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Elizabeth Rynecki

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http://www.chasingportraits.org/

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Nonfiction, Memoir, History

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Elizabeth Rynecki lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of Chasing Portraits and Director/Producer/Writer of the Chasing Portraits documentary film. The film is available as a DVD and is streaming on iTunes, Amazon, OvidTV, and Kanopy. For more information please visit: www.ChasingPortraits.org ...more

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	Chasing Portraits: A Great-Granddaughter's Quest for Her Lost Art Legacy 4.12 avg rating — 189 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Journal of Art Crime: Spring 2013 by Noah Charney (Goodreads Author), Christos Tsirogiannis, David Gill 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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In 1970 a young Polish boy and his recently divorced father moved from Poland to Denmark. Later, the boy’s mother remarried. The man she married, Edward Rajber, was (for many years) the Chairman of the Socio-Cultural Association of Jews in Poland (TSKŻ), a secular Jewish organization founded in 1950 with the merger of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland and the Jewish Cultural Society. In 1975

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A book of family, a week on Cape Cod, loss, joy, and processing a little or bit of everything. I love that there’s a 50 something protagonist. I loved that it takes place in a week on the Cape. I love that there’s some family genealogy. I love that s ...more
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I enjoyed this memoir in essays about an interesting assortment of foods. The author, a poet, has a beautiful way of writing about her family, her career, her marriage, and culture. In some ways the structure reminded me a bit of Kate Lebo’s first co ...more
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Such a sweet story. The big story is about training a rescue donkey, Sherman, to run in the world championship of pack burro racing in the mountains of Colorado. But, as you might imagine, it’s about a heck of a lot more. It’s about community, it’s a ...more
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