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Book The True Messiah   Other Plays by Leopold Szor

Download or read book The True Messiah Other Plays by Leopold Szor written by Leopold Szor and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays of Leopold Szor focus on the effects of the Holocaust on those who lived through it. In his words, "survival confers no automatic nobility" and his fascination with the randomness of survival is prevalent throughout his work. Leo's plays, set both in wartime Poland and post-war Europe and America, explore the ways in which both oppressors and oppressed managed to survive the nightmare of war and the effect it had on their psyches. His characters live in a world of constant conflict: romance and pragmatism, fear and greed, ruthlessness and altruism, and the ghosts haunting those who made it out alive. In his forward, Szor says survival "bestows an obligation to speak out until the last breath" and it is in the spirit of this obligation that these plays were written. Leopold Szor was born in 1921 in Lwow, Poland. He spent his boyhood years in Cracow and then moved to Warsaw to attend university, but was interrupted on the first day of classes by the German invasion of Poland and forced to flee eastward. He returned to Lwow and attended art school during the Russian Occupation. After the Nazis invaded Leo was sent to the notorious Janowska concentration camp. He miraculously escaped, and after a daring flight into Russia he participated in the liberation of Poland as part of the re-formed Polish army. After the war Leo immigrated to the United States, where he has lived for the past 60 years. He has a son, Daniel, who lives in London and three grandchildren: Henry, Alex and Emily. Leo lives in New York City with his long-time companion Tove.

Book Traits of a Healthy Family

Download or read book Traits of a Healthy Family written by Dolores Curran and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the fifteen qualities that researchers have discovered are almost always present in healthy families, and explains how these qualities can be developed.

Book History And Antiquities Of The Jews In England

Download or read book History And Antiquities Of The Jews In England written by D'Blossiers Tovey and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the little-known history of Jews in England with this fascinating book. Tovey provides a detailed account of their struggles and triumphs from the time of William the Conqueror to modern times. This is a must-read for anyone interested in English and Jewish history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Music for Conducting Study

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Mark Jordan
  • Publisher : G I A Publications
  • Release : 2009-02-28
  • ISBN : 9781579997359
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Music for Conducting Study written by James Mark Jordan and published by G I A Publications. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Estimated Energy R   D Funding by Provincial Governments in 1976 7  1977 8 and 1978 9

Download or read book Estimated Energy R D Funding by Provincial Governments in 1976 7 1977 8 and 1978 9 written by Canada. Office of Energy Research and Development and published by Supply and Services Canada. This book was released on 1979 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1786 1788

Download or read book 1786 1788 written by Walter Kelly Firminger and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who Broke the Baby

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean Staker Garton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780764220500
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Who Broke the Baby written by Jean Staker Garton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an expanded, new edition of the pro-life classic, "Who Broke the Baby?"--more than 120,000 sold. This small, straightforward handbook addresses the slogans of the pro-choice movement, with new chapters giving up-to-the-minute answers to the latest pro-choice arguments. "This book gets to the heart of the matter".--C. Everett Koop, M.D.

Book Katyn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wojciech Materski
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 0300151853
  • Pages : 616 pages

Download or read book Katyn written by Wojciech Materski and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1940, the Soviet Union carried out the mass executions of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war - army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians - taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. This work details the Soviet killings, the elaborate cover-up of the crime, and the subsequent revelations.

Book Utopia in Power

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mikhail Geller
  • Publisher : New York : Summit Books
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 888 pages

Download or read book Utopia in Power written by Mikhail Geller and published by New York : Summit Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soviet Security and Intelligence Organizations 1917 1990

Download or read book Soviet Security and Intelligence Organizations 1917 1990 written by Michael Parrish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1992-01-30 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the hallmarks of the Soviet system was its heavy reliance on internal and foreign security and intelligence organizations. Not surprisingly, given the secrecy surrounding Soviet efforts in these areas, no biographical reference tools and few bibliographies have been published to date. In this context, Michael Parrish's work is a unique undertaking. In the first section to the volume, biographies are provided on some 4,000 officials in senior and mid-level positions who had served in Cheka, NKVD/RFSFR, GPU, KGB, and other organizations. Also included are officials of the Committee for State Control (formerly Ministry of State Control, and, before that, Commissariat of Workers and Peasants' Inspection). Prominent political personalities with earlier ties to security services, such as N.A. Bulganin, are listed even though such service formed only a brief part of their careers. Others listed include party officials, such as A.A. Kuznetsov, who at different times served as the Party's watchdog of security organs. Also included, because of their close association with repression and security organs, are members of Stalin's inner circle. The second part of the volume is a survey of books in English published between 1917 and 1990 which related to Soviet security and intelligence organizations. This is followed by a biographical addendum, a glossary of terms, and material showing the development of Soviet security organizations. No one concerned with current intelligence issues and the role of security organizations in Soviet life can ignore this volume.

Book Poland in the Twentieth Century

Download or read book Poland in the Twentieth Century written by P. Stachura and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-04-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising mostly original essays, this book offers challenging reassessments of some of the most important and controversial themes in Polish history from 1900 until the present. In analysing Poland's triumphs and tribulations with an informed and searching eye, the author achieves a high level of intellectual coherence and nuanced historical perspectives. The overall result is a major contribution to a field of study which has gained even more significance and scholarly impetus since the collapse of Communism in Poland in 1989/90.

Book Stalin and Europe

Download or read book Stalin and Europe written by Timothy Snyder and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of original essays that reassesses the Soviet Union's impact on Europe, before, during, and after World War II.

Book Ghost Squad  1

    Book Details:
  • Author : Albert Pike
  • Publisher : Cornerstone Book Publishers
  • Release : 2008-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781934935132
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Ghost Squad 1 written by Albert Pike and published by Cornerstone Book Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The degrees of the Lodge of Perfection are often viewed as the heart of the Scottish Rite. In these degrees, Albert Pike explores human relations, responsibilities and moral codes. We learn of how humans should interact with each other, how we should govern ourselves and live within our communities. "The Lodge of Perfection" provides each Masonic student with a collection of reflective philosophical lessons which can be used to grow as both a Mason and a member of the human family. The text has been somewhat modernized making an easier reading experience. Foreword by Michael R. Poll.

Book Collision and Collusion

Download or read book Collision and Collusion written by Janine R. Wedel and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Soviet Union's communist empire collapsed in 1989, a mood of euphoria took hold in the West and in Eastern Europe. The West had won the ultimate victory--it had driven a silver stake through the heart of Communism. Its next planned step was to help the nations of Eastern Europe to reconstruct themselves as democratic, free-market states, and full partners in the First World Order. But that, as Janine Wedel reveals in this gripping volume, was before Western governments set their poorly conceived programs in motion. Collision and Collusion tells the bizarre and sometimes scandalous story of Western governments' attempts to aid the former Soviet block. He shows how by mid-decade, Western aid policies had often backfired, effectively discouraging market reforms and exasperating electorates who, remarkably, had voted back in the previously despised Communists. Collision and Collusion is the first book to explain where the Western dollars intended to aid Eastern Europe went, and why they did so little to help. Taking a hard look at the bureaucrats, politicians, and consultants who worked to set up Western economic and political systems in Eastern Europe, the book details the extraordinary costs of institutional ignorance, cultural misunderstanding, and unrealistic expectations.

Book Hello Sailor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Idle
  • Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
  • Release : 1975-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780860072355
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Hello Sailor written by Eric Idle and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monarch of the Flute

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Toff
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2005-08-18
  • ISBN : 0199883556
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Monarch of the Flute written by Nancy Toff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges Barrère (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that were written for him--the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varèse--he was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire tradition in the United States and set a new standard for American woodwind performance. Barrère's story is a musical tale of two cities, and this book uses his life as a window onto musical life in Belle Epoque Paris and twentieth-century New York. Recurrent themes are the interactions of composers and performers; the promotion of new music; the management, personnel, and repertoire of symphony orchestras; the economic and social status of the orchestral and solo musician, including the increasing power of musicians' unions; the role of patronage, particularly women patrons; and the growth of chamber music as a professional performance medium. A student of Paul Taffanel at the Paris Conservatoire, by age eighteen Barrère played in the premiere of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. He went on to become solo flutist of the Concerts Colonne and to found the Sociètè Moderne d'Instruments á Vent, a pioneering woodwind ensemble that premiered sixty-one works by forty composers in its first ten years. Invited by Walter Damrosch to become principal flute of the New York Symphony in 1905, he founded the woodwind department at the Institute of Musical Art (later Juilliard). His many ensembles toured the United States, building new audiences for chamber music and promoting French repertoire as well as new American music. Toff narrates Barrère's relationships with the finest musicians and artists of his day, among them Isadora Duncan, Yvette Guilbert, André Caplet, Paul Hindemith, Albert Roussel, Wallingford Riegger, and Henry Brant. The appendices of the book, which list Barrère's 170 premieres and the 50 works dedicated to him, are a resource for a new generation of performers. Based on extensive archival research and oral histories in both France and the United States, this is the first biography of Barrère.

Book The French Flute School  1860 1950

Download or read book The French Flute School 1860 1950 written by Claude Dorgeuille and published by HP Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: