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The Avenger - November 2011, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum
The Avenger - November 2011, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum
The Avenger
No abstract provided.
A Knight At The Opera: Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz, And The Legacy Of Der Tannhäuser, Leah Garrett
A Knight At The Opera: Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz, And The Legacy Of Der Tannhäuser, Leah Garrett
Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
A Knight at the Opera examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannhäuser played in Jewish cultural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book analyzes how three of the greatest Jewish thinkers of that era, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Herzl, and I. L. Peretz, used this central myth of Germany to strengthen Jewish culture and to attack anti-Semitism. In the original medieval myth, a Christian knight lives in sin with the seductive pagan goddess Venus in the Venusberg. He escapes her clutches and makes his way to Rome to seek absolution from …
Ms-123: Robert D. Hanson Papers, Meghan E. Kelly
Ms-123: Robert D. Hanson Papers, Meghan E. Kelly
All Finding Aids
This collection is mainly comprised of letters and telegrams of the immediate Hanson family during WWII (1942-1946, with gaps), though there is a selection of letters to members of the family from other authors and a small group of letters written from 1904-1924 to Elizabeth and Henry Hanson from Elizabeth’s parents F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) and L. T. ( Laura Trimble) Painter. In the sub-series of other letters addressed to Robert Hanson there are several letters pertaining to Robert’s admission to law school, the bar, and the army in addition to personal correspondence.
Special Collections and College Archives …
Ms-120: Naviglia-Woncheck World War Ii Letters Home: A Family Separated By War, G. Ronald Couchman
Ms-120: Naviglia-Woncheck World War Ii Letters Home: A Family Separated By War, G. Ronald Couchman
All Finding Aids
The collection consists of 31 letters or postcards by service men to loved ones at home. Nearly all of the letters are from members of the Naviglia-Woncheck extended family including the four Naviglia brothers: Louis (14 letters), John (one letter), James (one letter), Joseph (7 letters), and “Check” Woncheck (5 letters) the brother-in-law of their sister Anne. The collection also includes one letter from PFC James Faulkner to his sister and one letter from Pvt. David R. Curry to his cousin, Frances Faulkner, a card address to Ford Peters, a war ration book, a Draft Classification Notice for William Thomas …
Raf Wings Over Florida: Memories Of World War Ii British Air Cadets, Will Largent, Tod Roberts
Raf Wings Over Florida: Memories Of World War Ii British Air Cadets, Will Largent, Tod Roberts
Purdue University Press Books
From 1941 through 1945, British cadets in the Royal Air Force trained in the United States through the Lend-Lease Act, President Roosevelt’s ingenious plan to help beleaguered Great Britain while maintaining the semblance of neutrality. This book tells the saga of two Florida training fields during this turbulent time. In their own words, British pilots tell of their Florida experiences. Many of them still in their late teens, away from home for the first time, pale and thin from years of rationing, these young men encountered immense challenges and overwhelming generosity during their training in Florida. Now retired, these former …
The Avenger - January-March 2011, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum
The Avenger - January-March 2011, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum
The Avenger
No abstract provided.
Catinka Heinefetter. A Jewish Prima Donna In Nineteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter
Catinka Heinefetter. A Jewish Prima Donna In Nineteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter
Arts & Sciences Book Chapters
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