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Edith's Story
by Edith Velmans Synopsis During World War II, Edith Velmans was forced into hiding in a Protestant household in Holland the same month as Anne Frank. To deflect suspicion, Edith had to look after a German officer. Forty years later, using her own diaries and letters, she...
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Who's who in Jewish history :after the period of the Old Testament
by Joan Comay Publisher Comments Joan Comay's Who's Who in the Old Testament followed the history of Jewish people up to the end of the First Book of Maccabees in 135 B.C. In Who's Who in Jewish History she continues this fascinating story from that point up to the present day, a period...
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Jewish Americans (Coming to America)
by Robert Stein Publisher Comments 1st ed. for the U.S., its territories and dependencies, and Canada. Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-125) and index....
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Tell No One Who You Are: The Hidden Childhood of Regine Miller
by Walter Buchignani Publisher Comments During the days of Nazi terror in Europe, many Jewish children were taken from their families and hidden. Regine Miller was one such child, who left her mother, father, and brother when she was 10 years old. Utterly alone as she is shunted from place to...
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Sellie and Dee: A Friendship
by Estelle Leontief Publisher Comments Estelle Leontief records, with candor and rich humor, and with the perspective of age, the early years of a remarkable lifelong friendship: how two Jewish girls growing up in the Bronx in the first quarter of the century, learning to value expressiveness,...
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When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son (S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies)
by Samuel C Heilman Publisher Comments Samuel Heilman's eloquent account of the traditional customs that are put into practice when a Jewish person dies provides both an informative anthropological perspective on Jewish rites of mourning and a moving chronicle of the loss of his own father...
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When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland
by Nechama Tec Publisher Comments Everyone knows the name of Anne Frank but few people remember anything about the people who sheltered her. Who were the rescuers and what motivated them to risk their lives for persecuted Jews? Clearly such people deserve to be remembered and honored...
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The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner
by Eli N Evans Publisher Comments In 33 entertaining essays, Evans explores southern politics, history, and culture; the state of Israel; and the Civil war--delineating them through the prism of his Jewish-Southern identity and reflecting upon the paradox of the Southern Jewish...
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Ethics of the Fathers: Hebrew Text, English Translation & Commentary Digest
by Philip Blackman Publisher Comments This beloved section of the Mishnah is a classic repository of Judaism's wisdom and profound moral precepts. This edition contains the complete Hebrew text as well as a modern English translation....
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Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry
by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments Despite the horrors of the Holocaust, decades of Soviet dominance, the rise of neo-Nazism, and a resurgence of anti-Semitism, Jewish communities have been recreated throughout postwar Europe. In A Chosen Few, Mark Kurlansky visits the homes and lives of...
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Courage to Remember: Interviews on the Holocaust
by Kinue Tokudome Publisher Comments The Holocaust was an attempt to erase those considered undesirable by the Nazi state from history, and thus remembering the Holocaust is essential if the Nazis are to remain defeated. This book introduces those people who are trying to make the world...
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Ani Tefilati: Teacher's Guide
by David Brody Publisher Comments Fully illustrated, this prayer program captures the interest of young students with a reading knowledge of Hebrew. Suited for primary grades in day schools or supplementary schools....
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Megillah: The Book of Esther
by Nosson Scherman Publisher Comments The ArtScroll Series presents the comments of the classic giants of ancient and contemporary times in a logical, comprehensible manner, like a master teacher on an exciting voyage of intellectual discovery....
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A Jewish Mother in Shangri-La
by Rosie Rosenzweig Publisher Comments An old joke tells of a Jewish woman who treks to the Himalayas to seek an audience with a guru sitting in seclusion on a mountaintop. When at last she comes before him, she implores: Sheldon, come home Rosie Rosenzweig became that Jewish mother--but in...
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Shadow over My Life
by Lilo Publisher Comments The turmoil and chaos at the dawn of World War II as seen through the eyes of a child. Lilo and her family escape the Nazis by the skin of their teeth. The author lives in Glenview, Illinois....
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Fragile Branches: Travels Through the Jewish Diaspora
by James R Ross Synopsis Ross, a Jewish journalist, explores six remote Jewish communities to discover how they have endured, and challenges readers to examine their own relationship to tradition, and provides an inspiring reminder of the diversity and richness of Jewish life....
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My Jewish Home
by Martin Lemelman Publisher Comments Colorfully illustrated symbols of our Jewish heritage serve as excellent introductions to the many holiday items found in the Jewish home....
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Through a Boy's Eyes: The Turbulent Years 1926-1945
by Louis Posner Publisher Comments As German Jews in the 1930s, Posner and his family were subject to escalating persecution by the Nazi party. Louis Posner was left to fend for himself at the age of fourteen. He managed to evade the Gestapo in Brussels until he received an "invitation...
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Contraversions #6: Conversations with Dvora
by Amia Lieblich Publisher Comments The life of Dvora Baron (1887-1956) evokes both inspiration and mystery. She was born in a Russian shtetl, the precocious daughter of a rabbi. Her intellectual gifts garnered her an education usually reserved for boys, and she soon proved a brilliant...
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The Way of Flame: A Guide to the Forgotten Mystical Tradition of Jewish Meditation
by Avram Davis Synopsis Helps us discover and explore the mystical path of Judaism -- a path of heart and soul....
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