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City of Promises

A History of the Jews of New York, 3-volume box set

By: Howard B. Rock,Deborah Dash Moore,Jeffrey S. Gurock,Annie Polland,Daniel Soyer,Diana L. Linden

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City of Promises

A History of the Jews of New York, 3-volume box set

By: Howard B. Rock,Deborah Dash Moore,Jeffrey S. Gurock,Annie Polland,Daniel Soyer,Diana L. Linden

Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award, presented by the National Jewish Book Council New York Jews, so visible and integral to the culture, economy and politics of America’s greatest city, has eluded the grasp of historians for decades. Surprisingly, no comprehensive history of New York Jews has ever been written. City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, a three volume set of original research, pioneers a path-breaking interpretation of a Jewish urban community at once the largest in Jewish history and most important in the modern world. Volume I, Haven of Liberty, by historian Howard B. Rock, chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York (then New Amsterdam) in 1654 and highlights their political and economic challenges. Overcoming significant barriers, colonial and republican Jews in New York laid the foundations for the development of a thriving community. Volume II, Emerging Metropolis, written by Annie Polland and Daniel Soyer, describes New York’s transformation into a Jewish city. Focusing on the urban Jewish built environment—its tenements and banks, synagogues and shops, department stores and settlement houses—it conveys the extraordinary complexity of Jewish immigrant society. Volume III, Jews in Gotham, by historian Jeffrey S. Gurock, highlights neighborhood life as the city’s distinctive feature. New York retained its preeminence as the capital of American Jews because of deep roots in local worlds that supported vigorous political, religious, and economic diversity. Each volume includes a “visual essay” by art historian Diana Linden interpreting aspects of life for New York’s Jews from their arrival until today. These illustrated sections, many in color, illuminate Jewish material culture and feature reproductions of early colonial portraits, art, architecture, as well as everyday culture and community. Overseen by noted scholar Deborah Dash Moore, City of Promises offers the largest Jewish city in the world, in the United States, and in Jewish history its first comprehensive account.

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NYU Press

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0814724884

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9780814724880

A Gift for Healing

How to Use Therapeutic Touch

By: Deborah Cowens,Tom Monte

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A Gift for Healing

How to Use Therapeutic Touch

By: Deborah Cowens,Tom Monte

This step-by-step manual teaches healing touch, a contemporary version of an ancient healing method that is widely taught and used in modern medical centers to complement standard treatments. Thousands of people are experiencing relief from chronic and serious illnesses through the use of therapeutic touch, which renews the body and the mind by manipulating the energy field that animates both. In A Gift for Healing, Deborah Cowens, a registered nurse with more than twenty years of experience, recounts often dramatic, firsthand accounts of the beneficial effects of therapeutic touch on people suffering from physical and emotional problems. She gives clear, practical instructions, accompanied by helpful illustrations, photographs, and easy visualizations, which enable readers to master the same technique that is used successfully by a growing number of medical professionals and holistic healers." "A Gift for Healing will put readers in touch with their own powerful healing abilities - their own untapped gift for healing - so they may learn to invigorate the human energy field."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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284

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Three Rivers Press

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0517886510

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9780517886519

What Do You Say?

Autism with Character

By: Deborah Lagasse,Tyler Lagasse

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What Do You Say?

Autism with Character

By: Deborah Lagasse,Tyler Lagasse

Tyler Lagasse began reading and writing at the age of two. His parents were amazed at how smart he was. When he wouldnt talk to them, they were concerned. How could someone so smart not interact with their parents? By the age of four, they had their answer. He was diagnosed with a form of autism. Determined not to give up when faced with the challenge of raising a son with autism, Deb Lagasse looked to find a place to fix her son. What she discovered through this journey was that her son was not broken. He just experienced the world differently compared to most people. Full of insights, struggles, and celebrations, What Do You Say? Autism with Character will enlighten, educate, and, most of all, inspire you to accept the strengths that everyone has and believe in the power to really see those strengths as talents and skills. For the first time, read Tylers journal reflections of what he thinks, believes, and does as his mother reflects on those same experiences from a sometimes completely different point of view.

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395

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503556859

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9781503556850

Massachusetts

By: Deborah Kent

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Massachusetts

By: Deborah Kent

Introduces the geography, history, government, economy, industry, culture, historic sites, and famous people of this historically significant state.

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150

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Children's Press(CT)

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0516004670

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9780516004679

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