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The Setting of the Pearl

Vienna under Hitler

By: Thomas Weyr

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When Adolf Hitler seized Vienna in the Anschluss of 1938, he called the city "a pearl to which he would give a proper setting." But the setting he left behind seven years later was one of ruin and destruction--a physical, spiritual, and intellectual wasteland. Here is a grippingly narrated and heartbreaking account of the debasement of one of Europe's great cities. Thomas Weyr shows how Hitler turned Vienna from a vibrant metropolis that was the cradle of modernism into a drab provincial town. In this riveting narrative, we meet Austrian traitors like Arthur Seyss-Inquart and mass murderers like Odilo Globocnik; proconsuls like Joseph Buerckel, who hacked Austria into seven pieces, and Baldur von Schirach, who dreamed of making Vienna into a Nazi capital on the Danube--and failed miserably. More painfully, Weyr chronicles the swift destruction of a rich Jewish culture and the removal of the city's 200,000 Jews through murder, exile, and deportation. Vienna never regained the global role the city had once played. Today, Weyr concludes, only the monuments remain--beautiful but lifeless. This is not only the story of Nazi leaders but of how the Viennese themselves lived and died: those who embraced Hitler, those who resisted, and the many who merely, in the local phrase, "ran after the rabbit." The author draws on his own experiences as a child in Vienna under Nazi rule in 1938, and those of his parents and friends, plus extensive documentary research, to craft a vivid historical narrative that chillingly captures how a once-great city lost its soul under Hitler.

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Oxford University Press

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0199842264

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9780199842261

Hispanic U.S.A.

Breaking the Melting Pot

By: Thomas Weyr

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Hispanic U.S.A.

Breaking the Melting Pot

By: Thomas Weyr

Covers for Hispanic Americans (Latinos) immigration and illegal aliens, education, politics, regionalism, consumer behavior, and religion.

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260

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HarperCollins Publishers

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0060390662

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The Dean of Lismore's Book

By: Thomas M'Lauchlan

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The Dean of Lismore's Book

By: Thomas M'Lauchlan

Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.

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434

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375034385

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9783375034382

Witnessing Witnessing

On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony

By: Thomas Trezise

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Witnessing Witnessing

On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony

By: Thomas Trezise

Witnessing Witnessing focuses critical attention on those who receive the testimony of Holocaust survivors. Questioning the notion that traumatic experience is intrinsically unspeakable and that the Holocaust thus lies in a quasi-sacred realm beyond history, the book asks whether much current theory does not have the effect of silencing the voices of real historical victims. It thereby challenges widely accepted theoretical views about the representation of trauma in general and the Holocaust in particular as set forth by Giorgio Agamben, Cathy Caruth, Berel Lang, and Dori Laub. It also reconsiders, in the work of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, reflections on ethics and aesthetics after Auschwitz as these pertain to the reception of testimony. Referring at length to videotaped testimony and to texts by Charlotte Delbo, Primo Levi, and Jorge Semprun, the book aims to make these voices heard. In doing so, it clarifies the problems that anyone receiving testimony may encounter and emphasizes the degree to which listening to survivors depends on listening to ourselves and to one another. Witnessing Witnessing seeks to show how, in the situation of address in which Holocaust survivors call upon us, we discover our own tacit assumptions about the nature of community and the very manner in which we practice it.

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455

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823264041

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9780823264049

Dragons of Hiro

By: Aaron Thomas-Russell

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Dragons of Hiro

By: Aaron Thomas-Russell

The evil King of Mannoratt has given his most productive dragonologists -Lidon Tenaar and Ilion Engoraar - a gruesome task: to make a poison using the plants from the dragons sanctuary, Hiro, to kill all dragons. But with the help of a fortune teller, they find a way to rebel against the king. Will the plan work? Or will all Gehennamraka break loose?

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Xlibris Corporation

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1477137645

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Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past

By: Thomas A. Kohut

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Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past

By: Thomas A. Kohut

Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past is a comprehensive consideration of the role of empathy in historical knowledge, informed by the literature on empathy in fields including history, psychoanalysis, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and sociology. The book seeks to raise the consciousness of historians about empathy, by introducing them to the history of the concept and to its status in fields outside of history. It also seeks to raise the self-consciousness of historians about their use of empathy to know and understand past people. Defining empathy as thinking and feeling, as imagining, one’s way inside the experience of others in order to know and understand them, Thomas A. Kohut distinguishes between the external and the empathic observational position, the position of the historical subject. He argues that historians need to be aware of their observational position, of when they are empathizing and when they are not. Indeed, Kohut advocates for the deliberate, self-reflective use of empathy as a legitimate and important mode of historical inquiry. Insightful, cogent, and interdisciplinary, the book will be essential for historians, students of history, and psychoanalysts, as well as those in other fields who seek to seek to know and understand human beings.

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Routledge

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100004498X

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9781000044980

Newhouse

All the Glitter, Power & Glory of America's Richest Media Empire & the Secretive Man Behind it

By: Thomas Maier

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Newhouse

All the Glitter, Power & Glory of America's Richest Media Empire & the Secretive Man Behind it

By: Thomas Maier

Newhouse is the first full-scale biography of the turbulent life and business career of Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr., who could arguably be described as the most powerful private citizen in America. Controlling a fortune estimated to be in excess of thirteen billion dollars, Si and his brother Donald are richer than the Queen of England, or Bill Gates, or Ross Perot, or any of the Kennedys, Rockefellers, or Hearsts. But Newhouse is not primarily about the accumulation of money by a family that two generations ago was literally impoverished. Rather, it is a book about power.

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476

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Big Earth Publishing

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1555661912

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9781555661915

The Setting of the Pearl

Vienna Under Hitler

By: Thomas Weyr

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The Setting of the Pearl

Vienna Under Hitler

By: Thomas Weyr

Weyr supplies a compelling account of Hitler's destruction of Vienna, which he called "a pearl to which he would give a proper setting" upon seizing it in the Anschluss of 1938.

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Oxford University Press

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0195146794

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John Paul II

Pilgrim of Hope

By: Nancy Shuker,Thomas Weyr

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John Paul II

Pilgrim of Hope

By: Nancy Shuker,Thomas Weyr

John Paul II is the first Slavic pope in history and the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in 1522. He is by far the most widely travelled pope, having made over 100 papal visits abroad, more than all his predecessors put together. With this informative biography you can get to know him up close and personally. Over 400 photographs, illustrations, and memorabilia present a portrait of Pope John Paul II with an indepth look at his childhood, priesthood, life as a bishop, and world-travelling pope. The reader will discover the most important aspects of this great Pontiff's life, as well as a snapshot look at modern history with glimpses into Poland and Europe under Nazi and Communist regimes, short biographies of other recent popes, the solidarity labor movement, and many other momentous world events. In October 1978, the bishop of Krakow was elected to the papacy and John Paul II has been His Holiness for longer than any previous pope. by travelling all over the world; met with news media, labor unions organizers and world leaders; addressed the United Nations Assembly; and pardoned his would be assassin. As a pope, his personal contact with many of the faithful and charisma, warmth and message of peace will forever be his legacy.

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0276440757

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