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The Vermont Encyclopedia - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=uTBCXqOou0YC&pg=PA273&dq=%22Barbara+Weil+Snelling%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-KKmVMLiF8avUcWUg-gD&ved=0CC
When outsiders think of Vermont, they conjure up images of pumpkin picking against a backdrop of stunning fall foliage, skiing the Green Mountains in wintertime, harvesting maple syrup in mud season, and canoeing on Lake Champlain in the summer. Ethan…
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The Songs that Fought the War: Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939-1945 - John Bush Jones - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=NlUVOC70BCEC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=sid+robin+Private+Buckaroo&source=bl&ots=Y9ESUkzyKj&sig=Ss1tI
Poet Rod McKuen once observed that "1939-1945 was a terrible time for the world, but it was a glorious time for songs and fighter pilots." Anyone who was alive during World War II remembers with fondness the music of the period. Songs such as "I'll Be…
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Puccini: A Biography - Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Co-Founder and Executive Board Member of the American Institute for Verdi Studies Mary Jane Phillips-Matz - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=q2mkpHd0ZuwC&lpg=PA9&dq=Domenico%20Puccini&hl=de&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q=Domenico%20Puccini&f=false
Descended from four generations of distinguished composers and organists, Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was driven by family tradition and an ambitious mother to pursue a career that brought him worldwide recognition as the greatest composer of Italian opera…
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Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life - Jeannie Williams - Google Livres
https://books.google.de/books?id=GlfVLFMwLJsC&pg=PA213&lpg=PA213&dq=vickers+tannh%C3%A4user&source=bl&ots=PqqpuZFTQ-&sig=he908M7
During his extraordinary career, the now-legendary Canadian tenor Jon Vickers sang the most demanding of operatic roles -- Tristan, Peter Grimes, Otello, Aeneas, Parsifal -- with searing emotional intensity and dramatic interpretation. In this first…
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Jews in France During World War II - Renée Poznanski - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=MzAhHLLtsDcC&pg=PA445
Renée Poznanski presents an extraordinary panorama of Jewish daily life in all of France during World War II. The Jews in France during World War II provides a detailed and nuanced account of Jews in both occupied and Vichy France as well as of Jewish life…
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Economic Warfare: Sanctions, Embargo Busting, and Their Human Cost - R. T. Naylor - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=fkcGKb8jLXMC&pg=PA94
Governments today deploy trade sanctions, blockades, and financial restrictions as their political weapons of choice to curb aggression and to enforce international morality. But is economic warfare an effective foreign policy instrument? In this lively…
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The Biblical Truth about America's Death Penalty - Dale S. Recinella - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=vcFfWiOnD1MC&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q&f=false
While secular support for capital punishment in America seems to be waning, religious conservatives, particularly in the "Bible belt," remain staunch advocates of the death penalty, citing biblical law and practice to defend government-sanctioned killing.…
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Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership - Naomi Wiener Cohen - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=fpIOia8QxyYC&pg=PA5&dq=Solomon+Loeb#v=onepage
The life of Jacob Schiff (1847 - 1920), banker, financier, and leader of the American Jewish community from 1880 to 1920, is in many ways the quintessential story of an immigrant's success in America. Born in Frankfurt in 1847, Schiff worked in several…
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Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds - J. Hoberman - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=k7U8TGJi904C&pg=PA225&dq=Al+khet&hl=de&sa=X&ei=3bfoT66pDIbg8AOn8LmYCg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&
Published to great acclaim in 1991, J. Hoberman’s Bridge of Light is now back in print with a new foreword and final chapter discussing recent research, rediscoveries, and restorations. Also includes the documentary The Yiddish Cinema (60 min., DVD),…
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Stars of David: Rock'n'roll's Jewish Stories - Scott R. Benarde - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=XI4-VnSrEcAC&pg=PA23&dq=carol+kaye&hl=de&sa=X&ei=iBYiUvqPFIXPhAfH8oGgCA&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBA#v=onepag
What Grammy-award winning band's Jewish members recite kiddush before their Friday night concerts? What member of a world-famous band blows the shofar at his synagogue on the High Holy Days? What famous rock musician packed his menorah as well as his drum…