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Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...
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Drawing on a vast array of sources, including interviews with the last surviving seamstress, this powerful book tells the story of the brave women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, exposing the greed, cruelty and hypocrisy of the Third Reich.
At the height of the Holocaust, young inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp-- mainly Jewish women and girls-- were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions in a...
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2017.
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English
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"An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A.S. Byatt's Possession and Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, anemigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a...
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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history.
"Pamela S. Nadell has written a groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Nadell weaves together the stories...
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Zion chronicles volume 2
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Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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In 16th century Italy, Grazia dei Rossi, daughter of a Jewish banker falls in love with a Christian nobleman, but is rejected by his family. She marries a Jewish doctor, the marriage lacks passion and when she has a child it is by the nobleman.
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life"--
12) Brazen
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"A riveting, inspiring memoir of one woman's escape from an extremist religious sect and an extraordinary rise from housewife to shoe designer, to CEO and co-owner of the modeling agency Elite World Group. Ever since she was a child, every aspect of Julia Haart's life-what she wore, what she ate, what she thought-was controlled by the dictates of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. At nineteen, after a lifetime spent caring for her seven younger siblings, she...
13) Blessings
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1989
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English
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A beautiful and gutsy lawyer, Jennie is on the brink of marriage and is trying the most important case of her career. Then a shattering secret from her past threatens to destroy her world.
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Dial Press
Pub. Date
c2001
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English
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Abandoned by her folk-dancing partner, Sharon Spiegelman "begins her own spiritual quest ... until she comes up empty. ... Especially when she meets Mikhail, falls truly in love at last, and discovers what even she could not imagine--her destiny."--Jacket.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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In 1921, Françoise Frenkel--a Jewish woman from Poland--fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations. Françoise's...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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""An extraordinary story of an unconventional, nervy woman and her determination to survive."--The New York Post Raised in a devout Roman Catholic family in the Netherlands, Paul Glaser was shocked to learn of his father's Jewish heritage as an adult. Grappling with his newfound identity and stunned by his father's secrecy, Paul set out to discover what had happened to his family during World War II and what had caused the long-standing rift between...
18) Back to back
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Raised by a harsh Jewish single mother who prioritizes her socialist party connections over her family in mid-twentieth-century East Berlin, Thomas is forced to abandon his dream of becoming a writer while his sister, Ella, becomes increasingly introverted.
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