A Past Rescued From Oblivion

Author : Vilma Vukelić
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525556304
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Past Rescued From Oblivion written by Vilma Vukelić and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written in the form of a memoir and covers the events in the life of its author, Vilma Vukelić from her earliest childhood (she was born in 1880) to 15 August 1904, the day her first child, Branko was born. It is a contribution to women’s history in the form of a portrait of an intelligent young woman and a burgeoning feminist resisting social norms imposed on women of her generation. It is a contribution to the history of central and southeastern Europe with its spirited descriptions of the bourgeois life in Osijek, a small provincial town by the River Drava close to the Hungarian-Croatian border, at the outskirts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It is a contribution to Jewish history, with the specific emphasis on the life in various Jewish settlements in central and eastern Europe. The author describes late nineteenth-century Jewish optimistic attempts towards social integration and full acceptance by the surrounding society—hopes and expectations tragically shattered soon after. It is a lively account of a happy childhood, full of colourful descriptions of a little girl’s discoveries of the wonderful as well as bleak aspects of life. There is also an account of life in an elite boarding school in Vienna and a romantic love story. www.vilmavukelic.com

Author : Alea Henle
Publisher : Public History in Historical P
ISBN 13 : 9781625344984
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rescued from Oblivion written by Alea Henle and published by Public History in Historical P. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1791, a group of elite Bostonian men established the first historical society in the nation. Within sixty years, the number of local history organizations had increased exponentially, with states and territories from Maine to Louisiana and Georgia to Minnesota boasting collections of their own. With in-depth research and an expansive scope, Rescued from Oblivion offers a vital account of the formation of historical culture and consciousness in the early United States, re-centering in the record groups long marginalized from the national memory. As Alea Henle demonstrates, these societies laid the groundwork for professional practices that are still embraced today: collection policies, distinctions between preservation of textual and nontextual artifacts, publication programs, historical rituals and commemorations, reconciliation of scholarly and popular approaches, and more. At the same time, officers of these early societies faced challenges to their historical authority from communities interested in preserving a broader range of materials and documenting more inclusive histories, including fellow members, popular historians, white women, and peoples of color.

Author : Sergei Lebedev
Publisher : New Vessel Press
ISBN 13 : 1939931290
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oblivion written by Sergei Lebedev and published by New Vessel Press. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed twenty-first–century Russian novel is “a Dantean descent” into the abandoned Soviet gulags, written “with a clear poetic sensibility” (The Wall Street Journal). In Sergei Lebedev’s debut novel, an unnamed young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a mysterious neighbor who once saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What he finds among the forgotten mines and decrepit barracks of former gulags is a world relegated to oblivion, where it is easier to ignore both the victims and the executioners than to come to terms with a terrible past. This disturbing tale evokes the great and ruined beauty of a land where man and machine work in tandem with nature to destroy millions of lives during the Soviet century. Emerging from today’s Russia, where the ills of the past are being forcefully erased from public memory, this masterful novel is an epic literary act of bearing witness, attempting to rescue history from the brink of oblivion. A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Novel of the Year “Not since Alexander Solzhenitsyn has Russia had a writer as obsessed as Sergei Lebedev with that country’s history or the traces it has left on the collective consciousness . . . The best of Russia’s younger generation of writers.” ―The New York Review of Books

Author : John S. Kindred
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578213491
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rescued from Oblivion written by John S. Kindred and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlotte Piper Bain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Echo of the Spheres written by Charlotte Piper Bain and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 0914671324
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General Theory of Oblivion written by Jose Eduardo Agualusa and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize A Portuguese woman shuts herself away after the Angolan War of Independence in this stunning novel from a master storyteller whose writing evokes Gabriel García Márquez and J.M. Coetzee. On the eve of Angolan independence, an agoraphobic woman named Ludo bricks herself into her Luandan apartment for 30 years, living off vegetables and the pigeons she lures in with diamonds, burning her furniture and books to stay alive, and writing her story on the apartment's walls. As the country goes through various political upheavals—from colony to socialist republic to civil war to peace and capitalism—the world outside seeps into Ludo’s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of someone peeing on a balcony, or a man fleeing his pursuers. Almost as if we're eavesdropping, the history of Angola unfolds through the stories of those she sees from her window . . . A General Theory of Oblivion is a perfectly crafted, wild patchwork of a novel, playing on a love of storytelling and fable.

Author : Vilma Vukelic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525556296
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Past Rescued From Oblivion written by Vilma Vukelic and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written in the form of a memoir and covers the events in the life of its author, Vilma Vukelic from her earliest childhood (she was born in 1880) to 15 August 1904, the day her first child, Branko was born. It is a contribution to women's history in the form of a portrait of an intelligent young woman and a burgeoning feminist resisting social norms imposed on women of her generation. It is a contribution to the history of central and southeastern Europe with its spirited descriptions of the bourgeois life in Osijek, a small provincial town by the River Drava close to the Hungarian-Croatian border, at the outskirts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It is a contribution to Jewish history, with the specific emphasis on the life in various Jewish settlements in central and eastern Europe. The author describes late nineteenth-century Jewish optimistic attempts towards social integration and full acceptance by the surrounding society-hopes and expectations tragically shattered soon after. It is a lively account of a happy childhood, full of colourful descriptions of a little girl's discoveries of the wonderful as well as bleak aspects of life. There is also an account of life in an elite boarding school in Vienna and a romantic love story....

Author : Duška Žitko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789617151046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iztrgano pozabi written by Duška Žitko and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Frank
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250293669
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rendezvous with Oblivion written by Thomas Frank and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tack and Richardson show you how to start with a batch of plain cupcakes, and turn them into fun creations such as robots, farm- or zoo-animals, and even a cookie village! --Adapted from back cover.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
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