Author: Carol Bierman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897330548
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This dramatic true story--told by the daughter of Russian immigrant Jehuda Weinstein--reveals the joys, fears, and eventual triumph of a family who realizes its dream. Full color.
Journey to Ellis Island
Author: Carol Bierman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897330548
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This dramatic true story--told by the daughter of Russian immigrant Jehuda Weinstein--reveals the joys, fears, and eventual triumph of a family who realizes its dream. Full color.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897330548
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This dramatic true story--told by the daughter of Russian immigrant Jehuda Weinstein--reveals the joys, fears, and eventual triumph of a family who realizes its dream. Full color.
Finding My Father
Author: Deborah Tannen
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 110188584X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A #1 New York Times bestselling author traces her father’s life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. “An accomplished, clear-eyed, and affecting memoir about a man who is at once ordinary and extraordinary.”—Forward Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking book about women and men, praised by Oliver Sacks for having “a novelist’s ear for the way people speak,” Deborah Tannen was a girl who adored her father. Though he was often absent during her childhood, she was profoundly influenced by his gift for writing and storytelling. As she grew up and he grew older, she spent countless hours recording conversations with her father for the account of his life she had promised him she’d write. But when he hands Tannen journals he kept in his youth, and she discovers letters he saved from a woman he might have married instead of her mother, she is forced to rethink her assumptions about her father’s life and her parents’ marriage. In this memoir, Tannen embarks on the poignant, yet perilous, quest to piece together the puzzle of her father’s life. Beginning with his astonishingly vivid memories of the Hasidic community in Warsaw, where he was born in 1908, she traces his journey: from arriving in New York City in 1920 to quitting high school at fourteen to support his mother and sister, through a vast array of jobs, including prison guard and gun-toting alcohol tax inspector, to eventually establishing the largest workers’ compensation law practice in New York and running for Congress. As Tannen comes to better understand her father’s—and her own—relationship to Judaism, she uncovers aspects of his life she would never have imagined. Finding My Father is a memoir of Eli Tannen’s life and the ways in which it reflects the near century that he lived. Even more than that, it’s an unflinching account of a daughter’s struggle to see her father clearly, to know him more deeply, and to find a more truthful story about her family and herself.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 110188584X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A #1 New York Times bestselling author traces her father’s life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. “An accomplished, clear-eyed, and affecting memoir about a man who is at once ordinary and extraordinary.”—Forward Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking book about women and men, praised by Oliver Sacks for having “a novelist’s ear for the way people speak,” Deborah Tannen was a girl who adored her father. Though he was often absent during her childhood, she was profoundly influenced by his gift for writing and storytelling. As she grew up and he grew older, she spent countless hours recording conversations with her father for the account of his life she had promised him she’d write. But when he hands Tannen journals he kept in his youth, and she discovers letters he saved from a woman he might have married instead of her mother, she is forced to rethink her assumptions about her father’s life and her parents’ marriage. In this memoir, Tannen embarks on the poignant, yet perilous, quest to piece together the puzzle of her father’s life. Beginning with his astonishingly vivid memories of the Hasidic community in Warsaw, where he was born in 1908, she traces his journey: from arriving in New York City in 1920 to quitting high school at fourteen to support his mother and sister, through a vast array of jobs, including prison guard and gun-toting alcohol tax inspector, to eventually establishing the largest workers’ compensation law practice in New York and running for Congress. As Tannen comes to better understand her father’s—and her own—relationship to Judaism, she uncovers aspects of his life she would never have imagined. Finding My Father is a memoir of Eli Tannen’s life and the ways in which it reflects the near century that he lived. Even more than that, it’s an unflinching account of a daughter’s struggle to see her father clearly, to know him more deeply, and to find a more truthful story about her family and herself.
My Journey with Father Alexander
Author: Juliana Schmemann
Publisher: Alexander Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
One of the towering figures in the Orthodox Church in the 20th century was the Russian-American priest, Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann, former Dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York, an eminent theologian,liturgiologist, teacher, and author. His beloved wife, Matushka Juliana Schmemann, offers us a beautiful account of her life's journey with Father Alexander, from Talinn in Estonia and Baden-Baden in Germany, to Paris, New York, and Lac Labelle in Quebec. She is also the translator and editor of Fr. Alexander's personal journal.
Publisher: Alexander Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
One of the towering figures in the Orthodox Church in the 20th century was the Russian-American priest, Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann, former Dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York, an eminent theologian,liturgiologist, teacher, and author. His beloved wife, Matushka Juliana Schmemann, offers us a beautiful account of her life's journey with Father Alexander, from Talinn in Estonia and Baden-Baden in Germany, to Paris, New York, and Lac Labelle in Quebec. She is also the translator and editor of Fr. Alexander's personal journal.
Finding Father
Author: A. J. Jones
Publisher: XP Publishing
ISBN: 1936101378
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher: XP Publishing
ISBN: 1936101378
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
My Journey to the Father
Author: Jennifer LaSarge
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN: 0768407559
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Jennifer’s determination to find complete healing took immensecourage. God gently led her to face the pain of her abusive past.The toughest journey of her life eventually led to her deepest joy—discovering God as her Father. Whatever pain you may be facing,either currently or from your past, Jennifer’s testimony will stir...
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN: 0768407559
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Jennifer’s determination to find complete healing took immensecourage. God gently led her to face the pain of her abusive past.The toughest journey of her life eventually led to her deepest joy—discovering God as her Father. Whatever pain you may be facing,either currently or from your past, Jennifer’s testimony will stir...
La Frontera
Author: Aldreda Alva Deborah
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782856234
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Join a young boy and his father on a daring journey from Mexico to Texas to find a new life. They’ll need all the resilience and courage they can muster to safely cross the border − la frontera − and to make a home for themselves in a new land.
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782856234
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Join a young boy and his father on a daring journey from Mexico to Texas to find a new life. They’ll need all the resilience and courage they can muster to safely cross the border − la frontera − and to make a home for themselves in a new land.
Along the Way
Author: Martin Sheen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1849836981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Spanning nearly 50 years of family history, the book chronicles the remarkable lives of two creative talents, Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez. It's a story of father and son set against the backdrop of Hollywood; this narrative is organized around their physical and spiritual journey along the Camino de Santiago, Spain, the thousand-year-old pilgrimage path which traverses Galicia. It is the area from which Sheen's father emigrated to the U.S. and to which Estevez's own son has returned. Along the Waywill focus not just on the lives these men have chosen as artists, but also (and most importantly) on the one they have lived together. It is a story of family bonds and artistic advances and setbacks; of good choices and hard choices; of opportunities lost and opportunities found. Sheen and Estevez will share what they have experienced and learned from each other in their forty eight years as father and son, as fathers of sons, as actors and director, as spiritual seekers, and as concerned citizens of the world. Readers will meet them as real people rather than icons, as two men who have accumulated decades of wisdom and insight they are now ready to share.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1849836981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Spanning nearly 50 years of family history, the book chronicles the remarkable lives of two creative talents, Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez. It's a story of father and son set against the backdrop of Hollywood; this narrative is organized around their physical and spiritual journey along the Camino de Santiago, Spain, the thousand-year-old pilgrimage path which traverses Galicia. It is the area from which Sheen's father emigrated to the U.S. and to which Estevez's own son has returned. Along the Waywill focus not just on the lives these men have chosen as artists, but also (and most importantly) on the one they have lived together. It is a story of family bonds and artistic advances and setbacks; of good choices and hard choices; of opportunities lost and opportunities found. Sheen and Estevez will share what they have experienced and learned from each other in their forty eight years as father and son, as fathers of sons, as actors and director, as spiritual seekers, and as concerned citizens of the world. Readers will meet them as real people rather than icons, as two men who have accumulated decades of wisdom and insight they are now ready to share.
A Sense of Duty
Author: Quang Pham
Publisher: Presidio Press
ISBN: 0891418768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A memoir by a former Vietnamese refugee who became a U.S. Marine, Quang Pham’s A Sense of Duty is an affecting story of fate, hope, and the aftermath of the most divisive war the United States has ever fought. This heartfelt salute to the spirit of America is also the account of the author’s reunion with his long-absent father, Hoa Pham, himself a devoted officer who saw combat firsthand as a South Vietnamese fighter pilot. Hoa’s revelations about his wartime experience leave Quang even more conflicted about his service in the Marines in the first Gulf War, and after years of struggling to reconnect with each other and the homeland they left behind, the two set out on a final, profound quest—to make sense of the war in Vietnam. Tracing Quang Pham’s uniquely spirited yet agonizing journey from his experiences as an uprooted refugee to his becoming a combat aviator, A Sense of Duty reveals the turmoil of a family torn apart and reunited by the fortunes of war. It is an American journey like no other.
Publisher: Presidio Press
ISBN: 0891418768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A memoir by a former Vietnamese refugee who became a U.S. Marine, Quang Pham’s A Sense of Duty is an affecting story of fate, hope, and the aftermath of the most divisive war the United States has ever fought. This heartfelt salute to the spirit of America is also the account of the author’s reunion with his long-absent father, Hoa Pham, himself a devoted officer who saw combat firsthand as a South Vietnamese fighter pilot. Hoa’s revelations about his wartime experience leave Quang even more conflicted about his service in the Marines in the first Gulf War, and after years of struggling to reconnect with each other and the homeland they left behind, the two set out on a final, profound quest—to make sense of the war in Vietnam. Tracing Quang Pham’s uniquely spirited yet agonizing journey from his experiences as an uprooted refugee to his becoming a combat aviator, A Sense of Duty reveals the turmoil of a family torn apart and reunited by the fortunes of war. It is an American journey like no other.
The Journey to the Father's Heart Study Journal
Author: Tim Spykstra
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986278211
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
This study journal is a 7"x10" companion piece to Tim Spykstra's book of the same name - The Journey to the Father's Heart. The study journal would be useful in small group settings where the user can work through a series of questions and record their answers/thoughts within the journal itself.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986278211
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
This study journal is a 7"x10" companion piece to Tim Spykstra's book of the same name - The Journey to the Father's Heart. The study journal would be useful in small group settings where the user can work through a series of questions and record their answers/thoughts within the journal itself.
Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer
Author: Israel Zamir
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559703093
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) abandoned his wife and five year-old son in 1935 when he left Poland for the US. Twenty years later, his son Zamir went to New York to meet his father. This is Zamir's account of his father and their difficult but ultimately rewarding 35-year relationship. Translated from the 1994 Sifriat Poelim edition. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559703093
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) abandoned his wife and five year-old son in 1935 when he left Poland for the US. Twenty years later, his son Zamir went to New York to meet his father. This is Zamir's account of his father and their difficult but ultimately rewarding 35-year relationship. Translated from the 1994 Sifriat Poelim edition. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR