Author: Ben Wicks
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Pub.
ISBN: 9780747532927
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This is a collection of oral histories of those who travelled from all over the world to make a new life and nation in Israel. Ben Wicks is the author of No Time to Wave Goodbye.
Dawn of the Promised Land
Author: Ben Wicks
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Pub.
ISBN: 9780747532927
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This is a collection of oral histories of those who travelled from all over the world to make a new life and nation in Israel. Ben Wicks is the author of No Time to Wave Goodbye.
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Pub.
ISBN: 9780747532927
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This is a collection of oral histories of those who travelled from all over the world to make a new life and nation in Israel. Ben Wicks is the author of No Time to Wave Goodbye.
Promised Land
Author: David Stebenne
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982102713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Explains how the American middle class ballooned at mid-century until it dominated the nation, showing who benefited and what brought the expansion to an end"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982102713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Explains how the American middle class ballooned at mid-century until it dominated the nation, showing who benefited and what brought the expansion to an end"--
My Promised Land
Author: Ari Shavit
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812984641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A deeply reported, deeply personal history of Zionism and Israel that does something few books even attempt: It balances the strength and weakness, the idealism and the brutality, the hope and the horror, that has always been at Zionism’s heart.”—Ezra Klein, The New York Times Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Ari Shavit’s riveting work, now updated with new material, draws on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family’s story, to create a narrative larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and of profound historical dimension. As he examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, Shavit asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can it survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. Shavit’s analysis of Israeli history provides a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today’s global political landscape.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812984641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A deeply reported, deeply personal history of Zionism and Israel that does something few books even attempt: It balances the strength and weakness, the idealism and the brutality, the hope and the horror, that has always been at Zionism’s heart.”—Ezra Klein, The New York Times Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Ari Shavit’s riveting work, now updated with new material, draws on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family’s story, to create a narrative larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and of profound historical dimension. As he examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, Shavit asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can it survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. Shavit’s analysis of Israeli history provides a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today’s global political landscape.
The Promised Land
Author: Mary Antin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Antin emigrated from Polotzk (Polotsk), Belarus [Russia], to Boston, Massachusetts, at age 13. She tells of Jewish life in Russia and in the United States.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Antin emigrated from Polotzk (Polotsk), Belarus [Russia], to Boston, Massachusetts, at age 13. She tells of Jewish life in Russia and in the United States.
Betting on Faith
Author: Dawn Ammons
Publisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9781098320188
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Dawn was living a glamorous life as a top casino executive: luxurious travel, big houses, nannies, limos, and private planes. It seemed like the perfect life, and she seemed to be completely happy. So why did she walk away from it all? She was dying inside. The child of an alcoholic, Dawn worked her entire life to hide the "family secret" by keeping up appearances. She helped raise her brother, worked her way through college, got married, had a child, and rose to the top in her industry. But behind the scenes, Dawn had been burying her troubles below empty wine bottles and more. After years of working in and "wandering" the desert of Las Vegas, Dawn found healing and hope in Sin City through God's grace and a relationship with Jesus Christ. Betting on Faith tells the story of how this former casino exec battled the Goliaths in her life with Jesus Christ at her side, to receive blessings beyond all imagination.
Publisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9781098320188
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Dawn was living a glamorous life as a top casino executive: luxurious travel, big houses, nannies, limos, and private planes. It seemed like the perfect life, and she seemed to be completely happy. So why did she walk away from it all? She was dying inside. The child of an alcoholic, Dawn worked her entire life to hide the "family secret" by keeping up appearances. She helped raise her brother, worked her way through college, got married, had a child, and rose to the top in her industry. But behind the scenes, Dawn had been burying her troubles below empty wine bottles and more. After years of working in and "wandering" the desert of Las Vegas, Dawn found healing and hope in Sin City through God's grace and a relationship with Jesus Christ. Betting on Faith tells the story of how this former casino exec battled the Goliaths in her life with Jesus Christ at her side, to receive blessings beyond all imagination.
The Promised Land
Author: Boulou Ebanda de Bbéri
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442615338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present the everyday lives and professional activities of individuals and families in these communities and highlight early cross-border activism to end slavery in the United States and to promote civil rights in the United States and Canada. Essays also reflect on the frequent intermingling of local Black, White, and First Nations people. Using a cultural studies framework for their collective investigations, the authors trace physical and intellectual trajectories of Blackness that have radiated from southern Ontario to other parts of Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa. The result is a collection that represents the presence and diffusion of Blackness and inventively challenges the grand narrative of history.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442615338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present the everyday lives and professional activities of individuals and families in these communities and highlight early cross-border activism to end slavery in the United States and to promote civil rights in the United States and Canada. Essays also reflect on the frequent intermingling of local Black, White, and First Nations people. Using a cultural studies framework for their collective investigations, the authors trace physical and intellectual trajectories of Blackness that have radiated from southern Ontario to other parts of Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa. The result is a collection that represents the presence and diffusion of Blackness and inventively challenges the grand narrative of history.
To the Promised Land
Author: Mary Jo McConahay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Photographs document the lives of rural Mexicans, the work of U.S. immigration agents, and the everyday life of illegal aliens working in the U.S.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Photographs document the lives of rural Mexicans, the work of U.S. immigration agents, and the everyday life of illegal aliens working in the U.S.
Promiseland
Author: Dawn Miller
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 9781591450016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
One woman's stories of hope and endurance in post-Civil War Montana Territory, comes in this beautifully designed book with French flaps and deckled edges.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 9781591450016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
One woman's stories of hope and endurance in post-Civil War Montana Territory, comes in this beautifully designed book with French flaps and deckled edges.
Manchild in the Promised Land
Author: Claude Brown
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145163157X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The autobiography of a young black man raised in Harlem. A realistic description of life in the ghetto.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145163157X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The autobiography of a young black man raised in Harlem. A realistic description of life in the ghetto.
The Ground Breaking
Author: Scott Ellsworth
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785787284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
** Chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021 ** 'Fast-paced but nuanced ... impeccably researched ... a much-needed book' The Guardian ''[S]o dystopian and apocalyptic that you can hardly believe what you are reading. ... But the story [it] tells is an essential one, with just a glimmer of hope in it. Because of the work of Ellsworth and many others, America is finally staring this appalling chapter of its history in the face. It's not a pretty sight.' Sunday Times A gripping exploration of the worst single incident of racial violence in American history, timed to coincide with its 100th anniversary. On 31 May 1921, in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a mob of white men and women reduced a prosperous African American community, known as Black Wall Street, to rubble, leaving countless dead and unaccounted for, and thousands of homes and businesses destroyed. But along with the bodies, they buried the secrets of the crime. Scott Ellsworth, a native of Tulsa, became determined to unearth the secrets of his home town. Now, nearly 40 years after his first major historical account of the massacre, Ellsworth returns to the city in search of answers. Along with a prominent African American forensic archaeologist whose family survived the riots, Ellsworth has been tasked with locating and exhuming the mass graves and identifying the victims for the first time. But the investigation is not simply to find graves or bodies - it is a reckoning with one of the darkest chapters of American history. '[A] riveting, painful-to-read account of a mass crime that, to our everlasting shame ... has avoided justice. Ellsworth's book presents us with a clear history of the Tulsa massacre and with that rendering, a chance for atonement ... Readers of this book will fervently hope we take that opportunity.' Washington Post
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785787284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
** Chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021 ** 'Fast-paced but nuanced ... impeccably researched ... a much-needed book' The Guardian ''[S]o dystopian and apocalyptic that you can hardly believe what you are reading. ... But the story [it] tells is an essential one, with just a glimmer of hope in it. Because of the work of Ellsworth and many others, America is finally staring this appalling chapter of its history in the face. It's not a pretty sight.' Sunday Times A gripping exploration of the worst single incident of racial violence in American history, timed to coincide with its 100th anniversary. On 31 May 1921, in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a mob of white men and women reduced a prosperous African American community, known as Black Wall Street, to rubble, leaving countless dead and unaccounted for, and thousands of homes and businesses destroyed. But along with the bodies, they buried the secrets of the crime. Scott Ellsworth, a native of Tulsa, became determined to unearth the secrets of his home town. Now, nearly 40 years after his first major historical account of the massacre, Ellsworth returns to the city in search of answers. Along with a prominent African American forensic archaeologist whose family survived the riots, Ellsworth has been tasked with locating and exhuming the mass graves and identifying the victims for the first time. But the investigation is not simply to find graves or bodies - it is a reckoning with one of the darkest chapters of American history. '[A] riveting, painful-to-read account of a mass crime that, to our everlasting shame ... has avoided justice. Ellsworth's book presents us with a clear history of the Tulsa massacre and with that rendering, a chance for atonement ... Readers of this book will fervently hope we take that opportunity.' Washington Post