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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A guide to contemporary Judaism by law professor and public intellectual Noah Feldman"--
"A leading public intellectual's timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other. What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar and columnist Noah Feldman draws on a lifelong engagement with his religion...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Bransk, she looks at the fascinating experiments in multicultural coexistence -- still relevant to us today -- attempted in the eight centuries of Polish-Jewish history, and describes...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding"--
" Pre-order Price Guarantee. Terms From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words comes a middle grade novel set at the border between freedom and fear in World War II France, at the Chateau de Chenonceau, where a Jewish girl who...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Max in the House of Spies is everything you could hope for in a book," -R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wonder, White Bird, and Pony "Espionage! Secrets! Suspense! If you've ever dreamed of being a spy, this book is for you." -Alan Gratz, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee and Projekt 1065 Max Bretzfeld doesn't want to move to London. Leaving home is hard and Max is alone for the first time in his life. But...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Every Day, this is a queer love story set against the backdrop of the 2024 presidential election, in a reimagining of David Levithan's 2004 novel Wide Awake. When David Levithan published Wide Awake in 2004, he set it in an imagined 2024, where a gay Jewish man had just been elected president of the United States, until a governor decides that some election results in his state are invalid, awarding...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A tribute to Abraham Cahan, founder of a prominent Yiddish language newspaper whose discussion of everything from voting rights to baseball offered crucial guidance to Jewish immigrants"--
"A loving tribute to a towering figure in Jewish American history from two award-winning creators. Two-time National Jewish Book Award winner Norman H. Finkelstein and Sydney Taylor Award winner Vesper Stamper have teamed up to tell the story of Abraham Cahan,...
8) Jewish cattle traders in the German countryside, 1919-1939: economic trust and antisemitic violence
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919-1939,explores the social and economic networks in which this group operated and the informal but durable bonds between Jewish cattle traders and farmers that not even incessant Nazi attacks could break. Stefanie Fischer combines approaches from social history, economic history, and sociology to challenge the longstanding cliché of the shady Jewish cattle dealer. By focusing on trust and social...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a World War II veteran with a secret that could land him in the Gulag, and his family who are forced to live in the shadow of all he has not told them. Ukraine, 2007. Yefim Shulman, husband, grandfather and war veteran, was beloved by his family and his coworkers. But in the days after his death, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase. Yefim had a lifelong secret, and his confession...
10) Uprising
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
"Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi cross on each wing. Before the bombs hit the ground, Lidia realizes her life is about to change forever. Poland has fallen under German occupation,...
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