1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454905803321

Titolo

Voices from Shanghai [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish exiles in wartime China / / edited, translated, & with an introduction by Irene Eber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008

ISBN

1-282-23955-4

9786612239557

0-226-18168-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EberIrene <1929->

Disciplina

940.53/181420951132

Soggetti

Jews - China - Shanghai - History

Jewish refugees - China - Shanghai - History

Electronic books.

Shanghai (China) Ethnic relations Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-140) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Meylekh Ravitch. "A Rickshaw Coolie Dies on a Shanghai Dawn" (1935) -- Annie F. Witting. Letter (1939) -- Alfred Friedlaender. "Prologue" (1939) -- Egon Varro. "Well, That Too Is Shanghai" (1939) -- W. Y. Tonn. "Peculiar Shanghai" (1940) -- Annie F. Witting. Letter (1940) -- Lotte Margot. "The Chinese Woman Dances" (1940) -- E. Simkhoni. "Three Countries Spat Me Out" (1941) -- Kurt Lewin. "More Light" (1941) -- Yehoshua Rapoport. "And So It Begins . . ." (1941) -- Yosl Mlotek. "The Lament of My Mother" (1941) -- E. Simkhoni. "My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me" (1942) -- Mordechai Rotenberg. "Sun in a Net" (1942) -- Yosl Mlotek. "Shanghai" (1942) -- Karl Heinz Wolff. "The Diligent Mason" (1942) -- Hermann Goldfarb. "Wandering" (1942) -- Jacob H. Fishman. "Miniatures" (1942) -- Yosl Mlotek. "A Letter . . ." (1943) -- Yehoshua Rapoport. Diary (excerpts, 1941-1943) -- Anonymous. "Pins, Not for Me" (1944) -- Yoni Fayn. "A Poem About Shanghai Ghetto" (1945) -- Herbert Zernik. "A Monkey Turned Human" (1945) -- Shoshana Kahan. In Fire and Flames: Diary of a Jewish Actress (excerpts, 1941-1945) -- Kurt Lewin. "The Weekly Salad" (1946) -- Jacob H. Fishman. "A



Wedding" (1947) -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index of Names

Sommario/riassunto

When Hitler came to power and the German army began to sweep through Europe, almost 20,000 Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai. A remarkable collection of the letters, diary entries, poems, and short stories composed by these refugees in the years after they landed in China, Voices from Shanghai fills a gap in our historical understanding of what happened to so many Jews who were forced to board the first ship bound for anywhere.            Once they arrived, the refugees learned to navigate the various languages, belief systems, and ethnic traditions they encounte

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453705803321

Titolo

Same-sex marriage and religious liberty [[electronic resource] ] : emerging conflicts / / edited by Douglas Laycock, Anthony R. Picarello, Jr., and Robin Fretwell Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.], : Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008

ISBN

1-282-49688-3

9786612496882

0-7425-6564-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LaycockDouglas

PicarelloAnthony R

WilsonRobin Fretwell

Disciplina

346.7301/68

Soggetti

Same-sex marriage - Religious aspects

Same-sex marriage - Law and legislation

Freedom of religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-298) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Anthony R. Picarello, Jr. -- Same-sex marriage and the



churches / Marc D. Stern -- An unholy union : same-sex marriage and the use of governmental programs to penalize religious groups with unpopular practices / Jonathan Turley -- Matters of conscience : lessons for same-sex marriage from the healthcare context / Robin Fretwell Wilson -- Same-sex marriage and the coming antidiscrimination campaigns against religion / Douglas W. Kmiec -- Moral conflict and conflicting liberties / Chai R. Feldblum -- Marriage : its relationship to religion, law, and the state / Charles J. Reid, Jr. -- Afterword / Douglas Laycock.

Sommario/riassunto

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex couples. It represents the only comprehensive, scholarly appraisal to date of the church-state conflicts virtually certain to arise in many spheres of law as a result of the legal recognition of same-sex marriage.