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Rendering with equal candor the searing cruelty of the camps, and the flourishing of life thereafter, Berliner has produced a memoir that embraces hope even as it looks unflinchingly at horror. Central to the telling is Berliner's voice, springing from the page to evoke the characters, settings, and inner motivations of her life in stunning...

»Eine dreckige Geschichte mit einem reinen Herzen.« The New York Times

Raizl lebt mit ihrer jüdischen Großfamilie in Brooklyn. Sie teilt sich ein Zimmer mit ihrer kleinen Schwester, sie liebt ihren Großvater über alles und sie unterstützt ihre Mutter im Haushalt. Aber außerhalb der Familie hat Raizl einen Studienplatz, einen Nebenjob und eine Therapeutin. Und da ist noch etwas: Sie liebt Pornos! Bald erlebt sie ein sexuelles Erwachen, lange bevor der Matchmaker den richtigen Ehemann für sie finden kann. Während sie...

Rendering with equal candor the searing cruelty of the camps, and the flourishing of life thereafter, Berliner has produced a memoir that embraces hope even as it looks unflinchingly at horror. Central to the telling is Berliner's voice, springing from the page to evoke the characters, settings, and inner motivations of her life in stunning...

In the 1970s, Hollywood experienced a creative surge, opening a new era in American cinema with films that challenged traditional modes of storytelling. Inspired by European and Asian art cinema as well as Hollywood's own history of narrative ingenuity, directors such as Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, William Friedkin, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, and Francis Ford Coppola undermined the harmony of traditional Hollywood cinema and created some of the best movies ever to come out of the American film industry. Critics have previously viewed these films as a response to the cultural and...

As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective for the study of religion, one that examines the works of transmission and innovation through the prism of learning. They argue that religious culture is socially and dynamically constructed by agents who are not mere passive recipients but engaged in active learning processes. Finding a...