Rifke - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rifke write by Rosalie Sharp. This book was released on 2007. Rifke available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this memoir, the author casts a wry and self-deprecating look back on her childhood, with anecdotes about the chance events and comic ironies that make up a life. Rifke (Rosalie Wise Sharp) grew up in North Toronto, which felt to her like a foreign place because there were no other Jewish families there in the late 1930s. Yiddish was spoken in her household, and the food, dress, and customs of Ozarow—the Polish shtetl (small Jewish town) from which her parents emigrated—were all maintained. Rifke's peers took lessons in tap dancing, ice skating, the piano, and the flute—activities that didn't translate into the Yiddish vocabulary, where only hard work, no-nonsense, and book learning were permitted. Rifke secretly decided to pass as a gentile, joining a bible class and the Christmas choir, and she was guilty about her pursuit of these activities during the war, when her mother was frantic with fear that their family in Poland was being slaughtered by the Nazis. In high school, Rifke's life changed: it was there that she met and married her soul mate Isadore, who worked in the construction business, much to her parents' disappointment. Prosperity, took time however, and Isadore's audacious dream to build a world-class hotel chain, The Four Seasons, came to pass.
Theatre for Young Audiences
Theatre for Young Audiences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre for Young Audiences write by Coleman A. Jennings. This book was released on 2005-03. Theatre for Young Audiences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of plays, many of which are based on favorite children's tales, including such titles as : "Charlotte's Web, ""Really Rosie, ""Wiley and the Hairy Man, ""Wise men of Chelm, ""and "The Crane Wife."
Losers and Keepers in Argentina
Losers and Keepers in Argentina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Losers and Keepers in Argentina write by Nina Barragan. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Losers and Keepers in Argentina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rifke Schulman, a Russian Jew, came to Argentina in 1889 at the age of eighteen and helped set up the small agricultural colony called Moises Ville. Rifke's journal and the accompanying short stories introduce Bela Pelatnik, a victim of the white slave trade; Henoch Rosenvitch, the love of Rifke's life; Leah Uberman on her way to attend Moises Ville's centennial celebration; and many others. The book spans the last hundred years and examines the experience of Jewish immigrants in both North and South America, some of whom were nourished by their roots, others who severed their ties to an old way of life. In looking at the choices they all made, the ways they found love or shut themselves off from it, Nina Barragan offers a moving and multidimensional portrait of early twentieth-century Argentina and its contemporary descendants.
Til the Real Thing Comes Along
Til the Real Thing Comes Along - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Til the Real Thing Comes Along write by Iris Rainer Dart. This book was released on 2009-10-31. Til the Real Thing Comes Along available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Iris Rainer Dart, bestselling author of BEACHES, brings you a hilarious, semiautobiographical story about a wary thirty-seven-year-old lady and a gorgeous younger man who's stealing her heart.
Unholy Trinity
Unholy Trinity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unholy Trinity write by Rebecca Janzen. This book was released on 2021-09-01. Unholy Trinity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rebecca Janzen brings a unique applied understanding of religion to bear on analysis of Mexican cinema from the Golden Age of the 1930s onward. Unholy Trinity first examines canonical films like Emilio Fernández's María Candelaria and Río Escondido that mythologize Mexico's past, suggesting that religious imagery and symbols are used to negotiate the place of religion in a modernizing society. It next studies films of the 1970s, which use motifs of corruption and illicit sexuality to critique both church and state. Finally, an examination of films from the 1990s and 2000s, including Guita Schyfter's Novia que te vea, a film that portrays Mexico City's Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish communities in the twentieth century, and Carlos Carrera's controversial 2002 film El crimen del padre Amaro, argues that religious imagery—related to the Catholic Church, people's interpretations of Catholicism, and representations of Jewish communities in Mexico—allows the films to critically engage with Mexican politics, identity, and social issues.
