The current challenge on the Monday Artday illustration website is “frog”.
“This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The frogs will go up on you and your people and all your officials. ”
— Exodus 7:1–4
The second plague of Egypt was frogs. God commanded Moses to tell Aaron to stretch his staff over the water, and hordes of frogs came and overran Egypt. Pharaoh’s sorcerers were also able to duplicate this plague with their magic. However, since they were unable to remove it, Pharaoh was forced to grant permission for the Israelites to leave so that Moses would agree to remove the frogs. To prove that the plague was actually a divine punishment, Moses let Pharaoh choose the time that it would end. Pharaoh chose the following day, and all the frogs died the next day. However, Pharaoh rescinded his permission, and the Israelites stayed in Egypt.
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This week’s inspiration at the Inspire Me Thursday website is “handmade holidays”.
I have been creating a holiday card every year for almost thirty years. Here is my card for this year.
Hey Everyone! My annual compilation of eclectic Christmas music is now available!
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This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “crunchy”.
“Um, are mashed potatoes supposed to be crunchy? ”
“They are when we don’t remove the bones.”
Hey Everyone! My annual compilation of eclectic Christmas music is now available!
That’s right! 23 songs (and a bonus track) plus a custom color cover in PDF format to print,
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Just click HERE and let the holiday fun begin!
Dora Gerson was a singer and silent film actress in Berlin, Germany in the early 1920s. She was performing in an ensemble troupe when she met film director Veit Harlan. They married in 1922 and divorced in 1924. Harlan would eventually direct anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda films on orders of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.
In 1920, Dora was cast to appear in the successful film Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses (On the Brink of Paradise) and later followed that same year in Die Todeskarawane (Caravan of Death). Both films featured Hungarian actor Béla Lugosi prior to his immigration to the United States and his illustrious Hollywood career. However, both films are now considered lost films. Dora continued to perform as a popular cabaret singer throughout the 1920s as well as acting in films.
By 1933, the Nazi Party had come to power in Germany and the Jewish population was systematically stripped of rights. Dora’s career slowed dramatically. Although blacklisted from performing in “Aryan” films, Dora was able to secure work at a small Jewish record company. She began releasing Yiddish language records and her 1936 song Der Rebe Hot Geheysn Freylekh Zayn became highly regarded by European Jews in the 1930s. Her best remembered recording from this era was the song Vorbei (Beyond Recall), which was an emotional ballad, memorializing a Germany before the rise of the Nazi Party.
In 1936, Dora, her second husband and some relatives fled to the Netherlands to avoid Nazi persecution. In May 1940, German troops invaded the Netherlands and Jews became subject to the same anti-Semitic restrictions as in Germany. In 1942, after several years of living under oppressive Nazi occupation, Dora and her family planned to escape, but were captured attempting to enter Switzerland. The family was sent by railroad car to the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz in Poland. Dora died at Auschwitz in 1943, along with her husband and their two children.
