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A memoire that reads like a novel.Company solicitor of a multinational company but an inept father, Daniel van Dam has made grave mistakes in the education of his children, marriage after marriage. After he has moved to New Zealand, the question of whether we are here with a purpose, or like seeds in the wind, not knowing who we are an where we are going, keeps coming back to him. Sometimes he thinks he is close to finding the answer and then teh idea fades away again and with it another illusion. That changes when Daniel van Dam becomes administrator of a Steiner School for poor black children in Kenya.
These letters were written by a Jewish boy, Ben Wessels, as he struggled to survive in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. They document the move from the ghetto to the camp, as well as life in the camp up to the time of Wessels' death in 1945. Also included are reports from the Dutch underground press, tracing the history of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Fifteen pages of photographs are included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
He details the contributions and the leadership provided by the Dutch Jews and relates how they lost their "Dutchnessand their Orthodoxy within several generations of their arrival here and were absorbed into broader American Judaism.
Can we live with the God of Ezekiel? Can we relate to a God who has established a multilayered hierarchy that separates the divine from the human, who creates boundaries that segregate people from the temple, the priesthood, and the glory of the Lord? In contrast to those who suggest that Ezekiel should no longer be read as an authoritative part of the canon, the essays in this volume engage Ezekiel's hierarchical world directly, neither dismissing it out of hand nor accepting it uncritically. By wedding theological interest and reflection with serious biblical exegesis and criticism, this work helps readers to understand Ezekiel's hierarchical theology-especially the book's views on creatio...
Colonial newspapers are a prime source of genealogical data, and early New Haven, Connecticut newspapers, in particular, are rich in data on individuals who might not otherwise appear in the public records. This present work, a joint undertaking by Kenneth Scott and Rosanne Conway, contains abstracts of all items concerned with persons in New England mentioned in New Haven newspapers between 1755 and the outbreak of the Revolution, providing some 20,000 references to approximately 7,500 persons. Such findings are normally hard won, and the genealogist interested in early Connecticut has much to be grateful for. Particularly valuable for historical and genealogical research are lists of addre...