[PDF] Shmuels Bridge eBook

Author : Jason Sommer
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1632892391

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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.

Author : Jason Sommer
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1623545129

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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.

Author : Barri Cae Mallin
Publisher : Bridge Logos Foundation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780882708010

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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.

Author : Jeffrey M. Borkan
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780299163402

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How patients heal doctors In Patients and Doctors, physicians from around the world share stories of the patients they'll never forget, patients who have changed the way they practice medicine. Their thoughtful reflections on a variety of themes--from suffering to humor to death--help us to understand the experience of doctoring, in all its ordinary and extraordinary aspects. In settings as diverse as Slovenia and Sweden, Cambodia and New Jersey, we learn what makes the healer feel graced with insight or scarred with misadventure. In Washington State, we anguish with patient and doctor alike when a young resident removes a screw from a little boy's foot; on the Israeli-Jordanian border, a woman goes into labor just as the air-raid sirens signal the beginning of the Gulf War. These compelling accounts remind us what is at stake in doctoring, reinforcing the value of stories in the teaching and practice of medicine: to calm, to validate, and to illuminate the human experience. "These stories illustrate humane physicians at their best."--Sharon Kaufman, author of The Healer's Tale

Author : H. Shmuel Erlich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781782200307

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The book bridges the conceptual and practical gap between a psychoanalytic focus on the internal world and the dynamics of external reality by examining an array of junctures in which the two perspectives combine to enrich each other. Starting from the inherent bias of the psychoanalytic immersion in working with the internal world, the book deals with a wide array of phenomena in which a binocular perspective is potentially contributing. One such bridge is exemplified by the Group Relations approach, which richly combines psychoanalytic insights with systemic ones. This unique merger is valuable in studying a variety of phenomena both within psychoanalysis and outside it. The work of the analyst in the psychoanalytic setting implies situating oneself on several boundaries - internal and external, love and admiration as well as death and destructive impulses - and the courage and sacrifice demanded by taking up this role. This binocular perspective has significant implications for the formation and maintenance of identity and particularly for the psychoanalytic identity.

Author : Rivah Ḥirurg
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN :

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"Riva Chirurg lived through the catastrophe that befell the Lodz ghetto. She served briefly as Rumkowski's secretary, and perhaps more significantly, was part of an ardent, idealistic corps of individuals who craved to start life anew in Palestine and trained themselves towards that eventuality."--

Author : David G. Roskies
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674081406

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This text describes how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their hopes and fears in the languages of tradition. It suggests that there lies an aesthetic and moral sensibility totally at odds with Jewish humour and piety.

Author : Emily Barton
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101904097

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"In a counterfactual world resembling the 1930s, the state of Khazaria, an isolated nation of warriors Jews, is under attack by the Germanii. Esther, the precocious daughter of Khazaria's chief policy advisor, sets out on a quest to ensure the survival of her homeland"--

Author : Shmuel Greenbaum
Publisher : Partners in Kindness
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 0578002035

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

Author : Chaim Kramer
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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"The world is a very narrow bridge. The main thing is not to be afraid." The joyous, positive message of the outstanding Chassidic luminary, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810) is more relevant & needed than ever. "Crossing the Narrow Bridge" gives clear practical guidance as to how his teachings can be applied in everyday life today. The author, Rabbi Chaim Kramer, is director of the Breslov Research Institute, which for the last eleven years has been publishing authoritative translations of Rebbe Nachman's works in English & French. Rabbi Kramer has drawn on years of intimacy with leading figures in the Breslov Chassidic communities to bring this tradition to the reader in the form of numerous anecdotes & insights. Lively, down to earth, & easy to read, "Crossing the Narrow Bridge" covers all aspects of the Rebbe Nachman's teachings--from faith, simplicity, prayer & meditation to earning a living, health-care & bringing up children, etc. Each of the twenty chapters offers a basic understanding of its topic as seen through Rebbe Nachman's own lessons & stories, together with practical suggestions enabling the reader to translate these teachings into his own life