Author: Henriette J. A. Stern
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483464261
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This memoir is a testament to the immigrant experience of Eastern European Jews and their miraculous integration and contribution to the American Dream. It spans the cultural and technological divide between tenement outhouse to CAT Scans and includes first-hand accounts of the 1904 General Slocum Steamboat and 1937 Hindenburg disasters. It's a compelling tribute to strong women in the person of Henriette and her mother. A mother and daughter who raised a family of seven without a male breadwinner. It's the story of a matriarch who was deservedly worshiped by her husband and son. And finally, it's a story of rags to riches and the unlimited possibility that was 20th Century America.
Henriette J. A. Stern: Her Memoirs
Author: Henriette J. A. Stern
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483464261
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This memoir is a testament to the immigrant experience of Eastern European Jews and their miraculous integration and contribution to the American Dream. It spans the cultural and technological divide between tenement outhouse to CAT Scans and includes first-hand accounts of the 1904 General Slocum Steamboat and 1937 Hindenburg disasters. It's a compelling tribute to strong women in the person of Henriette and her mother. A mother and daughter who raised a family of seven without a male breadwinner. It's the story of a matriarch who was deservedly worshiped by her husband and son. And finally, it's a story of rags to riches and the unlimited possibility that was 20th Century America.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483464261
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This memoir is a testament to the immigrant experience of Eastern European Jews and their miraculous integration and contribution to the American Dream. It spans the cultural and technological divide between tenement outhouse to CAT Scans and includes first-hand accounts of the 1904 General Slocum Steamboat and 1937 Hindenburg disasters. It's a compelling tribute to strong women in the person of Henriette and her mother. A mother and daughter who raised a family of seven without a male breadwinner. It's the story of a matriarch who was deservedly worshiped by her husband and son. And finally, it's a story of rags to riches and the unlimited possibility that was 20th Century America.
The Nation
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Presents extended reviews of noteworthy books, short reviews, essays and articles on topics and trends in publishing, literature, culture and the arts. Includes lists of best sellers (hardcover and paperback).
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
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Presents extended reviews of noteworthy books, short reviews, essays and articles on topics and trends in publishing, literature, culture and the arts. Includes lists of best sellers (hardcover and paperback).
The End and the Beginning
Author: Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1906924279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1906924279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Catalogue of the Dayton Public Library
Author: Dayton Public Library and Museum
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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“The” Illustrated London News
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Catalog of Copyright Entries
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
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The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Find a Way
Author: Diana Nyad
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804172919
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
NOW THE NETFLIX FILM NYAD, STARRING ANNETTE BENING AND JODIE FOSTER Hillary Clinton said that Find a Way would stay with her through the general election: “When you’re facing big challenges in your life, you can think about Diana Nyad getting attacked by the lethal sting of box jellyfishes. And nearly anything else seems doable in comparison.” When Diana Nyad arrived on the shore of Key West after fifty-three hours of grueling swimming across an epic ocean, she not only set a world record—becoming the first person to swim the shark-infested waters between Cuba and Florida with no cage for protection—she also succeeded in fulfilling a dream she first chased at age twenty-eight and at long last achieved when she was sixty-four. Now, in a riveting memoir, Diana shares a spirited account of what it takes to face one’s fears, engage one’s passions, and never ever give up. For no matter what life may throw at you, or how many times you may have experienced defeat, it is always possible—as long as you commit to living life to the nth degree, no regrets—to “find a way."
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804172919
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
NOW THE NETFLIX FILM NYAD, STARRING ANNETTE BENING AND JODIE FOSTER Hillary Clinton said that Find a Way would stay with her through the general election: “When you’re facing big challenges in your life, you can think about Diana Nyad getting attacked by the lethal sting of box jellyfishes. And nearly anything else seems doable in comparison.” When Diana Nyad arrived on the shore of Key West after fifty-three hours of grueling swimming across an epic ocean, she not only set a world record—becoming the first person to swim the shark-infested waters between Cuba and Florida with no cage for protection—she also succeeded in fulfilling a dream she first chased at age twenty-eight and at long last achieved when she was sixty-four. Now, in a riveting memoir, Diana shares a spirited account of what it takes to face one’s fears, engage one’s passions, and never ever give up. For no matter what life may throw at you, or how many times you may have experienced defeat, it is always possible—as long as you commit to living life to the nth degree, no regrets—to “find a way."