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A classic Christmas story featuring all the magic of Santa combined with the magic of your favorite city, state, or country. It's the night before Christmas and you're nestled snug in your bed. Your stocking is hung by the chimney with care--will Santa visit your house? Follow Santa's journey in this magical retelling of a Christmas classic starring the locations and landmarks that make the place where you live special!
Christmas is not everybody’s favorite holiday. Historically, Jews in America, whether participating in or refraining from recognizing Christmas, have devised a multitude of unique strategies to respond to the holiday season. Their response is a mixed one: do we participate, try to ignore the holiday entirely, or create our own traditions and make the season an enjoyable time? This book, the first on the subject of Jews and Christmas in the United States, portrays how Jews are shaping the public and private character of Christmas by transforming December into a joyous holiday season belonging to all Americans. Creative and innovative in approaching the holiday season, these responses range from composing America’s most beloved Christmas songs, transforming Hanukkah into the Jewish Christmas, creating a national Jewish tradition of patronizing Chinese restaurants and comedy shows on Christmas Eve, volunteering at shelters and soup kitchens on Christmas Day, dressing up as Santa Claus to spread good cheer, campaigning to institute Hanukkah postal stamps, and blending holiday traditions into an interfaith hybrid celebration called “Chrismukkah” or creating a secularized holiday such as Festivus. Through these venerated traditions and alternative Christmastime rituals, Jews publicly assert and proudly proclaim their Jewish and American identities to fashion a universally shared message of joy and hope for the holiday season. See also: http://www.akosherchristmas.org
A classic Christmas story featuring all the magic of Santa combined with the magic of your favorite city, state, or country. It's the night before Christmas and you're nestled snug in your bed. Your stocking is hung by the chimney with care--will Santa visit your house? Follow Santa's journey in this magical retelling of a Christmas classic starring the locations and landmarks that make the place where you live special!
In post-Civil War America, three women find themselves embarking on unexpected journeys as mail order brides, each facing unique challenges and discovering love in the most surprising ways. Nellie Wallace, a young widow with two children, seeks to escape her cruel in-laws and find stability in San Francisco. Blake Malone, a saloon owner needing a family to secure his business plans, becomes her unlikely match. As Nellie and Blake navigate their new life together, they must confront dangerous threats and unexpected emotions, realizing that the fight for love and family may be their toughest battle yet. Annie Markum risked everything to become a mail order bride, only to find herself a penniless widow with a newborn daughter. Desperate to return to her disapproving father, she takes a job as a saloon cook, despite the stigma. Saloon owner Nick Cartwright, who once loved Annie from afar, now has a second chance. But Annie's dreams for her daughter's future clash with Nick's lifestyle, and they must decide if love is worth the ultimate sacrifice. When Annie discovers her late husband left her a fortune, newfound threats emerge, forcing her to fight for both her freedom and Nick’s safety. Cora Jones thought her future was set when she sailed to San Francisco to marry Harry Belcher. But everything changes when her presumed-dead fiancé, Asa Woods, appears. Caught between two men, Cora decides to let them both court her to make her choice. In a whirlwind of emotions and decisions, Cora must choose between the familiar past and a promising future. Through danger, determination, and the power of love, Nellie, Annie, and Cora each find their place in a changing world, proving that even in the wildest of circumstances, love can find a way.
Isaias Hellman, a Jewish immigrant, arrived in California in 1859 with very little money in his pocket and his brother Herman by his side. By the time he died, he had effectively transformed Los Angeles into the modern metropolis we see today. In Frances Dinkelspiel's groundbreaking history, the early days of California are seen through the life of a man who started out as a simple store owner only to become California's premier money-man of the late 19th and early 20th century. Growing up as a young immigrant, Hellman quickly learned the use to which "capital" could be put, founding LA's Farmers and Merchants Bank, that city's first successful bank, and transforming Wells Fargo into one of the West's biggest financial institutions. He invested money with Henry Huntington to build trolley lines, lent Edward Doheney the funds that led him to discover California's huge oil reserves, and assisted Harrison Gary Otis in acquiring full ownership of the Los Angeles Times. Hellman led the building of Los Angeles' first synagogue, the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, helped start the University of Southern California and served as Regent of the University of California. His influence, however, was not limited to Los Angeles. He controlled the California wine industry for almost twenty years and, after San Francisco's devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, calmed the financial markets there in order to help that great city rise from the ashes. With all of these accomplishments, Isaias Hellman almost single-handedly brought California into modernity. Ripe with great historical events that filled the early days of California such as the Gold Rush and the San Francisco earthquake, Towers of Gold brings to life the transformation of California from a frontier society whose economy was driven by the barter of hides and exchange of gold dust into a vibrant state with the strongest economy in the nation.