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Prisoners Prisoners Jeffrey Goldberg The author describes his move to Israel as a student, his work as a prison guard, and his extended dialogue with a prisoner named Rafiq, a PLO leader, explaining how they forged a friendship despite … OL12446949W
Hank Greenberg Hank Greenberg Mark Kurlansky Profiles the Jewish-American baseball player who, in 1934, risked his chance to beat Babe Ruth's home run record by sitting out a game on Yom Kippur, and describes his impact on Jewish-American histo… OL15976417W
Great lives from history Jewish Americans Great lives from history Jewish Americans Rafael Medoff Great Lives from History: Jewish Americans features 646 essays covering 654 people (including 124 women) from the eighteenth century to the present. The majority of the individuals included in this s… OL16175561W
You saved me, too You saved me, too Susan Kushner Resnick "An extraordinary and literary "love story" between a young mother and a much older Holocaust survivor that celebrates the unique and powerful bonds of friendship. It explores a complex relationship … OL16599958W
The walker and the city The walker and the city Alfred Kazin The acclaimed story of a soul awakening to the ecstasy of the senses, the power of language, and the meaning of existence. Kazin's memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the jou… OL1730360W
White boy White boy Mark Naison "How does a Jewish boy who spent the bulk of his childhood on the basketball courts of Brooklyn wind up teaching in one of the city's pioneering black studies departments? Naison's odyssey begins as … OL18245634W
A Jew in America A Jew in America Arthur Hertzberg ""I became an American by refusing to assimilate," writes Arthur Hertzberg in this long-awaited memoir. Throughout his life this world-renowned rabbi, activist, author, historian, public servant, and… OL1858476W
Barney Ross Barney Ross Douglas Century Born Dov-Ber Rasofsky to Eastern European immigrant parents, Barney Ross grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood and witnessed his father's murder, his mother's nervous breakdown, and the dispatching… OL1861937W
White lies White lies Maurice Berger Contains primary source material. OL19671450W
Making it Making it Norman Podhoretz xi, 254 pages ; 21 cm OL19719686W
The lost The lost Daniel Mendelsohn Daniel Mendelsohn grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandf… OL20880616W
Bringing Bubbe home Bringing Bubbe home Debra Gordon Zaslow "Debra Zaslow was humming along on baby-boomer autopilot, immersed in her life as a professional storyteller, wife of a Rabbi, and mother of two teenagers when she felt compelled to bring her 103-yea… OL23180916W
Jazz Age Jews Jazz Age Jews Michael Alexander "By the 1920s, Jews were - by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day - making it in America. But as these children of immigrants took their places in American society, many deliber… OL2379955W
Who She Was Who She Was Samuel G. Freedman When Samuel G. Freedman was nearing fifty, the same age at which his mother died of breast cancer, he realized that he did not know who she was. Of course, he knew that Eleanor had been his mother, a… OL3274125W
The gentleman and the Jew The gentleman and the Jew Maurice Samuel viii, 325 p. ; 22 cm OL4628617W
Bronx primitive Bronx primitive Kate Simon The classic, unforgettable memoir of a young girl's coming of age, "Bronx Primitive" recalls the vitality of an immigrant neighborhood through the unsentimental eyes of a child. With an unerring eye … OL4651446W
Hello, America Hello, America Livia Bitton-Jackson The book is the third and final book in a series detailing the writer's experience growing up as a Jew in Hungary during the time of the Holocaust. The progression of events from there is that she, E… OL8199547W
Four Girls From Berlin Four Girls From Berlin Marianne Meyerhoff Lotte Meyerhoff thought she had lost everything when she came to the United States after escaping from an internment camp: her beloved Berlin home, and her past. But when a mysterious package arrived… OL8226829W
Missing men Missing men Joyce Johnson Joyce Johnson’s classic memoir of growing up female in the 1950s, Minor Characters, was one of the initiators of an important new genre: the personal story of a minor player on history’s stage. In Mi… OL894824W
My Jesus Year My Jesus Year Benyamin Cohen One day a Georgia-born son of an Orthodox rabbi discovers that his enthusiasm for Judaism is flagging. He observes the Sabbath, he goes to synagogue, and he even flies to New York on weekends for a s… OL9546020W
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