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Evergreen Evergreen Belva Plain **8 Months on the N.Y. Times Best-Seller List. The Best-Loved Best-Seller of the Year:** A young Polish immigrant woman, in love with the scion of the German-Jewish banking family for which she work… OL10672947W
Strudel stories Strudel stories Joanne Rocklin Seven generations of a Jewish family hear stories of their family history, all told while making apple strudel. OL121004W
The Family Moskat The Family Moskat Isaac Bashevis Singer Review in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/25/home/singer-moskat.html OL1345096W
Mitla Pass Mitla Pass Leon Uris Gideon Zadok arrives in Israel with every intention to research a new book, mend a broken marriage and improve his dysfunctional family. But as political tensions escalate and his family is evacuated… OL14847871W
To wear the white cloak To wear the white cloak Sharan Newman "Catherine LeVendeur is an independent spirit fiercely loyal to both her faith and her family. The two sometimes conflict and while she has experienced love and loss, her life is committed to preserv… OL14871775W
Sunday Jews Sunday Jews Hortense Calisher From the Publisher: In this new novel, Calisher explores a family united in blood yet divided by ideas. The elder son Charles hopes to be a Supreme Court justice; the family beauty Nell has children… OL15153374W
Something red Something red Jennifer Gilmore A novel about a Jewish-American family in Washington DC in 1979. OL15470059W
Guardian of the dawn Guardian of the dawn Richard Zimler In late-sixteenth-century Goa, young Tiago Zarco confronts the long reach of the Inquisition as he fights to save his family and preserve his relationship with the Hindu girl he loves. OL15836763W
The cradle robbers The cradle robbers Ayelet Waldman Sandra Lorgeree, an inmate of California's isolated Dartmore prison, has surrendered her baby to foster care only to discover that the baby and the foster parents have disappeared. When Sandra is bru… OL15842241W
A song for my sister A song for my sister Lesley Simpson Mira's birthday wish comes true when her baby sister is born, but the little one spends her first eight days wailing, leaving the family at a loss for a name to announce at her simchat bat until Mira… OL15941408W
The list The list Martin Fletcher "Winner of a Jewish National Book Award for his previous book, Walking Israel, NBC Special Correspondent Martin Fletcher uses meticulous research and his own family's history in this stunning novel. … OL15980826W
Grandma Rose's magic / by Linda Elovitz Marshall ; illustrated by Ag Jatkowska Grandma Rose's magic / by Linda Elovitz Marshall ; illustrated by Ag Jatkowska Linda Elovitz Marshall Every day Grandma Rose sews for her friends and neighbors and puts away the money she earns, saving for a set of dishes just like her grandmother's Shabbos dishes. OL16652100W
The innocents The innocents Francesca Segal Adam and Rachel, childhood sweethearts, are getting married at last. Rachel is everything Adam has ever imagined in a wife and her parents adore him. A life of easy contentment waits, at the heart of… OL16693173W
Novels 2001-2007 (Dying Animal / Exit Ghost / Plot Against America) Novels 2001-2007 (Dying Animal / Exit Ghost / Plot Against America) Philip A. Roth Contains: - Dying Animal - Exit Ghost - [Plot Against America](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL74664W) OL17478841W
Nächstes Jahr in Jerusalem Nächstes Jahr in Jerusalem André Kaminski A humorous story about two Jewish families before, during, and after the First World War. OL17959880W
Simchat Torah Simchat Torah Judith Z. Abrams Presents a family service for Simchat Torah, the holiday marking the end of the reading of the Torah and beginning it again. Some prayers are in both Hebrew and English. OL1873521W
Being both Being both Susan Katz Miller "Susan Katz Miller grew up with a Jewish father and Christian mother, and was raised Jewish. Now in an interfaith marriage herself, she is one of the growing number of Americans who are boldly electi… OL19972145W
Bernard Malamud Bernard Malamud Bernard Malamud Raised in Brooklyn, the son of Jewish immigrants, and coming of age in Depression-era New York, Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) began his career writing stories of unsparing precision and power, plumbing… OL19977303W
The songs The songs Charles Elton "THE SONGS follows Iz Herzl, famed political activist and protest singer, who has always told his children that it is the future not the past they should concentrate on. Now, at 80, an almost forgott… OL20059745W
Fix Fix Sharon Leder 1 online resource (xxviii, 225 pages) OL21598653W
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