Author: Liel Leibovitz
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466860553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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a·li·ya, n., also aliyah. pl. aliyas or aliyot. The immigration of Jews into Israel. Why would American Jews---not just materially successful in this country but perhaps for the first time in the two-thousand-year Jewish Diaspora truly socially accepted and at home---choose to leave the material comforts, safety, and peace of the United States for the uncertainty and violence of Israel? Still, aliya is a phenomenon that affects all American Jews. Understanding this phenomenon means understanding what is arguably the fundamental question of American Jewry; it is that question that Liel Leibovitz sets out to answer in Aliya. Leibovitz focuses on the stories of three generations of immigrants. Marlin and Betty Levin, searching for excitement and ideology, traveled to Palestine before Israel was even created. There, with Marlin working as a reporter and Betty volunteering with the Jewish underground movement, the two witnessed the bloody birth of the Jewish state. Two decades later, Mike Ginsberg, overcome with awe at the heroic Jews who fought for their country in the l967 war, immigrated as well and was involved in much of Israel's tumultuous history, including the Yom Kippur War. He was a member of Kibbutz Misgav Am during the famous terrorist attack on the infants' nursery there, and he helped repel numerous waves of terrorists attacks on his kibbutz. Finally, Danny and Sharon Kalker and their children left their home in Queens, New York, to move to a West Bank settlement in 2001, during one of the most unsettled phases in Israel's existence. With a keen writer's eye and unfeigned passion for his subject, Leibovitz explores the fears, hopes, and dreams of the American-Jewish immigrants to Israel and the journey they undertook, a journey that lies at the very heart of what it means to be a Jew.
Author: Chaim I. Waxman
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814343414
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Working within the context of the sociology of migration, Waxman provides primary research into a variety of dimensions of this movement and demonstrates the inadequacy of current migration theories to characterize aliya.
Author: Aliya Ali-Afzal
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538755033
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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In this “total page-turner,” wife and mother Faiza is about to find what happens when you have your dream life and are about to lose it... but only if you're caught (Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium). At the school gates, Faiza fits in. It took a few years, but now the snobbish white mothers who mistook her for the nanny treat her as one of their own. She's learned to crack their subtle codes, speak their language of fashion and vacations and haircuts. You'd never guess, seeing her at the trendy kids' parties and the leisurely coffee mornings, that her childhood was spent being bullied and being embarrassed of her poor Pakistani immigrant parents. When her husband Tom loses his job in finance, he stays calm. Something will come along, and in the meantime, they can live off their savings. But Faiza starts to unravel. Creating the perfect life and raising the perfect family comes at a cost – and the money Tom put aside has gone. Faiza will have to tell him she spent it all. Unless she doesn't... It only takes a second to lie to Tom. Now Faiza has mere weeks to find $100,000. If anyone can do it, Faiza can. She's had to fight for what she has, and she'll fight to keep it. But as the clock ticks down and Faiza desperately tries to put things right, she has to ask herself: how much more should she sacrifice to live someone else's idea of the dream life?
Author: Aliya Whiteley
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1786183331
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD FINALIST 2022 Drink down the brew and dream of a better Earth. Skyward Inn, within the high walls of the Western Protectorate, is a place of safety, where people come together to tell stories of the time before the war with Qita. But safety from what? Qita surrendered without complaint when Earth invaded; Innkeepers Jem and Isley, veterans from either side, have regrets but few scars. Their peace is disturbed when a visitor known to Isley comes to the Inn asking for help, bringing reminders of an unnerving past and triggering an uncertain future. Did humanity really win the war?
Author: Aliya Hamid Rao
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520298608
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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In Crunch Time, Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. Traditionally gendered understandings of work—that it’s a requirement for men and optional for women—loom large in this process, even for marriages that had been not organized in gender-traditional ways. These beliefs serve to make men’s unemployment an urgent problem, while women’s unemployment—cocooned within a narrative of staying at home—is almost a non-issue. Crunch Time reveals the minutiae of how gendered norms and behaviors are actively maintained by spouses at a time when they could be dismantled, and how gender is central to the ways couples react to and make sense of unemployment.
Author: Ariella Bernstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736201817
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Gangolly Krishna Rao
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Author: Ken Spillman
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814984124
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Mama pangolin worries for her pup Aliya, who was born with the softest skin and no scales. Leaving the safety of the burrow, Mama carries her frightened baby into the forest to teach her the ways of a pangolin. Aliya first clings to her mother, but as she learns about her new surroundings and the wonders of the forest, she begins to gain confidence. An inspiring tale with exquisite illustrations that empower and support those who look and feel different.
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Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Author: AMUL MAIINKARR
Publisher: The Write Order Publication
ISBN: 9357768297
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
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Sometimes folklores are more than just "old folktales". What started out to be a nightmare turned out to be an extraordinary adventure for Aliya, her father and the villagers. To know what happened next, Read on, Aliya "Heroic Little Girl".
