1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911095974603321

Autore

Gruenwald Hermann

Titolo

After Auschwitz : one man's story / / Hermann Gruenwald ; as told to Bryan Demchinsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2007]

ISBN

9786612850301

9780773577305

0773577300

9781282850309

128285030X

9780773560369

077356036X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DemchinskyBryan

Disciplina

940.53/18092

Soggetti

Holocaust survivors - Quebec (Province) - Montreal

Businessmen - Quebec (Province) - Montreal

Jews - Quebec (Province) - Montreal

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Clothing trade - Quebec (Province) - Montreal - History

Montréal (Québec) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Prelude -- Preface -- On the Beach -- A Good Beginning -- Rohod -- The Day before Disaster -- Into the Whirlwind -- A Cook in Auschwitz -- Life and Death Go On -- Touching Bottom -- Picking Up the Pieces -- Making a Go of It -- Out of Europe -- Starting Over -- On My Own -- Adventures in the Garment Trade -- Fitting In and Branching Out -- The Real Estate Game -- The Big Time -- Taking Off in All Directions -- Almost Losing It -- All in the Family -- Return to Auschwitz -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Gruenwald paints his life story onto the larger canvas of some of the great conflicts and movements of the twentieth century. He offers a vivid portrayal of growing up affluent and Jewish in class-conscious



Hungary in the interwar period and of the initial promise and disillusioning reality of Hungarian communism.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911150252203321

Autore

Berman Michael <1951->

Titolo

Soul loss and the Shamanic story / / by Michael Berman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

Newcastle, U.K. : , : Cambridge Scholars Pub., , 2008

ISBN

1-282-19180-2

9786612191800

1-4438-0815-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Disciplina

201.44

201/.44

Soggetti

Shamanism

Soul

Libros electrónicos.

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. [276]-298) and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Stories from various cultures and periods of time can be identified which deal with a concept of soul loss that is essentially shamanic. In shamanism, soul loss is the term used to describe the way parts of the psyche become detached when we are faced with traumatic situations. In shamanic terms, these split-off parts can be found in non-ordinary reality and are only accessible to those familiar with its topography. Case studies are presented to show how the way soul loss is dealt with by ind...