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Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A former Skverer Hasid and the founding editor of Unpious openly documents his harrowing loss of faith, which forced him into a life of deception, while providing a thought-provoking look at one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the U.S.
Author
Series
Unorthodox match volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this rich and compassionate novel, An Observant Wife, Naomi Ragen continues the love story between newly observant California-girl Leah and ultra-Orthodox widower Yaakov from An Unorthodox Match. From the joy of their wedding day surrounded by supportive friends and family, Yaakov and Leah are soon plunged into the complex reality of their new lives together as Yaakov leaves his beloved yeshiva to work in the city, and Leah confronts the often...
4) Kaddish.com
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father"--
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron, but Hoodie's world hasn't changed that much. He's got basketball to play, studies to avoid, and a supermarket full of delicious kosher snacks to eat. The people of Tregaron aren't happy that so many Orthodox Jews are moving in at once, but that's not Hoodie's problem. That is, until he meets...
6) Disobedience
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A woman returns to the community that shunned her for her attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality
8) Disobedience
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After her father dies, a woman returns to the Orthodox Jewish community that exiled her for a forbidden attraction to her childhood friend.
Author
Language
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...
12) Honey and me
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When eleven-year-old Milla's best friend Honey joins her school for sixth grade Milla finds herself in her friend's shadow, but as the year progresses through the Jewish holidays Milla trys to cope with the tensions and the dramas of school--including thedeath of a beloved teacher.
"Fans of Judy Blume, The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street, and The Penderwicks will love this funny, charismatic story of a Jewish girl striving to forge her own identity...
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