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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
Jewish portraits, Indian frames Jewish portraits, Indian frames Jael Miriam Silliman With reference to India. OL12924612W
Jacob's Way Jacob's Way Gilbert Morris Fleeing a bloody pogrom that threatens their tiny Russian village, Reisa Dimitri and her grandfather, Jacob, sail the ocean to a new life in America. They are swiftly embraced by New York's Jewish co… OL14854729W
The Beloved Enemy (The House of Winslow #30) The Beloved Enemy (The House of Winslow #30) Gilbert Morris Kefira Reis, a young Jewish woman, works in a sweatshop in the New York garment district. When her boss abuses her, she fights back and flees. Joshua Winslow has just been released from prison, but w… OL14854869W
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
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
The J.A.P. chronicles The J.A.P. chronicles Isabel Rose Reunited with her former bunkmates at the centennial of Willow Lake Camp, Ali Cohen, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, plans to make a documentary about her former teenage tormentors at the Jewish girls'… OL15867516W
The little Russian The little Russian Susan Sherman "The Little Russian spotlights an exciting new voice in historical fiction, an assured debut that should appeal to readers of Away by Amy Bloom or Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. The novel tells th… OL16176175W
The JPS guide to Jewish women The JPS guide to Jewish women Cheryl Tallan,Emily Taitz,Sondra Henry "This sourcebook casts a new and clear light on Jewish women as individuals throughout history, setting them firmly within the context of their own cultural and historical periods." "Overview section… OL16294998W
Fighting gravity Fighting gravity Peggy Rambach "Ellie Rifkin is a nineteen-year-old college student from a privileged Jewish background when she meets forty-one-year-old professor Gerard Babineau. Already twice-divorced, he is a hard drinker, an … OL16524612W
Alibi Alibi Joseph Kanon It is 1946, and a stunned Europe is beginning its slow recovery from the ravages of World War II. Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witne… OL167140W
"How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?" "How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?" Tahneer Oksman American comics reflect the distinct sensibilities and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the contributions of Jewish women? Focusing … OL17322614W
The sisters Weiss The sisters Weiss Naomi Ragen "A powerful new novel of identity, loyalty and true love, from the international bestselling author of The Tenth Song In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict u… OL17819037W
The Sacrifice of Tamar (Readers Guide Editions) The Sacrifice of Tamar (Readers Guide Editions) 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… OL1853907W
Daughters of Yemen Daughters of Yemen Mishael Caspi Bibliography: p. 257-264. OL19339683W
Immigrant girl, radical woman Immigrant girl, radical woman Matilda Rabinowitz Matilda Rabinowitz's illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. She describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual a… OL19723691W
Not our kind Not our kind Kitty Zeldis One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II, a minor traffic accident brings together Eleanor Moskowitz and Patricia Bellamy. Their encounter seems fated: Eleanor, a teacher an… OL19749358W
The shame borne in silence The shame borne in silence Abraham J. Twerski "Providing a religious lens on the topic, this book directly addresses the problem of spousal abuse in the Jewish community. Rabbi Twerski's book was one of the first titles to break open the issue, … OL1981099W
Wayfaring stranger Wayfaring stranger James Lee Burke "From "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post): A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of W… OL19978228W
Gertrude Weil Gertrude Weil Leonard Rogoff "It is so obvious that to treat people equally is the right thing to do," wrote Gertrude Weil (1879-1971). In the first-ever biography of Weil, Leonard Rogoff tells the story of a modest southern Jew… OL20058101W
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