Jumping Over Shadows

Jumping Over Shadows
Author: Annette Gendler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1631521713

The true story of a German-Jewish love that overcame the burdens of the past. Finalist for the 2017 Book of the Year Award by the Chicago Writers Association “A book that is hard to put down.” —Jerusalem Post “This book confirms Annette Gendler as an indispensable Jewish voice for our time." —Yossi Klein Halevi, author of Like Dreamers "The ghosts of the past haunt a woman’s search for herself in this thoughtful, poignant memoir about the transformative power of love and faith.” —Hillary Jordan, author of Mudbound, now a Netflix movie “An exquisitely written conversion story which expounds upon personal and collective identity.” —Washington Independent Review of Books “A compelling, gracefully written memoir about the impact of the past on the present.” —Michael Steinberg, author of Still Pitching History was repeating itself when Annette fell in love with Harry, a Jewish man, the son of Holocaust survivors, in Germany in 1985. Her Great-Aunt Resi had been married to a Jew in Czechoslovakia before World War II―a marriage that, while happy, put the entire family in mortal danger once the Nazis took over their hometown in 1938. Annette and Harry’s love, meanwhile, was the ultimate nightmare for Harry’s family. Not only was their son considering marrying a non-Jew, but a German. Weighed down by the burdens of their family histories, Annette and Harry kept their relationship secret for three years, until they could forge a path into the future and create a new life in Chicago. Annette found a spiritual home in Judaism―a choice that paved the way toward acceptance by Harry’s family, and redemption for some of the wounds of her own family’s past.

Performing the Pilgrims

Performing the Pilgrims
Author: Stephen Eddy Snow
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781604731811

An inquiry into how portrayals of the Pilgrims evolved from glorification to more accurate interpretations of history through performance

Archaeologies of Placemaking

Archaeologies of Placemaking
Author: Patricia E Rubertone
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2016-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1315434288

The contributors ask critical questions about historic preservation and commemoration methods used by modern societies and their impact on the perception and identity of Native American peoples, who are generally not consulted in the commemoration process.

Who's who in America

Who's who in America
Author: John William Leonard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 4246
Release: 1920
Genre: United States
ISBN:

Vols. 28-30 accompanied by separately published parts with title: Indices and necrology.

Imagining New England

Imagining New England
Author: Joseph A. Conforti
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2003-01-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807875066

Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination. This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape.

The Nation

The Nation
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1897
Genre: Current events
ISBN: