Author: Cynthia Salvadori
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789966052711
Category : Muslims
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: John B. Simon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761871500
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 489

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What did it feel like to be an openly Jewish soldier fighting alongside German troops in WWII? Could a Jewish nurse work safely in a field hospital operating theater under the supervision of German army doctors? Several hundred members of Finland’s tiny Jewish community found themselves in absurd situations like this, yet not a single one was harmed by the Germans or deported to concentration or extermination camps. In fact, Finland was the only European country fighting on either side in WWII that lost not a single Jewish citizen to the Nazi’s “Final Solution.” Strangers in a Stranger Land explores the unique dilemma of Finland’s Jews in the form of a meticulously researched novel. Where did these immigrant Jews—the last in Europe to achieve citizenship status—come from? What was life like from their arrival in Finland in the early nineteenth century to the time when their grandchildren perversely found themselves on “the wrong side” of WWII? And how could young lovers plan for the future when not only their enemies but also their country’s allies threatened their very existence? Seven years researching Finland’s National Archives plus numerous in-depth interviews with surviving Finnish Jewish war veterans provide the background for a narrative exploration of love, friendship, and commitment but also uncertainty and terror under circumstances that were unique in the annals of “The Good War.” The novel’s protagonists—Benjamin, David and Rachel—adopt varying survival strategies as they struggle with involvement in a brutal conflict and questions posed by their dual loyalty as Finnish citizens and Zionists committed to the creation of a Jewish homeland. Tensions mount as the three young adults painfully work through a relationship love triangle and try to fulfill their commitments as both Jews and Finns while their country desperately seeks to extricate itself from an unwinnable war.

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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1226

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Author: William Randolph
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: Roy Francis Leslie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Author: Dean Humboldt Rose
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Category : Apples
Languages : en
Pages : 984

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This publication is a revision of the third in a series called Market Diseases of Fruits and Vegetables. The series is designed to aid in recognition and identification of pathological conditions of economic importance affecting fruits and vegetables in the channels of marketing, in order to facilitate the market inspection of these food products and to prevent losses from such conditions.

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political refugees
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Considers worldwide refugee problems, including problems resulting from exodus of refugees from People's Republic of China, Cuba, and Eastern European Communist countries.

Author: United States. Congress Senate
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Languages : en
Pages : 2214

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Author: Brian Galligan
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522850944
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Australians have much to celebrate in the hundred years of their citizenship, but also a good deal to be ashamed of. The authors argue that good citizenship depends on moral citizens, able to discern between what is worthy of respect and pride and what is shameful in national life. Galligan and Roberts from Uni.of Melbourne.

Author: Gary Bosworth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113409051X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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The British countryside is a national institution; most people aspire to live there, many people use it for leisure and recreation and we can all watch rural life played out on our television screen, read about it in novels or consume its imagery in art and cinematography. The aim of this book is to explore the way that these aspirations and perceptions influence the way that the term "rural" is interpreted across different academic disciplines. Definitions of rural are not exact, leaving room for these interpretations to have a significant impact on the meanings conveyed in different areas of research and across different economic, social and spatial contexts. In this book contributors present research across a range of subjects allowing critical reflections upon their personal and disciplinary interpretations of "rural". This resulting volume is a collection of diverse chapters that gives an emergent sense of how the notion of "rural" changes and blurs as the disciplinary lens is adjusted. In drawing together these strands, it becomes clear that human relations with rural space morph materiality into highly complex representations wherein both disadvantage and social exclusion persist within a rurality that is also commodified, consumed and cherished.