Jewish category: 3083 books
by Jennifer Elvgren
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
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The dramatic story of neighbors in a small Danish fishing village who, during the Holocaust, shelter a Jewish family waiting to be ferried to safety in Sweden.
It is 1943...
Yaffa and Fatima
Shalom, Salaam
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Two neighbors—one Jewish, one Muslim—have always been best friends. When they both fall on hard times, can they find a way to help each other? In Fawzia Gilani's retelling of this folktale—which has both Jewish and Arab origins—differences are not always causes for conflict and friendship can overcome any obstacle.
Yaffa and Fatima
Shalom, Salaam
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life!
Two neighbors—one Jewish, one Muslim—have always been best friends. When they both fall on hard times, can they find a way to help each other? In Fawzia Gilani's retelling...
In the Shadow of Hitler
Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
In the Shadow of Hitler chronicles the experiences of Alabama Jews as they worked to overcome their own divisions in order to aid European Jews before, during, and after the Second World War.
In this extensive study of how southern Jews in the United States responded to the Nazi persecution...
The Community Table
Recipes & Stories from the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan & Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Across the continent, JCCs are cultural epicenters of modern Jewish life. The buildings are hives of activity; at any given moment, hundreds of people of all ages, backgrounds, interests, and opinions gather to engage in a myriad of activities. And nothing says community more than food.
While...
An Uncertain Future
Voices of a French Jewish Community, 1940-2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This contemporary oral history, based on interviews conducted over an 18-year period, is the first of its kind in English. The interviews, some repeated with the same subjects over years, demonstrate how the Jewish community of Dijon has evolved over time in response to challenges both internal and...
An Ode to Salonika
The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Through the poetry of Bouena Sarfatty (1916-1997), An Ode to Salonika sketches the life and demise of the Sephardi Jewish community that once flourished in this Greek crossroads city. A resident of Salonika who survived the Holocaust as a partisan and later settled in Canada, Sarfatty preserved the...
by Kathleen Ann Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Denounced for heresy, pressured relentlessly to convert, accused of plagiarism, questioned for her learning, and literally robbed of hundreds of ducats in gold and goods, Sarra Copia Sullam faced travails that would have felled those fainter of heart. As a Jewish scholar in seventeenth century Venice,...
by Leonard Salvig
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Imagine yourself on the edge of an immense desert. Then accept the task of identifying a group of men who traveled through that dust-swept expanse about 2000 years ago. All that you have to guide you are 12 verses from a trusty document and a new piece of untested “evidence”, which is 8 words...
Chasing Portraits
A Great-Granddaughter's Quest for Her Lost Art Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The memoir of one woman’s emotional quest to find the art of her Polish-Jewish great-grandfather, lost during World War II.
Moshe Rynecki’s body of work reached close to eight hundred paintings and sculptures before his life came to a tragic end. It was his great-granddaughter Elizabeth...
Filming the End of the Holocaust
Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Filming the End of the Holocaust considers how the US Government commissioned the US Signal Corps and other filmmakers to document the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945 liberation. The evidence of the Nazis' genocidal actions amassed in these films, some of them made by...
Soldier of Rome: Rebellion in Judea
The Great Jewish Revolt, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
In the year 66 A.D. the Roman province of Judea exploded in rebellion. Far from being a revolution of unified peoples, the various Jewish factions of Sadducees, Zealots, Sicarii, and Edomites are in a state of civil war; as anxious to spill the blood of each other as they are to fight the Romans.
The...
Jüdische Museen zwischen gestern und morgen - Jewish Museums Past and Future
Reflexionen mit involvierter Außenperspektive/Reflections - From the Outside Looking In (Wiener Jahrbuch für Jüdische Geschichte, Kultur und Museumswesen 10/2013)
Language: German
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Der 10. Band des vom Jüdischen Museum Wien herausgegebenen "Wiener Jahrbuchs für Jüdische Geschichte, Kultur und Museumswesen" ist im Zusammenhang mit der neuen permanenten Ausstellung entstanden, die im November 2013 eröffnet wurde. Dieser Band zeichnet die begleitenden Reflexionen...
Girl
My Childhood and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
“An impressionistic memoir of a Polish Jewish girl’s survival hiding as a Gentile in Nazi-occupied Poland . . . truly moving and bravely rendered.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Alona Frankel was just two years old when Germany invaded Poland. After a Polish carpenter agreed to hide...