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wegman yet again.......2004-09-18
Yes Wegman has many books about his dogs but this one is unlike most others, the 20X24 camera and what it can achieve is amazing. Wegman uses this camera to its fullest capturing his dogs in many amazing lights. A Wegman book all should own.
Photography finds its own Rocky.......2003-05-13
We are living in an age of sequels. From Star Wars and Matrix of Hollywood to the Gulf Wars, it is repetitions with the same premises and towards, dull or worst, tragic effect. Wegman's early work with his dog Man Ray captured everyone's imagination with its wit and sometimes thought provoking concepts. Wegman like his dogs also became a star, subject of documentaries and an advertising model for Gap clothing. Alas, there was no one to tell this talented artist when to stop, and from doing the children's fables to an episode of Hardy Boys adventure, Wegman's canine companions have found more newer uses including featuring as various alphabets in books for nursery children as well as in between graduate courses offerings in a New School for Social Research catalog.
Like Sylvester Stallone's Rocky that raided the Oscars cupboard in the 1970s, only to milk the concept dry (Mr. Stallone is reportedly scripting another edition), Mr. Wegman has chosen to risk doing the same with his canine models. His latest offering is getting into another commercial territory besides that of prequels and sequels -- the "Making of ___" (for a hit movie) or the "outtakes" or "Alternative Takes" (for a well known but dead musician). Whether Wegman is the Hendrix of Photography or revisiting Man Ray's polaroids is like "the Making of Citizen Kane" is something debatable. What is however more certain is that despite the high levels of literacy that permeates photographic art and the fact that photography doesn't have to pander to the lowest common denominator like most other art forms, it cannot escape the trends in the market place. Trends driven, not by artists but accountants and following the cold logic of prequels, sequels, outtakes and alternative tracks. Whether Wegman will soon be getting his canine models to reinterpret the boy scouts manual or move from the Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew adventures, is there to see. But if this does happen, remember you read it here first.
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Original essays by distinguished scholars on all aspects of Jewish life in Poland from 1918 to 1939.
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Limited Polish Anti-Semitism; 1930's Pogroms, Jewish Violence, etc........2006-08-04
Of the numerous authors in this anthology, this review focuses on only a few.
In spite of the great deal of attention given to prewar Polish anti-Semitism, its effect on Jews was rather limited. As Yisrael Gutman, an eminent Holocaust scholar, writes: "It should be made clear that political antisemitism and anti-Jewish economic policies did not impinge on the considerable freedoms the Jews enjoyed in their organizational life and social and cultural activities. The Jews were free to set up their own political organizations, to bring up their children as they saw fit, to publish a whole range of newspapers and literary works relatively free of outside interference, and to present their cause to the Sejm and before the court of public opinion. Furthermore, Jews--mostly assimilated ones--occupied important positions in Polish literature, art, and the theater."(pp. 103-104).
Most Polish Jews were not only unassimilated, but did not even speak Polish. Gutman says: "Boguslaw Miedzinski, ...a leader in the camp of Pilsudski's heirs, quipped in the Sejm (House of Deputies) in 1937 that he personally like Danes very much but if there had been three million Danes in Poland he would want to get rid of them as soon as possible."(p. 101).
A long-term source of Polish-Jewish antagonisms has always been Jewish economic dominance. Jerzy Tomaszewski (p. 147) found that Jews (at 10% of the population) accounted for 73.7% of those active in agricultural-related commerce in all of prewar Poland. He concludes: "No matter how good the relations between the shopkeepers and their customers seemed, there was always some level of distrust. In the traditional values of the villagers, manual work in the fields was the main--or even the sole--worthy occupation; all other professions and occupations were considered to exploit the hard labor of the peasants. This distrust grew during economic disturbances, when peasants received less for the goods they produced."(p. 147).
Taking this further, the reader may be intrigued by Edward D. Wynot. He cites a 1933 study, by political liberals, of peasant attitudes towards Jews. Contrary to the stereotype of peasants being virtually all bigoted, challenged by the blood libel, etc., their attitudes are described as follows: "The first volume of selected responses revealed overt antisemitism in nearly ONE-FOURTH [Emphasis added by reviewer] of those surveyed. Although actual wording varied according to the individual authors, the general viewpoint expressed was consistent on certain points: The Jew was a parasitic middleman who exploited the naïve, ignorant peasants by paying submarket prices for farm products and then charging exorbitant ones for manufactured goods or essentially raw materials, often dealing dishonestly with them in the process; the Jew was an archetypical "loan shark" who deceived the peasants into overextending their credit at usurous [usurious] rates, then foreclosing on their land; the Jew was responsible for using his influence abroad to knock the bottom out of the international market for Polish agricultural products. The second volume contained fewer peasant contributions, but more than one-half of those expressed anti-Jewish feelings to some extent."(p. 48).
Even assuming that the foregoing attitudes are entirely unjustified, the 25-50% level of anti-Semitic attitudes in prewar Poland contrast sharply with the stereotype of nearly all Poles (save that of political leftists, plus a tiny number of other enlightened individuals) being rabid anti-Semites. Not mentioned in all of this is the fact that the seller-buyer relationship is, to a degree, an inherently adversarial one. When the sellers tend to be of one nationality and the buyers a different nationality, and moreover this pattern persists for generations, how can there NOT be resentment and conflict?
To show the irrationality of anti-Semitism, a number of Jewish authors have pointed out that Poles often remained anti-Semitic despite having friendships with Jews. Such Jews were considered exceptions. It turns out that exactly the same attitude existed on the Jewish side. Ben-Zion Gold comments: "The teachers of secular subjects were either nonreligious Jews or Christians. They usually treated us well, and the stories and poems we read with them were interesting. Strangely enough, these teachers did not effect our general prejudice against Gentiles or secular Jews except perhaps subliminally. We thought that each teacher was an exception."(p. 274).
Relative to the 1930's pogroms, and bearing in mind that, whether justified or not, violence tends to escalate, it is interesting to note that the line of murderous violence had often been first crossed by Jews. Emanuel Melzer comments: "The anti-Jewish excesses and pogroms in the years 1935-37 had their specific characteristics and dynamics. Usually they resulted from the killing of a Pole by a Jews, either as an act of self-defense or as a criminal act of an individual committed out of personal revenge. For this killing the entire local Jewish community was held collectively responsible. The pogroms of Grodno (1935), Przytyk (1936), Brzesc nad Bugiem (1937), and Czestochowa (1937) all followed this pattern. In other cases the Endeks used anti-Jewish violence as a means for undermining the authority of the government."(p. 129). Not mentioned is the fact that, although collective responsibility is part and parcel of interethnic violence, the small number of Jewish victims overall (a few hundred) does not support a high degree of collective blame directed against Jews in general.
Violence also existed within the Jewish community. Samuel D. Kassow writes: "Contrary to popular perceptions, the shtetl saw its share of violence and chicanery...Grudges and grievances often interrupted Sabbath prayers and even led to fights in the synagogue. Incidents such as that which occurred in Minsk Mazowiecki in the 1930's, when the local butchers assaulted a respected Zionist delegate to the kehillah after he raised the meat tax to pay for the local Tarbut school, were not uncommon. Bribery to fix elections of new rabbis was rampant, and the disgruntled party often brought in its own candidate, thus leading to serious conflicts that split families and friends"(pp. 204-205).
An splendid tool for the scholar who is already familiar with the history of the Jews of Poland.......2006-05-14
This book is really good if you are familiar with the subject, and it represents a more dynamic view on old debates.
Could have been better...or worse........2006-03-11
This work has benefits and drawbacks. It is a compilation of articles written by many scholars. Whiel this makes the book undeniably comprehensive, the articles qualify more as survey pieces than arguementative essays. In fact, it is difficult to identify a thesis in several of them.
The book is a must have for any scholar of Eastern European/Polish Jewish history, but be advised that it is more informative than analytical.
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Informative to a Degree, But Very Slanted.......2006-07-27
Celia Heller combines a great deal of detail on Jewish life in prewar Poland with an over-reliance on selectively negative anecdotes, from individual Jews, archived in the YIVO Institute, and her complete avoidance of anecdotes from the Polish side. How about, for instance, some testimonies of Poles who had been driven out of business, and reduced to penury, by unfair Jewish competition?
Heller gives only a partial account of the 1912 elections to the Duma (Russian parliament). The Jews of Russian-ruled Poland would not vote for National Democrat Jan Kucharzewski because he was "perhaps erroneously" thought an anti-Semite (pp. 43-44), and instead voted for left-winger Yagiello. Heller omits the fact that some Russian politicians had earlier sent a letter to the Jewish electoral committee urging the Jews not to vote for Kucharzewski because he would join the "Polish Circle" in the Duma. The election of Yagiello caused a tightening of Russian rule over Poland, and his election was seen by Poles as a direct Jewish affront to Polish national aspirations. From that time on, Dmowski saw the Jews as not merely an alien element but an anti-Polish one: Hence the boycotts. In any case, it appears that even an anti-Semitic Kucharzewski in the Duma would have done the Jews less harm than the Polish antagonism fomented by his defeat.
Heller (p. 310) translates and cites philo-Semite Pilsudski's comments on Jewish behaviors during the 1920 Polish-Soviet War: "The Jews did not behave badly everywhere. In the [towns of] Lomza and Mazowiecki they bravely opposed the Bolsheviks...But strange, as many things in Poland are, in the neighborhood [of Lomza] in [the towns of] Lokow, Siedlce, Kaluszyn, Bialystok, Wlodawa, there were numerous, even massive betrayals on part of Jews."
Heller faults Poles for being unwilling to step aside and "privilegize" the Jews as a nation-within-nation. Yet the balkanization of Poland that this would have caused would have included a linguistic fragmentation, not only Poles from Jews, but also Jews from Jews. She notes: "However, one must also admit that had the Polish government followed a policy of implementing for Jews the [Minority] Treaty's provision of public schools in the minority's language, the task would have been far from easy. There was bitter strife among Jews over the language of instruction (Yiddish or Hebrew) and over the general orientation (traditional or secular). Each side tried to press on the Polish government its own conception of Jewish schools, after the Minorities Treaty was signed." (p. 220).
Heller's preoccupation with popular Polish prejudices against Jews is counterbalanced by her inadvertent admission of reciprocal ones: "It was considered repulsive and un-Jewish for a man to get drunk. Of anyone who did, it was said, `He drinks like a gentile.'" (p. 150).
In her efforts to paint Polish Jews as the inevitable victims of anti-Semitism no matter what they did, Heller bends over backwards to find anecdotal examples of assimilated Polish Jews experiencing prejudice. But, by her own admission, there were only, at most, 200,000 assimilated Jews (p. 188), which constituted a mere 6% of Poland's Jews. How could such a tiny fraction of Jews enjoy the full benefits of the Polish nation when they were, to begin with, conceptually attached to such a heavy ballast of unassimilated Jews? Heller does not help her case when she quotes Hartglas, an assimilated Jew (pp. 208-209) who recoiled at Polish injustices to Jews in general, while admitting: "I personally did not experience them." Now, if injustices to Polish Jews were routine, even to assimilated Jews, as Heller would have her readers tacitly believe, how could this possibly be true?
Heller also undermines her doom-and-gloom portrayal of Polish Jewry when she discusses Jews organizing defenses against violent attacks by Polish hoodlums and nationalist extremists in the 1930's (pp. 286-291). Small groups of Jewish men, usually armed with such meager things as clubs and perhaps a few firearms, were often successful in preventing or beating off such attacks. Now, were the attacks anything other than unorganized, uncommon, and small-scale, how could such defenses possibly enjoy success?
Heller suggests that, instead of trying to force Jews to emigrate, Poles should have welcomed the Jews' predilection for commerce to help lift Poland out of poverty. But, even if successful, this would have relegated the Poles to permanent economic underclass status in their own nation. She disingenuously contrasts Polish boycotts of Jews with the favorable acceptance of Jews by Czechoslovakia and America. But, unlike in Poland, Jews were only a tiny percentage of these nations, and the latter, very unlike Poland, enjoyed a vast and rapidly-expanding economy. Furthermore, Heller falsely charges the Polish nationalists with wanting to force all Jews out of Poland. In fact, nationalists were willing to retain some 500,000 Polish Jews. Minorities, when small, posed no problems. For instance, there never was a significant body of Polish prejudices directed against endogenous Polish Muslims, the descendants of Tatars.
Heller's disastrous portrayal of Poland's prewar Jewry contrasts with that of Polish-Jewish scholar Joseph Marcus and his book, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE JEWS in POLAND, 1919-1939. Contrary to Heller's focus on Jewish poverty, Marcus shows that Polish Jews remained, on average, wealthier than Poles. According to Marcus, the main factors hindering Poland's Jews were the poverty of Poland as a whole and the excessive numbers of Jews crowded into Poland, not Polish discriminatory policies designed to limit Jewish economic dominance.
As for the German invasion, Heller (p. 293) recounts the widespread Jewish belief that, owing to the fact that "Every Pole has his Moses (favorite Jew)", the 20 million Poles would easily save 3 million Jews. Heller's extremely disingenuous attack on Poles ignores, among other things, the fact that most Jews were confined by the Germans into urban ghettos. This meant that the vast majority of Polish Jews never had access to Polish rescuers, and the vast majority of Poles never had access to a single Jew.
Bitter truth about life of Jews in Poland.......2006-04-17
For those with sweet visions of a peaceful multi cultural Poland between the wars this book is a bitter truthful pill to swallow.
Chapter after chapter, page by page, it pretty much puts an end to this revisionist image.
Every mistreatment of Jews at Polish hands is covered with cool dispassionage detail and adds insight to the fact that this is the story of one minority's mistreatment at Polish hands.
Though unintended, it also makes those Polish rescuers who did their best to protect Jews from the Nazis more admirable to me than those of other countries as clearly not only were they going against the occupiers of their country but also their own anti- semitic countrymen.
A must read for those interested in this subject.
Best for understanding Jewish life in Poland 1918-1939.......1999-10-13
Comprehensive view of the Polish Jews between the World Wars. Deals with Tolerance, Hate, Social Structure, Oppression, Terror, Abuse, Faith, Assimilation, Resistance and Self-defense. While the writers style makes for easy reading, some of the subjects are emotionally difficult. This book is a must for understanding the environment in Poland that led to the Holocaust.
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Learn about and identify Minnesota's birds of prey using Stan Tekiela's field guide. The full-page, color photos are incomparable and include insets of winter plumage, color morphs and more. Plus, with the easy-to-use format, you don't need to know a bird's name or classification in order to easily find it in the book. Using this field guide is a real pleasure. It's a great way for anyone to learn about birds of prey in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
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Love this guy's field guides!.......2002-12-05
The system that Stan Tekiela uses for his field guides is clear and easily understandable. You can easily find the bird you saw and identify it! This book is great for beginners, but adds fun and interesting facts that everyone can enjoy. I have had all kinds of field guides for more than 25 years; and now that I have discovered these, I reach for them first every time. "Birds of Prey of Minnesota" works just as well for Wisconsin and other surrounding states. In fact, we have pretty much the same birds of prey here in Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa. The tips that Stan gives for telling one species from another are second to none. He chooses points of identification that are easily visible. What can I say, I love this book!
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Raptor Rescue!: An Eagle Flies Free
Sylvia Johnson
Manufacturer: Dutton Juvenile
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Binding: Hardcover
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