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A Legacy of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a Focus on Sarajevo

By: Esther Gitman

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A Legacy of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a Focus on Sarajevo

By: Esther Gitman

In this book, Esther Gitman, a Holocaust survivor from Sarajevo, documents the saga of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a focus on Sarajevo, her birthplace. The book features an examination of archival documents from Sarajevo, Zagreb, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and more. The ground-breaking work reveals the many facets of Jewish life in Yugoslavia from the time of their expulsion from Spain and Portugal in 1492. This book provides an in-depth look at the integral role the Sephardic Jews, from the Hebrew word for Spain, played in the broader development of the city. More broadly, the book provides readers with a glimpse into a community which saw seventy percent of its members annihilated during WWII.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1036405001

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9781036405007

A Legacy of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a Focus on Sarajevo

By: Esther Gitman

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Just One

Connecting with a Grandmother's Life

By: Esther Gerstenfeld Erman

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Connecting with a Grandmother's Life

By: Esther Gerstenfeld Erman

Based on the lives of the author's grandmother, mother, and herself: From a village in Poland to the streets of America.... From the ashes of a family destroyed to the resurgence of life.... After a life filled with both great heights of happiness and bitter depths of tragedy, Estera Wolinsky perishes in a gas chamber at Treblinka. Of her many loved ones, only one daughter survives. Estera's soul cries out in pain and loss. But then her spirit, summoned back to Earth by her granddaughter's longing, begins a journey that will transform both her and the child. The growing child struggles to reconcile the conflicting cultures of her immigrant parents and American society. Only as she learns the full scope of her grandmother's life from her own mother's stories--preserving memories and linking the generations--does she find the strength to claim her own identity and move on to the future.

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300

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Zumaya Thresholds

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1894942140

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9781894942140

Esther's Poems

By: Esther Franklin

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Esther's Poems

By: Esther Franklin

Poems that were written through the years for relatives and friends. The author has lived a very full life throughout her 94 years so she has the opportunity to write not only for relatives but also for friends. Researching and writing about Thomas Jefferson, she also met interesting individuals. Hopefully, this book will reflect the expansive nature of her life.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796084158

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9781796084153

Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative

Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Woman

By: Esther Fuchs

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Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative

Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Woman

By: Esther Fuchs

This book is for anyone interested in religious studies and women's studies, as well as for biblical scholars. It offers a feminist oppositional reading of the biblical text. The main argument is that the Bible constructs a fictional universe in which women are shown to be intent on promoting male interests, and, for the most part, appear as secondary characters whose voice and point of view are often suppressed. In their limited roles as mothers, wives, daughters and sisters, women are constructed as male-dependent pawns intent on securing the status of their male counterparts. The Biblical narrative highlights the contribution of women as reproductive agents and protectors of sons. In this challenging collection of essays, Fuchs focuses on type-scenes as a way of demonstrating the mechanisms by which the texts validates male power and superiority. She also deconstructs the Biblical sexual politics by asking whose interest is being served by the 'good' women of the Bible.Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement series, Volume 310.

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246

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A&C Black

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0567042871

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9780567042873

Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative

The Devouring Metaphor

By: Esther Brownsmith

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Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative

The Devouring Metaphor

By: Esther Brownsmith

This book uses three examples of violent biblical stories about women, explored through the lens of conceptual metaphor theory in relation to culinary language used within these texts, to examine wider issues of gender and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible. Utilising the tools of conceptual metaphor theory, feminist criticism, and classic textual analysis, Brownsmith interrogates some of the most troubling biblical passages for women—neither by redeeming them nor by condemning them, but by showing how they are intrinsically shaped by the enduring metaphor of woman as food in the Hebrew Bible, ancient Near East, and beyond. The volume explores three main case studies: the Levite’s “concubine” (Judges 19); Tamar and Amnon (2 Sam 13); and the life and death of Jezebel (primarily 1 Kings 21 and 2 Kings 9). All depict violence toward a woman as perpetrated by a man, interwoven with culinary language that cues their metaphorical implications. In these sensitive but critical readings of violent tales, Brownsmith also draws on a broad range of interdisciplinary connections from Ricoeur to ancient Ugaritic epics to modern comic books. Through this approach, readers gain new insights into how the Bible shapes its narratives through conceptual metaphors, and specifically how it makes meaning out of women’s brutalized bodies. Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative: The Devouring Metaphor is suitable for students and scholars working on gender and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East more broadly, as well as those working on conceptual metaphor theory and feminist criticism.

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216

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Taylor & Francis

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1040015050

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9781040015056

Esther's Nine Lives

An Autobiography

By: Esther Olivares

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Esther's Nine Lives

An Autobiography

By: Esther Olivares

an autobiography by Esther Olivares

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273

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0980356814

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9780980356816

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A Legacy of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a Focus on Sarajevo

A Legacy of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a Focus on Sarajevo

A Legacy of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a Focus on Sarajevo

A Legacy of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a Focus on Sarajevo

Just One

Just One

Esther's Poems

Esther's Poems

Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative

Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative

Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative

Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative

Esther's Nine Lives

Esther's Nine Lives

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