Bob Mayer has built a stunning edifice shaped by his own experiences as a builder, a banker, a businessman, a hotel and casino operator, and a world class real estate entrepreneur. From his modest beginnings as a day laborer amid the post-war Southern California housing boom, to his years as the region's largest developer of multifamily residential housing, Without Risk recounts a true American Dream come true. In colorful vignettes, Bob shares many of the amazing and outrageous anecdotes he has collected over his fifty years as a successful real estate developer. Acclaimed for building some of the most luxurious properties along the Pacific Coast, Bob, in these pages, builds story upon unforgettable story to construct a personal history high-rise that will delight and astound you. Episodes such as his high stakes negotiations with Las Vegas impresario, Steve Wynn, and Bob's account of a high flying and hilarious Mexican Hat Dance, add life and color to this inspiring testimony of one man's aspirations and achievements. Driven by the principle that accepting and even embracing risk is essential to financial success, Bob lays out in plain-spoken detail, how he built his highly successful enterprise step-by-step. Today, Bob Mayer enjoys the widespread respect and admiration of his industry and his peers. After reading Without Risk There's No Reward, you will undoubtedly feel the same way.

Without Risk There's No Reward

Robert Mayer

Peter Weisz

Biographies & Memoirs

Seven Locks Press

The Lander Legacy HC

Leaders & Notable People

KTAV Publishing House

On February 1, 1940, a thirty-three-year-old Jewish woman arrived alone in New York Harbor bearing, in her womb, the person who would eventually become the author of this book. Ernestyna Goldwasser had left behind her family, steeped in the rich Jewish culture of Krakow, to seek sanctuary from the marauding Germans, who had invaded Poland the previous fall. 
 As the child of a father who held US citizenship, Ernestyna enjoyed a special status that became priceless when the war broke out. She, too, was deemed a US citizen and thereby eligible to emigrate out of Poland. Unfortunately, Ernestyna's husband, Chaskel Goldwasser, enjoyed no such status. As his wife, pregnant with their first child, embarked on her journey, Chaskel was forced to remain behind, trapped in the inferno that was soon to engulf and incinerate one third of the world's Jewish population. 
 Ernestyna entered the US through the famed golden door mentioned in the final words of the Emma Lazarus poem that graces the Statue of Liberty. Unfortunately, because of the antisemitic policies of the US State Department, that door remained shut tight to Chaskel. 
 During Ernestyna's valiant struggle to reunite with her husband, they were able to maintain an intimate and highly emotional correspondence. Many of their letters have been preserved and are presented in this volume as a first-person account of their desperate struggle to find the key that would unlock Chaskel's imprisonment...before it was too late.

Yearning to Breathe Free: My Parents' Fight to Reunite during the Holocaust

History

Murray Jack Laulicht

World

Gefen Publishing House

Challenging riddles, enigmas, logic problems and mind-benders, all with a Jewish twist. Jews have always been a puzzling people. In both senses of the word. We have certainly caused consternation and bewilderment over the ages (just contemplate the mysteries of gefilte fish, for example). And we have, by and large, always enjoyed a good intellectual mind-bender. 
 From dreidels to Dungeons &amp; Dragons, Jews have enjoyed a tradition of dreying their kops. And you'll find plenty that will cause you to do just that in this book. In these pages you'll find some classic puzzles, lovingly collected over the years. You'll also encounter brand new ones, created especially for this book. Each contains a bit of a Jewish twist to add to the flavor. But, like they used to say about the rye bread... 
 You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy this book! 
 So strain your brain and try your hand at these kosher conundrums, and if you do well, then congratulate yourself and say: Puzzle Tov!

Puzzle Tov! A Kosher Collection of Jewish Brainteasers, Puzzles, and Enigmas to Drive You Totally Mesghugenneh!

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

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