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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782061203321

Autore

Andrzejewski Jerzy <1909-1983.>

Titolo

Holy Week : a novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising / / Jerzy Andrzejewski ; introduction and commentary by Oscar E. Swan ; foreword by Jan Gross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens : , : Ohio University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-8214-4220-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 149 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

SwanOscar E

Disciplina

891.8/537

Soggetti

Warsaw (Poland) History Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-149).

Nota di contenuto

""Foreword""; ""Series Editor's Preface""; ""Acknowledgments and Notes on the Translation""; ""Note on the Author""; ""Note on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising""; ""Introduction ||| Jerzy Andrzejewski's Holy Week""; ""Guide to Pronunciation""; ""Holy Week""; ""Afterword ||| Andrzej Wajda's Film Holy Week""; ""Notes""

Sommario/riassunto

At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki. By taking her in, he puts his own life and the safety of his family at risk. Over a four-day period, Tuesday through Friday of Holy Week 1943, as Irena becomes increasingly traumatized by her situation, Malecki questions his decision to shelter Irena in the apartment where Malecki, his pregnant wife, and his younger brother reside. Added to his dilemma is the broader context of Poles' attitudes toward the "Jewish question



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957836403321

Autore

Langdell Cheri Colby

Titolo

Coping with vision loss : understanding the psychological, social, and spiritual effects / / Cheri Colby Langdell and Tim Langdell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , c2010

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

9798400632143

9786612933035

9781282933033

1282933035

9780313346651

0313346658

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 180 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

LangdellTim

Disciplina

617.7

Soggetti

Blindness

Medicine in literature

Vision disorders - Psychological aspects

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. 169-174) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A brief history of blindness in world literature -- Fiction by and about the blind -- Insights from the blind today : non-fiction writing -- The spiritual dimensions of blindness -- Current insights : what the future holds.

Sommario/riassunto

More than one million people in the United States are fully blind or legally blind, suffering impairments from retinal and macular degeneration to eye loss. And as America with Baby Boomers and beyond ages, the numbers of legally blind will double. In this work where the authors are assisted by a blind executive, readers are taken into the world of the legally and fully blind, to understand the practical challenges that creates for the person experiencing vision loss, and also the family members and friends of that person.