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In his first novel, veteran music journalist Ira Robbins satirizes the foibles and fanaticism of '60s radicalism. The dark humor of Kick It Till It Breaks is tempered by affection and respect for those who devoted themselves to ending the war in Viet Nam. Ydinia Ochreman is the leader of the Plumbers, a pre-Watergate organization engaged in watery terrorism; her travels and exploits shape the story, which involves a colorful cast of dubious characters, including the incompetent FBI agent on her trail, a pacifist protest leader with a complicated agenda, a cranky peg-legged bar owner, an Irish atheist on a quest to end organized religion whose son kills people for it and a confused loser from Memphis who gets lost in London and finally finds a way to live. Rich with period detail, slang and settings, Kick It Till It Breaks is both a fond epic of long-ago times and a stick in the eye of anyone with too idealized a recollection of the era.
London, 1972: An ordinary schoolgirl is pulled into the world of a fading rock star and becomes the secret weapon in a plan to revive his career in the time of glam. The mysteries of sex and songwriting, connivance, fame, family and the music business collide to bring her to a life she has never imagined. With a detailed and knowing historical background, Marc Bolan Killed in Crash is a musical romp through an all-but-forgotten pop era by a veteran American music journalist.Praise for Marc Bolan Killed in Crash: "Ira Robbins brings a lifelong immersion in pop music's wish fulfillment to this detailed and note-perfect recreation of a glitter-tinged moment of generational transformation in pre-punk 1970s England. He plays his characters like members of a band, each with their own verse and chorus, I found myself waiting for the soundtrack to come, singing along."-Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith Group guitarist, journalist, author, producer"With the U.K. glam-rock craze of the '70s as his gorgeous, glorious backdrop, Ira Robbins deftly explores the intersection where pop culture, society, and individualism meet. He's written a smart, lively, finely wrought novel that's packed with prose so glittery it positively sparkles."-Doug Brod, former Editor in Chief of SPIN"A deep, abiding love of music and an inexhaustible knowledge of it blend seamlessly in Ira Robbins' moving new novel, Marc Bolan Killed in Crash. He unerringly explores the endless shadings of the English glam-rock scene of the Seventies and why it meant -- and continues to mean -- so much. He is an astute, feeling writer who effortlessly summons the zeitgeist of that time -- and, intriguingly, ours as well."-Anthony DeCurtis, author of Lou Reed: A Life"Transporting us from glam to punk to corporate offices, with period-perfect jargon and keen details about the way the music business manipulates fantasy and reality, Ira Robbins' rollicking Marc Bolan Killed in Crash isn't just the poignant tale of the way musicians and fans alike are swept up in the power of pop music, it's a also novel that reads like history."-David Browne, author of Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, CSNY, James Taylor and the Lost Story of 1970."Ira Robbins, one of the great American Anglophiles of rock writing, has written a shrewd and witty novel about the business of pop - the manufacture of glamour - in the benighted early '70s Britain of Bolan and Chinnichap."-Barney Hoskyns, author of Small Town Talk, Hotel California, Across the Great Divide, Waiting for the Sun and Editorial Director of Rock's Backpages"You want to inhabit the music world of the '70s? Who better as a guide than esteemed rock journalist Robbins, who's written a feverishly fresh read. From the desperately fading rock stars and their hangers-on to the excitement of the new sound, Marc Bolan Killed in Crash is both a coming of age story of a talented young woman and of a new music moment."-Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You, Is This Tomorrow and Cruel Beautiful World"The authentic teenage voice is one of the most difficult feats in fiction as it can so easily veer into contrivance or outright cringe, but Ira Robbins nails it. The sense of time and place is deftly evoked and the story pulls you through from the beginning. Top shelf stuff.-Frank Portman, author of King Dork, King Dork Approximately and Andromeda Klein"In Marc Bolan Killed in Crash, Ira Robbins evokes the mood and mystery of the 70's Glam Rock n Roll zeitgeist."-Clem Burke, Blondie drummer
IRA M Petersime & Son V. Robbins U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings
Philip S Van Cise; John A Selby
Gale, U.S. Supreme Court Records
2011
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Divided into three sections, this work explains how the concepts and practices of traditional European Judaism were adapted to North American culture beginning in the late nineteenth century. Part I focuses on the ideas and activities of Cyrus Adler (1863-1940), one of the most prominent leaders of the traditionalist Jewish community in the United States in his era. The issues in these essays include the origins of American Jewish history as a field of study, the Kehilla experiments of the early twentieth century, and the relationship between the Jewish Theological Seminary and Orthodox Judaism. Part II deals with the beginnings of Hasidic Judaism in North America prior to the Second World War. It also includes several studies investigating the shaping of the worldview of Orthodox Judaism in contemporary North America. Part III examines the issue of contemporary American Jewish attitudes toward evolution and intelligent design.
This book illuminates important issues faced by Orthodox Judaism in the modern era by relating the life and times of Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg (1859–1935). In presenting Yudel Rosenberg's rabbinic activities, this book aims to show that Jewish Orthodoxy could serve as an agent of modernity no less than its opponents. Yudel Rosenberg's considerable literary output will demonstrate that the line between "secular" and "traditional" literature was not always sharp and distinct. Rabbi Rosenberg's kabbalistic works will shed light on the revival of kabbala study in the twentieth century. Yudel Rosenberg's career in Canada will serve as a counter-example to the often-expressed idea that Hasidism exercised no significant influence on the development of American Judaism at the turn of the twentieth century.
This state-of-the-art account gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints readers with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians and shows these ambiguities in play in the unfolding relationship between Jews and Canadians of other religions and ethnicities. It examines present relationships in light of history and considers particularly the influence of antisemitism on the social, religious, and political history of the Canadian Jewish community. A History of Antisemitism in Canada builds on the foundation of numerous studies on antisemitism in general and on antisemitism in Canada in particular, as well as on the growing body of scholarship in Canadian Jewish studies. It attempts to understand the impact of antisemitism on Canada as a whole and is the first comprehensive account of antisemitism and its effect on the Jewish community of Canada. The book will be valuable to students and scholars not only of Canadian Jewish studies and Canadian ethnic studies but of Canadian history.
Emily and Death are best friends, and life is great.But if they've learned one thing, it's that they don't know as much as they thought.Can their friendship withstand such trials as navigating the high school social scene, meeting new people, working with the dying, and maybe even saving a life?Not to mention growing up...Volume 2 of the long-running webcomic about friendship and existentialism.Find out more at thebrightsidecomic.com
Italians to America is the first indexed reference work devoted to Italian immigrants to the United States. This series contains passenger list information in chronological order on the first major wave of Italian migration during the last two decades of the 19th century, as well as the beginning of the 20th century. As with the highly regarded companion series on German immigrants, Italians to America presents the passenger lists in chronological order, including information on each person's age, sex, occupation, village of origin, and destination, plus the name of the ship, the port of embarkation, and the date of arrival. Each volume also contains an introduction on the history of Italian migration to the U.S. and a full name index, greatly simplifying the researcher's job.
Approximately three fifths of the emigration from the United Kingdom to America arrived in the 19th century. The remainder came through Ellis Island between 1900 and 1924. Arrivals from the U.K. began to increase in the mid-1840's with the Irish Famine that led to very high mortality rates, rising prices and unemployment and a massive outflow of Irish population to the U.S. In the post-Famine period, England's industrial revolution progressed and emigration continued to grow between the prosperous 1850's and the mid-1890's. This series on Emigration from the United Kingdom to America concentrates on U.K. emigration in the period 1870-1897, listing migrants from the U.K. who arrived in New York. The original passenger lists transcribed by shipping agents and ship's officers and filed by all vessels entering U.S. ports have been used in the preparation of Emigration from the United Kingdom to America. Presented in chronological order by each ship's date of arrival, these passenger lists provide the names of ships, ports of departure, and arrival and debarkation dates. The researcher can also locate data regarding a person's age, sex, and occupation, as well as village of origin and destination when reported. An important feature of Emigration from the United Kingdom to America is the extensive surname index of ships' passengers included in each volume. These indexes, containing approximately 3 million names for the period 1870-1897, will greatly facilitate the task of finding an ancestor's family name, especially when the exact date or port of arrival in the United States is unknown. In addition to the passenger lists and name indexes, Emigration from the United Kingdom to America includes an introduction to the history of the U.K. migratory movement to the U.S. This series is an invaluable reference work for anyone interested in studying family history or in genealogical research.
January 19, 1797 - February 21, 1797 (Texts of Documents. Administration of George Washington, 1789-1797. 4th Congress, 2nd Session, )
Ira A. Glazier
Rowman Littlefield Publishers
2005
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