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Evergreen
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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… |
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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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Mitla Pass
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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… |
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To wear the white cloak
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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… |
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Sunday Jews
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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… |
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Something red
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Jennifer Gilmore |
A novel about a Jewish-American family in Washington DC in 1979. |
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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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The cradle robbers
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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… |
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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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The list
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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. … |
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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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The innocents
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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… |
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Novels 2001-2007 (Dying Animal / Exit Ghost / Plot Against America)
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Philip A. Roth |
Contains:
- Dying Animal
- Exit Ghost
- [Plot Against America](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL74664W) |
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Nächstes Jahr in Jerusalem
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André Kaminski |
A humorous story about two Jewish families before, during, and after the First World War. |
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Simchat Torah
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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. |
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Being both
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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… |
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Bernard Malamud
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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… |
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The songs
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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… |
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Fix
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Sharon Leder |
1 online resource (xxviii, 225 pages) |
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