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Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership

Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership

Naomi Wiener Cohen

1918; reel 1977, H. Schneiderman to Schiff, 6 May 1915, C. Adler to Schiff, 18 May 1915; reel 1978, H. Bernstein to Schiff, 4 Nov. 1915, Schiff to H. Bernstein, 13 May 1915; Schiff papers (JTS archives, Jerusalem), L. Marshall to Schiff, 15 Nov.
The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy---How to Save ...

The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy---How to Save ...

Peter D. Schiff

In The Real Crash, New York Times bestselling author Peter D. Schiff argues that America is enjoying a government-inflated bubble, one that reality will explode . . . with disastrous consequences for the economy and for each of us.
Quicklet on Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: A Life ...

Quicklet on Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: A Life ...

Paul Kraly

Stacy Schiff Stacy Schiff has used her award winning expertise in biography to examine a woman who is at once one of the ... Schiff's Cleopatra is a lively, well rounded woman who defies the stereotypes that have been bandied about for over ...
The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants

The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants

Alexandra Popoff

Stacy Schiff, Ve'ra, 3. Brenda Maddox, Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom ( Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988), 25. Stacy Schiff, Ve'ra, 11. lbid., 10. Alexander Bahrah, Bunin vhalate (Moskva: Soglasie, 2000), 120—21. Stacy Schiff, Ve'ra, 12 .
A Voice That Spoke for Justice: The Life and Times of ...

A Voice That Spoke for Justice: The Life and Times of ...

Melvin I. Urofsky

Louis Marshall to Jacob Schiff, 24 April 1920, and Schiff to Bernard Richards, 24 April 1920, Schiff MSS; Julius Simon to Zionist Bureau, London, 7 May 1920, London Office Records. 21. New York Times, 31 May 1920. 22. SSW, Challenging ...
The Witches: Salem, 1692

The Witches: Salem, 1692

Stacy Schiff

Vividly capturing the dark, unsettled atmosphere of seventeenth-century America, Stacy Schiff's magisterial history draws us into this anxious time.
Kleopatra. Biografia

Kleopatra. Biografia

Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff w swojej książce odczarowuje Kleopatrę, zdejmując z niej, warstwa po warstwie, ów szlachetny kulturowy osad, oddzielając fakty od fikcji.
Vera mevrouw Vladimir Nabokov: portret van een huwelijk

Vera mevrouw Vladimir Nabokov: portret van een huwelijk

Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff is de auteur van Vera, mevrouw Vladimir Nabokov, dat bekroond werd met een Pulitzer Prize. Schiff schrijft regelmatig voor onder meer The New Yorker, The New York Times en The Washington Post. Ze woont en werkt in New York.
The Witches: Salem, 1692

The Witches: Salem, 1692

Stacy Schiff

As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, THE WITCHES is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story-the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.
Indigenous Homelessness: Perspectives from Canada, ...

Indigenous Homelessness: Perspectives from Canada, ...

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Waegemakers Schiff, Jeannette, and Rebecca Schiff. 2014. “Housing First: Paradigm or Program?” Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless 23 (2): 80– 104. ____. 2016. “Northern Housing Networks: Collaborative Efforts to Develop ...
Cléopâtre

Cléopâtre

Stacy Schiff

Dans ce récit magistral, Stacy Schiff révèle par quel tour de passe-passe l’histoire a transformé une grande reine, incarnation même de la femme de pouvoir, en catin malfaisante.
Véra: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)

Véra: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)

Stacy Schiff

Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine—a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.
Saint-Exupery: A Biography

Saint-Exupery: A Biography

Stacy Schiff

This is Stacy Schiff's first book, but she writes with all the skill, assurance and mastery of an old literary hand. If there was such a thing as a prize for a first biography, I would nominate this book. ' Frank McLynn, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH.
Jacob H. Schiff: His Life and Letters 1928

Jacob H. Schiff: His Life and Letters 1928

Cyrus Adler

1928. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766162540. Volume 1 of 2. These volumes represent the biographical account of Jacob H. Schiff, the American banker and philanthropist.
The Soldier and the State in India: Nuclear Weapons, ...

The Soldier and the State in India: Nuclear Weapons, ...

Ayesha Ray

Addressing the subject of civil–military relations in India, Rebecca Schiff in 1997 challenged the idea of a strict separation in civilian and military functions. Instead , Schiff attempted to explain the possible overlap of civilian and military functions  ...
The Military and Domestic Politics: A Concordance Theory of ...

The Military and Domestic Politics: A Concordance Theory of ...

Rebecca L. Schiff

The Military and Domestic Politics By creatively applying concordance theory to five unique settings, Rebecca Schiff has made an invaluable contribution to civil– military studies. This is a most timely reference for social scientists, military ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Saint-Exupéry: A Biography

Saint-Exupéry: A Biography

Stacy Schiff

The definitive biography of the most translated french writer of all time.
Cleopatra

Cleopatra

Stacy Schiff

Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue.
Abortion in Judaism

Abortion in Judaism

Daniel Schiff

A unique Jewish legal history of abortion from earliest biblical references to the present day.
Mensch, be careful!: Eine deutsch-englische Geschichte

Mensch, be careful!: Eine deutsch-englische Geschichte

Emer O'Sullivan

Ein irisches Schiff mit einer salzigen, stinkenden Fracht macht in Emden fest.
The Bed Moved: A John Murray Original

The Bed Moved: A John Murray Original

Rebecca Schiff

. . Frank and irreverent, these stories offer a singular view of growing up (or not) and finding love (or not) in today's uncertain landscape.

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