Download or read book Zaidy written by Anne E. Silber and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P>Come and meet the Meyer family as seen through the eyes of its youngest member, Anne. The seven year old is overwhelmed by the arrival of "Zaidy", which is the Jewish word for grandfather. Their relationship is bumpy at first, but evolves into a deep and loving one, as Zaidy becomes mentor, companion, and sometimes, target! Their neighborhood is peopled with richly drawn characters which include Dainty Jean Valentine, the slovenly teenager, Martha, the retarded child, ever dominant Aunt Bess, and of course, Jacqueline, Anne's best friend. Set within the World War II era, Anne's immediate family feels the impact of war on the daily lives of an average American family: rationing, paper drives, and the death of young men from the community. Most of all, the Meyers are family. They feel it strongly, and so will you. The Meyer family's door is almost always open, and you are invited in.

Download or read book Eternal Death written by Lily Strange and published by Lily Strange. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Long-Buried Secret Is About To Surface With her long-awaited second marriage finally about to become a reality, acclaimed novelist Terry Bruckham is besieged with painful and terrifying memories. Those most closely associated with her are also assailed by disturbing dreams and obsessive thoughts. A sinister plan is being enacted in the Earth's Dreamlands, home to the sleeping and the Earthbound dead, as a troubled spirit wrestles with the warring pieces of his own psyche for the well-being or destruction of everything that exists. Discover the world beyond the wall of sleep and its marvelous residents, both good and evil.

Download or read book To Climb the Mountain written by Irwin H. Benjamin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-01-13 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bravo. There are many people writing, but you are truly an artist!!! Very much enjoyed the story, the style and the artistic expression. Havent seen this kind of writing in our circles. Thanks. S.S. (London, England) Whenever I see your name, Im there. It is the first article I read in the Hamodia. The depth, style and writing truly mesmerizes me. A.B. (Bnei Brak, Israel) Just a note to let you now how much I have been enjoying your articles in the Hamodia. They are humorous, thought provoking and always leave me with some mussar haskel. It is a pleasure to read articles with such depth and toichen. E.F. (Monsey) Hi, Im a huge fan of your stories. Its the first thing I check out when I buy the Hamodia. You are a huge inspiration to me, both in Judaism and in your outlook on life. I love the nostalgia and your prolific writing. Im a Chasidic boy. Yiddishkait has a huge influence on me. I would like to know if there is any other place where I could enjoy your writings. S.M. (Brooklyn, NY) Words cannot express the great appreciation I have for the beautiful story you wrote in Hamodia. Being married to a Ben Torah for ten years, the story really gave me a new rejuvenated feeling, how many of us take it for granted and do not realize the true value of Torah learning. I dont know how I can thank you enough. R.B. (Lakewood, NJ) I look forward to your articles in the Hamodia. I wish that they would appear more often. In addition to the good subjects, I love your writing. The stories are impossible to put down once begun. S.T. (New York) We are avid readers of your articles. We find them captivating, witty and extremely well written. M.A. (Brooklyn, NY)

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Download or read book Fragile Families written by Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, debates over immigrant rights and family rights, and accompanying concerns over birthright citizenship, have taken center stage in popular media and mainstream political debates. These debates, however, frequently overlook the role of the public child welfare system in the United States—the agency charged with protecting children and maintaining the integrity of families. Based on research conducted in the San Diego-Tijuana region between 2008 and 2012, Fragile Families tells the stories of children, parents, social workers, and legal actors enmeshed in the child welfare system, and sheds light on the particular challenges faced by the children of detained and deported non-U.S. citizen parents who are simultaneously caught up in the immigration system in this border region. Many families come into contact with child welfare services because of the precariousness of their lives—unsafe housing, unstable employment, and the conditions of violence, drug use, and domestic violence made visible by the heightened police presence in impoverished communities. Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez examines the character of child welfare decision-making processes and how discretionary decisions constitute the central avenue through which race, citizenship, and other cultural processes inflect child welfare practice in a manner that disproportionately impacts Latina/o families—both undocumented and U.S. citizens. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork to look at how immigration enforcement and child welfare play central roles in the ongoing production of citizenship, race, and national belonging, Fragile Families focuses on the everyday experiences of Latina/o families whose lives are shaped at the nexus of child welfare services and immigration enforcement.

Download or read book Crescent Star written by Nicholas Maes and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When fifteen-year-olds Avi Greenbaum of West Jerusalem and Moussa Shakir of East Jerusalem face one another in a soccer match in the spring of 2006, they must come to terms with the legacy of violence and mistrust they each bring to the contest.

Download or read book The View from Kings Point written by Edward R. Levenson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The View From Kings Point: The Kings Point Creative Writers Club Anthology, 2020 has arrived! Inside these covers are portfolios of 20 gifted writers in a 55+ South Florida condo community—“your senior citizens next door”—of astonishing versatility, variety, range, scope, literary acumen, and psychological depth in many different genres, such as Humor, Fiction, Memoirs, Mystery, and Poetry. Open anywhere you choose and start from there. You won’t be able to put the book down! See the “Preface” for an overview of the book and introductions to our shining stars.

Download or read book Poetic Voices of the Holocaust written by Jeffrey I. Hiller and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic Voices of the Holocaust By: Jeffrey I. Hiller When author Jeffrey I. Hiller was eight years old, he saw his grandmother looking at an older picture of her immediate family. Suddenly, she began to cry. She pointed a finger at her two brothers and said, “Hitler burned them.” Poetic Voices of the Holocaust is the result of Hiller’s passion on the subject and many years of diving through information to access all he could. The poems within are relevant to this day. Innocent people continue to be murdered, and we must speak out to condemn systematic racism wherever and whenever people are oppressed. These unique and heartbreaking poems shed light on the experience for millions of people from 1933 – 1945.

Download or read book A Classic Trio written by Miriam L. Elias and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And then there were four: Tova and Judy scheme to help insecure newcomer Sephy overcome her temper, and the three and Israeli girl Orlee go to a camp reunion.

Download or read book Emiliano s Discovery written by Paula Hurwitz and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Emiliano Edelman's life is shattered by a terrorist's bomb that destroys Buenos Aires' Jewish community centre it sparks his quest to find family who fled from Eastern Europe to Canada decades earlier. Moments after arriving at the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina, an explosion throws Emiliano from an elevator and he wakes up in the hospital, his girlfriend missing. Unable to cope with the aftermath of the bombing, he decides to leave Argentina, and by chance encounters visitors from Winnipeg who encourage him to move there. When Emiliano announces his plan to his family, his grandfather recalls that they have family in Canada, although he knows little about them. But Emiliano's background in history gives him the tools he needs to begin his exploration. Armed with two Yiddish names and considerable optimism, Emiliano travels to Winnipeg, combing archives, questioning elderly residents and reading row upon row of tombstones. He follows the family as it travelled from Bessarabia and split into Argentinian and Canadian branches. Although he grieves for his girlfriend, Lia, he finds that genealogy fills a gap in his life and when he meets Naomi, who shows him around Winnipeg, the stage is set for another revelation. With common sense, dogged determination and more than a little luck, he ultimately finds his cousins in the least likely place."

Download or read book Straw Man written by Jacob Roth and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob just wanted control. He felt as if he lacked the power to regulate his emotions and how his peers perceived him. When he discovered weight loss, Jacob thought that hed found what was missing. In Straw Man, author Jacob Roth shares his compelling battle with anorexia, a journey that would take him from perceptions of isolation as a young boy to recovering from the most challenging obstacle hed ever face. Anorexia was not just an illnessit was a lifestyle. Jacob cut calories to a point at which hed fast for days at a time. Anorexia nervosa was like a fanatical religious conviction to him, and hed undertake precise rituals that he had to perform correctly to avoid overwhelming fear. If Jacob consumed one too many calories, ate one too many grams of fat, or weighed one too many pounds, he thought that hed defied his religious obligation. In the pursuit of that elusive control, Jacob reduced himself to a man as fragile as one made of straw. Join Jacob as he shares not only how he indoctrinated himself into the lifestyle of an anorexic but how he was able to recover.

Download or read book Yearbook written by Seth Rogen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* • “Rogen’s candid collection of sidesplitting essays . . . thrives at both explaining and encapsulating a generational comedic voice.”—The Washington Post A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in people’s searches using the wonders of algorithmic technology. Thanks for bearing with us!) NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • New York Post • Marie Claire • Self • BookRiot Hi! I’m Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites and shit like that, so… here it goes!!! Yearbook is a collection of true stories that I desperately hope are just funny at worst, and life-changingly amazing at best. (I understand that it’s likely the former, which is a fancy “book” way of saying “the first one.”) I talk about my grandparents, doing stand-up comedy as a teenager, bar mitzvahs, and Jewish summer camp, and tell way more stories about doing drugs than my mother would like. I also talk about some of my adventures in Los Angeles, and surely say things about other famous people that will create a wildly awkward conversation for me at a party one day. I hope you enjoy the book should you buy it, and if you don’t enjoy it, I’m sorry. If you ever see me on the street and explain the situation, I’ll do my best to make it up to you. *I was beaten by Bill O’Reilly, which really sucks.

Download or read book Stormy Weather written by David Corlett and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is predicted to dislocate millions of people in regions already vulnerable to economic, political and environmental disruption. Already some communities, notably Pacific Islanders, are under direct threat of displacement due to climate-related factors. Stormy Weather looks at the effects of climate change as experienced by the people of Tuvalu, a tiny, picturesque Pacific nation. It looks at how the international community should respond to climate-related migration in Asia, the Pacific and Africa, and argues that Australia—in a region in which 60 per cent of the world’s population lives and where the human implications of climate change will be played out—has a particular interest in ensuring that this new challenge is met.

Download or read book Beyond the Tears written by Eugene I. Kwalwasser and published by Devora Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned educator provides young people with understanding based on Jewish faith to cope with death by sharing true stories..

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.

Download or read book Women and Gender in Iraq written by Zahra Ali and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting Iraqi women's voices, this is an examination of women, gender and feminisms in Iraq in the wake of the 2003 US-led invasion.

Download or read book White Walls written by Judy Batalion and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of mothers and daughters, hoarding, and healing. Judy Batalion grew up in a house filled with endless piles of junk and layers of crumbs and dust; suffocated by tuna fish cans, old papers and magazines, swivel chairs, tea bags, clocks, cameras, printers, VHS tapes, ballpoint pens…obsessively gathered and stored by her hoarder mother. The first chance she had, she escaped the clutter to create a new identity—one made of order, regimen, and clean white walls. Until, one day, she found herself enmeshed in life’s biggest chaos: motherhood. Confronted with the daunting task of raising a daughter after her own dysfunctional childhood, Judy reflected on not only her own upbringing but the lives of her mother and grandmother, Jewish Polish immigrants who had escaped the Holocaust. What she discovered astonished her. The women in her family, despite their differences, were even more closely connected than she ever knew—from her grandmother Zelda to her daughter of the same name. And, despite the hardships of her own mother-daughter relationship, it was that bond that was slowly healing her old wounds. Told with heartbreaking honesty and humor, this is Judy’s poignant account of her trials negotiating the messiness of motherhood and the indelible marks that mothers and daughters make on each other’s lives.