Ronald Sanders
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, an organization founded and led by people who were themselves immigrants from Eastern Europe, developed an international network to see to the emigration and placement of tens of thousands of European Jews.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
The Downtown Jews focuses generally on the political culture of the Lower East Side around the turn of the century and more specifically on the thoughts, life, and writings of Abraham Cahan, the editor of the Jewish Daily Forward.
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
c1980
Language
English
Description
This solid biography capably covers musician Kurt Weill's life (including a tactful account of his unconventional marriage to Lotte Lenya), but concentrates on the music, refuting charges that Weill's American work betrayed his talent in search of commercial success.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1978
Language
English
Description
THE COMPLETE ORIGINAL EDITION: An utterly revelatory work. Unprecedented in scope, detail, and ambition.
In Lost Tribes and Promised Lands, celebrated historian and cultural critic Ronald Sanders offers a compelling and ideology-shattering history of racial prejudice and myth as shaped by political, religious, and economic forces from the 14th Century to the present day. Written with clear-eyed vigor, Sanders draws on a broad history of art, psychology,...
7) Scanners
Series
Criterion collection volume 712
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Description
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other "scanners" have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
9) Spider
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Upon his release from a mental institution, Spider takes up residence in a halfway house. Paranoid, quiet, and forever making notes, Spider spends much of his time remembering his youth, specifically a horrific event from his childhood that occurred after he came to believe that his father was having an affair.