KINGS AND CITIZENS. The History of the Jews in Denmark 1622-1983
Author: Haxen, Ulf
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 1983
No. of pages: 32
Illustrations: 6 Color Illustrations. 11 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8”sq
Weight: 0.00
ISBN: 873340221
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh. Bibl.
Code: 2962
Price: $29.50
With the participation of the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen, this exhibition catalogue presents a beautiful collection of Judaica and Hebraica in the form of manuscripts and printed books. This collection dates back to the European Enlightenment, when kings, nobles, and high ranking officials took interest and pride in acquiring manuscripts and books. The acquisition of manuscripts and books from the private collections of David Simonsen and Lazarus Goldschmidt as well as the survival of the Royal Library’s books from the ravages of the Nazi army during the Second World War make this an important collection of Judaica and Hebraica.
LEGACY OF IDA LILLBROÄNDA, THE. Finnish Emigrant to America 1893
Author: Empie, Arlene Sundquist
Country: Washington
Language: English
Year Published: 2010
No. of pages: 265
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 45 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Size: 9 1/2”x 6 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9781931025058
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bios. Cat. of exh. Bio. Index.
Code: 6620
Price: $24.00
The Legacy of Ida Lillbroända The West didn t close in 1893, contrary to what American historian Frederick Jackson Turner proclaimed. There were opportunities for adventurous Nordic women who became part of America s westward expansion. Seduced by stories of promised riches in the New World and America Fever, that intense desire to emigrate to America, seventeen-year-old Ida Maria Andersdotter Lillbroända leaves her family in Ostrobothnia on the West Coast of Finland for a destination halfway around the globe to the wild western edge of the North American continent. Ida crosses over the little bridge Lillbroända that is her namesake. Or is it the metaphysical, genetic, spiritual, metaphoric bridge to a new world, Ida being the link from the Old World to the new? The compelling story about a young Finnish peasant girl follows Ida Maria Andersdotter Lillbroända s trek across North America from her disappointing arrival in Quebec in 1893 where she is quarantined because of diphtheria aboard ship, to Minnesota and Telluride, Colorado where she marries an ore miner and manages their boarding house. Turbulent conditions at the mines prompt their return to Finland in 1901 for a visit. Her husband urges that they remain in Finland, but Swedish-speaking Ida Maria responds adamantly. Finland is an Autonomous Grand Duchy under Russian rule; her husband lacks appropriate papers, so Ida Maria enacts her stealth plan to get her husband aboard the ship to America. The Legacy of Ida Lillbroända retraces the life of an ordinary woman who attains extraordinary achievements in her time and place. Historical, cultural and genealogical material are skillfully woven into the immigrant story as well as personal recollections of the author and those of the prior generation. As her daughters attest, Ida Maria is a determined young woman with a goal in mind and a mind of her own. Despite adversities and family tragedies, Ida Maria Sundquist fulfills her American Dream on their own farm in the fertile Skagit Valley of Washington State.
LETTERS AND DISPATCHES 1924-1944 THE MAN WHO HELPED SAVE 100.000 JEWS .
Author: Wallenberg, Raoul. Translated by Kjersti Board
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 2011
No. of pages: 286
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 26 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9”x 6”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9781611451818
Biblio/Bio: Bibl.
Code: 6700
Price: $16.95
The best way to hear the story of Raoul Wallenberg is through his own words. Put together from three different collections, Letters and Dispatches is the most thorough book of Wallenberg’s writings and letters. With his disappearance behind the Iron Curtain in January of 1945, he became tragically mysterious. While the story of Wallenberg has been told many times over, the best way we can possibly understand and relate to him is through his written word, which Letters and Dispatches has in full. Published in Association with The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
LETTERS FROM THE PROMISED LAND Swedes in America, 1840-1914.
Author: H. Arnold Barton, ed
Country: Minnesota
Language: English
Year Published: 1975
No. of pages: 348
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 36 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9”x6”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 816610096
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Index.
Code: 1855
Price: $26.50
Firsthand, Swedish immigrants tell their own story in this fascinating collection of letters, diaries, and memoirs. The author is a professor of history, and offers background and the letters and documents themselves for three time periods: The Pioneers 1840-1864; The Great Farmer-Land in the West 1865-1889; Farm, Forest, and Factory 1890-1914. Swedish terms and regions and a map of the Swedish provinces and districts are included.
LINDBERGH FLIGHT’S ENIGMATIC HERO.
Author: Hardesty, Von
Country: California
Language: English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 232
Illustrations: 72 Color Illustrations. 256 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Size: 10”x 10 1/2”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 151009732
Biblio/Bio: Index. Bibl.
Code: 5666
Price: $24.50
One of the defining moments of the 20th century came on the night of May 21, 1927, when Charles Lindbergh landed his silver monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, at Le Bourget Airport outside Paris. Flying alone, he had made a nonstop flight from New York across the storm-tossed North Atlantic - then considered an insurmountable barrier separating North America from Europe. Magnificently illustrated, this admirably brief biography tells Lindbergh’s story with rare sensitivity to the most important context in which he needs to be understood - that of aviation - and leaves the reader with a clear view of the magnitude of his achievements in any way overlooking his all-too-human failings.