama than he would like in their suburban neighbourhood. Meanwhile, a nanny miles from her own family in the Philippines, cares for a young boy who doesn’t fit in at school. A woman in mid-life contends with the task of cleaning out the house in which she grew up, while her teenage son struggles with why his dad moved out. And down the street, a mother and her two daughters prepare for a wedding and transitions they didn’t see coming. Spanning fifteen years in the lives of a multi-generational family and their neighbours, this remarkable collection is an intimate portrait of a suburban Jewish community by a writer with a keen eye for detail, a gentle sense of humour, and an immense literary talent.

Book Words You Should Know How to Spell

Download or read book Words You Should Know How to Spell written by David Hatcher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-18 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceilling. Beleive. Scissers. Do you have trouble spelling everyday words? Is your spell check on overdrive? Well, this easy-to-use dictionary is just what you need! Organized with speed and convenience in mind, it gives you instant access to the correct spellings of more than 12,500 words. Also provided are quick tips and memory tricks, like: Help yourself get the spelling of their right by thinking of the phrase ?their heirlooms.? Most words ending in a ?seed? sound are spelled ?-cede? or ?-ceed,? but one word ends in ?-sede.? You could say the rule for spelling this word supersedes the other rules. No matter what you’re working on, you can be confident that your good writing won’t be marred by bad spelling. This book takes away the guesswork and helps you make a good impression!

Book When God Was A Woman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Merlin Stone
  • Publisher : Doubleday
  • Release : 2012-05-09
  • ISBN : 0307816850
  • Pages : 379 pages

Download or read book When God Was A Woman written by Merlin Stone and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women’s roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in women’s status.

Book Producing Animation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Winder
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2013-02-11
  • ISBN : 1136132619
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Producing Animation written by Catherine Winder and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing heavily from the authors' twenty years of combined experience, Producing Animation offers a clear overview of this exciting industry and a comprehensive guide to the process of developing a project from conception to final delivery. Written from the perspective of a producer, this book offers the foundation of how a project is created in addition to describing the role of the producer at each phase. Answers are provided to many of the most commonly asked questions about animation ranging from how to enter the business to the average cost and schedule for a prime-time animated series. Producing Animation has the first-of-its-kind comprehensive chart of accounts for animation, named the Animation Budget Builder, which can be individually tailored for each project. Visit www.MovieMagicProducer.com for more details. Students, aspiring producers, investors, television and studio executives, artists, film line producers wishing to branch into animation, and legal advisors will find this an invaluable tool. The chapters specifically geared to the pre-production, production and postproduction processes offer animation producers a wealth of practical advice. Numerous illustrations outline the different steps of production. Forms the authors have devised to help streamline the process are also included. Observations from a wide range of industry professionals such as; studio heads, creators, directors, producers, writers and members of the production crew, give the reader insight into what it takes to be successful in this business. The authors' personal anecdotes at key process checkpoints relay firsthand experience, illustrating some of the pitfalls a producer must learn to circumvent. Detailed information on preparing a thorough production plan including the budget, schedule, and crew plan can also be found in this book.

Book Skin Deep

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ted A. Grossbart
  • Publisher : William Morrow
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Skin Deep written by Ted A. Grossbart and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book God Is Not Great

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Hitchens
  • Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
  • Release : 2008-11-19
  • ISBN : 1551991764
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book God Is Not Great written by Christopher Hitchens and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as “one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time” takes on his biggest subject yet–the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s recent bestseller, The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope’s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.

Book Moon of Israel

    Book Details:
  • Author : H. Rider Haggard
  • Publisher : The Floating Press
  • Release : 2011-01-01
  • ISBN : 1775450910
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Moon of Israel written by H. Rider Haggard and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though he was best known as a writer of fantastic action-adventure tales, including the Allan Quatermain series from which the modern-day Indiana Jones films drew inspiration, H. Rider Haggard also worked in the genre of historical fiction from time to time. This novel is a fictionalized account of the Israelites' enslavement and eventual escape from Egypt.

Book An Obsession with Anne Frank

Download or read book An Obsession with Anne Frank written by Lawrence Graver and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Frank's Diary has been acclaimed throughout the world as an indelible portrait of a gifted girl and as a remarkable document of the Holocaust. For Meyer Levin, the respected writer who helped bring the Diary to an American audience, the Jewish girl's moving story became a thirty-year obsession that altered his life and brought him heartbreaking sorrow. Lawrence Graver's fascinating account of Meyer Levin's ordeal is a story within a story. What began as a warm collaboration between Levin and Anne's father, Otto Frank, turned into a notorious dispute that lasted several decades and included litigation and public scandal. Behind this story is another: one man's struggle with himself—as a Jew and as a writer—in postwar America. Looming over both stories is the shadow of the Holocaust and its persistent, complex presence in our lives. Graver's book is based on hundreds of unpublished documents and on interviews with some of the Levin-Frank controversy's major participants. It illuminates important areas of American culture: publishing, law, religion, politics, and the popular media. The "Red Scare," anti-McCarthyism, and the commercial imperatives of Broadway are all players in this book, along with the assimilationist mood among many Jews and the simplistic pieties of American society in the 1950s. Graver also examines the different and often conflicting ways that people the world over, Jewish and Gentile, wanted Anne Frank and her much-loved book to be represented. That her afterlife has in extraordinary ways taken on the shape and implications of myth makes Graver's story—and Meyer Levin's—even more compelling. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.

Book The Trotskys  Freuds and Woody Allens

Download or read book The Trotskys Freuds and Woody Allens written by Ivan Kalmar and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World History of Animation

Download or read book The World History of Animation written by Stephen Cavalier and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated and encyclopedic in scope, The World History of Animation tells the genre's 100-year-old story around the globe, featuring key players in Europe, North America, and Asia. From its earliest days, animation has developed multiple iterations and created myriad dynamic styles, innovative techniques, iconic characters, and memorable stories. Stephen Cavalier's comprehensive account is organized chronologically and covers pioneers, feature films, television programs, digital films, games, independent films, and the web. An exhaustive time line of films and innovations acts as the narrative backbone, and must-see films are listed along with synopses and in-depth biographies of individuals and studios. The book explains the evolution of animation techniques, from rotoscoping to refinements of cel techniques, direct film, claymation, and more. A true global survey, The World History of Animation is an exciting and inspirational journey through the large and still-expanding animation universe--a place as limitless as the human imagination. - A comprehensive international history of animation, featuring all genres, styles, media, and techniques - Features film, television, and web-based animation - Illustrated in full color throughout - Includes comprehensive biographies of leading practitioners

Book Female Erasure

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ruth Barrett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-09-21
  • ISBN : 9780997146707
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Female Erasure written by Ruth Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female Erasure is an anthology that celebrate female embodiment while exposing the current trend of gender-identity politics as a continuation of female erasure and silencing as old as patriarchy itself.

Book Eric Stanton   the History of the Bizarre Underground

Download or read book Eric Stanton the History of the Bizarre Underground written by Richard Perez and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the rise of commercial fetish art from its shadowy beginnings in the 1940s to its acceptance in the 1970s, this illustrated biography explores the unconventional life and art of Eric Stanton, a pioneering sexual fantasist who helped shape the movement. With more than 400 rare images and interviews with Stanton's family and closest associates, this biography chronicles the infamous circle of patrons, publishers, and cult icons populating his subterranean world, including Irving Klaw, John Willie, Bettie Page, Steve Ditko, and Gene Bilbrew. It is the untold, secret history of a misunderstood culture, the abuses of government authority, social intolerance, and gangsters. But above all, it is a tale about survival against all odds and an artist who had the courage to stay true to himself.

Book The Golden Way

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dvora Bregman
  • Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book The Golden Way written by Dvora Bregman and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cartoon Modern

Download or read book Cartoon Modern written by Amid Amidi and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the classic films of Walt Disney in the 1940s and the televised cartoon revolution of the 1960s was a critical period in the history of animation. Amid Amidi, of the influential Animation Blast magazine and CartoonBrew blog, charts the evolution of the modern style in animation, which largely discarded the "lifelike" aesthetic for a more graphic and often abstract approach. Abundantly found in commercials, industrial and educational films, fair and expo infotainment, and more, this quickly popular cartoon modernism shared much with the painting and graphic design movements of the era. Showcasing hundreds of rare and forgotten sketches, model boards, cels, and film stills, Cartoon Modern is a thoroughly researched, eye-popping, and delightful account of a vital decade of animation design.