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Uninvited Guest
Leon Friedman was born in Warsaw, Russia (then Poland), in 1902. His parents belonged to upper middle class, assimilated Polish-Jewish family. He describes his encounters with Polish anti-Semitism, his emigration to Palestine, his return to Poland and the struggle of his family to survive the Nazi invasion and Soviet-controlled deportation to Siberia (Russia). His knowledge of Russian enabled him to cut through danger. He vividly describes the Soviet "system" and ways of coping with it. After 5 years of hard life in Russia the Friedmans return to Poland, first to Warsaw, then to Lodz. Leaving Lodz, the Friedmans arrived to the British Zone of occupied Germany and participate in Breḥah (illegal immigration to Palestine under British mandate. The people he describes were relatives who either lived in Poland either emigrated from there. After short stay in Bergen-Belsen and Stuttgart, with the help of HIAS in 1947 L. Friedman with his household arrived to U.S.A. In the last two chapters he describes his life in the United States before and after retirement.
Holocaust Testimony of Dr. Leon Friedman
Leon Friedman was born February 17, 1902 in Warsaw, Poland. His parents owned a grocery store. He received his teacher's diploma and Ph. D. from Warsaw University. He discusses pre-war antisemitism and his education. He joined Hashomer Hatzair and served in Palestine from 1922 to 1924 instead of serving in the Polish army. He describes life in a Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz. He returned to Poland where he taught for 14 years. In 1939 he walked to Bialystock illegally with a group of Jews. He lived under Russian occpation until June 1940, when he was sent to the village of Mandacz in Komi, Siberia with his wife and daughter for refusing a Russian passport. He describes travel to, conditions in, a...
Leon Friedman Oral History (interview Code: 27341)
Zusammenfassung: Audiovisual testimony of a Holocaust survivor. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences
Lincoln and the Court
In a meticulously researched and engagingly written narrative, Brian McGinty rescues the story of Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court from long and undeserved neglect, recounting the compelling history of the Civil War president's relations with the nation's highest tribunal and the role it played in resolving the agonizing issues raised by the conflict. Lincoln was, more than any other president in the nation's history, a "lawyerly" president, the veteran of thousands of courtroom battles, where victories were won, not by raw strength or superior numbers, but by appeals to reason, citations of precedent, and invocations of justice. He brought his nearly twenty-five years of experience as ...
The Candy Men
A Rabelaisian satire loosely based on Voltaire's Candide, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg's Candy became one of the most famous novels of the tumultuous 1960's. Detailing its humble beginnings in Paris through its agonizing three-year writing gestation (often on paper napkins, lost or destroyed) and the authors' wily business dealings first with French-based publisher Maurice Girodias, then Putnam is America, this book follows with unblinking scrutiny Candy's underground (then mainstream) success, its blatant piracy, its legal shenanigans, and its all-star movie flop. Replete with deceptions and self-deceptions, midnight dope runs, and general pandemonium, THE CANDY MEN is as much fun to read as the original novel itself. And far more instructive.
The Wise Majority
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Failing Justice
In the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice Charles Evans Whittaker (1957-1962) merited several distinctions. He was the only Missourian and the first native Kansan appointed to the Court. He was one of only two justices to have served at both the federal district and appeals court levels before ascending to the Supreme Court. And Court historians have routinely rated him a failure as a justice. This book is a reconsideration of Justice Whittaker, with the twin goals of giving him his due and correcting past misrepresentations of the man and his career. Based on primary sources and information from the Whittaker family, it demonstrates that Whittaker's life record is definitely not one of inadequacy or failure, but rather one of illness and difficulty overcome with great determination. Nine appendices document all aspects of Whittaker's career. Copious notes, a selected bibliography, and two indexes complete a work that challenges the historical assessment of this public servant from Missouri.
