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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Dam adom Dam kaḥol adom Dam adom Dam kaḥol adom Ṿiḳṭoryah Adler-Sharon E assim se fez escuridão. No principio havia habitação e vida na terra. O fogo veio do céu e pairou sobre toda terra e consumiu toda vida que nela havia. Muitos foram salvos. E poucos foram os es… OL12052102W
Affaire courilof / Le bal / David Golder / Le bal / Mouches d'automne Affaire courilof / Le bal / David Golder / Le bal / Mouches d'automne Irène Némirovsky A collection of novels by the Russian-born author of Suite Française," who died in Auschwitz in 1942, features David Golder," a parable about greed and loneliness, as well as three novels available … OL1308095W
After I said no After I said no Sheila Golburgh Johnson 121 p. 22 cm OL14868155W
Journey to Ellis Island Journey to Ellis Island Carol Bierman An account of the ocean voyage and arrival at Ellis Island of twelve-year-old Julius Weinstein who, along with his mother and younger sister, immigrated from Russia in 1922. OL1843627W
Posledniĭ kaban iz lesov Pontevedra Posledniĭ kaban iz lesov Pontevedra Dina Rubina 286 pages ; 21 cm OL19738734W
A replacement life A replacement life Boris Fishman "A ... story of an aspiring twenty-something Russian-Jewish writer who struggles to reconcile his immigrant roots with his fragile new American identity"-- OL19980013W
Wadi de xiao hao Wadi de xiao hao Sami Michael Coming of age during the 1982 Arab-Israeli conflict, fatherless sisters Huda and Mary, Christian Arabs living in the Jewish city of Haifa, find their lives impacted by their new neighbor Alex, a trum… OL27061746W
Marc Chagall Marc Chagall Natalie Bober Traces the life of the noted painter, from his birth in Russia to his death in France, with an emphasis on his Jewish background. OL33633W
Cursing Columbus Cursing Columbus Eve Tal In 1907, fourteen-year-old Raizel, who has lived in New York City for three years, and her brother Lemmel, newly-arrived, respond very differently to the challenges of living as Ukrainian Jews in the… OL5818890W
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter Songs for the Butcher's Daughter Peter Manseau Summer, sweltering, 1996. A book warehouse in western Massachusetts. A man at the beginning of his adult life -- and the end of his career rope -- becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a gre… OL8443217W
What Happened to Anna K What Happened to Anna K Irina Reyn Married unhappily to a prominent member of her tight-knit Russian-Jewish immigrant community in Queens, vivacious Anna K. engages in a reckless affair with an outsider on whom she has pinned fleeting… OL8454097W
Beyond the Pale Beyond the Pale Elana Nachman/Dykewomon Born in a Russian-Jewish settlement, Gutke Gurvich is a midwife who immigrates to New York’s Lower East Side with her partner, a woman passing as a man. Their story crosses with that of Chava Meyer, … OL8612967W