This was our introduction to the writings of Gertrude and now we're hooked! We've heard of her fame for years (including the correct pronounciation of her name: JEE-kyll) and now we're ready to read more of her eclectic collections of thoughts and comments. This book has some great chapters including one devoted to her "pussies". Gertrude and her niece host a tea party for her cats and the menu includes herring, rice pudding, cream and little rolls of butter for decoration. It has nothing to do with gardening, but you gotta love it!

Gertrude Stein's How to Write, as much about how to read as about how to write, is one of the great "unreadable" modernist classics. As a student of the psychologist/philosopher William James, she could predictably want to approach the task of explaining how to write from an observational/laboratory perspective rather than as a problem of providing discursive information. The reflexive style of the book has made it something of an underground favorite (thought the fact that Amazon.com lists it on the "available in 24 hours category suggests that it is considerably more above ground) for people of a post-structuralist bent. Its value is both philosophical and mental/calisthenic. Her fragmented sentences force one back on all one's language-processing resources, providing a kind of linguistic stress-test, while reminding one of the philosophical depths of language experience. One finds many crossed wires as one traverses the field of her writing: psychology and society, orality and writing, image and discursion, grammar as form and grammar as experience-just for starters. It is one amazing textual trip whether you bus in for a segment or sign on for the whole course. And as a small cheap book it can be lived with forever.

Leading this book is an Introduction from his contemporary
Bertand Russell,who states "the book is considered an important
event in the philosophical world."
Lidwig begins with "Philosophy is not a theory but an activity"
from his Opus (1921).
He starts off the book dealing with symbolism and words,then
states that their are four main points:
Theory of knowledge
Principals of physics
Ethics
Mystical
Starting with the last page opens up your mind and gives it a

fresh look in understanding all he says.
"My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has
climbedout through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.)
Where one cannot speak, therefore one must be silent."

Let go of any begining ideas and let his ideas flow through you.

Sandra Daftarian/Jan.2002

This book is an excellent guide for the newly married Jewish bride or groom. It is not only a cookbook, but it also explains the holidays and traditions. Besides recipes, it also provides sample menus to give you an idea what should be served at a particular holiday. I have had this book for many years and still refer to it every holiday. It would make a great shower present (along with pots and pans) to initiate the Jewish bride or groom (whoever does the cooking!) It's easy to understand and the recipes are very good!

Gertrude Dubrovsky is the leading scholar of what is a very neglected field, the history of Jewish Farming. "The Land Was Theirs" is a comprehensive history of what was the Cradle of the Jewish farming movement, New Jersey.

Between 1880 and the Second World War, tens of thousands of Jews set up farms in southern and central New Jersey. The adventurous Jews, most of whom were recent immigrants, set up private farms but also established cooperatives and unions to help one another. They lived in tight-knit communities based on ethnic identity and often ideology. "The Land Was Theirs" focuses on Farmingdale , NJ, where Dubrovsky grew up but is also a rigourously researched history of farming in the entire state. The introduction includes what is one of the best essays on Jewish farming in the entire country. A must for anyone interested in this overlooked part of American Jewish history.

great theological lectures by probably the greatest western philosopher who ever lived. woo-hoo! go Kant! this book is NOT INTIMIDATING! I was worried this would be a difficult read, but it is very straight-forward and the overall literary structure is not nearly as convoluted as his critiques and essays. If you like Immanuel Kant's school of thought and are interested in rational theology, then by all means buy this great book.

Medieval Women Mystics: Gertrude the Great, Angela of Foligno, Birgitta of Sweden, Julian of Norwich: Selcted Spiritual Writings

Medieval Women Mystics is a wonderfully inspirational and uplifting book of spiritual writings by women who lived in the medieval era during the radically changing Christian reform. These writings were compiled and edited by a contemplative nun of the Carmelite Order, Sister Elizabeth Ruth Obbard.

In the introduction, Obbard introduces us to the medieval era and explains how the roles of women were changing and how their individual philosophy was mimicking the changes within society. Women were forming new religious orders, such as the beguines, and women saints were suddenly increasing in number. Women were stepping into new religious roles while the men were away on crusades. Many were adopting prophetic roles. As the age of romance and chivalry unfolded, women began to incorporate passion and romance into their Christianity, desiring to be the bride of the Lord. It was an era of widespread upheaval in the belief s of Christians.

Another important change that took place during this period was in education. Previously, education had been reserved for the elite, royalty or the wealthiest of the upper echelons of society. During medieval times, as women were elevated in their position in society, they were given the opportunity to learn to read and write. Many of them began to record their thoughts in written form. But while the men focused their writing on the theological aspect of spirituality, the women utilized all their senses, including their sexuality. This got their writings swept under the carpet and mostly ignored. It is only in the recent years, as the feminist movement has gained widespread support, that these writings are beginning to be taken seriously in the world of Christianity.

Obbard has arranged her book into four sections, one for each of the women included: Gertrude the Great, Angela of Foligno, Birgitta of Sweden, and Julian of Norwich. All four women lived between 1248 and 1420, but their lives were quite different in many respects. Each section begins with an introduction that tells about the woman, when she lived, how she lived, and what she believed. Then, Obbard provides many pages of their writings, covering the widest array of spiritual topics imaginable. My favorite was Gertrude the Great, who maintained that God was, in fact, a woman.

These writings will uplift your soul and warm your heart. They are the testimonies of four women that were thinking and acting ahead of their time. These women had a message to deliver to the world and had a gift for delivering it through the written word. Their writings are beautiful!

Miss Coogan wrote this in 1935, it has a foreward by Robert L. Owen. If you do not know who Owen was, look him up. He understood money systems and knew what a debt money system would do, because it has done it to us. Coogan and Owen understood the difference between an honest money system and the unlawful debt money system this country and the world is saddled with.The book is not perfect, but it is very good. Highly recommend.

Dr. Schneider preserves the memory and works of this belovedYiddish troubadour who was murdered in the Cracow ghetto during theSecond World War. Due to her outstanding efforts, an important part of the cultural heritage of the lost world of the Jews of Eastern Europe will not be forgotten.

This was an incredibly amazing book! It starts out with Mitka (a.k.a. Mottele) who is a 12 yr. old Jew on the run. He lived in a small village until it was ransacked by Nazis while he was away. The Nazis destroyed his parents, friends, and most importantly, his baby sister. He decides that the only way to avenge his family is to join Diadia Misha's (a resistance group leader) partisans. He soon becomes "adopted" by the leader, and leads an amazing life!