Filter By Subjects
Albania Albany (N.Y.) Genealogy Counterfeiters Germany Drama Fairy tales Forced labor Germany History 20th century Drama Germany Jewish men Germany Drama Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Drama Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Drama World War, 1939-1945 Counterfeit money Germany DramaFilter By Subjects
Albania Albany (N.Y.) Genealogy Counterfeiters Germany Drama Fairy tales Forced labor Germany History 20th century Drama Germany Jewish men Germany Drama Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Drama Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Drama World War, 1939-1945 Counterfeit money Germany DramaContents: Kaba me klarinte -- Kaba me violine -- Qerbela -- Dallendyshe e vogel -- Ezmerke me ishe -- Kur dola jashte -- Melodi gajdexhiut -- Vallja e vajzave -- Vallja e Osman Taka -- Cobankat -- Lonte beu me hankon -- Valle e kendura arumune ; Martina t'ia marri jelekun ia lete -- Motra dhe vellai -- Ajkuna qan Omerin ; Kenge Kreshnike -- Shepherd's song on the flute -- Vajtim -- To traketi meklino ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN ANTSummary: In northern Albania a teenage brother and sister are physically and emotionally trapped in a cycle of violence, a result of their father's entanglement with a rival clan over a piece of land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FORIsokratisses (Musical group)
Contents: Between the three seas -- On Deropoli's plain -- The ballad of the handkerchief -- Five months married -- Bitter orange -- Last night's dream -- You've put a spell on me -- Rina, Katerina -- All day long -- Little apple tree on the cliff -- My basil -- Verginada -- Nani nani.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN ISOKadare, Ismail
Summary: "At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Here, the sultan displays the severed heads of his adversaries. People flock to see the latest head and gossip about the state of the empire: the province of Albania is demanding independence again, and the niche awaits a new trophy... Tundj Hata, the imperial courier, is charged...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KADYpi, Lea
Summary: "A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were "universities" from which few "graduated", she swore loyalty to the Party. In her eyes,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B YPI YPIContents: Tana -- Kaba me violinë -- Penxherenë e zotrisë sate -- Valle Postenançe -- Trëndafili fletë-fletë -- Goca e berberit -- Valle Minushi -- Nënockë -- Kaba me klarinetë -- Bëje dru në përcëllime -- Fole moj mike një fjalë -- Valle e Osman Takës -- O bandill mustaqezi -- Avaz -- Doli Laceja nga stani.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN SAZSummary: After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Yorker Films 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAMDukes, Kristopher
Summary: When eighteen-year-old Eleanora's father is shot dead on the cobblestone streets of 1910 Albania, Eleanora must abandon her dream of studying art in Italy as she struggles to survive in a remote mountain village with her stepmother Meria. Nearing starvation, Meria secretly sells Eleanora into marriage with the cruel heir of a powerful clan. Intent on keeping her freedom, Eleanora takes an oath...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Mara, Wil
Summary: Located along the west coast of Europe’s Balkan Peninsula, Albania is a nation that has experienced tremendous changes in recent decades. Once a communist nation, its current government was established after a revolution in the early 1990s. Since then, it has been steadily growing and changing. Readers will find out what it is like to live in Albania today, explore the country’s long history,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Statovci, Pajtim
Summary: The death of Enver Hoxha and the loss of his father leave Bujar growing up in the ruins of Communist Albania and of his own family. Only his fearless best friend Agim--who is facing his own realizations about his gender and sexuality--gives him hope for the future. Together the two decide to leave everything behind and try their luck in Italy. But the struggle to feel at home--in a foreign...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAKadare, Ismail.
Summary: Set just before and during WWII, told from the viewpoint of an imaginative adolescent boy whose magical view of life tempers the tragic events that befall his hometown, occupied in turn by various armies. How the boy's family and neighbors negotiate these traumatic events is recounted with beauty and simplicity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KADLineberry, Cate.
Summary: Recounts how the passengers and crew of an American medical evacuation plane, including thirteen nurses and thirteen medics, survived after it crashed in Nazi-controlled Albania in November, 1943, until they could be rescued.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2013
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kadare, Ismail.
Summary: A tale blending history and folklore traces the occupation of the ancient Albanian stone city of Gjirokastër by Nazi forces in 1943 and the bizarre hospitality shown by a doctor to the Nazi colonel during a fateful dinner party.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KADKelly, Arthur C. M.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.C.M. Kelly 1993
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3747 MARTrix, Frances.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DTPNeuman, Andrés
Summary: "Un viajero enigmático. Una ciudad en forma de laberinto de la que parece imposible salir. Cuando el viajero está a punto de marcharse, un insólito personaje lo detiene, cambiando para siempre su destino. Lo demás será amor y literatura: un amor memorable, que agitará por igual camas y libros; y un mundo imaginario que condensará, a pequeña escala, los conflictos de la Europa moderna."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Debolsillo 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC NEUStasiuk, Andrzej
Summary: A collection of essays that explore how the past, present, and future coexist and intertwine along the highways and back roads of the small towns and villages of Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Albania, and his native Poland.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dalkey Archive Press 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.858 STABaxter, Angus
Summary: Guide to tracing your ancestors in every country in Europe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1985
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 BAXSummary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUGunderson, Jessica
Summary: Retells the classic German version of Snow White, together with three similar tales--Marigo of the Forty Dragons from Albania, The unnatural mother and the girl with a star on her forehead from Mozambique, and The magic needle from Turkey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 GUNSummary: How much faith do we really place in the institutions that settle our disputes and, at times, determine the fate of individuals? Are there other ways of finding a proper outcome besides the Western system of courts and prisons? Does might make right, and-even if the answer is no-has any society on the planet created a true alternative? This program looks at concepts of justice in various...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010