Author: Allen Meyers
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738536217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Jewish community of Northeast Philadelphia was created by the relocation of secondgeneration eastern European Jews from the neighborhoods of Strawberry Mansion and South, North, and West Philadelphia. Serving more than one hundred thousand Jewish residents at its height, Northeast Philadelphia consisted of ten distinctive neighborhoods, including Feltonville, Oxford Circle, Tacony, and Mayfair. During the twentieth century, thousands of Jewish families were attracted to the area by the houses built along Roosevelt Boulevard for soldiers returning home from World War II. Welsh Road catered to younger families, and wealthier families resided along Bustleton Avenue and Fox Chase and Verree Roads. Today, the influx of strictly orthodox Jewish residents has given rise to a third generation of Jewish life in Northeast Philadelphia.
Author: Nicholas Horsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195697988
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Colin Duriez
Publisher: Lion Books
ISBN: 9780745956343
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings.
Author: Mo Moulton
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541644468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights Dorothy L. Sayers is now famous for her Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective series, but she was equally well known during her life for an essay asking "Are Women Human?" Women's rights were expanding rapidly during Sayers's lifetime; she and her friends were some of the first women to receive degrees from Oxford. Yet, as historian Mo Moulton reveals, it was clear from the many professional and personal obstacles they faced that society was not ready to concede that women were indeed fully human. Dubbing themselves the Mutual Admiration Society, Sayers and her classmates remained lifelong friends and collaborators as they fought for a truly democratic culture that acknowledged their equal humanity. A celebration of feminism and female friendship, The Mutual Admiration Society offers crucial insight into Dorothy L. Sayers and her world.
Author: Roger White
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190214341
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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C. S. Lewis and His Circle is an edited volume of the best essays and memoirs culled from archives of over two hundred recordings presented at the Oxford University C. S. Lewis Society in the past three decades.
Author: Sharon Pomerantz
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0446571989
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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Robert Vishniak is the favored son of Oxford Circle, a working-class Jewish neighborhood in 1970s Philadelphia. Handsome and clever, Robert glides into the cloistered universities of New England, where scions of unimaginable wealth and influence stand shoulder to shoulder with scholarship paupers like himself who wash dishes for book money. The doors that open there lead Robert to the highest circles of Manhattan society during the heart of the Reagan boom where everything Robert has learned about women, through seduction and heartbreak, pays off. For a brief moment, he has it all-but the world in which he finds himself is not the world from which he comes, and a chance encounter with a beautiful girl from the old neighborhood-and the forgotten life she reawakens-threatens to unravel his carefully constructed new identity.
Author: Carl Zimmer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743272056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Soul Made Flesh is the remarkable untold story of a dramatic turning point in history -- the exciting discovery of how the human brain works.
Author: Colin Duriez
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 1587680262
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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"This book explores their lives, unfolding the extraordinary story of their complex friendship that lasted, with its ups and downs, until Lewis's death in 1963. Despite their differences - of temperament, spiritual emphasis, and storytelling style - what united them was much stronger: A shared vision that continues to inspire their millions of readers throughout the world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Publisher: John Libbey Eurotext
ISBN: 9780867194210
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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30th anniversary edition tells, through photos and words exactly what the psychedelic world of the Haight-Ashbury was like.
Author: W. Ron Hess
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595247776
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 619
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"Plunging into the complexities of Elizabethan history, Hess raises a host of provocative questions about Shakespeare's identity and the controversial character of the 17th earl of Oxford, the leading candidate for authorship honors. Wide reading informs his answers, and he doesn't shy from proposing linkages, motivations and ingenious theories to make sense of the historical records and answer the many questions about Oxford's life. His work on Don Juan of Austria may well prove to have opened a new perspective on that military leader's connection to Shakespeare." -Richard F. Whalen, author, Shakespeare: Who Was He? "The Dark Side of Shakespeare is an original and stimulating book that takes the authorship debate in unexpected new directions. Even those who reject its conclusions will find plenty to think about." -Joseph Sobran, author, "Alias Shakespeare"
