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Josephus
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Flavius Josephus |
It was published about A.D. 78, when Josephus was about 40 years old. The next work to be published was The Jewish Antiquities, about sixteen years later.
It consisted of the early writings of Josep… |
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Panter ba-martef
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Amos Oz |
The lighthearted tale of a 12-year-old Jewish boy who befriends a British policeman in 1947 Israel, a friendship which leads his comrades to accuse him of treason. The boys have formed a secret liber… |
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Los informantes
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez |
When Gabriel Santoro's biography is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a public intellectual and famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel could not imagine what had pierced his icy exterior to provoke … |
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When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit
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Judith Kerr |
Recounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930's as they travel from Germany to England. |
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Jonas Fink
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Giardino. |
The early adventures of Jonas Fink, a Jewish boy growing up in communist controlled Prague. |
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The Last Jew
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Noah Gordon |
After witnessing the murder of his father and brother, Yonah Toledano vows to honor the memory of his family by remaining Jewish, even though the Spanish government has vowed to exile all Jews.
El… |
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Cruzar California
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Adam Langer |
Three families living in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood find their lives impacted by world events from 1979 to 1981, including the Iran hostage crisis, Reagan's election, and the deaths of f… |
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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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Milkweed (Black Apples)
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Jerry Spinelli |
He’s a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham.
He’s a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He’s a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He’… |
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Servant of the Bones
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Anne Rice |
Azriel, Servant of the Bones, is a ghost, a demon, an angel who finds himself in present-day New York witnessing the murder of a young girl- He finds himself obsessed by the desire to avenge her deat… |
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Memories of Anne Frank
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Gold, Alison Leslie. |
Recounts the story of Hannah Goslar, a close friend of Anne Frank and one of the last to see her alive. |
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