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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Includes entries for maps and atlases

Author: Comediantes
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Category : Spanish drama
Languages : en
Pages : 682

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Author: Hugo Albert Rennert
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 660

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Author: Bartolomé de las Casas
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: Carl H Eigenmann
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Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Author: Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250059534
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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One hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln's death, the full story of his extraordinary relationship with Jews is told here for the first time. Lincoln and the Jews: A History provides readers both with a captivating narrative of his interactions with Jews, and with the opportunity to immerse themselves in rare manuscripts and images, many from the Shapell Lincoln Collection, that show Lincoln in a way he has never been seen before. Lincoln's lifetime coincided with the emergence of Jews on the national scene in the United States. When he was born, in 1809, scarcely 3,000 Jews lived in the entire country. By the time of his assassination in 1865, large-scale immigration, principally from central Europe, had brought that number up to more than 150,000. Many Americans, including members of Lincoln's cabinet and many of his top generals during the Civil War, were alarmed by this development and treated Jews as second-class citizens and religious outsiders. Lincoln, this book shows, exhibited precisely the opposite tendency. He also expressed a uniquely deep knowledge of the Old Testament, employing its language and concepts in some of his most important writings. He befriended Jews from a young age, promoted Jewish equality, appointed numerous Jews to public office, had Jewish advisors and supporters starting already from the early 1850s, as well as later during his two presidential campaigns, and in response to Jewish sensitivities, even changed the way he thought and spoke about America. Through his actions and his rhetoric—replacing "Christian nation," for example, with "this nation under God"—he embraced Jews as insiders. In this groundbreaking work, the product of meticulous research, historian Jonathan D. Sarna and collector Benjamin Shapell reveal how Lincoln's remarkable relationship with American Jews impacted both his path to the presidency and his policy decisions as president. The volume uncovers a new and previously unknown feature of Abraham Lincoln's life, one that broadened him, and, as a result, broadened America.

Author: University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus)
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Languages : en
Pages : 654

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Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Yvette Alt Miller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441110232
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Authoritative and personal, this is an introduction to all aspects of a traditional Jewish Shabbat, providing both an inspirational call to observe this weekly holiday and a comprehensive resource.

Author: Victor Hugo
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Category : Haiti
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Historical novel by Victor Hugo set in 1791, during the tumultuous early years of the slave revolt that would lead to the Haitian Revolution, and the creation of the black republic of Haiti in 1804. The novel follows the interracial friendship and rivalry between the enslaved African prince of the title and a French military officer named Leopold D'Auverney. First published in 1826, it is a reworked version of an earlier short story of the same title published in the magazine "Le conservateur littéraire" in 1820. Several English translations have been published; the first, a modified version with the title "The slave-king" was published in 1833.