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An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust
memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize  As an
orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie
Wiesel (1928–2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust
with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spoken man from a
small Carpathian town become such an influential figure on the
world stage? Drawing on Wiesel’s prodigious literary output and
interviews with his family, friends, scholars, and critics, Joseph
Berger seeks to answer this question. Â Berger explores
Wiesel’s Hasidic childhood in Sighet, his postwar years spent
rebuilding his life from the ashes in France, his transformation
into a Parisian intellectual, his failed attempts at romance, his
years scraping together a living in America as a journalist, his
decision to marry and have a child, his emergence as a spokesperson
for Holocaust survivors and persecuted peoples throughout the
world, his lifelong devotion to the state of Israel, and his
difficult final years. Through this penetrating portrait we come to
know intimately the man the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “a
messenger to mankind.”
This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of HIV/AIDS
and neuro-AIDS, including a history of the disease, and an
explanation of many of the conditions that can arise in afflicted
patients, including opportunistic infections, central nervous
system tumors, spinal cord disorders, myopathies and progressive
encephalopathy, amongst others.
Clinicians will gain a greater understanding of the complex
mechanisms of the disease. Beginning with a basic introduction to
HIV infections and Neuro-AIDS, practitioners will find useful data
on advances in molecular biology, neuroepidemiology, neuroimaging,
neuropathology, neuropharmacology, as well as information on the
development of therapeutic strategies appropriate for the disorder,
including groundbreaking retroviral therapies.
In addition, the socioeconomic and political constraints that
hinder treatment and disease management in developing parts of the
world are presented.
* A comprehensive understanding of HIV/AIDS and neuro-AIDS, and the
progression of the scientific community s understanding of the
disease
* Detailed information on fields such as neuroepidemiology,
neuropathology, neuropharmacology, and neuroimaging and their
contributions to HIV/AIDS research
* Subject specific chapters on conditions associated with HIV/AIDS,
including opportunistic infections, central nervous system tumors,
and myopathies, amongst others"
This book challenges much that has been written about the decline
of sociology as a vital, essential area of inquiry into the human
condition. Against this Greek chorus of woe, these papers show by
example that sociology can make progress, select significant
problems, and cumulate an integrated and coherent set of findings
and theoretical understandings.
Although the twenty papers in the book engage a wide variety of
issues, they are united by their adherence to one of the most
active and successful traditions in sociology, the group process
tradition. Group process research programs can examine tractable
problems posed by social psychological phenomena for which
sociology has the best methods of study; they have the potential
for a hardware-based, technological research front that discovers
new phenomena; and they come closest of all approaches in
sociological research to using cognitive criteria in the choice of
problems and to studying immutable phenomena. The overall aim of
the book is to provide models for researchers struggling to
develop, construct, and integrate coherent sociological theory and
knowledge.
The papers are grouped around three themes: (1) the problem of
theory construction in sociology, including what is meant by
"theory" and the methods of testing it, particularly empirical
testing; (2) the extension and elaboration of existing theories of
group processes, notably in the study of status, sentiment, and the
comparison process; and (3) the theoretical issues at the
intersection of social structures, the pattern of connection in
social networks, and the process of rational choice.
Analyzing the structure and growth of major theoretical research
programs in the sociological study of group processes, this book
considers such topics as exchange processes and network structures,
bargaining and conflict, status characteristics and status
organizing processes, social interaction, and legitimation
processes.
Magnificent art complements an unvarnished history of the Statue of
Liberty and its relationship to immigration policy in the United
States throughout the years. What began in 1865 in Glatigny,
France, at a dinner party hosted by esteemed university professor
Edouard Rene de Laboulaye and attended by, among others, a
promising young sculptor, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, was the
extravagant notion of creating and giving a monumental statue to
America that celebrated the young nation's ideals. Bartholdi, and
later civil engineer Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, caught the spirit of
the project and thus began the epic struggle to create, build,
transport, and pay for the monument. Although The Statue of Liberty
was to be a gift from France, the cost of its creation was meant to
be shared with America. To the Lady's creators and supporters,
America offered liberty and the right to live one's life
unencumbered-that is, without fear and with a rule of law and a
government that derived its power from the consent of the people it
governed. Yet, in America, fundraising for the Lady dragged. Had it
not been for publisher Joseph Pulitzer's flashy fundraising
campaign in his newspaper the World, the entire project likely
would have collapsed. The tale, abundant with lively and
interesting stories about the Statue of Liberty's creators, is also
told in the context of America's immigration policies-past and
present. Explored, too, is the American immigrant experience and
how it viscerally connects to the Lady. Also integral to the tale
is poetry-a sonnet-written by a then-largely unknown Jewish poet,
Emma Lazarus, who moved a nation and gave a deeply rich and fresh
meaning and purpose to the statue. In addition to the prose, Lady
Liberty includes thirty-three elegant, full-page stirring paintings
by celebrated artist Antonio Masi. Lady Liberty, a smart, timely,
entertaining, and nonpartisan jewel of a book, is written for every
American-young and old. Lady Liberty also speaks to the millions
who dream of one day becoming Americans. Dim and Masi offer this
book now because the Statue of Liberty, as a symbol of American
beneficence, has never been more relevant . . . or more in
jeopardy.
Includes 100 illustrations of magnificent and historic synagogues
on New York's Lower East Side.
It has often been said that nowhere in the United States can one
find a greater collection of magnificent and historic synagogues
than on New York's Lower East Side. As the ultimate destination for
millions of immigrant eastern European Jews during the late 19th
and early 20th centuries, it became the new homeland and hoped-for
goldene medinah (promised land) for immigrants fleeing persecution,
poverty, and oppression, while struggling to live a new and
productive life. Yet to many visitors and students today these
synagogues are shrouded in mystery, as
documentary information on them tends to be dispersed and difficult
to find.
With The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side, Gerard R. Wolfe
fills that void, giving readers unparalleled access to the story of
how the Jewish community took root on the Lower East Side of
Manhattan. Using archival photographs taken by Jo Renee Fine and
contemporary shots taken by Norman Borden alongside his text,
Wolfe focuses on the synagogues built or acquired by eastern
European Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants during the great era of mass
immigration, painting vivid portraits of the individual
congregations and the new and vital culture that was emerging. For
many, the Lower East Side became the portal to America and the
stepping-stone to
a new and better life. Today, the synagogues in which these
immigrants worshiped remain as a poignant visual reminder of what
had become the largest Jewish community in the world.
Originally published in 1978, The Synagogues of New York's Lower
East Side became the authoritative study of the subject. Now
completely revised and updated with new text, photographs, and
maps, along with an invaluable glossary, Wolfe's book is an
essential and accessible source for those who want to understand
the
varied and rich history of New York's Lower East Side and its
Jewish population. Its readable and illuminating view into the
diversity of synagogues--large and small, past and present--and
their people makes this book ideal for teachers, students, museum
educators, and general readers alike.
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