(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
After surviving years of imprisonment in Auschwitz, three Slovakian sisters travel to Israel where the battle for freedom takes on new forms as they face the ghosts of their past and secrets they have kept from each other to find true peace and happiness.
"This program includes exclusive archival audio. From Heather Morris, the New York Times best-selling author of the multimillion-copy best seller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey:...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Traces the daring of Nazi hunters after World War II, revealing the contributions of legal experts, intelligence agents, and concentration camp survivors in tracking down and capturing high-profile Nazis.
Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series. As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the "notifiers" who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along their former best friend and her former lover Avram. Avram served in the army alongside...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, "one of the most respected Israel analysts" (Forward) living and writing in JerusalemIsrael is a tiny state, and yet it has captured the world's attention, aroused its imagination, and lately, been the object of its opprobrium. Why does such a small country speak to so many global concerns? More pressingly: Why does Israel make...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the ashes of genocide and a long history of suffering, Israel was conceived to be unique, a model society and the heart of a prosperous new Middle East. It is this...
Publisher
Vanguard International Cinema
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
This documentary traces intimate stories of courage in the harrowing years between the end of World War II and the formation of the state of Israel. Includes archival footage, original broadcasts and personal testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"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...
14) Exodus
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1960
Language
English
Description
The story of the birth of Israel as an independent state, based on the novel by Leon Uris.
Author
Series
Zion chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
16) Beni's war
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Beni is unhappy when his family moves from bustling Jerusalem to a remote moshav, a collective farm. There Beni makes a new friend, Sara, and new adversaries, Ori and Yoni. Beni’s older brother Motti, a soldier in the Israeli army, can back him up in a fight, but Beni knows that sometimes Motti must be away to fight for Israel"--
17) A light in Zion
Author
Series
Zion chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
18) The key to Zion
Author
Series
Zion chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request