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Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
"In To the End of the Earth, Hordes explores the remarkable story of crypto-Jews and the tenuous preservation of Jewish rituals and traditions in Mexico and New Mexico over the past five hundred years. He follows the crypto-Jews from their Jewish origins in medieval Spain and Portugal to their efforts to escape inquisitorial persecution by migrating to the New World and settling in the far reaches of the northern Mexican frontier.".
"Drawing on individual...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized personality have, for sixty-eight years, been a force to be reckoned with, is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents' deaths, his divorce from his wife of more than thirty years, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner, he's felt an irresistible need to give away his possessions, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With...
3) Incantation
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
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The opposing forces of love and hate, loyalty and betrayal underscore this brief but rich tale set during the Spanish Inquisition. Told by 16-year-old Estrella deMadrigal, friends Estrella and Catalina envision that their lives will be intertwined forever. However, there is a secret about Estrella and her family that unfolds in spurts.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young people, Essie, goes missing. Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her. Along the way...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the end of the Second World War, the town of Rolfen, West Germany, looks just as peaceful and beautiful as ever, until young Peter Liebig discovers a secret about his past that leads him to question everything, including the town's calm facade and his own sense of comfort and belonging.
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
In Journeys & Arrivals prize-winning author Lev Raphael explores for the first time in non-fiction the gay and Jewish identities that have dominated his highly acclaimed fiction for many years. Journeys & Arrivals reveals in a collection of autobiographical and critical essays the influence these often conflicting identities of being gay and Jewish have had in his life and his writing.
The child of Holocaust survivors, Raphael came to his positive...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Every day, Rabbi Diana Fersko fields questions she doesn't know how to answer: "My daughter isn't comfortable being Jewish on campus, do you have a minute to talk?" "Another shooting at a kosher marketplace. Should I be afraid?" Members of her congregation come to her worried and confused, and she lacks a resource she can point to that will help them understand what, exactly, is going on with antisemitism today--until now. We Need to Talk About Antisemitism...
13) Looking for me
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1936 Baltimore, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl, one of twelve siblings, tries to find her place in her overcrowded family.
Author
Publisher
Inlandia Institute
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sarassine Anfang, a precocious Los Angeles teen, is so fed up with her dysfunctional Jewish Hancock Park family that she decides to run away to her grandfather's Wilshire condo and become a plumber, but her chocolate-eating grandmother and her distracted parents have other ideas.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews inBrooklyn, New York. Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, "didn't suffer in the exact way" he needs to have suffered to qualify for the restitution the German government has been paying out to Holocaust survivors. Butsuffer...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Justine Silver, a teenaged middle child, questions her faith when her best friend, Mary Catherine McAllister gives up chocolate for Lent, but when her grandmother suffers a stroke, Jussy has to face her relationship with religion.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Whether real or imagined, the past filtered through their collective memories has an influence on how Jews and Arabs perceive themselves. This work highlights the effects of historical memory on the Arab-Israel conflict, demonstrating that Jews and Arabs use stories of distant pasts to create their identities and shape their politics.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.