"Herr Krupp's Berthawerk" is a historical novel about the experience of a young man taken from Auschwitz to work as a slave laborer in the Berthawerk armaments factory owned by Krupp industries. The story is based on the author's own experiences in the netherworld of Nazi concentration camps and slave labor.

Herr Krupp's Berthawerk

Biographies & Memoirs

Lehman, Theodore H.

Historical

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Visual Musings: Works on Paper 2006-2008

Abella Ballen, Gloria

Arts & Photography

Cantos Judeo-Espaoles: Simbologa Potica y Visin del Mundo (Spanish Edition)

Cantos Judeo-españoles is a comprehensive introduction to Judeo-Spanish songs, which are sung by women throughout the Sephardic diaspora. Silvia Hamui does a textual analysis of these songs and traces the ideological influences that were borrowed from the various local contexts from Morocco to Turkey. She examines the influence of official religion on the songs, as well as practical applications against the evil eye and bad spirits. Hamui has in-depth analysis of the role of song in the life cycle, including birth, circumcision, Bar Mitzvah, wedding, miqvah, and funeral.

Literature & Fiction

Hamui Sutton, Silvia

History & Criticism

Cantos Judeo-espanoles is a comprehensive introduction to Judeo-Spanish songs, which are sung by women throughout the Sephardic diaspora. Silvia Hamui does a textual analysis of these songs and traces the ideological influences that were borrowed from the various local contexts from Morocco to Turkey. She examines the influence of official religion on the songs, as well as practical applications against the evil eye and bad spirits. Hamui has in-depth analysis of the role of song in the life cycle, including birth, circumcision, Bar Mitzvah, wedding, miqvah, and funeral.

Silvia Hamui Sutton

Humor & Entertainment

One day two women gather to tell stories. As the stories take life, the two women become their characters. A day and night of telling builds into a crescendo of unimaginable truth where the boundaries between story, fable, and myth evaporate like breath and words. Personal memories and nighttime dreams are woven into romances and exotic yarns from Casablanca to Catalunya. Plumbing the depths of human sentiment and existence, the confidantes lead us into veiled pathways rarely traveled. Angelina Muñiz-Huberman's writing is lyrical and alluring, and Andrea Labinger's translation preserves the magic.

The Confidantes

Muñiz-Huberman, Angelina

Muiz-Huberman, Angelina

Literary

Genre Fiction

African Saga: Cultural Heritage and Resistance in the Diaspora

African Saga is an authoritative discussion of the African experience in South America, starting with African origins, the colonial experience as captive laborers, and the contemporary period. It includes an extensive discussion of the African towns set up by runaway slaves, which proliferated in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The author gives an extensive discussion of African resistance to the slave trade. Nina S. de Friedemann is considered one of Latin America's foremost authorities on the African Diaspora, and this book includes detailed ethnohistorical and ethnographic data based on the author's research over three decades in every area of African life in Colombia. The author wrote seventeen books, largely on this subject, but this one is considered the summation of her life's work. She was one of the creators of the field of Afro-Colombian studies, and she was the Latin American coordinator for the UNESCO Project on the Route of the Slave.

History

Friedemann, Nina S. De

Americas

Teacher's Guide Guardians of Hidden Traditions is a guide for the teaching of the historical novel, Guardians of Hidden Traditions. It covers four major historical periods, beginning in Spain (1391-1572), Mxico, Nueva Espaa (1576-1598), Oate New Mexico (1598-1680), De Vargas New Mexico (1692-1810). The Guide gives projects for reading, writing, oral presentations, and activities. It includes an extensive glossary of related Spanish terms and a thorough list of historical characters.

Teacher's Guide Guardians of Hidden Traditions

Education & Teaching

Medina-Sandoval, Isabelle

Schools & Teaching

Seasons of Rita is the story of the cultural clash between American and Indian cultue in the life of one person, Rita, and the cost of that conflict to her personally and to her people, the Sauk. After Indian School and an exploitative marriage to a "White" man she returned to live in the Sauk community and was gradually reincorporated into the tribal religion and was one of the last to know the old ways. Rita was born in a traditional Sauk village, but the authorities took her as a child to an Indian boarding school. She was the first generation to experience forced assimilation in the English language and Christian missionary teaching. After years in the school her life and thought were a mixture of "White" and "Indian" ways. She spent the rest of her life resolving those conflicts. This is her story.

Seasons of Rita: Biography of a Sauk Woman

Rachlin, Carol K.

Community & Culture

Counting the Omer is a Kabbalistic meditation guide to understand the in-depth meanings of each of the forty-nine days between Pesach (Passover) and the Shavuot celebration of the revealing of the Torah. Rabbi Kantrowitz follows Kabbalistic guidelines to show how the unique values of the sephirot interact each day, giving the reader insight into the strengths of the day. Through this guide the reader is led to meditate on the mystical qualities of life and self.

Counting the Omer: A Kabbalistic Meditation Guide

Religion & Spirituality

Kantrowitz, Min

Judaism

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