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"As a Russian Jewish émigré to France, Vera's wealth cannot protect her or her four-year-old-daughter, Lucie, once the Nazis occupy the country. After receiving notice that all foreigners must report to an internment camp, Vera has just a few hours to make an impossible choice: Does she subject Lucie to the horrid conditions of the camp, or does she put her into hiding with her beloved and trusted governess, safe until Vera can retrieve her? Believing...
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Series
Unorthodox match volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 25 cm
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A powerful and moving novel of faith, love, and acceptance, from the international bestselling author of The Devil in Jerusalem. Yaakov is a man of God, a father, a Talmud scholar, and a widower. After failing to save his wife's life, he is struggling both financially and spiritually. Lola is a woman from the secular world who has suffered terrible tragedy and hardship in her life. To find her place she has turned to God and the Orthodox community...
Series
Studio classic volume 2
Publisher
Twentieth Century Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
c1998
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xviii, 358 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
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With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. In these images and objects that reflect, refract, and also shape daily experience, he finds new and illuminating insights into Jewish life in the modern period. Pointing to recent scholarship that overturns the stereotype of Jews as people of the text, unconcerned with the visual, Cohen shows how...
28) Algo de nada
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Publisher
Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
27 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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In this retelling of a traditional Jewish folktale, Joseph's baby blanket is transformed into ever smaller items as he grows until there is nothing left--but then Joseph has an idea.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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During a scarlet fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle. Based on a memory from the author's childhood.
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Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
272 pages 272 pages ; 24 cm
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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,...
32) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020].
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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.
34) The lost shtetl
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HarperVia
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
416 pages
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"What if there was a town that Hitler missed? For over fifty years the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol has existed virtually untouched and unchanged. Spared of the Holocaust and Cold War, Kreskol has enjoyed an isolated peace. But when a marriage dispute spirals out of control, Kreskol is suddenly rediscovered and brought into the 21st Century. Pesha is in a loveless, arranged marriage and summons the courage to escape Kreskol on foot. But when her...
40) Homicide
Series
Criterion collection volume 486
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become.
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