Catalog Search Results
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Simon Schama presents this epic series exploring the extraordinary story of the Jewish experience from ancient times to the present day. Both deeply historical and utterly contemporary, this is a compelling film about distinctiveness and difference, separation and isolation, tolerance and prejudice. It is also a celebration of the ways in which Jewish thought, imagination, and achievement have transformed the world for us all.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
496 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Description
Details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day. A tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
790 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"The second of a three volume cultural history that details the journey of the Jewish people from 1492 through the end of the nineteenth century, incorporating the stories of many who seldom figure in Jewish histories. Through Schama's passionate and intelligent telling, a story emerges of the Jewish people that feels as if it is the story of everyone, of humanity packed with detail."--Adapted from book jacket.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 333
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl and one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, Frank's triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time. This edition reprints the Definitive edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new introduction, a bibliography, and a chronology of Anne Frank's...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
272 pages 272 pages ; 24 cm
Description
There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America. An ill-timed visit forces twentysomething New Yorker Julian to shelter in place in Venice Beach with his glamorous and eccentric ninety-three-year-old grandmother, Mamie Künstler,...
13) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020].
Formats
Description
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
17) 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...
20) The blessing cup
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm.
Description
A single china cup from a tea set left behind when Jews were forced to leave Russia helps hold a family together through generations of living in America, reminding them of the most important things in life.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title