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Strudel stories
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Joanne Rocklin |
Seven generations of a Jewish family hear stories of their family history, all told while making apple strudel. |
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The Family Moskat
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Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Review in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/25/home/singer-moskat.html |
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Guardian of the dawn
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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. |
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A song for my sister
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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… |
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Grandma Rose's magic / by Linda Elovitz Marshall ; illustrated by Ag Jatkowska
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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. |
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Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
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Roz Chast |
In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and document… |
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The wonder spot
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Melissa Bank |
Nothing comes easy for Sophie Applebaum, the black sheep of her family trying to blend with with the herd. At home she took back seat to her brothers and, in college, to her beautiful best friend. In… |
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The Sacrifice of Tamar (Readers Guide Editions)
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Naomi Ragen |
A rabbi's wife in New York is raped by a black man, but hides the incident from her husband and they continue sleeping as normal. On becoming pregnant she cannot tell who the father is, so decides ag… |
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Watch Your Mouth
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Daniel Handler |
Tolstoy wrote that happy families are alike and that each unhappy family is unhappy in a different way. In Watch Your Mouth, Daniel Handler takes "different" to a whole new level.... |
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A reunion of ghosts
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Judith Claire Mitchell |
"In the vein of such classic family sagas as Fall on Your Knees, A Reunion of Ghosts is the confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves on the very last day of the 20th century;… |
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Among the living
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Jonathan Rabb |
"In late summer 1947, thirty-one-year-old Yitzhak Goldah, a camp survivor, arrives in Savannah to live with his only remaining relatives. They are Abe and Pearl Jesler, older, childless, and an integ… |
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Breaking free
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Riva Pomerantz |
A moody eighteen year-old former "child-at-risk" who can't seem to shake his streetwise past finds some inner strength with the help of his still uncertain parents. |
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When Hitler stole pink rabbit + Bombs on Aunt Dainty
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Judith Kerr |
Partly autobiographical, these are first and second books in a trilogy by Judith Kerr, telling the story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War. |
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Open doors
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Gloria Goldreich |
Acclaimed artist Elaine Gordon can't believe her loving husband is gone. After a lifetime spent utterly devoted to her soul mate and their marriage, Elaine is now tetherless, faced with widowhood and… |
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My suburban shtetl
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Robert Rand |
""Grandpa's been arrested for hitting a Nazi with a salami!" So begins Robert Rand's engaging novel of growing up in Skokie, Illinois, home to one of America's largest communities of Jewish Holocaust… |
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Life in the damn tropics
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David Unger |
"Set in strife-torn Guatemala City in the early 1980s, this sophisticated, quasicomedic tale depicts the decline and near-fall of a prominent Guatemalan Jewish family.".
"First, the Eltaleph family … |
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Wolfy and the strudelbakers
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Zvi Jagendorf |
192 p. ; 22 cm |
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Five little gefiltes
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Dave Horowitz |
Five little gefilte fish sneak out of their jar and explore the world, causing their poor mother great worry. Includes a note about gefilte fish and a glossary of Yiddish words. |
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Shadow girl
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Deb Abramson |
"As the good little girl in an unhappy family who hid her darker troubles, Deb Abramson felt like she was living with another girl, a shadowy being who would neither leave nor make herself known.
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The Queen's Fool
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Philippa Gregory |
Henry VIII is dead, succeeded by his only legitimate son, nine year old Edward VI. Too young to rule, the realm is governed by a Regency Council, led by his uncle, Edward Seymour. Edward has continue… |
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