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Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine—a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity. Growing up after World War I and the collapse of the empire, Rezzori lived in a twilit world suspended between the formalities of the old nineteenth-century order which had shaped his aristocratic parents and the innovations, uncertainties, and raw terror of the new century. The haunted atmosphere of this dying world is beautifully rendered in the pages of The Snows of Yesteryear. The book is a series of portraits—amused, fond, sometimes appalling—of Rezzori’s family: his hysterical and histrionic mother, disappointed by marriage, destructively obsessed with her children’s health and breeding; his father, a flinty reactionary, whose only real love was hunting; his haughty older sister, fated to die before thirty; his earthy nursemaid, who introduced Rezzori to the power of storytelling and the inevitability of death; and a beloved governess, Bunchy. Telling their stories, Rezzori tells his own, holding his early life to the light like a crystal until it shines for us with a prismatic brilliance.
HIstorical articles about Lancaster County, Virginia
This is Volume 2 in the Occasional Papers Series of the Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library in Lancaster County in Virginia's Northern Neck. The articles in this journal were chosen to be both educational and entertaining for the reader and to showcase several of the thousands of history and genealogy reference materials in the MBWML Research Center. The contents of this issue are: (1) “Hills Quarter 1685-2007: An Exposition on Diversity” by Robert N. McKenney; (2) “Aunt Fannie, John Carter of The Nest, and the Carter Family Pedigree” by Robert D. Lumsden; (3) “The Brent Family of Fleets Bay Neck (Third Generation)” by Charlotte Henry; (4) “1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition News Reports” compiled by Stephen A. Redd; (5) “Our Infernal Scoundrel of a Governor” transcribed by the MBWML Research Department; (6) “Traditional Christmas in the Northern Neck” by Carolyn H. Jett; (7) “Bringing an Antique Certificate to Life: The Mystery of H. Roy Eichel” by Carolyn H. Jett; (8) “Descendants of Dennis Conway of Northumberland County, Virginia” by Carolyn H. Jett.
How did the Ultraorthodox (Haredi) community chart a new path for its future after it lost the core of its future leaders, teachers, and rabbis in the Holocaust? How did the revival of this group come into being in the new Zionist state of Israel? In Holocaust Memory in Ultraorthodox Society in Israel, Michal Shaul highlights the special role that Holocaust survivors played as they rebuilt and consolidated Ultraorthodox society. Although many Haredi were initially theologically opposed to the creation of Israel, they have become a significant force in the contemporary life and politics of the country. Looking at personal and public experiences of Ultraorthodox survivors in the first years of emigration from liberated Europe and breaking down how their memories entered the public domain, Shaul documents how they were incorporated into the collective memories of the Ultraorthodox in Israel. Holocaust Memory in Ultraorthodox Society in Israel offers a rare mix of empathy and scholarly rigor to understandings of the role that the community's collective memories and survivor mentality have played in creating Israel's national identity.
An irresistible tale of love and passion in the post-Civil-War South from Dorothy Garlock, the award-winning, bestselling author of A Gentle Giving and Sins of Summer. Addie waited four long years for her husband to return from the Civil War, but to no avail. Now deserters and drifters are making her life dangerous . . . until a mysterious stranger shows up to protect her and her children.
Dust off your slide rules and get your thinking caps on with this wonderfully nostalgic yet challenging collection of authentic O Level exam papers from the 1950s.