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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
573 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"A one-in-ten-billion natural disaster devastates Chicago. A Jewish comedian, his most devoted fan, and the city's mayor must struggle to move forward while the world-quite literally-caves beneath their feet."--
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Description
Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shtetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young emigrants goes missing, Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her. But there are obstacles...
85) Afterward
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the context of the current re-emergence of anti-Semitism around the globe, director Ofra Bloch examines its history and, through interviews with people in Germany, Israel, and Palestine, tries to look at it both from the perspective of those who see Jews as victims as well as those who consider them to be victimizers.
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Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
After finding a collection of her grandfather's letters, a journalist begins a search for the fate of the love he left behind in prewar Vienna six months after the Nazis took Austria.
Years after her grandfather's death, Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters that opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family's prewar Vienna. Wildman had once asked her grandmother about a dark-haired young woman whose images she found in an old...
87) Prisoner B-3087
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Description
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
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"An allegorical tale about Nazi occupied Poland in which a town's residents are forced to turn over their musical instruments. A young student rescues the hurdy-gurdy of her teacher, who has presumably befallen a terrible fate, and later, a young boy finds the instrument and intends to pass it--and the importance of remembering--on to his future grandchildren"--
89) Golden voices
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the Soviet Union collapses, a Russian Jewish couple, who made their careers as dubbing artists, decide to emigrate to Israel, where they struggle to find employment and attempt to use their talents in unconventional ways.
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
96 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
From its beginnings, America, founded on religious freedom, has been a land of opportunity for Jews socially as well as spiritually. Here are profiles of twenty-one individuals who have enriched America and the lives of Americans through their achievements in such areas as science, sports, film making, and civil rights. An inspiring journey through more than two centuries of American Jewish history.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
566 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"This wide-ranging, fresh perspective on the political and social landscape that gave rise to World War II delivers a moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and 1940s. Incorporating meticulous research and well-documented sources--including newspaper and magazine articles, radio speeches, memoirs, and diaries--the book juxtaposes hundreds of interrelated moments of decision, brutality, suffering, and mercy....
94) The Do More Club
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Ever since twelve-year-old Josh Kline found an antisemitic note in his family's mailbox in third grade, he has felt uncomfortable about his Jewish identity. At a new school where he's pretty sure he's the only Jew, he's hoping to just keep religion out of everything...until the morning someone sprays swastikas all over the building. That's when everything changes. In one of the school counseling groups set up in response to the attack, Josh finally...
95) Number the stars
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Appears on these lists
Description
In 1943, during the German occupation of Demark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
96) The book thief
Author
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
98) Auschwitz
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 30 cm.
Description
A description of what happened at Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland used during World War II by the Nazis to gather and murder many people, mostly Jews.
99) The little bride
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Tells the story of a sixteen-year-old Russian Jewish mail-order bride who finds herself stranded in the prairies of South Dakota married to a man twice her age and falling in love with her nineteen-year-old step-son.
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Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Ziva will do anything to save her twin brother Pesah from his illness--even facing the Angel of Death himself. Pesah has lived with leprosy for years, and the twins have spent most of that time working on a cure. Then Pesah has a vision: The Angel of Death will come for him on Rosh Hashanah, just one month away. So Ziva takes her brother and runs away to find doctors who can cure him. But when they meet and accidentally free a half-demon boy, he suggests...
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