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Voices from the University

The Legacy of the Hebrew Bible

By: Heidi Szpek

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Voices from the University

The Legacy of the Hebrew Bible

By: Heidi Szpek

In this collection more than twenty student essays and papers are brought together to celebrate the legacy of the Hebrew Bible. Within such diverse disciplines as art, literature, philosophical thought, gender studies, prophecy, the nature of God, mysticism, and the unimaginable domains of the American Frontier and The Jerry Springer Show, the students of Central Washington University have revealed that the sacred literature of the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament in Christian tradition, has not only imparted its wisdom on the western world of past centuries, but is still a vibrant source of inspiration and knowledge speaking to those within contemporary society.

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0595256198

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9780595256198

Re-Imagining Eve and Adam

And Other Brief Essays

By: Heidi Szpek

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Re-Imagining Eve and Adam

And Other Brief Essays

By: Heidi Szpek

From the Seattle Art Museum to an evening refuge from the heat of the Sonoran desert, from a church overlooking Ho'okena Bay, Hawaii to Israel's Judean wilderness, from the classroom to the synagogue to the community center, from contemporary to ancient thought to the text of the Bible itself, Re-Imagining Eve and Adam has drawn its inspiration from unexpected sources, compelling the reader to not only re-imagine, but remember and reclaim the legacies of Eve, Lilith, Sarah, Leah, Lot's daughters, Micah's mother, Mrs. Job, Vashti, Susanna, Dinah, Tamar and the Levite's Concubine. It is for the reader to decide what is a delectable Re-imagining, a desired Remembering, or a palatable Reclaiming.

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190

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059524906X

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9780595249060

Bagnowka

A Modern Jewish Cemetery on the Russian Pale

By: Heidi M. Szpek

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Bagnowka

A Modern Jewish Cemetery on the Russian Pale

By: Heidi M. Szpek

In the last decade of the nineteenth century, a traditional Jewish cemetery was established in the small town of Bagnowka, located near the urban center of Bialystok in current northeastern Poland. Though governed then by Tsarist Russia, Bialystok was still inspired by the teachings of the Torah, the Talmud, and the greater rabbinic community. Yet this was also a time of societal upheaval as a wave of modernity swept over Eastern Europe, bringing with it religious diversity, revolution, and a more secular way of life that would also impact the structure and material culture of this cemetery. Bagnowka: A Modern Jewish Cemetery on the Russian Pale tells the story of this cemetery from its founding in 1892 to its devastation during and after the Holocaust, as well as its recent restoration-in-progress. Drawing on Bagnowkas epitaphs and tombstone art, archival records, period newspapers, photographs, and more, Heidi M. Szpek reveals how this cemetery serves as a reflection of a once traditional Jewish world impacted by modernity.

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1532001541

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9781532001543

Bagnowka

A Modern Jewish Cemetery on the Russian Pale

By: Heidi M. Szpek

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A Modern Jewish Cemetery on the Russian Pale

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Re-Imagining Eve and Adam

And Other Brief Essays

By: Heidi Szpek

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And Other Brief Essays

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Shadows of Slaughterhouse Five

Recollections and Reflections of the Ex-POW's Schlachthof Funf, Dresden, Germany

By: Ervin E. Szpek,Frank J. Idzikowski

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Shadows of Slaughterhouse Five

Recollections and Reflections of the Ex-POW's Schlachthof Funf, Dresden, Germany

By: Ervin E. Szpek,Frank J. Idzikowski

Shadows of Slaughterhouse Five chronicles the story of 150 American POWs captured in the Battle of the Bulge and eventually caught up in one of the greatest tragedies of World War II - the firebombing of Dresden. This collection includes oral histories, previously unpublished memoirs, and letters from home and from the front that together tell their compelling story in their own words. From simple hometown beginnings through the awakenings of military life in basic training, from assignment on the supposed "quiet zone" in Belgium to the unexpected Battle of the Bulge, from forced march and entrainment to eventual assignment on work details in Dresden - the "Florence of the Elbe," to the inferno of Dresden on February 13-14, 1945, and the gruesome work details to follow, the individual and collective recollections and reflections of these 150 young men, the men housed in the famed Slaughterhouse Five, reveal a very personal side of war and the struggle for survival. Yet repatriation did not bring closure to this chapter of their young lives for like shadows their memories would forever be part of them. Today more than sixty years after the firebombing of Dresden, the statue of a steer wishing health and happiness to the citizens of Dresden still stands at the entrance to the public slaughterhouse, a silent witness to the maelstrom that descended upon Dresden and this group of 150 American POWs housed within. Now after more than 60 years of silence for most of these men, Kurt Vonnegut's fellow POWs tell their story of Slaughterhouse Five, in their words as they saw it - dog face young soldiers assured that the war was soon to be over!

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1440105685

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Book's by Heidi Szpek

Voices from the University

Voices from the University

Re-Imagining Eve and Adam

Re-Imagining Eve and Adam

Bagnowka

Bagnowka

Bagnowka

Bagnowka

Re-Imagining Eve and Adam

Re-Imagining Eve and Adam

Shadows of Slaughterhouse Five

Shadows of Slaughterhouse Five

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