And The World Stood Silent

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068614
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And the World Stood Silent written by and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the 6,000,000 Jews who perished in the Holocaust, at least 160,000 were Sephardim: descendants of Jews exiled from Spain in 1492. Although the horror of the camps was recorded by members of the Sephardic community, their suffering at the hands of Nazi Germany remained virtually unknown to the rest of the world. With this collection, their long silence is broken. And the World Stood Silent gathers the Sephardim's French, Greek, Italian, and Judeo-Spanish poems, accompanied by English translations, about their long journey to the concentration and extermination camps. Isaac Jack Lévy also surveys the 2,000-year history of the Sephardim and discusses their poetry in relation to major religious, historical, and philosophical questions. Wrenchingly conveying the pathos and suffering of the Jewish community during World War II, And the World Stood Silent is invaluable as a historical account and as a documentary source.

Author : Henry Chappell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780896728325
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent We Stood written by Henry Chappell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Underground Railroad in Texas

Author : Simon Wiesenthal
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0307560422
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sunflower written by Simon Wiesenthal and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more. You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do? While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the way had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place? In this important book, fifty-three distinguished men and women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China and Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past.

Author : Christopher C. Billiot
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1612155375
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And Heaven Stood Silent... written by Christopher C. Billiot and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a bitter cold December night. The wind howled through the trees as the Artic air blew with the fierceness of a hurricane. Storm clouds gathered on the horizon as the forces of good and evil were about to collide. I could hear the howling of a lone wolf and the hooting of a wise owl as they warned both man and beast alike about the creatures that were on the move this bitter cold evening. While mortal men slept, totally oblivious to the warnings and movements of the creatures not of the realm of man, one person was called upon to witness and to intercede in the drama about to unfold; a drama unknown to mortal man, but one forever logged in the annuals of the highest courts of the heavenly realms.... The inevitable was about to take place.... All of Heaven Stood Silent... The fate of mankind was about to be sealed as the left side of the scale started to reach its lowest extreme. In who's favor would the scales of justice tip? Discover who really holds the key to the fate of mankind in this powerful, touching tale written by Native American Christopher Billiot. Read the amazing story that "came" in the early morning hours to this boat captain as he was navigating the inland waterways, in the summer months prior to 9/11. There are no accidents! A Native American born and raised in the small South Louisiana fishing town of Dulac. He grew up hunting and fishing in the swamps and bayous of the area. Chris is a member of Grand Caillou Baptist Church. A captain on inshore and offshore vessels servicing the oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico and the inland water ways of the Gulf Coast.

Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544826582
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Will Not Be Silent written by Russell Freedman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among the wealth of good Holocaust literature available, Freedman's volume stands out for its focus and concision, effectively placing the White Rose in its historical context, telling the story of Nazi Germany without losing the focus on the White Rose, and doing so in just over 100 pages." (Kirkus starred review) In his signature eloquent prose, backed up by thorough research, Newbery medalist and nonfiction master Russell Freedman tells the story of Austrian-born Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie. They belonged to Hitler Youth as young children, but began to doubt the Nazi regime. As older students, the Scholls and a few friends formed the White Rose, a campaign of active resistance to Hitler and the Nazis. Risking imprisonment or even execution, the White Rose members distributed leaflets urging Germans to defy the Nazi government. Their belief that freedom was worth dying for will inspire young readers to stand up for what they believe in. Archival photographs and prints, source notes, bibliography, index. A Sibert Honor Book

Author : William John Knox Little
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.8V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Threshold of the Unseen written by William John Knox Little and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. O. E. KOECHER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792340611
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent City written by J. O. E. KOECHER and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mabel Cora Herner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Chord written by Mabel Cora Herner and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pete McBride
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847870863
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Silence written by Pete McBride and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world ever more congested and polluted with both toxins and noise, award-winning photographer Pete McBride takes readers on a once-in-a-lifetime escape to find places of peace and quiet—a pole-to-pole, continent-by-continent quest for the soul. We tend to think of silence as the absence of sound, but it is actually the void where we can hear the sublime notes of nature. In this National Outdoor Book Award winning work, photographer Pete McBride reveals the wonders of these hushed places in spectacular imagery—from the thin-air flanks of Mount Everest to the depths of the Grand Canyon, from the high-altitude vistas of the Atacama to the African savannah, and from the Antarctic Peninsula to the flowing waters of the Ganges and Nile. These places remind us of the magic of being “truly away” and how such places are vanishing. Often showing beauty from vantages where no other photographer has ever stood, this is a seven-continent visual tour of global quietude—and the power in nature’s own sounds—that will both inspire and calm.

Author : Robert Boyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Hope, Or, The Rock of Ages written by Robert Boyd and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: