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Menachem & Fred
A historic Holocaust survivor's story: Two young brothers orphaned and separated by the Shoah.
Menachem & Fred
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Are the Trees in Bloom Over There?
Crude Dominationis an innovative and important book about a critical topic – oil. While there have been numerous works about petroleum from ‘experience-far’ perspectives, there have been relatively few that have turned the ‘experience-near’ ethnographic gaze of anthropology on the topic.Crude Dominationdoes just this among more peoples and more places than any other volume. Its chapters investigate nuances of culture, politics and economics in Africa, Latin America, and Eurasia as they pertain to petroleum. They wrestle with the key questions vexing scholars and practitioners alike: problems of the economic blight of the resource curse, underdevelopment, democracy, violence and war. Additionally they address topics that may initially appear insignificant – such as child witches and lionmen, fighting for oil when there is no oil, reindeer nomadism, community TV – but which turn out on closer scrutiny to be vital for explaining conflict and transformation in petro-states. Based upon these rich, new worlds of information, the text formulates a novel, domination approach to the social analysis of oil.
How Young Holocaust Survivors Rebuilt Their Lives
Rising from the abyss of humiliation -- From victims to social actors -- France: the struggle to rebuild after captivity -- Hidden children strive to achieve in France -- United States: survivors begin again -- A new life for hidden children and refugees in America -- Israel: to build and to be built -- Jewish identity, Israel, and the diaspora -- Unexpected international impact of survivors -- An unbroken chain?
Be Happy, be Free, Dance!
"A child survivor of the Holocaust, Richard Weilheimer describes life in pre-WW II Germany, the rise of Nazism, and his family's deportation to the misery of Camp de Gurs in Vichy-controlled France. Rescued by the Quakers, Richard established himself in the United States. Forty years later he challenges his grandchildren to live fully and resist intolerance"--Provided by publisher.
My Mother, Golda Meir
A portrait of Israel's former Prime Minister Golda Meir by her musician son, detailing her political and personal challenges.
Over the Highest Mountains
"Alice Resch Synnestvedt became an unlikely hero upon discovering Quaker relief workers in France in 1939. She spent six years assisting Jewish and other refugees escaping from the Nazis. She wrote this detailed memoir for her deaf mother in 1945. Over fifty years later she was honored by those whose lives she saved"--Provided by publisher.
Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin, father of Israel's right wing and sixth prime minister of the nation, was known for his unflinchingly hawkish ideology. And yet, in 1979 he signed a groundbreaking peace treaty with Egypt for which he and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat received the Nobel Prize for Peace. Such a contradiction was typical in Begin's life: no other Israeli played as many different, sometimes conflicting, roles as Begin, and no other figure inspired such sharply opposing responses. Begin was belittled and beloved, revered and despised, and his career was punctuated by exhilarating highs on the one hand, despair and ostracism on the other./divDIV DIVThis riveting biography is the first to provide ...
Life, Death and Sacrifice
From out of a world of death and destruction, extermination camps, ghettos, starvation and disease, there rises the figure of the woman in the Holocaust -- the core of the fascinating studies in this collection. The importance of these research essays is, above all, their historical documentation of situations and events related to women in the Holocaust. In the face of imminent death, there was kindness to be seen, self-sacrifice, and the saving of another's life. And from a world that had lost all semblance of humanity came a sense of independence that welled up in the survivors, infusing them with the spirit of life as they emerged from the inferno. And what is for me the most moving, the...
