Profiles Of A Lost World
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Profiles Of A Lost World
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Author : Hirsz Abramowicz
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1999
Profiles Of A Lost World written by Hirsz Abramowicz and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First published in a Yiddish edition in 1958, Profiles of a Lost World is a source of information about Eastern Europe before World War II as well as an touchstone for understanding a rich and complex cultural environment. Hirsz Abramowicz (1881-1960), a prominent Jewish educator, writer and cultural activist, knew that world and wrote about it, and his writings provide an eyewitness account of Jewish life during the first half of the twentieth century. Abramowicz was a witness to war, revolution and major cultural transformations in the Jewish world. His essays, written and originally published in Yiddish between 1920 and 1955, document the local history of Lithuanian Jewry in rural and small-town settings, and in the city of Vilna-the "Jerusalem of Lithuania"-which was a major center of East European Jewish intellectual and cultural life. They shed light on the daily life of Jews and the flourishing of modern Yiddish culture in Eastern Europe during the early 20th century and offer a personal perspective on the rise of Jewish radical politics. The collection incorporates local history of Lithuanian Jewry, shtetl folklore, observations on rural occupations, Jewish education, and life under German occupation during World War I. It also includes a series of profiles of leading social and intellectual Jewish personalities of the author's day, from traditional scholars to revolutionaries. Together the selections provide a blend of social and personal history and a window on a lost world.
Dinosaurs
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Author : RILEY. BLACK
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Dinosaurs written by RILEY. BLACK and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Dinosaurs
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Author : Riley Black
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-10-25
Dinosaurs written by Riley Black and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-25 with categories.
In Dinosaurs: Profiles from a Lost World, Riley Black, a fossil expert and consultant to the Jurassic World movie franchise, provides all the details about 72 specific dinosaurs. Riccardo Frapicinni's exceptional artwork allows readers to feel that they are actually coming into contact with the dinosaurs.
Jewish Soldiers In The Collective Memory Of Central Europe
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Author : Gerald Lamprecht
language : en
Publisher: Böhlau Wien
Release Date : 2019-04-15
Jewish Soldiers In The Collective Memory Of Central Europe written by Gerald Lamprecht and has been published by Böhlau Wien this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with History categories.
World War I marks a huge break in Central European Jewish history. Not only had the violent wartime events destroyed Jewish life and especially the living space of Eastern European Jews, but the impacts of war, the geopolitical change and a radicalization of anti-Semitism also led to a crisis of Jewish identity. Furthermore, during the process of national self-discovery and the establishing of new states the societal position of the Jews and their relationship to the state had to be redefined. These partially violent processes, which were always accompanied by anti-Semitism, evoked Jewish and Gentile debates, in which questions about Jewish loyalty to the old and/or new states as well as concepts of Jewish identity under the new political circumstances were negotiated. This volume collects articles dealing with these Jewish and gentile debates about military service and war memory in Central Europe.
Undigested Past
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Author : Robert van Voren
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2011
Undigested Past written by Robert van Voren and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Lithuanian Historical Background -- Origins of Anti-Semitism -- Jewish Life in Lithuania between World Wars -- The Holocaust in Lithuania -- Issues of Compliance and Collaboration -- The Human Dimension -- Why Did it Happen? -- From Black and White to Shades of Grey -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- About the Author.
Synagogues In Lithuania A M
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Author : Aliza Cohen-Mushlin
language : en
Publisher: VDA leidykla
Release Date : 2010-03-29
Synagogues In Lithuania A M written by Aliza Cohen-Mushlin and has been published by VDA leidykla this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-29 with Jewish architecture categories.
Shtetl
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Author : Jeffrey Shandler
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-15
Shtetl written by Jeffrey Shandler and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-15 with Social Science categories.
In Yiddish, shtetl simply means “town.” How does such an unassuming word come to loom so large in modern Jewish culture, with a proliferation of uses and connotations? By examining the meaning of shtetl, Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become the subject of extensive creativity, memory, and scholarship from the early modern era in European history to the present. In the post-Holocaust era, the shtetl looms large in public culture as the epitome of a bygone traditional Jewish communal life. People now encounter the Jewish history of these towns through an array of cultural practices, including fiction, documentary photography, film, memoirs, art, heritage tourism, and political activism. At the same time, the shtetl attracts growing scholarly interest, as historians, social scientists, literary critics, and others seek to understand both the complex reality of life in provincial towns and the nature of its wide-ranging remembrance. Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History traces the trajectory of writing about these towns—by Jews and non-Jews, residents and visitors, researchers, novelists, memoirists, journalists and others—to demonstrate how the Yiddish word for “town” emerged as a key word in Jewish culture and studies. Shandler proposes that the intellectual history of the shtetl is best approached as an exemplar of engaging Jewish vernacularity, and that the variable nature of this engagement, far from being a drawback, is central to the subject’s enduring interest.
Jewish Marriage And Divorce In Imperial Russia
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Author : ChaeRan Y. Freeze
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2002
Jewish Marriage And Divorce In Imperial Russia written by ChaeRan Y. Freeze and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Family & Relationships categories.
A pathbreaking study of Jewish marriage and divorce in 19th-century Russia.
Miscellaneous Investigations In Central Tikal Structures In And Around The Lost World Plaza
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Author : H. Stanley Loten
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2018-03-02
Miscellaneous Investigations In Central Tikal Structures In And Around The Lost World Plaza written by H. Stanley Loten and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-02 with Architecture categories.
The Great Maya center of Tikal, in Guatemala, is famous for its well-preserved architecture. This book presents descriptions of six structures that belong to the Tikal Project category "standing architecture," that is, though partially collapsed, some features of these buildings remain in place and accessible without excavation. These structures were surveyed with little or no excavation as part of the Tikal Project Standing Architecture Survey. This report is the primary record of these structures in Tikal's urban landscape, and it provides clear, precise, and usable architectural analyses for Mayanists, archaeologists, art historians, architectural historians, urbanists, and those interested in construction techniques and in the uses of Maya buildings. Universtiy Museum Monograph, 148
On The Eve
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Author : Bernard Wasserstein
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2012-05-03
On The Eve written by Bernard Wasserstein and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-03 with History categories.
This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught and World War Two. In this revisionist account of modern European Jewry, Wasserstein shows how the harsh realities of the age devastated the lives of communities and individuals. By 1939, the Jews faced an existential crisis that was as much the result of internal decay as of external attack. Ranging from Vilna ('Jerusalem of Lithuania') to Salonica with its Judeo-Espaol-speaking stevedores and singers, and beyond, the book's focus is squarely on the Jews themselves rather than their persecutors. Wasserstein's aim is to 'breathe life into dry bones.' Based on vast research, written with compassion and empathy, and enlivened by dry wit, On the Eve paints a vivid and shocking picture of the European Jews in their final hour.