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Anita Diamant
Anita Diamant (born June 27, 1951) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction books."Anita Diamant." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2015. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, 2017-09-22. She has published five novels, the most recent of which is ''The Boston Girl'', a ''New York Times'' best seller. She is best known for her 1997 novel '' The Red Tent'', which eventually became a best seller and book club favorite.Ghent, Janet Silver (February 14, 2014).Celebrating the power of women and ritual: Author Diamant in conversation at JCCs. ''J. The Jewish News of Northern California''. jweekly.com. Retrieved 2017-09-22. She has also written six guides to contemporary Jewish practice, including ''The New Jewish Wedding,'' ''Living a Jewish Life,'' and ''The New Jewish Baby Book'', as well as a collection of personal essays, ''Pitching My Tent''. Early life and education Diamant spent her early childhood in Newark, New Jersey, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st Century In Literature
The 21st century in literature refers to world literature produced during the 21st century. The measure of years is, for the purpose of this article, literature written from (roughly) the year 2001 to the present. * 2001 – ''The Corrections'' by Jonathan Franzen; '' Seabiscuit: An American Legend'' by Laura Hillenbrand; '' Life of Pi'' by Yann Martel; Nobel Prize: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul * 2002 – ''Atonement'' by Ian McEwan; ''Middlesex'' by Jeffrey Eugenides; '' Everything is Illuminated'' by Jonathan Safran Foer; Nobel Prize: Imre Kertész * 2003 – ''The Da Vinci Code'' by Dan Brown; ''Roman Triptych (Meditation)''; Nobel Prize: J. M. Coetzee * 2004 – Nobel Prize: Elfriede Jelinek * 2005 – Nobel Prize: Harold Pinter * 2006 – ''The Road'' by Cormac McCarthy; ''Les Bienveillantes'' by Jonathan Littell; ''Against the Day'' by Thomas Pynchon; Nobel Prize: Orh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New England Monthly
''New England Monthly'' was a magazine published in Haydenville, Massachusetts, from 1984 to 1990. History and profile Founded in 1984 by Robert Nylen (publisher) and Daniel Okrent (editor), it won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1986 and 1987 and was a finalist for many other National Magazine Awards (in categories including reporting, personal service, and design) in its brief existence. Purchased in 1989 from its original investors by Telemedia, a Canadian publishing company, it ceased publication in September 1990 during the recession which hit the New England region. Several ''New England Monthly'' staff members and contributors went on to achieve notable success after the magazine's demise. These include staff writer Jonathan Harr, author of ''A Civil Action''; executive editor Joseph Nocera, who writes a weekly business column for ''The New York Times''; Annie Proulx, the magazine's gardening columnist, who later won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. During the First World War (1914–1918), an Arab uprising against Ottoman rule and the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force under General Edmund Allenby drove the Ottoman Turks out of the Levant during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. The United Kingdom had agreed in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence that it would honour Arab independence if the Arabs revolted against the Ottoman Turks, but the two sides had different interpretations of this agreement, and in the end, the United Kingdom and France divided the area under the Sykes–Picot Agreementan act of betrayal in the eyes of the Arabs. Further complicating the issue was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlit Detainee Camp
The Atlit detainee camp was a concentration camp established by the authorities of Mandatory Palestine in the late 1930s on what is now the Israeli coastal plain, south of Haifa. Under British rule, it was primarily used to hold Jews and Arabs who were in administrative detention; it largely held Jewish immigrants who did not possess official entry permits. Tens of thousands of Jewish refugees were interned at the camp, which was surrounded by barbed wire and watchtowers. The camp at Atlit now has a museum that covers the history of ''aliyah'' by non-permitted Jews. It was declared a National Heritage Site by Israel in 1987. History The camp at Atlit, established by the British government in the 1930s, was surrounded by barbed wire and watchtowers. Many of the detainees during the 1930s and 1940s were Jewish refugees from German-occupied Europe. In the late 1940s, most of the inmates were Holocaust survivors. The British authorities, acceding to Arab demands to limit Jewish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea, and shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel also is bordered by the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively. Tel Aviv is the economic and technological center of the country, while its seat of government is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, although Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem is unrecognized internationally. The land held by present-day Israel witnessed some of the earliest human occupations outside Africa and was among the earliest known sites of agriculture. It was inhabited by the Canaanites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy of extermination through labor in concentration camps; and in gas chambers and gas vans in German extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka in occupied Poland. Germany implemented the persecution in stages. Following Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor on 30 January 1933, the regime built a network of concentration camps in Germany for political opponents and those deemed "undesirable", starting with Dachau on 22 March 1933. After the passing of the Enabling Act on 24 March, which gave Hitler dictatorial plenary powers, the government began isolating Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sh'erit Ha-Pletah
Sh'erit ha-Pletah is a Hebrew term for Jewish Holocaust survivors living in Displaced Persons (DP) camps, and the organisations they created to act on their behalf with the Allied authorities. These were active between 27 May 1945 and 1950–51, when the last DP camps closed. he, שארית הפליטה, ''Sh'erit ha-Pletah'' means surviving remnant, and is a term from the Book of Ezra and 1 Chronicles (; ). A total of more than 250,000 Jewish survivors spent several years following their liberation in DP camps or communities in Germany, Austria, and Italy, since they could not, or would not, be repatriated to their countries of origin. The refugees became socially and politically organized, advocating at first for their political and human rights in the camps, and then for the right to emigrate to the countries of their choice, preferably British-ruled Mandatory Palestine, the USA and Canada. By 1950, the largest part of them did end up living in those countries; meanwhile Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogtown, Massachusetts
Dogtown (also Dogtown Commons or Dogtown Common or Dogtown Village) is an abandoned inland settlement on Cape Ann in Massachusetts. History Early history Once known as the ''Common Settlement'', the area later known as Dogtown is divided between the city of Gloucester and the town of Rockport. Dogtown was first settled in 1693, and according to legend the name of the settlement came from dogs that women kept while their husbands were fighting in the American Revolution. The community grew to be 5 square miles, and was an ideal location as it provided protection from pirates, and enemy natives. By the early 1700s, the land was opened up to individual settlement as previously it had been used as common land for wood and pasturing cattle and sheep. It is estimated that at one point 60 to 80 homes stood in Dogtown at its peak population. In the mid-1700s as many as 100 families inhabited Dogtown which was stable until after the American Revolution. Decline Various factors led t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Ann, Massachusetts
Cape Ann is a rocky peninsula in northeastern Massachusetts, United States on the Atlantic Ocean. It is about northeast of Boston and marks the northern limit of Massachusetts Bay. Cape Ann includes the city of Gloucester and the towns of Essex, Manchester-by-the-Sea and Rockport. Etymology During the summer of 1606 French explorer, Samuel de Champlain visited Cape Ann for the second time. He came ashore in Gloucester for a peaceful encounter with some of the 200 Native Americans. Before leaving Gloucester, he drew a map of the Gloucester harbor, naming it as le Beau port. Eight years later, the English Captain John Smith named the area around Gloucester ''Cape Tragabigzanda'', after a woman he met while interned in Turkey as a prisoner of war. He had been taken as a prisoner of war and enslaved in the Ottoman Empire before escaping. When Smith presented his map to Charles I, he suggested that Charles should feel free to change any of the "barbarous names" (meaning t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute For Advanced Study At University Of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. The Twin Cities campus comprises locations in Minneapolis and Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul, approximately apart. The Twin Cities campus is the oldest and largest in the University of Minnesota system and has the ninth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,376 students at the start of the 2021–22 academic year. It is the flagship institution of the University of Minnesota System, and is organized into 19 colleges, schools, and other major academic units. The Minnesota Territorial Legislature drafted a charter for the U of M as a territorial university in 1851, seven years before Minnesota became a state. Today, the university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Mary Ellen Snodgrass (born February 29, 1944) is an American educator and writer of textbooks and general reference works. Biography Snodgrass was born on February 29, 1944 in Wilmington, North Carolina to William and Lucy Robinson. She attended University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1966) and Appalachian State University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Snodgrass taught English and Latin at Hickory High School and Lenoir Rhyne University for 23 years. She is a member of the North Carolina Library Board and in 2013 chaired '' VOYA's'' nonfiction honor list selection committee. Snodgrass has reviewed reference books for ''Booklist'', ''Choice Reviews'', ''Isis'', and others and has won several reference books-of-the-year awards from the American Library Association, ''Choice'', and ''Library Journal''. Her books have also been named editor's choice by the ''Hickory Daily Record'', ''Booklist'', and the New York Public Library. Personal life She married Hugh Snodgrass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McCall's
''McCall's'' was a monthly American women's magazine, published by the McCall Corporation, that enjoyed great popularity through much of the 20th century, peaking at a readership of 8.4 million in the early 1960s. It was established as a small-format magazine called ''The Queen'' in 1873. In 1897 it was renamed ''McCall's Magazine—The Queen of Fashion'' (later shortened to ''McCall's'') and subsequently grew in size to become a large-format glossy. It was one of the " Seven Sisters" group of women's service magazines. ''McCall's'' published fiction by such well-known authors as Alice Adams, Lester Atwell, Ray Bradbury, Gelett Burgess, Willa Cather, Jack Finney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Barbara Garson, John Steinbeck, Tim O'Brien, Tony J. Caridi, Anne Tyler and Kurt Vonnegut. Features From June 1949 until her death in November 1962, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote a ''McCall's'' column, "If You Ask Me". The former First Lady gave brief answers to questions sent into the magazine. Startin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
