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Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place, and Holocaust Testimony
By Hannah Pollin. 2018
An innovative reassessment of Holocaust testimony revealing the dramatic ways in which the languages and places of postwar life…
inform survivor memory This groundbreaking work rethinks conventional wisdom about Holocaust testimony focusing on the power of language and place to shape personal narrative Oral histories of Lithuanian Jews serve as the textual base for this exploration Comparing the remembrances of Holocaust victims who remained in Lithuania with those who resettled in Israel and North America after World War II Pollin-Galay reveals meaningful differences based on where survivors chose to live out their postwar lives and whether their language of testimony was Yiddish English or Hebrew The differences between their testimonies relate to notions of love justice community and how the Holocaust did violence to these aspects of the self More than an original presentation of yet-unheard stories this book challenges the assumption of a universal vocabulary for describing and healing human painA Blot in the 'Scutcheon
By Robert Browning.
Excerpt from book: A BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCHEON. ACT I. Scene I. The interior of a lodge in Lord Tresham's…
park. Many Retainers crowded at the window, supposed to command a view of the entrance to his mansion. Gerard, tht Warrener, his back to a table on which are flagons, etc. 1 Retainer. Ay, do push, friends, and hen you 'll push down me ? What for? Does any hear a runner's foot Or a steed's trample or a coach-wheel's cry? Is the Earl come or his least poursuivant? But there's no breeding in a man of you Save Gerard yonder: here 's a half-place yet, Old Gerard Gerard. Save your courtesies, my friend. Here is my place. 2 Retainer. Now, Gerard, out with it What makes you sullen, this of all the days I' the year? To-day that young, rich, bountiful, 10 Handsome Earl Mertoun, whom alone they match With our Lord Tresham through the country-side, Is coming here in utmost bravery To ask our master's sister's hand ? Gerard. What then ? 2 Retainer. What then ? Why, you, she speaks to, if she meets Your worship, smiles on as you hold apartThe boughs to let her through her forest walks, You, always favorite for your no-deserts, You 've heard these three days how Earl Mertoun sues To lay his heart and house and broad lands too = At Lady Mildred's feet; and while we squeeze Ourselves into a mousehole lest we miss One congee of the least page in his train, You sit o' one side?' there's the Earl, ' say I? 'What then, ' say you 3 Retainer. I 'll wager he has let Both swans he tamed for Lady Mildred swim Over the falls and gain the river Gerard. Ralph, Is not to-morrow jr1y inspecting-day For you and for your hawks ? 4 Retainer. Let Gerard be He 's coarse-grained, like his carved black cross-bow stock, Ha look now, while we squabble .Major Barbara
By George Bernard Shaw.
The Master Builder
By Henrik Ibsen, Edmund Gosse, William Archer.
The Furies
By Aeschylus. 2012
This classic trilogy by the great tragedian deals with the bloody history of the House of Atreus. Grand in style,…
rich in diction and dramatic dialogue, the plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods.Così Vicino Al Cielo, Così Lontano Dal Paradiso
By Ronyfer, Roberto Ciampi. 2014
Di fronte alla disperazione di raggiungere la libertà e i sogni infranti, migliaia di cubani decidono di abbandonare la loro…
terra natale con qualunque mezzo.Daniel segue le orme di suo padre. Dopo aver perso tutto, decide di andare in esilio in Canada.Per la prima volta nella sua vita, ormai vecchio, malato e stanco scopre l'amore. È grazie a Lorena, un infermiera non più giovanissima che Daniel ritrova la speranza e la fede perduta. Sarà lei, con un soffio, a ridargli la vita e la gioia.Nel tramonto della vita il destino ha in serbo per lui una sorpresa. Un miracolo o una semplice coincidenza del destino?Strife
By John Galsworthy.
The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt
By Ruth Andrew Ellenson. 2005
Twenty-eight of today's top Jewish women writers tell the truth about all the things their rabbis warned them never to…
discuss in public in this hilarious and provocative collection. Includes original essays on: * Finding (and Divorcing) the Perfect Jewish Man * Not Calling Your Mother * Marrying a German * Failing to Supply Enough Grandchildren * Learning to RSVP No * And many other guilty pleasures . . . Includes pieces by: Elisa Albert, Aimee Bender, Jennifer Bleyer, Kera Bolonik, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Baz Dreisinger, Pearl Gluck, Rebecca Goldstein, Lori Gottlieb, Lauren Grodstein, Dara Horn, Molly Jong-Fast, Rachel Kadish, Jenna Kalinsky, Cynthia Kaplan, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Amy Klein, Daphne Merkin, Tova Mirvis, Gina Nahai, Katie Rophie, Francesca Segré, Wendy Shanker, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Susan Shapiro, Ayelet Waldman, Rebecca Walker, Sheryl ZohnJuan's Children
By Ronyfer, Federico Renzi. 2007
The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
By William Shakespeare. 2012
The Way of the World
By William Congreve. 2013
The play is based around the two lovers Mirabell and Millamant. In order for the two to get married and…
receive Millamant's full dowry, Mirabell must receive the blessing of Millamant's aunt, Lady Wishfort. Unfortunately, she is a very bitter lady, who despises Mirabell and wants her own nephew, Sir Wilful, to wed Millamant.The Wasps
By Aristophanes. 2012
Resurrection Blues
By Arthur Miller. 2004
Arthur Miller’s penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question: What would happen if…
Christ were to appear in the world today? In an unidentified Latin American country, General Felix Barriaux has captured an elusive revolutionary leader. The rebel, known by various names, is rumored to have performed miracles throughout the countryside. The General plans to crucify the mysterious man, and the exclusive television rights to the twenty-four-hour reality-TV event have been sold to an American network for $25 million. An allegory that asserts the interconnectedness of our actions and each person’s culpability in world events, Resurrection Blues is a comedic and tragic satire of precarious morals in our media-saturated age. .The Knights
By Aristophanes. 2012
If the American Editor of this little volume (which is sent forth as a test of the character of American…
learning) deemed it either expedient or necessary to expatiate upon the merits of an author so celebrated and gifted as A ristophanes, he might extend his eulogia beyond the patient perusal of the moderns. The eloquent and erudite preliminary discourse by the accomplished translator, however, anticipates the remarks which otherwise would be expanded. No satirist, ancient or modern, ever enjoyed the deserved reputation of A ristophanes, and no one ever depicted, in colors so vivid and unfading, the essential and peculiar characteristics of democracy. As he lived under the dominion of the Universal People, he thoroughly understood the qualities of the democrats whom he has ridiculed and immortalized; and he never shrunk, when occasion demanded, from the exposure of flagrant abuses. Therefore, we commend, earnestly commend the perusal of this volume to our literary countrymen: and if the reception of this limited edition of a single comedy shall justify the editor in the more enlarged republication of all the works of A ristophanes, he will rejoice in the opportunity, thus afforded, of instructing and enlightening his countrymen.The Tatler
By Voltaire. 2012
Don't imagine, my dear, that, by what I'm going to say, I mean to exercise the authority of a mother,…
always ready as you know I am, to listen in my turn to your reasons when I think them good; my intention is not to lay my commands on you, but to give you my advice; it is my heart which speaks to you, and that experience I have had in the world makes me foresee evils which I would endeavor to prevent: you have been at court, I think, not above two months; believe me, 'tis a dangerous situation: the perfidious group of courtiers always look on a new-comer with an eye of malevolence, and soon find out all his imperfections: from the first moment, they condemn him, without pity or remorse; and, which is still worse, their judgment is irrevocable: be guarded against their malice: on the first step we take in life, the rest of it must in a great measure depend: if you once make yourself ridiculous, the world will think you always so: the impression will remain: it is in vain, as you advance in years, to change your conduct, and assume a more serious behavior: you will suffer a long time from old prejudices: even if we do grow better, we are still suspected; and I have often known men pay dearly in their old age for the errors of their youth: have a little regard therefore to the world, and remember you ought to live now more for that than for yourself. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.The Birds
By Aristophanes. 2012
The Voltaire Anthology
By Voltaire. 2012
A collection containing Candide and the plays Alzire, Amelia, Brutus, Caliline, Mahomet, Mariamne, Merope, Nanine, Oedipus, Olympia, Orestes, Pandora, Semiramis,…
Socrates, The Orphan of China, The Prude, The Scotch Woman, and Zadig.Olympia
By Voltaire. 2012
Yet it is too soon. When I possess the crown, your faithful eyes Shall be the witnesses of all my…
deeds. Stay in this porch, the priestesses to-day Present Olympia to the powers divine: This day in secret she must expiate, Sins which are even to herself unknown. This day a better life I shall begin. O! dear Olympia, may you never know The heinous crime that's hardly yet effaced, To whom your birth you owe, what blood I've shed. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.The Life of King Henry the Fifth
By William Shakespeare. 2012
Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1599. It tells the…
story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. In the First Quarto text, it was entitled The Cronicle History of Henry the fift, which became The Life of Henry the Fifth in the First Folio text.The Heraclidae
By Euripides. 2012
The theme of the Heraclidae is how the children of Heracles, under the care of Iolaus and Alemena, were driven…
from city to city throughout Greece, fleeing the wrath of Eurystheus, king of Argos, who hated them for their father's sake.