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1) Blessings
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Language
English
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At 36, Jennie Rakowsky's dreams were coming true. She was about to marry a wonderful man, her career as a lawyer was skyrocketing, and she had never been more beautiful, but then the secret she had hidden for 19 years threatened to shatter it all.
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Publisher
Leapfrog Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of twenty five short stories about the children of Holocaust survivors and the conflicts between homosexuality and traditional Judaism"--Provided by publisher.
"“The power of Raphael’s stories comes from his passion for telling the truth, however painful.”٬٢٠١٤؛Hadassah Magazine “His characters are voices of reason, observers rather than judges. The prose is poetic, the sex scenes sweat with passion.”٬٢٠١٤؛Los...
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Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A septuagenarian Red Army veteran from the Ukraine living in Israel impresses his devoted younger caretaker, Irena, with intellectual writings that offer him no relief from his communist past.
"Aharon Appelfeld is one of the subtlest, most unorthodox, and most exactingly perceptive novelists to make the memory of the Holocaust his abiding project." --Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker A lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker transform...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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""This forgotten history of displaced WWII children and the return to their roots [is] captivating, thought-provoking, enlightening, and bittersweet." ―Alka Joshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Henna Artist "Rosner is one of my favorite authors." ―Lisa Scottoline, #1 bestselling author of Eternal From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of...
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Translation of a French autobiographical novel which tells the story of two girls, one Jewish the other the daughter of resistance fighters, who are hidden in a French convent boarding school during World War II, and of the years following the war when they try to put their live together again.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A fictionalized account of the life of a woman who, as an infant in 1944, was saved from the Holocaust when her parents threw her from the train carrying them to a concentration camp. Includes author's note about how she came to hear the true story.
"A fictionalized account of the life of a woman who, as an infant in 1944, was saved from the Holocaust when her parents threw her from the train carrying them to a concentration camp. Includes author's...
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English
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"The author of the sensational national best seller For the Relief of Unbearable Urges returns with a commanding new collection of short stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank establishes Nathan Englander beyond all doubt as the heir to Roth, Malamud, and Babel. A tour de force. The title story, inspired by Carver's masterpiece, is a comic classic, a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the holocaust is played out as a...
10) Paper hearts
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Amid the brutality of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, a forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this novel in verse that's based on a true story.
11) Girl unwrapped
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Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Girl Unwrapped is a girl's coming-of-age story set in 1960s Montreal about the burdens and blessings of history, the divided self, and the quest to be whole. Toni Goldblatt's awakening to taboo desire conflicts with her Holocaust-scarred parents' expectations. Yearning to reinvent herself, she flees to Israel in the wake of the 1967 war, but the Zionist dream doesn't save her; only on her return, when she discovers kindred spirits in the underground...
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Publisher
B
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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"aAmsterdam, 1942. En Holanda ya ondea la bandera nazi y miles de judaios aguardan el daia de su deportaciaon en lugares como el Teatro Hollandsche Shouwburg. El profesor Johan van Hulst es testigo de las condiciones en las que esperan los ni�nos judaios,atemorizados y sin sustento, y es incapaz de quedarse impasible ante tanto sufrimiento. Para hacer frente a la tragedia, se pondraa en contacto con Henri�ette Pimentel -la directora de la guarderaia...
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