Shmuel's Bridge

Shmuel's Bridge PDF Author: Jason Sommer
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1632892391
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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A moving memoir of a son’s relationship with his survivor father and of their Eastern European journey through a family history of incalculable loss. Jason Sommer’s father, Jay, is ninety-eight years old and losing his memory. More than seventy years after arriving in New York from WWII-torn Europe, he is forgetting the stories that defined his life, the life of his family, and the lives of millions of Jews who were affected by Nazi terror. Observing this loss, Jason vividly recalls the trip to Eastern Europe the two took together in 2001. As father and son travel from the town of Jay’s birth to the labor camp from which he escaped, and to Auschwitz, where many in his family were lost, the stories Jason’s father has told all his life come alive. So too do Jason’s own memories of the way his father’s past complicated and impacted Jason's own inner life. Shmuel's Bridge shows history through a double lens: the memories of a growing son’s complex relationship with his father and the meditations of that son who, now grown, finds himself caring for a man losing all connection to a past that must not be forgotten.

Shmuel's Bridge

Shmuel's Bridge PDF Author: Jason Sommer
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1632892391
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Book Description
A moving memoir of a son’s relationship with his survivor father and of their Eastern European journey through a family history of incalculable loss. Jason Sommer’s father, Jay, is ninety-eight years old and losing his memory. More than seventy years after arriving in New York from WWII-torn Europe, he is forgetting the stories that defined his life, the life of his family, and the lives of millions of Jews who were affected by Nazi terror. Observing this loss, Jason vividly recalls the trip to Eastern Europe the two took together in 2001. As father and son travel from the town of Jay’s birth to the labor camp from which he escaped, and to Auschwitz, where many in his family were lost, the stories Jason’s father has told all his life come alive. So too do Jason’s own memories of the way his father’s past complicated and impacted Jason's own inner life. Shmuel's Bridge shows history through a double lens: the memories of a growing son’s complex relationship with his father and the meditations of that son who, now grown, finds himself caring for a man losing all connection to a past that must not be forgotten.

Shmuel's Bridge

Shmuel's Bridge PDF Author: Jason Sommer
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1623545129
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Book Description
A moving memoir of a son’s relationship with his survivor father and of their Eastern European journey through a family history of incalculable loss. Jason Sommer’s father, Jay, is ninety-eight years old and losing his memory. More than seventy years after arriving in New York from WWII-torn Europe, he is forgetting the stories that defined his life, the life of his family, and the lives of millions of Jews who were affected by Nazi terror. Observing this loss, Jason vividly recalls the trip to Eastern Europe the two took together in 2001. As father and son travel from the town of Jay’s birth to the labor camp from which he escaped, and to Auschwitz, where many in his family were lost, the stories Jason’s father has told all his life come alive. So too do Jason’s own memories of the way his father’s past complicated and impacted Jason's own inner life. Shmuel's Bridge shows history through a double lens: the memories of a growing son’s complex relationship with his father and the meditations of that son who, now grown, finds himself caring for a man losing all connection to a past that must not be forgotten.

Intimate Moments with the Hebrew Names of God

Intimate Moments with the Hebrew Names of God PDF Author: Barri Cae Mallin
Publisher: Bridge Logos Foundation
ISBN: 9780882708010
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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A comprehensive reference of the numerous descriptive names of the Lord based on the original Hebrew. Features the Hebrew characters of the names of God and their pronunciation, with inspirational meditations that speak of the wonder and beauty of God.

The Couch in the Marketplace

The Couch in the Marketplace PDF Author: H. SHMUEL ERLICH
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780367102142
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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In the Heart of the Seas

In the Heart of the Seas PDF Author: Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher: Terrace Books
ISBN: 9780299207045
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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In the Heart of the Seas follows Hananiah, along with many rabbis and their wives, on a spiritual journey to Palestine. The trip is a test of courage and mirrors the daily trials and experiences of modern existence, yet yields renewed faith.

Other People's Troubles

Other People's Troubles PDF Author: Jason Sommer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226768151
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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In Aubade, a poem on a traffic-light relationship between two motorists, he writes, "They met at every light and sign / for several miles, / stopping side by side. / They laughed and shook / their heads in wonder / at themselves or simply looked / one turning then the other."

The Man Who Sleeps in My Office

The Man Who Sleeps in My Office PDF Author: Jason Sommer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226768038
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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With grace and style, Jason Sommer considers how to live in the wake of history among those who are indelibly marked by it. On the surface a book of poems composed in the shadow of the Holocaust, The Man Who Sleeps in My Office offers more than a poetic chronicle of suffering and loss. Instead, Sommer—the son of a survivor—has discovered a delicate balance that allows him to be in and of history without succumbing to it. In these works, both the seen and the unseen—the failed or rejected vision—alter the seer, as the limit of one thing becomes the verge of something else. Whether about the Holocaust, the dog he'll never own, or love between a husband and wife or parent and child, these poems savor the mysterious instant when alternatives of vision unfold. While these moments may also conjure loss, the losses are made good, as when, in "Legion," someone forgets why he has walked into a room but salvages from the lapse not the purpose of the errand but a sense of the ultimate worth of a life. These finely crafted narrative poems tell the story of these unanticipated perceptions, when the ordinary opens to the very human story of failed understanding and quiet epiphany.

A Daily Dose of Kindness

A Daily Dose of Kindness PDF Author: Shmuel Greenbaum
Publisher: Partners in Kindness
ISBN: 0578002035
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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A collection of true stories about acts of kindness witnessed or experienced by the contributors.

Two Tales

Two Tales PDF Author: Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780575008120
Category : Hebrew literature
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Kosher Sex

Kosher Sex PDF Author: Shmuley Boteach
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510779906
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Great sex consists entirely of motions, Kosher Sex consists of motions that elicit lasting emotions. Great sex is an undertaking of two separate bodies, Kosher Sex is two halves of the same whole. Twenty-five years ago, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's celebrated international bestseller Kosher Sex changed how we view and approach sex, marriage, erotic attraction, and personal relationships by drawing on traditional Jewish wisdom. Based on his extensive experience counseling individuals and couples, the author breaks down sexual taboos and openly yet respectfully discusses the meanings, emotions, and hidden power of sex. With his unique anecdotal style, Rabbi Boteach illustrates each and every point, using real couples who have discovered the joys of "kosher sex"—sex that blends passion and lovers—and suggests revolutionary ways of synthesizing the best that each has to offer. When half of all marriages fail and one third are sexless and platonic, Kosher Sex has an astonishing and electrifying impact.