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If I should die before I wake
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Han Nolan |
As Hilary, a Neo-Nazi initiate, lies in a coma, she is transported back to Poland at the onset of World War II into the life of a Jewish teenager. |
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The Mortal Storm
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Phyllis Bottome |
Pre-World War II Ficton. It is rebellious Fraulein Freya Toiler's birthday and she does not want to spend it with her cheeky brothers. She wants to do something special; something exciting and out of… |
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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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Gauchos judíos
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Alberto Gerchunoff |
"Reprint, with minor changes, of the 1955 translation of Gerchunoff's 1910 classic volume about Jewish immigrants in rural Argentina. Twenty-six vignettes, with some inter-related characters, tell st… |
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The devil's company
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David Liss |
From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London. In Benjamin Weaver, Davi… |
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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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A coming evil
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Vivian Vande Velde |
During the German occupation of France in 1940, thirteen-year-old Lisette meets a ghost while living with her aunt who harbors Jewish and Gypsy children in the French countryside. |
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La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour
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Elie Wiesel |
Contains:
[La Nuit](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14856842W/La_Nuit)
L'Aube
Le Jour |
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Escape to the forest
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Ruth Y. Radin |
A young Jewish girl living with her family in the town of Lida at the beginning of World War II recalls the horrors of life under first the Russians then the Nazis, before fleeing to join Tuvia Biels… |
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The things a brother knows
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Dana Reinhardt |
Although they have never gotten along well, seventeen-year-old Levi follows his older brother Boaz, an ex-Marine, on a walking trip from Boston to Washington, D.C. in hopes of learning why Boaz is co… |
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Follow the star
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Robert Elmer |
In 1945 in Denmark, thirteen-year-old brother and sister Peter and Elise try to help their Jewish friend Henrik when his mother and a friend of hers are arrested by the Russians and accused of being … |
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Fancy Aunt Jess
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Amy Hest |
A girl enjoys being with her unmarried Aunt Jess, who lives in Brooklyn. |
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The runaway latkes
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Leslie Kimmelman |
When three potato latkes escape Rachel Bloom's frying pan on the first night of Hanukkah, everyone including the cantor, the rabbi, and the mayor joins in the chase. |
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Last Days of Summer
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Steve Kluger |
**From Goodreads:**
The hilarious and heart–warming story about a down–and–out kid who finds inspiration in his favourite baseball hero.
In Brooklyn, 1940, a wisecracking, baseball loving twelv… |
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A Mezuzah on the Door
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Amy Meltzer |
Moving is tough! Young readers will relate to the story of a little boy who moves from an apartment in the city to a house in the suburbs and must adjust to his new surroundings. The Jewish tradition… |
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The Bad Book Affair
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Ian Sansom |
In The Bad Book Affair Israel finds himself on the verge of his thirtieth birthday and on the trail of a troubled missing teenager, the daughter of a local politician. Why has the young woman disappe… |
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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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Anya's war
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Andrea Alban |
In 1937, the privileged and relatively carefee life of a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, whose family emigrated from Odessa, Ukraine, to Shanghai, China, comes to an end when she finds an abandoned ba… |
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Blooms of Darkness
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Aharon Appelfeld,Jeffrey M. Green |
A new novel from the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli writer ("One of the greatest writers of the age"--The Guardian), a haunting, heartbreaking story of love and loss.The ghetto in w… |
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Moishe's Miracle
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Laura Krauss Melmed |
Moishe, a milkman who is kind to everyone in his poor village of Wishniak, receives a magic frying pan that produces an unlimited supply of delicious Hanukkah latkes. |
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