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Say the Name vividly describes in the voice of a fourteen-year-old the experiences of a Jewish girl who was imprisoned in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp during World War II. Miraculously, Judita Sternova of Kurima, Czechoslovakia, survives persecutions, hiding, flight, capture, deportation, and the Camp. Like the few other surviving Jews, she could not bear to remain in her village emptied of family and other Jews and emigrates to England and, eventually, the United States. After more than fifty years Sherman gets up from her years of memories, private resistance, and public silence to write this book. She is triggered to do so upon hearing a lecture by Professor Carrasco at Princeton on "Religion and the Terror of History."

The narrative is interspersed with Sherman's powerful poems that grab the reader's attention. Poignant original drawings made secretly by imprisoned women of Ravensbruck, at risk of their lives, illuminate the text. Sherman courageously bears witness to the terror of man and simultaneously challenges God for answers.

This book should "jolt us into remembrance, warning, and action."

From Say the Name

Survivor's Legacy Wish to Her Children

Bread, always bread stars that lighten the heavens not brand your chests always, always—water trains to journeys of delight with seats, windows, tickets of return no accent; fathers to hold your children’s hand children who outgrow their shoes Your mantle of "Jew" of cloth so light so safe so Kol B’Seder; mothers—oh yes—mothers— mothers you can stand up to! Israel to fill your soul.

and what of Auschwitz memory? that too is in your legacy. ... Read more

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Poetry, Prose, and Theodicy
Judith Sherman's Say the Name can be seen as a theodicy that arises out of the Jewish tradition and in response to the events of the Holocaust. In poetry and prose we see, on the one hand, the horror of human evil, and on the other, the hope and meaning that arises out of tragedy in the form of poetic expression and imagination. Sherman a provides vivid and horrific account of physical pain, mental suffering, and moral wickedness. In a moving passage, Sherman recounts:

Today a woman runs suddenly from the Appell line--she runs towards the electrified fence. The dogs get to her before she reaches it. Screaming, she tries to put push the dog away...The animal is not called back, he attacks until there is no more movement. Every horrified one of us wants to rush and help--no one does. Silence. There are so many of us here, how are we so crushed into silence and inaction? The reason right there, in front of us--they watch us closely, provocatively, hand on the trigger and dogs at the ready--hoping for another futile sacrifice...We are filled with rage and pity and helplessness and are paralyzed by their brutality (102).

This passage confronts us with the reality of evil as experienced by Jewish women in German concentration camps. Based on this reality, it is not difficult to see how people who believe in God, and have a particular image of God, can question or call into account the God in whom they believe. Sherman's account reveals a questioning of the divine. Is God not outraged? Does God not hear what is going on? Indeed, where is God? "Where is the judge? Where are you, judge? Is there a judge?" (117).

Her response to these questions is to invoke biblical imagery and to invite God to come and witness, and account for the tragedy that has taken place. In her poem, "The Invitation," she invokes the imagery of Jacob's ladder and asks that God come down the ladder and witness the sights "not fit/ for Godly eyes/ not fit for thee/ is it for me?/ who will make it fit for Thee?" (118). Or again, having experienced so much pain, she requests that God take on her pain, "You have it/ and be/ branded" (122). Does God identify with our pain? Is God in solidarity with those who suffer? It seems that Sherman is inviting God to be present with the women beaten down by guards, chased by dogs, shot to death, and with those who have to witness these events without the ability to respond. It is a moving book in which the author has mustered up the courage to recount her experiences and to "say the name."

A New Outlook on Life
How can there be so much evil in the world? More pointedly, how can an all powerful and loving God allow such evil? Where is God? These and other tough questions are asked by Judith Sherman as she reflects on her time spent at the Nazi concentration camp Ravensbruck at the young age of fourteen. Combining narrative prose with short poignant poetry, Sherman walks the reader through the painful and emotional events, describing her sense of frustration at a God who has abandoned her and the rest of the Jewish people. Most accounts of the Holocaust elicit deep emotions and feelings and this book certainly does that, but in a unique way. The prose unfolds the details of her story and then all of a sudden you become struck by the overwhelming emotion and powerful insight of a short three or four line poem. This combination has a strong effect and throughout the book the poems remain clearly in your memory and serve to give more meaning to the details and descriptions of the horrendous struggles of a concentration camp.

With detailed descriptions, Sherman focuses on everyday objects, such as a pair of shoes, and transforms them from their ordinary status into things that have a greater significance and meaning. The transformation and emphasis on objects shows how Sherman's outlook on life has changed and through this outlook Sherman has finally been given the voice to tell her story, giving the reader the chance to connect to it in a moving and profound way. Reading this book will give new meaning to the themes of theodocy, family, memory, the human spirit, and most of all will give you a new outlook on life.

This poetic novel will leave you saying its name
After having learned at length about the atrocities of the Holocaust in history class every year of middle and high school, and after hearing personal accounts from my many Jewish classmates about their grandparents in concentration camps, I felt almost overloaded with news of the horrors and wasn't particularly excited about reading another book about the Holocaust.

But Say the Name is different. Judith Sherman manages to convey the depths of despair and suffering that occurred during her time in hiding, in concentration camps, on a death march without any trace of stridency, but rather with her own quiet and simple words that are humbly defiant and moving. She communicated to me, for the first time really, how it feels to not have any control over what happens to your body, to be stripped of a voice, to be robbed of a name. This poetic novel, more than any other I have read on the topic, speaks to the psychological death as well as the physical one that the Nazis inflicted on so many millions. Judith Sherman resists both, however, and her spirit is evident in the fact that she was able to share in writing her deepest and most agonizing thoughts and memories about her experience.

Another aspect of the book is Sherman's relationship with God, which is a complex and vacillating one. In some passages it almost seems as if she is referring to a lover who has betryaed her, and she is filled with sadness, anger, longing, and ultimately a love that she will not forsake. She does not, however, blindly accept "the will of God," instead demanding over and over, "where are you?" If God should be praised for the blessings he gave her, then he should also be held accountable for his apparent abandonment of his people.

To read this book is to explore memory, theodicy, religion, family, genocide, the human spirit, and will leave you saying its name.

Read it out loud!
Say the Name is a powerful and poignant account of a young woman's experience in Nazi imprisonment during WWII.After years of silence, Judith Sherman was compelled to come out and tell her story, not only for herself and her family, but for the millions of other who had no voice.The unnamed victims of human suffering in camps like Ravensbruck cannot be put away with the history books.They are people who were made to be things, but they were not things.Sherman describes in her prose and poetry how the life that they had known before the war melted away, and was replaced by a reality that terrorized, brutalized, and destroyed.This reality was the dehumanizing force of the Nazi regime.

I wonder how an author who is so modest with her prose, who even wrote that "words fail" to capture the "monumental horror" of the Holocaust, is able to to move the reader with her words with such remarkable ease.Her voice resonates with the child, the daughter, the mother, the friend, and the person who had to ask God, "Why?".Sherman's writing, and especially her poetry, are evocative and elegant for sure, but I think that it is the place that she is writing from that creates this feeling of "being there' with her.Her pain and the pain of those she names is human pain. Their loss is human loss.As people we have lost something by allowing evil like this to exist in the world.It doesn't have to.

Her tale is not one of Jewish suffering but human suffering and survival.She recalls the ways she resisted the forces that sought to destroy her.Sherman's life was never the name when the war was over, which is to say that the experience never ended.However, she is able to take her pain and wordlessness and make something that helps others understand.I thank her for that.Sherman's book would be good for students of all ages and particularly those interested in the stories and history of the Holocaust.I guarantee this courageous little book will move you no matter what you're looking at it for.Her connections with human suffering are particularly intense regarding family loss, motherhood, friendship, the struggle with divine over the existence of evil, and the loss of the "ordinary things" we take for granted when we're home.

A woman's perspective
Judith Sherman's Say the Name is a survivor's account of a teenage girl's struggle with God and humanity in Ravensbruck concentration camp during the Holocaust. Sherman, now a wife, mother and grandmother living in the United States, writes her memoir some 50 to 60 years after the Nazi's carried out their "Final Solution."

Sherman's poetry and prose in this book reflect a loss of people, places and things that make up the fabric of a person's life, culture and beliefs. She is, at turns, angry and bewildered. She demands an accounting for these atrocities. But ultimately Sherman's quest for survival and her insistence on remembering the names of women who were killed conveys a sense of humanity and even of hope. This is Sherman's first book, and she is not a polished writer. She writes in fragments and one has the sense of poetry scribbled on napkins over the years and then included in the memoir. Her book is all the stronger for this. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The book is as described. The only small complaint is that it takes a little bit too long for expedited shipment. Ordered on Thursday, but did not get out until the next Tuesday. (Monday is labor day)

The Longman Anthology of British Literature
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The Fourth Edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature continues its tradition of presenting works in the historical context in which they were written.  This fresh approach includes writers from the British Isles, underrepresented female authors, “Perspectives” sectionsthatshed light on the period as a whole and link with immediately surrounding works to help illuminate a theme, “And Its Time” clusters that illuminate a specific cultural moment or a debate to which an author is responding, and “Responses” in which later authors respond to one or more texts from earlier works.

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Longman Anthology of British Literature (3 vol. set)
Good quality product and delivered promptly.We had to order the access code separately for full "online" usage, which added another $20 to the total cost.Whether or not this "key" was included was not clear in the original posting so I knew I was taking a chance.Still, that was not difficult, and even with the additional expense, still a good deal compared to university bookstore prices.

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"Marines, we have just become a low-tech deep recon patrol . . ."

Stranded in a hellish alien desert, stripped of their strategic systems, quick reaction force, and supporting arms, and carrying only a day's water ration, Marine Staff Sergeant Charlie Bass and his seven-man team faced a grim future seventy-five light-years from home. The only thing between his Marines and safety was eighty-five miles of uncharted, waterless terrain and two thousand bloodthirsty savages with state-of-the-art weapons in their hands and murder on their minds.

But the enemy didn't reckon on the warrior cunning of Marines' Marine Charlie Bass and the courage of the few good men who would follow him anywhere--even to death. . .

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A Slow Start Leading to a Strong Finish...
Starfist: First to Fight is the first book in a Military Science Fiction series focusing on the 34th FIST (Fleet Initial Strike Team) of the Confederation Marine Corps.

The book started strong with an engaging Prologue that drew me in.However, the opening chapters nearly lost me all together.I understand that the authors were trying to introduce characters and the Starfist universe, but I feel that many of the situations in the first half could have been condensed or eliminated to help the story flow.The story doesn't pick up until around the half-way point when the main antagonist enters the picture; that's a long time to wait for the major conflict of a story to begin. The second half returned to the excitement of the Prologue and I sped through those final chapters.

One note: nearly 99% of the characters (even minor ones) were introduced "Rank Name "Nickname" Surname"; it made it difficult to pick out the major players.Sometimes, if all a character does is drive or pilot, etc, it's OK to refer to them simply as 'the driver' or 'the pilot'.

I wasn't left with an overpowering urge to purchase the next book in the series.However, if a Military Sci-Fi urge ever strikes, I may give another Starfist book a shot.

Awesome book!
Im glad amazon offered this as a free download otherwise i probably never would have read it. I liked the book a lot and am currently reading the second book in the series. Semper Fi!

I can't believe I slugged it out to the end of this
I am reviewing the Kindle edition of this Starfist novel which I received as a free download.Perhaps the later Starfist novels, of which I'm very surprised that there so many, are better but this one--I can only hope they aren't any worse.However this Starfist is probably one of the most boring things I've ever read, non-fiction included.The authors constantly write pages and pages of details about the most trivial and irrelevant of details while limiting the main 'story' to only about the last quarter of the book.The main character who is the focus of the beginning and most of the middle of the book suddenly becomes a minor player at the end and is hardly mentioned.The battle-hardened Sargent who is apparently the focus of the latter part of the novel makes a huge tactical mistake by leaving behind a motion sensing device it was his responsibility to bring but this is just glossed over by the authors.I think that having two authors gave the novel a schizophrenic quality and certainly did not help its cohesiveness.I certainly would never waste again with another Starfist novel the time I feel I wasted finishing this one.

Not much allowance for future change in this military SF story
I've read quite a lot of military SF, and "First to Fight" comes up short in several comparisons, largely because it oversimplifies many aspects of its imagined future.
Here are some of the problems:
- The Marines are exclusively male.
- Every Marine has drunken carousing as their only hobby.
- All junior officers have less experience than their NCOs, even though all officers have to come up through the ranks.
- The Marines are prevented from taking needed equipment because it "shouldn't" be necessary.And yet the Marines are always supposed to be prepared for everything.
- Even though it takes weeks or months to ship gear between stars, it arrives in combat zones untested -- either not working or frying itself and shocking the user.
- Arriving on a planet that was settled by people whose first principle is that to be unarmed is to be less than human, an Admiral has someone locked up for selling weapons without a license, and promises that he'll be tried, convicted, and executed for the crime before his employer hears the first word about it.Talk about your double standards!

The writing itself isn't bad.It's just that a lot of the problems that the Marines are called to solve exist only because of required massive stupidity.It's hard to build up enthusiasm for these soldiers rising to challenges that oughtn't have existed in the first place.

Starfist delivers an enjoyable military scifi story with great characters and detail
The book was a very good read.The story is suspenseful and the writing is easy to read.I struggled to put the book down and I have purchased additional books in the series. The authors do a good job of defining character relations.Both authors have served in the US military and are able to put their experiences down on paper in an enjoyable way. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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GOOD SCI-FI BOOK!
Being retired, I enjoy the time reading more books. This was a good SCI-FI book by David Sherman. Enjoy. ... Read more

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This balanced overview of business cycles and econometric forecasting examines both the leading indicators as well as standard econometric regression and correlation techniques. The authors emphasize the internal dynamics of cycle to help students truly understand how it works, covering Post Keynesian, neo-Marxian, and institutionalist approaches as well as the most orthodox theories. In addition, the text presents empirical description of the cycle using the descriptive method of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ... Read more

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Chapters: Buffalo State College Alumni, Byron Brown, Cindy Sherman, David Stout, Ralph Sirianni, Brian Higgins, Bobby Gonzalez, Les Krims, Robert Longo, David Franczyk, Tom Fontana, Randy Smith, D. Bruce Johnstone, Sam Hoyt, Ralph Raico, Jean Tassy, Diane English, Susan Gibney, Kevin O'connell. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 95. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Byron William Brown II (born September 24, 1958) was elected the 58th mayor of Buffalo, New York on November 8, 2005 and is the city's first African-American mayor. He previously served Western New York as a member of the New York State Senate and Buffalo Common Council. He was the first African-American politician elected to the New York State Senate to represent a district outside New York City and the first member of any minority race to represent a majority white New York State Senate district. Brown was born and raised in Queens, New York. He rose to elective office after serving in a variety of political roles. He began his political career performing as an aide to local representatives in several legislative bodies (Buffalo Common Council, Erie County Legislature and New York State Assembly) and later getting involved in a regional political organization. After several roles as a legislative aide, he was appointed to the Erie County cabinet-level Director of Equal Employment Opportunity post. As both a New York State Senator and Buffalo Mayor, he has been closely involved in the development of the three Seneca Nation casinos that have been planned and built in Western New York since 2002. As someone born and raised downstate who went on to become an upstate political servant, he has been active on the statewide political front. He is a close political ally of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. He has also been...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2354242 ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more