Scroll Of Agony
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Scroll Of Agony
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Author : Chaim Aron Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1999
Scroll Of Agony written by Chaim Aron Kaplan and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
The classic firsthand account of life and death in the Warsaw ghetto.
Troubled Memory
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Author : Lawrence N. Powell
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2003-04-03
Troubled Memory written by Lawrence N. Powell and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-03 with History categories.
This powerful work tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, the Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memoryis also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto as a group, the Skoreckis evaded deportation to Treblinka, by posing as Aryans and ultimately made their way to New Orleans, where they became part of a vibrant Jewish community. Lawrence Powell traces the family's dramatic odyssey and explores the events that eventually triggered Anne Skorecki Levy's brave decision to honor the suffering of the past by confronting the recurring specter of racist hatred. Breaking decades of silence, she played a direct role in the unmasking and defeat of Duke during his 1991 campaign for the governorship of Louisiana.
Voices From The Warsaw Ghetto
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Author : David G. Roskies
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-23
Voices From The Warsaw Ghetto written by David G. Roskies and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-23 with History categories.
The powerful writings and art of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collective called Oyneg Shabes, the collection of reportage, diaries, prose, artwork, poems, jokes, and sermons captures the heroism, tragedy, humor, and social dynamics of the ghetto. Miraculously surviving the devastation of war, this extraordinary archive encompasses a vast range of voices—young and old, men and women, the pious and the secular, optimists and pessimists—and chronicles different perspectives on the topics of the day while also preserving rapidly endangered cultural traditions. Described by David G. Roskies as “a civilization responding to its own destruction,” these texts tell the story of the Warsaw Ghetto in real time, against time, and for all time.
Numbered Days
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Author : Alexandra Garbarini
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Numbered Days written by Alexandra Garbarini and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with History categories.
Terrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in motion a vicious cycle that threatens to devastate civil liberties over the twenty-first century. In this clear-sighted book, Bruce Ackerman peers into the future and presents an intuitive, practical alternative. He proposes an 'emergency constitution' that enables government to take extraordinary actions to prevent a second strike in the short run while prohibiting permanent measures that destroy our freedom over the longer run. Ackerman's 'emergency constitution' exposes the dangers lurking behind the popular notion that we are fighting a war on terror. He criticizes court opinions that have adopted the war framework, showing how they uncritically accept extreme presidential claims to sweeping powers. Instead of expanding the authority of the commander-in-chief, the courts should encourage new forms of checks and balances that allow for decisive, but carefully controlled, presidential action during emergencies. In making his case, Ackerman explores emergency provisions in constitutions ranging from France to South Africa, retaining aspects that work and adapting others. He shows that no country today is well equipped to both fend off terrorists and preserve fundamental liberties, drawing particular attention to recent British reactions to terrorist attacks. Written for thoughtful citizens throughout the world, this book is democracy's constitutional reply to political excess in the sinister era of terrorism.
The Holocaust
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Author : Donald Bloxham
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2005-07-15
The Holocaust written by Donald Bloxham and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-15 with History categories.
Despite the massive literature on the Holocaust, our understanding of it has traditionally been influenced by rather unsophisticated early perspectives and silence. This book summarizes and criticizes the existing scholarship on the subject and suggests new ways by which we can approach its study. It addresses the use of victim testimony and asks important questions: What function does recording the past serve for the victim? What do historians want from it? Are these two perspectives incompatible? It also examines the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and compares them to those responsible for other acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the early years of the twentieth century. In addition, it looks at the bystanders--examining the complexity and ambiguity at the heart of contemporary reaction.
Gamer Theory
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Author : McKenzie Wark
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Gamer Theory written by McKenzie Wark and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Social Science categories.
Ever get the feeling that life's a game with changing rules and no clear sides? Welcome to gamespace, the world in which we live. Where others argue obsessively over violence in games, Wark contends that digital computer games are our society's emergent cultural form, a utopian version of the world as it is. Gamer Theory uncovers the significance of games in the gap between the near-perfection of actual games and the imperfect gamespace of everyday life in the rat race of free-market society.
The Agony Of Greek Jews 1940 1945
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Author : Steven B. Bowman
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-07
The Agony Of Greek Jews 1940 1945 written by Steven B. Bowman and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-07 with History categories.
The Agony of Greek Jews tells the story of modern Greek Jewry as it came under the control of the Kingdom of Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In particular, it deals with the vicissitudes of those Jews who held Greek citizenship during the interwar and wartime periods. Individual chapters address the participation of Greek and Palestinian Jews in the 1941 fighting with Italy and Germany, the roles of Jews in the Greek Resistance, aid, and rescue attempts, and the problems faced by Jews who returned from the camps and the mountains in the aftermath of the German retreat. Bowman focuses on the fate of one minority group of Greek citizens during the war and explores various aspects of its relations with the conquerors, the conquered, and concerned bystanders. His book contains new archival material and interviews with survivors. It supersedes much of the general literature on the subject of Greek Jewry.
Chronique D Une Agonie
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Author : Chaim Aron Kaplan
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Chronique D Une Agonie written by Chaim Aron Kaplan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
Life In The Warsaw Ghetto
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Author : Gail B. Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 1995
Life In The Warsaw Ghetto written by Gail B. Stewart and has been published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Between November 1940 and May 1943 the ghetto was "home" to more than a half million people imprisoned here by the Nazis. The Nazis planned to execute most of them in the death camps but conditions in the ghetto were so terrible that many people died there.
A Light In The Darkness
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Author : Albert Marrin
language : en
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2019-09-10
A Light In The Darkness written by Albert Marrin and has been published by Knopf Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
From National Book Award Finalist Albert Marrin comes the moving story of Janusz Korczak, the heroic Polish Jewish doctor who devoted his life to children, perishing with them in the Holocaust. Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. He was a hero. The Dr. Spock of his day, he established orphanages run on his principle of honoring children and shared his ideas with the public in books and on the radio. He famously said that "children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today." Korczak was a man ahead of his time, whose work ultimately became the basis for the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Korczak was also a Polish Jew on the eve of World War II. He turned down multiple opportunities for escape, standing by the children in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Dressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trains and ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka. But this book is much more than a biography. In it, renowned nonfiction master Albert Marrin examines not just Janusz Korczak's life but his ideology of children: that children are valuable in and of themselves, as individuals. He contrasts this with Adolf Hitler's life and his ideology of children: that children are nothing more than tools of the state. And throughout, Marrin draws readers into the Warsaw Ghetto. What it was like. How it was run. How Jews within and Poles without responded. Who worked to save lives and who tried to enrich themselves on other people's suffering. And how one man came to represent the conscience and the soul of humanity. Filled with black-and-white photographs, this is an unforgettable portrait of a man whose compassion in even the darkest hours reminds us what is possible.