Author: A.L. Mooney
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477264698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Pull up a seat, couch, heck lay on the floor for all I care. Thing is I have a story to tell and Id prefer if youd pay attention. My three best friends and I were viciously ripped from our childhood homes and thrown violently into a snob infested boarding school okay so I was bribed with a large inheritance and talked my friends into coming with. Point is, once we get there we create mass chaos for the school and all those in attendance. I mean this ranges from starting a prankster war, dealing with drug abuse and anger issues, to on again/off again relationships. Needless to say there hasnt been a dull moment since we stepped through those doors. How bout you just decide that for yourselves though?
The Jwb Band
Author: A.L. Mooney
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477264698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Pull up a seat, couch, heck lay on the floor for all I care. Thing is I have a story to tell and Id prefer if youd pay attention. My three best friends and I were viciously ripped from our childhood homes and thrown violently into a snob infested boarding school okay so I was bribed with a large inheritance and talked my friends into coming with. Point is, once we get there we create mass chaos for the school and all those in attendance. I mean this ranges from starting a prankster war, dealing with drug abuse and anger issues, to on again/off again relationships. Needless to say there hasnt been a dull moment since we stepped through those doors. How bout you just decide that for yourselves though?
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477264698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Pull up a seat, couch, heck lay on the floor for all I care. Thing is I have a story to tell and Id prefer if youd pay attention. My three best friends and I were viciously ripped from our childhood homes and thrown violently into a snob infested boarding school okay so I was bribed with a large inheritance and talked my friends into coming with. Point is, once we get there we create mass chaos for the school and all those in attendance. I mean this ranges from starting a prankster war, dealing with drug abuse and anger issues, to on again/off again relationships. Needless to say there hasnt been a dull moment since we stepped through those doors. How bout you just decide that for yourselves though?
The Texas Tornado
Author: A.L. Mooney
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728333512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
Deep breaths, count to ten, and don’t punch people. These are supposed to be simple to follow steps but they have never been simple for Tyson. She continues to struggle to act right but between her mother getting out of jail and her powerful new boyfriend encouraging the bad behavior she isn't exactly trying very hard. She has been told violence isn't the answer but she has always been reckless and somehow she ended up with a gun. If the cops weren't going to stop Alexis she would.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728333512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
Deep breaths, count to ten, and don’t punch people. These are supposed to be simple to follow steps but they have never been simple for Tyson. She continues to struggle to act right but between her mother getting out of jail and her powerful new boyfriend encouraging the bad behavior she isn't exactly trying very hard. She has been told violence isn't the answer but she has always been reckless and somehow she ended up with a gun. If the cops weren't going to stop Alexis she would.
And The Month Was May
Author: Lillian Berliner
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440140847
Category : Holocaust survivors
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
A personal epic of scope and sincerity, And The Month Was May traces the life of Lillian Berliner, from her childhood in Hungary, to the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen, to her eventual liberation and resettlement in New York. Rendering with equal candor the searing cruelty of the camps, and the flourishing of life thereafter, Berliner has produced a memoir that embraces hope even as it looks unflinchingly at horror. Central to the telling is Berliner's voice, springing from the page to evoke the characters, settings, and inner motivations of her life in stunning detail. It is a story that affirms the resilience and infinite potential of the human spirit.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440140847
Category : Holocaust survivors
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
A personal epic of scope and sincerity, And The Month Was May traces the life of Lillian Berliner, from her childhood in Hungary, to the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen, to her eventual liberation and resettlement in New York. Rendering with equal candor the searing cruelty of the camps, and the flourishing of life thereafter, Berliner has produced a memoir that embraces hope even as it looks unflinchingly at horror. Central to the telling is Berliner's voice, springing from the page to evoke the characters, settings, and inner motivations of her life in stunning detail. It is a story that affirms the resilience and infinite potential of the human spirit.
Making Judaism Safe for America
Author: Jessica Cooperman
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479895997
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A compelling story of how Judaism became integrated into mainstream American religion In 1956, the sociologist Will Herberg described the United States as a “triple-melting pot,” a country in which “three religious communities - Protestant, Catholic, Jewish – are America.” This description of an American society in which Judaism and Catholicism stood as equal partners to Protestantism begs explanation, as Protestantism had long been the dominant religious force in the U.S. How did Americans come to embrace Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism as “the three facets of American religion?”Historians have often turned to the experiences of World War II in order to explain this transformation. However, World War I’s impact on changing conceptions of American religion is too often overlooked. This book argues that World War I programs designed to protect the moral welfare of American servicemen brought new ideas about religious pluralism into structures of the military. Jessica Cooperman shines a light on how Jewish organizations were able to convince both military and civilian leaders that Jewish organizations, alongside Christian ones, played a necessary role in the moral and spiritual welfare of America’s fighting forces. This alone was significant, because acceptance within the military was useful in modeling acceptance in the larger society. The leaders of the newly formed Jewish Welfare Board, which became the military’s exclusive Jewish partner in the effort to maintain moral welfare among soldiers, used the opportunities created by war to negotiate a new place for Judaism in American society. Using the previously unexplored archival collections of the JWB, as well as soldiers’ letters, memoirs and War Department correspondence, Jessica Cooperman shows that the Board was able to exert strong control over expressions of Judaism within the military. By introducing young soldiers to what it saw as appropriately Americanized forms of Judaism and Jewish identity, the JWB hoped to prepare a generation of American Jewish men to assume positions of Jewish leadership while fitting comfortably into American society. This volume shows how, at this crucial turning point in world history, the JWB managed to use the policies and power of the U.S. government to advance its own agenda: to shape the future of American Judaism and to assert its place as a truly American religion.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479895997
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A compelling story of how Judaism became integrated into mainstream American religion In 1956, the sociologist Will Herberg described the United States as a “triple-melting pot,” a country in which “three religious communities - Protestant, Catholic, Jewish – are America.” This description of an American society in which Judaism and Catholicism stood as equal partners to Protestantism begs explanation, as Protestantism had long been the dominant religious force in the U.S. How did Americans come to embrace Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism as “the three facets of American religion?”Historians have often turned to the experiences of World War II in order to explain this transformation. However, World War I’s impact on changing conceptions of American religion is too often overlooked. This book argues that World War I programs designed to protect the moral welfare of American servicemen brought new ideas about religious pluralism into structures of the military. Jessica Cooperman shines a light on how Jewish organizations were able to convince both military and civilian leaders that Jewish organizations, alongside Christian ones, played a necessary role in the moral and spiritual welfare of America’s fighting forces. This alone was significant, because acceptance within the military was useful in modeling acceptance in the larger society. The leaders of the newly formed Jewish Welfare Board, which became the military’s exclusive Jewish partner in the effort to maintain moral welfare among soldiers, used the opportunities created by war to negotiate a new place for Judaism in American society. Using the previously unexplored archival collections of the JWB, as well as soldiers’ letters, memoirs and War Department correspondence, Jessica Cooperman shows that the Board was able to exert strong control over expressions of Judaism within the military. By introducing young soldiers to what it saw as appropriately Americanized forms of Judaism and Jewish identity, the JWB hoped to prepare a generation of American Jewish men to assume positions of Jewish leadership while fitting comfortably into American society. This volume shows how, at this crucial turning point in world history, the JWB managed to use the policies and power of the U.S. government to advance its own agenda: to shape the future of American Judaism and to assert its place as a truly American religion.
The Jewish Week and the American Examiner
Jewish Center Program Aids
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish community centers
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish community centers
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Norfolk, Virginia: A Jewish History of the 20th Century
Author: Irwin M. Berent
Publisher: Norfolk History Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher: Norfolk History Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The New Jewish Encyclopedia
Author: David Bridger
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
ISBN: 9780874411201
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
This is more than a book of facts. To turn its pages is to explore the wonder and excitement and awesome adventure of what it means to be a Jew . . . to stride through the grandeur of your inheritance, spanning the ages and the continents and the seas from Ur of the Chaldees and Pharaonic Egypt to present-day Israel and America.
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
ISBN: 9780874411201
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
This is more than a book of facts. To turn its pages is to explore the wonder and excitement and awesome adventure of what it means to be a Jew . . . to stride through the grandeur of your inheritance, spanning the ages and the continents and the seas from Ur of the Chaldees and Pharaonic Egypt to present-day Israel and America.
The Fighting Rabbis
Author: Albert I. Slomovitz
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814798063
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Fighting Rabbis details the compelling history of Jewish military chaplains from their first service during the Civil War to the first female Jewish chaplain and the rabbinic role in Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm. Rabbi Slomovitz, himself a Navy chaplain, opens a window onto the fieldwork, religious services, counseling, and dramatic battlefield experiences of Jewish military chaplains throughout our nation's history.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814798063
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Fighting Rabbis details the compelling history of Jewish military chaplains from their first service during the Civil War to the first female Jewish chaplain and the rabbinic role in Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm. Rabbi Slomovitz, himself a Navy chaplain, opens a window onto the fieldwork, religious services, counseling, and dramatic battlefield experiences of Jewish military chaplains throughout our nation's history.