RGVV (History of Religion: Essays and Preliminary Studies) brings together the mutually constitutive aspects of the study of religion(s)-contextualized data; theory; and disciplinary positioning-and engages them from a critical historical perspective. The series publishes monographs and thematically focused edited volumes on specific topics and cases as well as comparative work across historical periods from the ancient world to the modern era.
#1213658 in Books 2016-01-20Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 10.00 x .36 x 7.01l; .67 #File Name: 1944037179170 pages
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Inspiring. Real story about real people by a real person.By Dr. Gabe TzeghaiThis book captures an important piece of real history; about real people; by a real person. It is also a must read for anyone that wants more inspiration in their search to learn more about who they are and where they have come from and possibly where they are headed. Thanks to Alexandra Weinbaum we once again can see and be inspired by how love and family ties overcome boundaries of time; places; real life and death hardships to ensure continuity of life and purpose. Alexandra has taken this extraordinary tough project and made it readily accessible to readers of today and tomorrow and possibly inspiring them; like it has with me; to search and discover more of their own family and love stories; assuring with confidence that life is indeed worth surviving and living. Thank you again Alexandra. Dr. Gabe Tzeghai; Cincinnati Ohio1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. the love; the sense of abandonment in so many iterations ...By Eva RichterThis is a book memory; of preserving the past; of facing the demons of personal and public history of a most turbulent time -- the period before and during World War II. I well understand that it took Alexandra Weinbaum twenty years before she could face what was there in that box of Careful -- Letters. All the sense of loss; the secrets kept and betrayed; the memories and the forgetting; the love; the sense of abandonment in so many iterations and the layers of complex relationships are here in all their raw power. This is not only a tribute to Ms Weinbaum's remarkable parents and a discovery of her family's tragic history but also an illumination of how terrible events reverberate; Aeschylus-like; down the generations marking all the relationships and creating in the author the sense that there must have been a secret; a sadness; a sense of loss at the center of her relationships; a sense that there were certain things best not talked about; especially with her parents; but which she finally confronts to mourn and perhaps to lay to rest. It is a beautiful and courageous book.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Speaking the unspoken through letters and picturesBy Nan Bauer-MaglinOf the 169 letters from Lodz; Warsaw; Grenoble and Paris found in Alexandra Weinbaum’s mothers’ house after her death; Weinbaum writes that “it took time to understand these letters; to go beyond the surface meaning to the situation that lead to their writing.†In addition; she understood that most Holocaust survivors prefer to close the book on such memories. We are so glad that Weinbaum did not close the book; that she opened it; putting these very personal letters in historical and political context. She has shared the deep grief and loss of this one family and added to the sad story of the Holocaust. Amidst hunger and separation; her father tenderly writes her mother how they are dancers for life. Weinbaum uses the image of the dance to take us through some very touching but disturbing personal and world history.
