Sing This at My Funeral

Sing This at My Funeral
Author: David Slucki
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2019-07-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814344879

A global journey of four generations of fathers and sons as they cope with grief and loss. In 1978, Jakub Slucki passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of seventy-seven. A Holocaust survivor whose first wife and two sons had been murdered at the Nazi death camp in Chelmno, Poland, Jakub had lived a turbulent life. Just over thirty-seven years later, his son Charles died of a heart attack. David Slucki’s Sing This at My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons tells the story of his father and his grandfather, and the grave legacy that they each passed on to him. This is a story about the Holocaust and its aftermath, about absence and the scars that never heal, and about fathers and sons and what it means to raise young men. In Sing This at My Funeral, tragedy follows the Slucki family across the globe: from Jakub’s early childhood in Warsaw, where he witnessed the death of his parents during World War I, to the loss of his family at the hands of the Nazis in April 1942 to his remarriage and relocation in Paris, where after years of bereavement he welcomes the birth of his third son before finally settling in Melbourne, Australia in 1950 in an attempt to get as far away from the ravages of war-torn Europe as he could. Charles (Shmulik in Yiddish) was named both after Jakub’s eldest son and his slain grandfather—a burden he carried through his life, which was one otherwise marked by optimism and adventure. The ghosts of these relatives were a constant in the Slucki home, a small cottage that became the lifeblood of a small community of Jewish immigrants from Poland. David Slucki interweaves the stories of these men with his own story, showing how traumatic family histories leave their mark for generations. Slucki’s memoir blends the scholarly and literary, grounding the story of his grandfather and father in the broader context of the twentieth century. Based on thirty years of letters from Jakub to his brother Mendel, on archival materials, and on interviews with family members, this is a unique story and an innovative approach to writing both history and family narrative. Students, scholars, and general readers of memoirs will enjoy this deeply personal reflection on family and grief.

Funeral Hymns

Funeral Hymns
Author: John Wesley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1817
Genre: Funeral hymns
ISBN:

Confessions of a Funeral Director

Confessions of a Funeral Director
Author: Caleb Wilde
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0062465260

“Wise, vulnerable, and surprisingly relatable . . . funny in all the right places and enormously helpful throughout. It will change how you think about death.” —Rachel Held Evans, New York Times–bestselling author of Searching for Sunday We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, vilifying it, and—when it can be avoided no longer—letting the professionals take over. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde understands this reticence and fear. He had planned to get as far away from the family business as possible. He wanted to make a difference in the world, and how could he do that if all the people he worked with were . . . dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference—in other people’s lives to be sure, but it also seemed to be saving his own. A spirituality of death began to emerge as he observed the family who lovingly dressed their deceased father for his burial; the nursing home that honored a woman’s life by standing in procession as her body was taken away; the funeral that united a conflicted community. Through stories like these, told with equal parts humor and poignancy, Wilde’s candid memoir offers an intimate look into the business of death and a new perspective on living and dying. “Open[s] up conversations about life’s ultimate concerns.” —The Washington Post “As a look behind the closed doors of the death industry, as well as a candid exploration of Wilde’s own faith journey, this book is fascinating and compelling.” —National Catholic Reporter “[A] stunner of a debut.” —Rachel Held Evans, author of Inspired

Your God is Too Glorious

Your God is Too Glorious
Author: Chad Bird
Publisher: New Reformation Publications
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2023-11-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1948969815

Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.In our day of celebrity worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in unattractive, inglorious places.Your God Is Too Glorious reminds readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world, it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his most important work.

Alan Jackson - Precious Memories (Songbook)

Alan Jackson - Precious Memories (Songbook)
Author: Alan Jackson
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2006-08-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1458452263

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This songbook includes all 15 songs from the 2006 release, Jackson's first ever gospel album. Songs: Blessed Assurance * How Great Thou Art * I'll Fly Away * In the Garden * The Old Rugged Cross * Softly and Tenderly * What a Friend We Have in Jesus * and more.

My Heart Sings a Sad Song

My Heart Sings a Sad Song
Author: Gary Alan Shockley
Publisher: Palmetto Publishing Group
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2020-03-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781641117487

A young bunny has experienced the death of a loved one and shares their feelings of sadness and pain with family and friends. Gaining the love he needs from his community and the space he needs to express his honest feelings he discovers joy in the remembrance of his loved one.

All the Colors We Will See

All the Colors We Will See
Author: Patrice Gopo
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-08-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0785216405

Patrice Gopo grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, the child of Jamaican immigrants who had little experience being black in America. From her white Sunday school classes as a child, to her early days of marriage in South Africa, to a new home in the American South with a husband from another land, Patrice’s life is a testament to the challenges and beauty of the world we each live in, a world in which cultures overlap every day. In All the Colors We Will See, Patrice seamlessly moves across borders of space and time to create vivid portraits of how the reality of being different affects her quest to belong. In this poetic and often courageous collection of essays, Patrice examines the complexities of identity in our turbulent yet hopeful time of intersecting heritages. As she digs beneath the layers of immigration questions and race relations, Patrice also turns her voice to themes such as marriage and divorce, the societal beauty standards we hold, and the intricacies of living out our faith. With an eloquence born of pain and longing, Patrice’s reflections guide us as we consider our own journeys toward belonging, challenging us to wonder if the very differences dividing us might bring us together after all.

THIS is Where You Come From

THIS is Where You Come From
Author: Tanya Coleman
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1641147172

What is going on? What has happened since we left? We are anguished because we don't recognize: The condition of the family, The condition of the church, The condition of schools and universities, The condition of the cities and neighborhoods, The condition of our beloved country, the United States of America. We are Tom and Tullos, and during our time on earth, we lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Deep South. We lived through some challenging times in America, growing up in the 1930s and 1940s and as adults raising a family in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. We departed in 1982 and 2002 respectively. In our feelings of anguish from our heavenly perch, we thought we should tell ya'll a few short stories. These stories were first intended for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren to let them know that the world doesn't define who they are. However, as we recollected the stories, we realized we loved beyond our own. So we thought we would share. Here are a few stories we believe should impact the things that anguish us, for such a time as this.

Laughter After

Laughter After
Author: David Slucki
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0814344798

Laughter After will appeal to a number of audiences—from students and scholars of Jewish and Holocaust studies to academics and general readers with an interest in media and performance studies.

Hi, how are You?

Hi, how are You?
Author: Tarssa Yazdani
Publisher: Last Gasp
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780867196672

Daniel Johnston is widely recognised as one of the pioneers of alternative indie music. His problems with mental illness are well known, and visual art has provided an alternative outlet in the periods when he was physically incapable of making music.