Jewish category: 3083 books
Shared Sorrows
A Gypsy Family Remembers the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
On the morning after Kristallnacht, Toby Sonneman’s father walked through broken glass to apply for the visa that saved him from the fate of so many during the Third Reich. In examining her own family history, the author discovered the similarities between the fate of the Jews and the Gypsies in...
Polish Film and the Holocaust
Politics and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
During World War II Poland lost more than six million people, including about three million Polish Jews who perished in the ghettos and extermination camps built by Nazi Germany in occupied Polish territories. This book is the first to address the representation of the Holocaust in Polish film and...
Out of the Inferno
Poles Remember the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Richard Lukas's book, encompassing the wartime recollections of sixty "ordinary" Poles under Nazi occupation, constitutes a valuable contribution to a new perspective on World War II. Lukas presents gripping first-person accounts of the years 1939-1945 by Polish Christians from diverse social...
Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational
The Stockholm International Forum and the First Decade of the International Task Force
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Holocaust Remembrance Between the National and the Transnational provides a key study of the remembrance of the Jewish Catastrophe and the Nazi-era past in the world arena. It uses a range of primary documentation from the restitution conferences, speeches and presentations made at the Stockholm International...
The Pages In Between
A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
In a unique, intensely moving memoir, Erin Einhorn finds the family in Poland who saved her mother from the holocaust. But instead of a joyful reunion, Erin unearths a dispute that forces her to navigate the increasingly bitter crossroads between memory and truth.
To a young newspaper reporter,...
The Woman Who Fought an Empire
Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman—the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine—who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring.
Following...
Writing in Tongues
Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics have...
by Amy Meltzer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Moving is tough! Young readers will relate to the story of a little boy who moves from an apartment in the city to a house in the suburbs and must adjust to his new surroundings. The Jewish tradition of putting up a mezuzah on the door and the accompanying celebration help his transition to his new home.
by Terri Fields
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! In this version of paying it forward, one good deed leads to another as people in a multicultural neighborhood, including a Jewish family, change the life of the community.
by T. S. Yavin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Reuven is quiet and thoughtful. His younger brother Avi is outgoing and impulsive. As irritating as they can be to each other, the boys have two strong bonds-the solidity of their Jewish family life and their passionate love for baseball. As the book opens, Reuven, a pitcher, is desperately working...
by Joan Betty Stuchner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Tova lives with her family on a small farm in the famous town of Chelm, a mythical village populated, according to Jewish folklore, by fools. Tova's farm has hens and even a rooster, but no cow. Her mother, Rivka, wishes they could afford to buy...
by Monique Polak
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Teach babies and toddlers about this important Jewish festival by exploring what happens during the Passover seder with this delightful photographic board book. This primer features family and friends coming together to share a meal, tell stories and sing songs, and encourages little ones to participate...
Young Lothar
An Underground Fugitive in Nazi Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Lothar Orbach, the youngest son of a German Jewish family, was just 14 when the Nazis began rounding up Berlin's Jews. His promising education was aborted; his close-knit family splintered. When the Gestapo came for Orbach's mother on Christmas Eve 1942, they escaped with false papers; his mother...
Choosing Yiddish
New Frontiers of Language and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Yiddish Hip Hop, a nineteenth-century “Hasidic Slasher,” obscure Yiddish writers, and immigrant Jewish newspapers in Buenos Aires, Paris, and New York are just a few of the topics featured in Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture. Editors Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah...