Author : Jack Lazebnik
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0897335260
Early in the twentieth century, Itkeh leaves her home in Russia for America, her innocent heart slowly developing passion as she navigates the traveler's troubles en route to the new world. Lazebnik's story is turbulent, tender, dramatic, and timeless.
Author : Edwin Jerome Reuben
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780985816117
Author : Priscilla DaCamara Hancock
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439639965
Medina County was founded in 1848 by settlers from Europe and the eastern United States. At the time, Native Americans still lived on that land, which they called Comancheria. Full of hope for a better life, settlers tamed an unfamiliar landscape that was filled with prickly pear cactus, rattlesnakes, coyotes, mountain lions, bison, armadillos, pecans, persimmons, and mustang grapes. The first settlements in Medina County were Castroville, Quihi, Vandenburg, and DHanis. New Fountain, New DHanis, LaCoste, Rio Medina, Hondo, and others were established later. The settlers worked hard growing cotton and grain and raising cattle, and they retained their old-world customs and religious faith in the face of many challenges. With the building of the Medina Dam, farming changed for the better, and new immigrants arrived to help establish schools and communities. Today the proximity to San Antonio allows people to work in the city while maintaining their homes, farms, and ranches in Medina County.
Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
Page : 1919 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0241307694
The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget has all you need to know for an out-of-this-world trip that won't affect your credit rating. Leave financial woes behind and get to grips with every corner of the continent, from awe-inspiring Stonehenge to the jaw-dropping Sistine Chapel, blissful beaches on Croatia's Brac and cool beers in Budapest's ruin pubs. Handy itineraries will help you decide your route, clear, colour-coded maps let you plan your days and gorgeous photos will have you rearing to go. Combined with in-depth descriptions of all the key sights and painstakingly researched recommendations for the best hostels, hotels, campsites, cafés, restaurants, bars and clubs, The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget reveals the continent in all its glory, without breaking the bank. And if you do feel like splashing out occasionally, "treat yourself" boxes offer inspiration - take a dip in the rooftop pool at Bath's Thermae Spa or track down Wroclaw's most mouthwatering pierogi, for example. Make the most of your European adventure with The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget that includes countries like Albania, Austria, Belgium & Luxembourg, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine.
Author : Paul Auerbach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1137563966
Paul Auerbach's Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century. Present-day capitalism has generated growing inequality of income and wealth, persistent high levels of unemployment and ever-diminishing prospects for young people. But in the absence of a positive vision of how society and the economy might develop in the future, the present trajectory of capitalism will never be derailed, no matter how acute the critique of present-day developments. The detailed blueprint presented here focuses upon the education and upbringing of children in the context of social equality and household security. It yields a well-defined path to human development and liberation, as well as democratic control of working life and public affairs. Socialism as human development gives a unity and direction to progressive policies that are otherwise seen to be a form of pragmatic tinkering in the context of a pervasive capitalist reality.
Author : Ronald Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 2010-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1136948899
Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. One brother, the author’s father, endured several concentration camps, including the infamous camp at Auschwitz, as well as a horrific winter death march; while the other brother, the author’s uncle, survived outside the camps by passing as a Catholic among anti-Semitic Poles, including a group of anti-Nazi Polish Partisans, eventually becoming an officer in the Soviet army. As an exemplary "theorized life history," Surviving the Holocaust applies concepts from life course theory to interpret the trajectories of the brothers’ lives, enhancing this approach with insights from agency-structure and collective memory theory. Challenging the conventional wisdom that survival was simply a matter of luck, it highlights the prewar experiences, agentive decision-making and risk-taking, and collective networks that helped the brothers elude the death grip of the Nazi regime. Surviving the Holocaust also shows how one family’s memory of the Holocaust is commingled with the memories of larger collectivities, including nations-states and their institutions, and how the memories of individual survivors are infused with collective symbolic meaning.
Author : Jana Pohl
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9401200718
How is the life-altering event of migration narrated for children, especially if it was caused by Anti-Semitism and poverty? What of the country of origin is remembered and what is forgotten, and what of the target country when the migration is imagined there a century later? Looking Forward, Looking Back examines today’s representation of Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe to America around the turn of the last century. It explores the collective story that emerges when American authors look back at this exodus from an Eastern European home to a new one to be established in America. Focusing on children’s literature, it investigates a wide range of texts including young adult literature as well as picture books and hence sheds light on the dynamics of the verbal and the visual in generating images of the self and other, the familiar and the strange. This book is of interest to scholars in the field of imagology, children’s literature, cultural studies, American studies, Slavic studies, and Jewish studies.
Author : Maxine S. Seller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 1994-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438419414
Immigrant Women combines memoirs, diaries, oral history, and fiction to present an authentic and emotionally compelling record of women's struggles to build new lives in a new land. This new edition has been expanded to include additional material on recent Asian and Hispanic immigration and an updated bibliography.
Author : Ann Birstein
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1497697352
A biography of the author’s father, Bernard Birstein, the rabbi of New York City’s famed Actors Temple.
Author : Lawrence J Epstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2007-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0787986224
"A Lower East Side Tenement Museum book."
