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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Adam, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Will he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people he interviews is his flatmate Sala, who is stoic, determined, and funny--and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
271 p. : ill., map cm.
Language
English
Description
The stunning story of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what they experienced along their dangerous route, and how they changed America and the world.In a style both personal and historically groundbreaking, acclaimed author Kati Marton (herself born in Budapest) tells the tale of their youth in Budapest's Golden Age of the early twentieth century, their flight, and their lives of extraordinary accomplishment,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Large type edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past.
44) Hidden child
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
73 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.
45) Lots of latkes
Author
Series
Publisher
Kar-Ben Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rivka Leah invites her neighbors to a Hanukkah party, but a series of mishaps causes each of them to bring the same dish-- latkes.
Author
Series
Sephardic cycle volume 1
Publisher
Arcadia Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A novel on the 1506 massacre of Jews in Lisbon. The hero is Berekiah Zarco, a young manuscript painter hunting for the killer of his uncle, both being kabbalists, Jews practicing their faith in secret after obligatory conversion to Christianity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Misha has no one to celebrate Hanukkah with until he discovers a hungry cat in his barn. The lucky little cat inspires Misha to turn each night of Hanukkah into something special"--
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
622 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1936, the Nazis are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna's streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan's best friend and companion is the brilliant Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From one of the most important contemporary voices to emerge from the Middle East comes a gripping tale of love and betrayal, honesty and artifice, which asks whether it is possible to truly reinvent ourselves, to shed our old skin and start anew. Second Person Singular follows two men, a successful Arab criminal attorney and a social worker-turned-artist, whose lives intersect under the most curious of circumstances. The lawyer has a thriving practice...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the ocean voyage and arrival at Ellis Island of twelve-year-old Julius Weinstein who, along with his mother and younger sister, immigrated from Russia in 1922.
54) Daniel Deronda
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 163
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
253 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Natalie Marx, obsessed with The Inn at Lake Devine in Vermont ever since learning that Jews are not welcome at the family-owned resort, changes the course of her life when she manages to finagle an invitation to join a friend there on vacation.
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an experience Eva remembers well--and the search to reunite people...
58) Remembrance
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (112 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Inspired by actual events, Remembrance depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed amidst the terror of a German concentration camp in Poland 1944. In a daring escape Tomasz, a young Polish political prisoner, rescues his Jewish fiancee Hannah, whom he meets while imprisoned. With the Nazis in pursuit and determined to deter future escapees, Hannah and Tomasz survive the initial chase and overcome all odds to make their way into hiding. Chaos ensues...
59) Go For Zucker
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
First-class pool shark and all-around hustler Jaeckie Zucker is up to his ears in debt, again. He faces jail, divorce and general ruin. When word comes that his mother has died, leaving an inheritance, it's a stroke of luck. But according to his mother's will, before he can cash in Zucker must first reconcile with his long-estranged, Orthodox brother Samuel, who is arriving the next day, family in tow, expecting to sit shiva for seven days. Can Zucker,...
60) House of Life
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This is the story of The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, the site of layer upon layer of buried members of the once-vibrant Jewish community. Almost a million people from all over the world now visit the cemetery each year, and HOUSE OF LIFE chronicles its history, which is rich in lore, mysticism, tradition and philosophy. Tales of great rabbis and philanthropists and the story of the giant golem, created from clay to protect the Jewish people, are...
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