Ergebnis für "Berlin" in Religion

Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect...

Sie haben lange ein Doppelleben geführt. Aus Angst, abgelehnt und ausgegrenzt zu werden. Nach außen haben sie sich angepasst. Aber in ihrem Inneren tobte ein Kampf: zwischen Angst und Sehnsucht, zwischen christlicher Norm und ihren wahren Gefühlen. Nun brechen 25 von ihnen ihr Schweigen und sprechen über ihre Homosexualität und/oder Transidentität.

Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called - by George Gershwin, among others - the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. "Berlin has no place in American music," legendary composer Jerome Kern wrote; "He is American music." In a career that spanned an astonishing nine decades, Berlin wrote some 1,500 tunes, including "Alexander's Ragtime Band", "God Bless America", and "White Christmas". From ragtime to the rock era, Berlin's work has endured in the very fiber of American national identity. 

In this heart-wrenching memoir by a renowned transplant doctor who grew up without religion, a journey of self-discovery as he uncovers his family's past. David Weill grew up in New Orleans the only son of a world-famous Jewish pulmonologist and a Southern Baptist mother. Religion was never...