Living Memory

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They have no graves, no markers of ever having existed. The millions of people who were murdered by the Nazis live on only in the memories of the survivors – those that had survivors. In his seventy-ninth year, Andor Schwartz was driven to record the lives of his family and friends who perished. Writing with the instincts of a born storyteller, Andor takes us back to the world of his childhood in rural Hungary in the years leading up to the Second World War. His love of nature and country life, his friendships, the harvests, the Jewish festivals, the age-old customs, now lost, are all evoked with an intense vitality, before the dark clouds of evil obliterated the sunshine of this Arcadian childhood. We live with him through the horrors of the Holocaust, on the run in Budapest, evading death time and time again under the protection of his Malach (angel), whose name had been given to him by his father on their separation. Andor survived, but his entire family perished. He takes us to Israel and then to Australia, where he prospered, his children had children, and the cycle of life returned to its natural and proper order. “Possessing a memory of extraordinary fidelity and vividness, Andor Schwartz has succeeded, almost miraculously, in bringing back to life the fascinating world of his family and of pre-war Orthodox Hungarian Jewry. I could not put it down.”—Robert Manne Andor Schwartz was born in Hungary in 1924. He survived the Second World War in Budapest, although his whole family was killed, before marrying Margaret (Baba) Keimovits, one of the few survivors from their area. They fled to Israel when the communists came to power in 1949. After ten years of working the land, they migrated to Melbourne, where he became a dairy farmer and a successful property developer.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Andor Schwartz
Publisher : Black Inc.
Release : 2010-04-01
File : 322 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781921866524


Senior Living New Jersey Directory Guide For Assisted Living Memory Care And Skilled Nursing Facilities

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Senior housing directory for New Jersey provides a comprehensive list of assisted living and memory care (aka dementia or Alzheimer's) as well as skilled nursing (aka nursing homes). This resource guide includes: - Definitions of independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing - Definition of Long-Term Care insurance - Spotlight of the Top 10 largest assisted living facilities in the state. - Listings of 309 assisted living and memory care facilities (sorted by county, city, and zip) including telephone, address, and capacity - Listings of 351 skilled nursing facilities (sorted by county, city, and zip) including telephone, address, and capacity

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Genre : Reference
Author : ZNest
Publisher : ZNest
Release : 2023-04-11
File : 41 Pages
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Heritage And War

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The world responded with horror to ISIS's campaign of destruction of cultural heritage across the Middle East, including with calls for an international response to prevent such damage. At the same time, newspapers and screens were filled with images of human destruction, devastated cities,and thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict. This juxtaposition caused a backlash against those voicing their concerns about the destruction of ancient ruins, popularly framed as dispute about 'stone versus lives'. In the face of so much human suffering, it can seem inappropriate to worry aboutanything but the urgent, basic needs of people.Heritage and War addresses this issue within the context of a wider debate, amidst a range of moral questions. Eleven original essays investigate a variety of philosophical and moral questions arising from the phenomenon of heritage destruction in war, such how we ought to respond to heritage thatis damaged in war, the nature of the harm caused by such damage, and the morally appropriate treatment of sites of war and conflict that have themselves become heritage sites. Such issues are philosophically rich, and yet they have been largely neglected by academic philosophers. This book makes asubstantial contribution to developing this new philosophical territory and identifying the role that philosophers have to play in developing our understanding of and responses to these important issues.

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Author : William Bülow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2023-03-09
File : 225 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780192862648


Research And Advanced Technology For Digital Libraries

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2007, held in Budapest, Hungary. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontologies, digital libraries and the web, models, multimedia and multilingual DLs, grid and peer-to-peer, preservation, user interfaces, document linking, information retrieval, personal information management, new DL applications, and user studies.

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Genre : Computers
Author : László Kovács
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2007-09-06
File : 600 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783540748502


The Fate Of The Apostles

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The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe written in the 16th century has long been the go-to source for studying the lives and martyrdom of the apostles. Whilst other scholars have written individual treatments on the more prominent apostles such as Peter, Paul, John, and James, there is little published information on the other apostles. In The Fate of the Apostles, Sean McDowell offers a comprehensive, reasoned, historical analysis of the fate of the twelve disciples of Jesus along with the apostles Paul, and James. McDowell assesses the evidence for each apostle’s martyrdom as well as determining its significance to the reliability of their testimony. The question of the fate of the apostles also gets to the heart of the reliability of the kerygma: did the apostles really believe Jesus appeared to them after his death, or did they fabricate the entire story? How reliable are the resurrection accounts? The willingness of the apostles to die for their faith is a popular argument in resurrection studies and McDowell offers insightful scholarly analysis of this argument to break new ground within the spheres of New Testament studies, Church History, and apologetics.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Sean McDowell
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2016-03-09
File : 311 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317031901


No Permanent Waves

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No Permanent Waves boldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the "wave" metaphor for capturing the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays--both original and reprinted--address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women's movements in the United States from the early nineteenth century through today. A respected group of contributors from diverse generations and backgrounds argue for new chronologies, more inclusive conceptualizations of feminist agendas and participants, and fuller engagements with contestations around particular issues and practices. Race, class, and sexuality are explored within histories of women's rights and feminism as well as the cultural and intellectual currents and social and political priorities that marked movements for women's advancement and liberation. These essays question whether the concept of waves surging and receding can fully capture the complexities of U.S. feminisms and suggest models for reimagining these histories from radio waves to hip-hop.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Nancy A. Hewitt
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Release : 2010-02-16
File : 468 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780813549170


Neurons Axons Dendrites Synapses And Memory My Life

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This is a detailed, clear, simple, and interesting academic and intellectual trip into neuron, axons, synapses, and their bases in memory formation and learning. The author goes after the origin of his first primordial memory in an attempt to find and nurture his own identity and personality. Memories can be categorized as working memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. In addition, we have conscious, unconscious, toxic, automatic, and uncategorized memory, such as adoptive memory in the immune system—puzzling but challenging memory during matching nucleotides and amino acids. T-cells memory recognize, identify, and destroy pathogens among billions of cells, genes, and proteins packaging for self-protection and function. Long-term unconscious memory is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to cognitive memory. Further exploring his initial objective—the primordial memory—the author encounters the electrical and chemical reactions coming under the domain of genes without ignoring DNA. Last but not least is memory of love, from birth till death. It is encoded in a memory that encompasses my whole body.

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Genre : Science
Author : Jose Morales Dorta
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Release : 2019-07-22
File : 173 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781796045345


Memories In The Service Of The Hindu Nation

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This is an ethnographic monograph that studies the memories of the 1947 Partition of India. It examines how survivors use the ideology of Hindu nationalism to rationalise the Partition's death and suffering.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Pranav Kohli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2023-09-30
File : 390 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781009354646


Engineer In Charge

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Genre : Technology & Engineering
Author : James R. Hansen
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Release : 1987
File : 668 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112008556984


The Oral Gospel Tradition

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The traditions about Jesus and his teaching circulated in oral form for many years, continuing to do so for decades following the writing of the New Testament Gospels. James Dunn is one of the major voices urging that more consideration needs to be given to the oral use and transmission of the Jesus tradition as a major factor in giving the Synoptic tradition its enduring character.

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Genre : Religion
Author : James D.G. Dunn
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release : 2013-10-03
File : 401 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780802867827