A life not with standing

Description:

A Life Not with Standing chronicles the adventures--by turns exhilarating, agonizing and amorous--of an iron lung alumna. It shatters stereotypes about people with disabilities, enabling others to view disability with pride, not prejudice. It celebrates family, faith, music, tenacity, idealism and indignation. But most of all, A Life Not with Standing tells a story beyond Chava Willig Levy's polio chronicle: how calamities can befall innocent people and how those calamities can evolve into and, in fact, become ingredients of and prerequisites for ensuing joy.

subjects: Women with disabilities,  Biography,  Jewish women,  Poliomyelitis,  Patients,  Orthodox Judaism,  Social life and customs,  Femmes handicapées,  Biographies,  Juives,  Poliomyélite,  Judaïsme orthodoxe,  Mœurs et coutumes,  Manners and customs

People: Chava Willig Levy

Places: New York (State),  New York,  New York (N.Y.),  New York (État)

Times: 20th century,  20e siècle