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Letter from unknown to "Dear Cousin," January 17, 1865
Letter discussing family life and employment.
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Letter from Bill Van Riper to Henry Van Riper, January 26, 1860
Letter from Bill Van Riper to his Cousin Henry Van Riper discussing day to day events, weather and school.
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Letter from Mary Taylor to Henry A. Van Riper, February 5, [18]60
Letter from Mary Taylor to her Cousin Henry Van Riper, she mentions occassional outbreaks of Typhoid fever, the death of a family member and other news and asks for letters from the family.
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Letter from Jill to Henry, April 16, 1858
Letter from Jill to her Cousin Henry about her school, illness in the family, and other news.
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Letter from [Yilder?] to Henry and Willis, February 22, 1857
Letter from Yilder to Henry and Willis Van Riper discussing family matters, school, farming, and other aspects of daily life.
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Letter from John Van Riper to Henry Van Riper October 13, 1861
Letter to Henry Van Riper from John Van Riper in it is talks about his surprise that Alexander enlisted
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Letter from Joshua G. Benster to Willis Van Riper, April 7, 1886
Letter from Joshua Van Riper to Willis Van Riper about patents and plans for a business.
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Original stories from real life: with conversations calculated to regulate the affections, and form the mind to truth and goodness
The electronic version of this item was provided by the Wayne State University Library System and is freely accessible through the Wayne State University Libraries Digital Collections.
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Letter from Margaret J Van Riper to Mary Ann Van Riper, May 11, 1856
Letter from Margaret Van Riper to her Sister Mary Ann Van Riper, in it she expresses sorrow over the death of a woman named Hetty and talks about members of the family
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Letter from Eloy Rufs to Henry and Willis Van Riper
Letter from Eloy Lane Rufs to Henry and Willis Van Riper discussing family life, farming, price of food and inquiring about the well being of other family members
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Letter from Jennie Benster to Henry Van Riper, March 24, 1865
Letter from Jennie Benster to Henry Van Riper thanking him for his letter and updating him on her family.
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Letter from Joshua Besnter to Henry [Van Riper], March 7, 1865
Letter from Joshua Benster discussing his work in North Carolina, among other topics.
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The velveteen rabbit: or, How toys become real
The electronic version of this item was provided by the Wayne State University Library System and is freely accessible through the Wayne State University Libraries Digital Collections.
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Hesper, the home spirit: a simple story of household labor and love
The electronic version of this item was provided by the Wayne State University Library System and is freely accessible through the Wayne State University Libraries Digital Collections.
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Letter from Joshua Benster to Henry Van Riper, 1864
Letter from Joshua Benster to Henry Van Riper describing his work as part of the Construction Corps, repairing railroads damaged by the rebels and coming under fire
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An American map: essays
"This title features meditative travel essays by Michigan author Anne-Marie Oomen that explore new landscapes across America. In "An American Map", Anne-Marie Oomen, award-winning writer and self-confessed northern Michigan homebody, chronicles her recent travels across America, in essays that span rediscovered landscapes, wild back roads, vital cities, and everything in between. Oomen takes both a wide and narrow lens to her destinations, giving readers a vivid sense of each locale while findin…
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Prayer & community: the havurah in American Judaism
Riv-Ellen Prell spent eighteen months of participant observation field research studying a countercultural havurah to determine why these groups emerged in the United States during the 1970s. In her book, she explores the central questions posed by the early havurot and their founders. She also examines the havurah as a development of American Judaism, continuing—rather than rejecting—many of the previous generations' ideas about religion. Combining history and ethnography, Prell uses current th…
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Witness through the imagination: Jewish American Holocaust literature
Criticism of Holocaust literature is an emerging field of inquiry, and as might be expected, the most innovative work has been concentrated on the vanguard of European and Israeli Holocaust literature. Now that American fiction has amassed an impressive and provocative Holocaust canon, the time is propitious for its evaluation. Witness Through the Imagination presents a critical reading of themes and stylistic strategies of major American Holocaust fiction to determine its capacity to render the…
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The life and work of Ludwig Lewisohn. Volume II. “this dark and desperate age”
An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882–1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a process reflected in hundreds of works of fiction, literary analysis, and social criticism.
This second volume portrays Lewisohn's last decades as an outspoken opponent of Nazi Germany, a leading promoter of Jewish resettlement in Palestine, a me… -
The origin of the modern jewish woman writer: romance and reform in Victorian England
Between 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as haskalah, or the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer analyzes this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women's writing in relation to Victorian literary history, women's cultural history, and Jewish …