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Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A conflict breaks out between liberal and orthodox Jews in a summer resort in New York State. The liberals live in the town while the orthodox are summer tourists who are led by a hardline rabbi. By the author of The Family Markowitz.
Author
Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From Maira Kalman, the author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and The Elements of Style, and Alex Kalman, designer, curator, writer, and founder of Mmuseumm, Sara Berman's Closet is a highly pictorial and narrative memoir of Maira's mother, an endearing and universally resonant celebration of individuality, personal expression, and the art of living authentically --
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then...
29) Bodies and souls: the tragic plight of three jewish women forced into prostitution in the Americas
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, A member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From the two-time National Book Award winning author of The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country, a short, powerful novel about an American professor of Holocaust Studies who, over the course of a weeklong spiritual retreat at Auschwitz, is forced to grapple with his own past and a family secret: the Jewish mother abandoned to her doom by his Gentile father"--
1996. Clements Olin, an American professor of Holocaust Studies, is on a weeklong spiritual...
33) The property
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
May 2013.
Language
English
Description
TV producer Mica Segal accompanies her grandmother, Regina, on the old lady's first return to Warsaw since she fled, pregnant by a gentile with Mica's late father, to Palestine in 1939. On the plane, the son of a friend of Regina's ebulliently accosts the women and thereafter seems to show up wherever they go, even separately. Mica shakes him by dodging into a café, where she meets a charming Pole who leads Jewish history tours. Not by chance, Regina...
34) Mazel
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A three-generation saga of Jewish women through the eyes of actress Sasha Saunders, the grandmother. The novel follows her from rural Poland to the hectic cultural life of pre-war Warsaw, to modern-day America where she organizes the life of her daughter, a 1960s flower child, and her granddaughter, a square mathematician--all the while reflecting on the role of "mazel," that capricious imp of fortune which governs our lives. By the author of The...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Champagne, 1940: Inès has just married Michel, the owner of storied champagne house Maison Chauveau, when the Germans invade. As the danger mounts, Michel turns his back on his marriage to begin hiding munitions for the Résistance. Inès fears they'll be exposed, but for Céline, half-Jewish wife of Chauveau's chef de cave, the risk is even greater-rumors abound of Jews being shipped east to an unspeakable fate. When Céline recklessly follows...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Upset when her boyfriend dumps her on Christmas, Jewish publicist Aimee Albert seeks companionship with a nice Jewish man and finds herself falling for Josh Hirsch, who mistakes her for a shiksa and who has a different attitude toward Judaism than she does.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post): A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast. It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies....
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