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Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
"Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel -- a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent...
2) First light
Author
Series
A.D. chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
395 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
573 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
For fifteen years, the Wilcoxes have been a family in name only. Though never the picture of happiness, they once seemed like a typical white Jewish clan from the Upper West Side. But in the early 2000s, two events ruptured the relationships between them. First, Naomi revealed to her children that her biological father was actually Black. In the aftermath, college-age daughter Bering left home to become a radical peace activist in Palestine’s West...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"From a remarkable new voice in fiction, Bethany Ball, comes a transporting debut; a hilarious multigenerational family saga set in Israel, New York, and Los Angeles that explores the secrets and gossip-filled lives of a kibbutz community near Jerusalem. Meet Marc Solomon, an Israeli ex-Navy commando now living in L.A., who is falsely accused of money laundering through his asset management firm. As the Solomons' Santa Monica home is raided, Marc's...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, an epic family saga about a headstrong Austrian heiress who will be forced to choose between the family she's made and the family that made her at the outbreak of World War I. Vienna, 1911. Twenty-one-year-old Greta Goldbaum has always hungered after what's forbidden: secret university lectures, unseemly trumpet lessons, and most of all, the freedom to choose her life's path. ...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 25 cm
Description
The son of a grieving Jewish family in jazz age Chicago impresses patrons of a mob-controlled saloon with his piano talents, which become subject to a changing music era, his need to survive, and exacting mob demands.
8) Exile music
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"An atmospheric and meditative novel based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, following a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds the...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"For readers of The Nightingale and, an exquisitely moving novel about friendship, love, and redemption in a circle of immigrants who flee Europe for 1930s-era New York City. On the eve of World War II Egon Schneider--a gallant and successful Jewish doctor, son of two world-famous naturalists--escapes Germany to an uncertain future across the sea. Settling into the unfamiliar rhythms of upper Manhattan, he finds solace among a tight-knit group of...
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Description
""Reading Georgia Hunter's We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment."--Paula McLain, New York Timesbestselling author of The Paris Wife. An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who scatter at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive, and to reunite. It is the spring of 1939, and three generations...
11) Left luggage
Publisher
Fox Lorber Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young Jewish philosophy student, with little knowledge of the many strict rules of the Hassidic way of life, becomes the nanny for a family that she learns to respect. Her parents are both concentration camp survivors and her father is obsessed with finding the two pieces of luggage he buried in Antwerp at the start of World War II.
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Set during World War II, the novel is the parallel tale of two Jewish girls, cousins, living on separate continents, whose strikingly different lives ultimately converge. Brooklyn-born Mira Kane is the eighteen-year-old daughter of a well-to-do manufacturer of women's knitwear in New York. Her cousin, eight-year-old Rosha Kaninsky, is the lone survivor of a family in Vilna exterminated by the invading Nazis. But unbeknownst to her American relatives,...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
260 pages, 22cm
Description
The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling conundrum: What damage do we do in the blindness of love? Thousands of miles from home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit windowsat two little girls. They are the grandchildren she's never met, daughters of the daughter she has not seen in years. At the center of this mesmerizing story is the woman's quest to understand how a...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In the vein of such classic family sagas as Fall on Your Knees, A Reunion of Ghosts is the confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves on the very last day of the 20th century; in it they tell the story of a family haunted by suicide ever since the sisters' great-grandfather, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, developed the first poison gas used in warfare and also the lethal agent used in the Third Reich's gas chambers--inspired...
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Description
For all his wealth and success, Asher Malacouti--the head of a prosperous Jewish family living in the Iranian town of Kermanshah in the early twentieth century--cannot have the one thing he desires above all: a son. His young wife Rakhel, trapped in an oppressive marriage at a time when a woman's worth is measured by her fertility, is made desperate by her failure to conceive, and grows jealous and vindictive.
17) Shmutz: a novel
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"An arranged marriage is expected for Raizl, but she's not like the other young women in her Hasidic sect in Brooklyn. Raizl has a college scholarship to study accounting, a part-time job that supports her family, and a hidden computer making it all possible. That's where she finds the porn, through the slippery slope of an innocent Google search. As Raizl dives deeper into the world of porn at night, her daytime life begins to unravel. The porn is...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
A septuagenarian business owner evaluates her grandchildren as possible successors to her multi-million-dollar beauty empire, including New York movie studio editor Daisy, womanizing sports PR representative Matt, and religious Legal Aid lawyer Raquel.
19) The kind words
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This quirky and wry comedy follows three Jewish Israeli siblings, Dorona and brothers Netanel and Shai, who, in the wake of their mother's death, learn the man who raised them is not their biological dad. The revelation sends them on a road trip from Israel across France to discover the truth about their real father. It explores an unraveling family secret and the bittersweet journey of self-discovery that follows.
20) Paris-Manhattan
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A pharmacist with an obsession with Woody Allen is pressured by her Jewish family to find a husband.
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