A Mortuary Of Books

Author : Elisabeth Gallas
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147980987X
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mortuary of Books written by Elisabeth Gallas and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish Book Council The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the Holocaust In March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide that accompanied the Nazis’ systematic acts of mass murder. The depot built a short-lived lieu de memoire—a “mortuary of books,” as the later renowned historian Lucy Dawidowicz called it—with over three million books of Jewish origin coming from nineteen different European countries awaiting restitution. A Mortuary of Books tells the miraculous story of the many Jewish organizations and individuals who, after the war, sought to recover this looted cultural property and return the millions of treasured objects to their rightful owners. Some of the most outstanding Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century, including Dawidowicz, Hannah Arendt, Salo W. Baron, and Gershom Scholem, were involved in this herculean effort. This led to the creation of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc., an international body that acted as the Jewish trustee for heirless property in the American Zone and transferred hundreds of thousands of objects from the Depot to the new centers of Jewish life after the Holocaust. The commitment of these individuals to the restitution of cultural property revealed the importance of cultural objects as symbols of the enduring legacy of those who could not be saved. It also fostered Jewish culture and scholarly life in the postwar world.

Author : Todd Harra
Publisher : Citadel
ISBN 13 : 0806541393
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortuary Confidential written by Todd Harra and published by Citadel. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rookie mistakes and runaway corpses to screaming dead men and unusual requests, a collection of stories by funeral directors.

Author : John Szabo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810845873
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortuary Science written by John Szabo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Szabo presents a thorough bibliographical examination of the funeral industry and related subjects. Most citations are annotated, with special notes on editions and reprints.

Author : Nancy L. Stair
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823935680
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing a Career in Mortuary Science and the Funeral Industry written by Nancy L. Stair and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2001-12-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores career opportunities for those interested in becoming a funeral director, embalmer, coroner, medical examiner, or pathologist.

Author : Arjan Louwen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789464280012
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking and Making the Ancestors written by Arjan Louwen and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into the richness of funerary practices reflected in some 3000 urnfield graves excavated throughout the Netherlands in order to reconstruct the mortuary process associated with this fascinating funerary legacy from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age.

Author : Michelle Williams
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1849014639
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down Among the Dead Men written by Michelle Williams and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelle Williams is young and attractive, she has close family ties as well as a busy social life - but she is far from usual. She is a mortuary technician and her job involves dealing with those things in life that many people do not wish to experience directly. Yet life in the mortuary is neither gruesome nor sad. Told with good humour and common sense, we are introduced to a host of characters - the pathologists, many of them eccentric, some downright mad; the undertakers, the hospital porters and the man from the coroner's office who sings to Michelle every morning. The incidents too ensure that no two days are ever the same. From the tragic to the hilarious they include: The fitness fanatic who was run over as he did pressups in the road on a dark night The decapitated motorcyclist The guide dog who led his owner on to the railway tracks - and left him there The forty stone man for whom an entire refrigerated lorry had to be hired because he wouldn't fit in the mortuary cooler Over the course of her first year Michelle has to deal with situations and emotions that few of us will ever experience, and does so while retaining a sense of humour and a sense of perspective.

Author : Thomas F. H. Stueve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781883031145
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortuary Law written by Thomas F. H. Stueve and published by . This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11th revised edition of Mortuary Law, published by The Cincinnati Foundation for Mortuary Education. Copyright 2011.

Author : Jen Violi
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9781423134855
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Putting Makeup on Dead People written by Jen Violi and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of her senior year, Donna Parisi finds new life in an unexpected place: a coffin. Since her father’s death four years ago, Donna’s been stuck in her grief, cut off from friends and family, and clueless about what to do after high school graduation. That is, until she’s standing in front of the dead body of a classmate at Brighton Brothers Funeral Home. At that moment, Donna realizes that what might give her life purpose is comforting others in death. That maybe she really wants to be . . . a mortician? This discovery sets in motion a life Donna never imagined was possible. By taking one big risk, Donna comes into her own. And she finally understands that moving forward doesn’t mean forgetting someone you love. Jen Violi’s heartfelt and funny debut novel is a story of transformation—how one girl learns to grieve and say good-bye, turn loss into a gift, and let herself be exceptional . . . at loving, applying lipstick to corpses, and finding life in the wake of death.

Author : Carla Valentine
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 9780751565348
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Past Mortems written by Carla Valentine and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A day in the life of Carla Valentine - curator, pathology technician and 'death professional' - is not your average day. She spent ten years training and working as an Anatomical Pathology Technologist: where the mortuary slab was her desk, and that day's corpses her task list. Past Mortems tells Carla's stories of those years, as well as investigating the body alongside our attitudes towards death - shedding light on what the living can learn from dead and the toll the work can take on the living souls who carry it out. Fascinating and insightful, Past Mortems reveals the truth about what happens when the mortuary doors swing shut or the lid of the coffin closes.

Author : Gordon F. M. Rakita
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813028569
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interacting with the Dead written by Gordon F. M. Rakita and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the behavioral and social facets of funerary, mortuary, and burial rites in both past and present societies. By utilizing data from around the world and combining recent and ongoing concerns in anthropology, it takes the study of mortuary archaeology to a new and significant level of interdisciplinary research. Drawing inspiration from ethnohistory, ethnography, bioarchaeology, and sociocultural anthropology, the authors focus on themes of gender, ancestorhood, ritual violence, individual agency, space and placement, and extended and secondary mortuary ceremonialism. They also expand the interdisciplinary focus of mortuary practices and reassess previous anthropological theories. No previously published work on the archaeology of mortuary remains presents such a range of examples of ritual practices through time and around the globe. Because of its wide scope and interdisciplinary approach, Interacting with the Dead will be indispensable not only to archaeologists and anthropologists but also across the social sciences and humanities and to all who study cross-cultural rituals.