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Overlooked by historians for over half a century following her
death, Ernestine L. Rose (1810 1892) was one of the foremost
orators and social reformers of her era. A fearless human rights
activist, she fought for racial equality, women's rights,
freethought and religious freedom, and she can be considered a
forerunner of twentieth-century activists in civil rights and the
women's movement. Rose was a pioneer in many movements,
articulating the notion that all Americans are endowed with natural
rights guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence and by the
Constitution. Her passion was to see everyone women and men,
regardless of race, religion or ethnic origin possessing the civil
rights promised by American democracy. Unlike other
nineteenth-century female reformers such as Lucy Stone, Susan B.
Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ernestine Rose was the only
non-Christian, foreign-born woman. For this reason, she did not
entirely fit in and she felt tensions within the women's rights and
abolitionist circles, as nativism and anti-Semitism worsened in the
United States. Rose's outspoken opinions put her at odds with the
religious zeal of the American public as well as that of many
reformers. A visionary leader, she crisscrossed two continents to
fight for change, seeking to raise public awareness of
international issues and of social movements in Europe and in the
United States. The topic of this book is highly relevant to current
struggles for racial justice and for preserving and strengthening
democracy in the United States. Rose's words are as pertinent today
as they were during her lifetime. This book offers a new
understanding of Ernestine Rose's important contributions to
American democracy.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France is an
unusual memoir about the childhood and young adulthood of Sarah Lew
Miller. Born in a large Orthodox Jewish family in Dereczyn, Poland,
Sarah's family moved to Paris in 1937 to escape poverty. The German
Occupation of France just three years later threatened her family's
existence with repressive anti-Jewish laws and massive deportations
of Jews to death camps. With the help of Christian neighbours, they
evaded arrest for several years in Paris by living undercover
beginning in July, 1942. After Sarah's mother was arrested and then
rescued, Sarah's parents went into deep hiding, while their eight
children found refuge in rural villages scattered around France.
Through the help of a French Resistance organisation, the Sixieme,
Sarah escaped to Switzerland in May, 1944 and her entire family was
reunited in Paris after the Liberation in 1945. This personal and
historical account of an era conveys the day-to-day life of a
teenage girl living in Nazi-occupied France with the ever-present
threat of death. Despite her loneliness, hardships and the
derailment of her childhood dreams, she kept her strong family ties
and maintained her faith in humanity. This memoir demonstrates the
qualities of resilience and courage that enabled individuals and
families such as Sarah's to survive. By reliving one family's way
of coping with a social and political crisis, we learn about
ourselves and our own society.
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