1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813265803321

Autore

Mossman Carol A.

Titolo

Writing with a vengeance : the Countess de Chabrillan's rise from prostitution / / Carol Mossman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4426-9719-9

1-4426-9777-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

University of Toronto Romance Series

Disciplina

843/.8

Soggetti

Women authors, French - 19th century

Courtesans - France

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Biographies.

Electronic books.

France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The wages of shame -- Worlds apart: mapping prostitution and the demi-monde -- Fictions of prostitution -- La Sapho, or staging vengeance -- Plotting exoneration -- Chabrillan's final novels, or the uses of fiction.

Sommario/riassunto

Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Celeste Venard, later the Countess de Chabrillan.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910806161103321

Autore

Shaul Michal

Titolo

Holocaust memory in Ultraorthodox society in Israel / / Michal Shaul ; translated by Lenn J. Schramm and Gail Wald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

0-253-05081-2

0-253-05082-0

Edizione

[Perspectives on Israel Studies.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 381 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Perspectives on Israel studies

Disciplina

296.832095694

Soggetti

Ultra-Orthodox Jews - Israel

Holocaust survivors - Israel

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - History and criticism

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Religious aspects

Holocaust (Jewish theology)

Memory - Social aspects

Israel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. Formative Memory -- 1. The Ultraorthodox and the Holocaust: Catastrophe, Rupture, and Challenges -- 2. The Paths and Circles of Reconstruction -- PART II. Memory as Torture, Memory as Obligation -- 3. Why Did We Survive? -- 4. Starting New Families -- PART III. Memory as a Mobilizing Force -- 5. The Restoration of the Torah World -- 6. Du lebst mama [You Live Mother!]: The Female Survivors and the Rebirth of an Educational Network-Beit Ya'akov after the Holocaust -- 7. Myths and the Rehabilitation of Ultraorthodox Society after the Holocaust -- 8. "For Us the Past Has Not Yet Passed": Holocaust Commemoration in Ultraorthodox Society -- PART IV. Counter-Memory and Shared Memory -- 9. Is Israeli Ultraorthodox Holocaust Memory a "Counter-Memory"? -- Conclusion. Holocaust Memory in Israeli Ultraorthodox Society: The Unique and the Shared -- Appendix A. The Expansion of the Yeshivot in Eretz Israel, 1944-1964 -- Appendix B. The Growth of the Beit Ya'akov Educational



Network in Eretz Israel, 1947-1948 to 1952-1953 -- Appendix C. Flexer, "The Melodious Train" -- Appendix D. Capsule Biographies -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.