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  • The Girl with the Leica: Based on the True Story of the Woman Behind the Name Robert Capa by Janeczek, Helena
    Helena Janeczek

    The Girl with the Leica: Based on the True Story of the Woman Behind the Name Robert Capa

    WINNER The Strega Prize Gerda Taro was a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political...
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  • The Crown and Salvation by Fox, Neil R.
    Neil R. Fox

    The Crown and Salvation

    This is the story of a young Jewish boy who reached manhood during the tumultuous period of Roman rule in Israel. Young Atara joins the burgeoning Zealot movement because of his hatred and anger towards the Roman occupiers. Through forces beyond his control, he...
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  • Sweet Lifts by Stein, Carolyn Ivy
    Carolyn Ivy Stein

    Sweet Lifts

    Miriam, a high-end thief with a kind heart, steals from the filthy rich to sell to the morally deficient rich. Every now and then someone needs her special talents. A lock genius, Miriam opens any door, safe, or house. In the snap of your...
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  • An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures by Lispector, Clarice
    Clarice Lispector

    An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures

    Li, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual...
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  • Mr. Perfect on Paper by Meltzer, Jean
    Jean Meltzer

    Mr. Perfect on Paper

    From the author of The Matzah Ball comes a pitch-perfect romcom following a third-generation Jewish matchmaker who unwittingly finds her own search for love thrust into the spotlight...The perfect Jewish husband should be: A doctor or lawyer (preferably a doctor) Baggage-free (no previous marriages,...
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  • London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930-1950: Selected Works of Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Li by Lachs, Vivi
    Vivi Lachs

    London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930-1950: Selected Works of Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Li

    In London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930-1950, Vivi Lachs presents a selection of previously un-translated short stories and sketches by Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Lisky, for the general reader and academic alike. These intriguing...
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  • The Girl from the Channel Islands by Lecoat, Jenny
    Jenny Lecoat

    The Girl from the Channel Islands

    Includes an author Q&A and discussion questions.Author: Jenny LecoatISBN-10: 1432885316ISBN-13: 9781432885311Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/03/2021Pages: 451Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00dLarge Print
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  • Reason to Kill: An Amos Parisman Mystery by Weinberger, Andy
    Andy Weinberger

    Reason to Kill: An Amos Parisman Mystery

    The highly anticipated second Amos Parisman mystery"Amos Parisman is one of the most unique PIs in literary history."-- Gumshoe MagazineSomewhat-retired L.A. private eye Amos Parisman is hired by lonely booking agent Pinky Bleistiff to find one of his missing singers, Risa Barsky. But what...
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  • The Village Feasts: Passover Stories of Food and Laughter by Abrahmson, Izzy
    Izzy Abrahmson

    The Village Feasts: Passover Stories of Food and Laughter

    Delicious Passovers in The Village Izzy Abrahmson's THE VILLAGE FEASTS warms the heart.Life in The Village often revolves around food and families. THE VILLAGE FEASTS is the follow-up collection to WINTER BLESSINGS by National Jewish Book Award For Family Literature nominee Izzy Abrahmson.Rich with...
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  • Me, Mo, Mu, or Mod by Leviant, Curt
    Curt Leviant

    Me, Mo, Mu, or Mod

    In Venice, the narrator meets two women, one a devout and sensual Parisian, the other, an enigmatic beauty, who is mute but can hear. At the wedding--whoever bride may be--a 17th century rabbi will preside. For in this true fiction, characters cross time lines.Fiction....
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  • Not In America: Book One in a Jewish Family Saga by Kagan, Roberta
    Roberta Kagan

    Not In America: Book One in a Jewish Family Saga

    "Jews drink the blood of Christian babies. They use it for their rituals. They are evil and they consort with the devil." This heinous slander is called the "Blood Libel. And it is a slander the Jews have lived with for more than a...
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  • Falik and His House by Dinezon, Jacob
    Jacob Dinezon

    Falik and His House

    Jacob Dinezon's novella Falik and His House, originally published in Yiddish in 1904 and translated into English for the first time by Mindy Liberman, tells the story of an elderly tailor who has fallen on hard times. His house, which he talks to like...
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  • The Teacher by Ben-Naftali, Michal
    Michal Ben-Naftali

    The Teacher

    No one knew the story of Elsa Weiss. She was a respected English teacher at a Tel Aviv high school, but she remained aloof and never tried to befriend her students. No one ever encountered her outside of school hours. She was a riddle,...
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  • After Abel and Other Stories by Lemberger, Michal
    Michal Lemberger

    After Abel and Other Stories

    Finalist, 2015 National Jewish Book Award Honorable Mention, Sophie Brody Medal, American Library Association One of the Jewish Book Council's "15 fiction books that shaped Jewish literature in 2015" "Lemberger imbues her characters with a consciousness that, although taking place in ancient times, seems...
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  • Old New Land (Altneuland) by Herzl, Theodor
    Theodor Herzl

    Old New Land (Altneuland)

    Old New land, or Altneuland, is a novel written in the early 20th century by Zionism founder, Theodor Herzl. In this utopian novel, Herzl outlines his vision for a Jewish state in the land of Israel. As one of the most important texts in...
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  • By the Waters of Manhattan by Reznikoff, Charles
    Charles Reznikoff

    By the Waters of Manhattan

    A novel about a Jewish immigrant family at the turn of the century -- from Czarist Russia to Brownsville, Brooklyn. This is poet Charles Reznikoff's finest fiction. By the Waters of Manhattan was Charles Reznikoff's first novel, published in 1930 by Charles Boni in...
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  • Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud by Ramer, Andrew
    Andrew Ramer

    Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud

    Eighty years from now, in a time of increasing environmental degradation and after one sixth of the Earth's population has died in a vast pandemic, a noted rabbi in Brooklyn hosts a convocation for Jewish clergy and scholars from every background. Her vision--to create...
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  • The Tobacconist by Seethaler, Robert
    Robert Seethaler

    The Tobacconist

    From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story of one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets...
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  • A Girl During the War by Abriel, Anita
    Anita Abriel

    A Girl During the War

    Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is on her way home when she finds out that her father has been killed for harboring a Jewish artist in their home. Fearful of the consequences, Marina flees to Villa I Tatti, the Florence villa of her...
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  • The Teacher of Warsaw by Escobar, Mario
    Mario Escobar

    The Teacher of Warsaw

    For fans of The Warsaw Orphan and The Tattooist of Auschwitz: the start of WWII changed everything in Poland irrevocably--except for one man's capacity to love.September 1, 1939. Sixty-year-old Janusz Korczak and the students and teachers at his Dom Sierot Jewish orphanage are outside...
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  • A Deadly Act by Dunsky, Jonathan
    Jonathan Dunsky

    A Deadly Act

    What if you suspected your husband of murder?Israel, 1951: Private investigator Adam Lapid has never had a case like this.Five years before, his client lied to the police, giving a false alibi to her husband. Now, she's sure he committed murder, and she wants...
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  • Ayuni by Ansbacher, Sarah
    Sarah Ansbacher

    Ayuni

    Miri and Ben's paths should never have crossed. Although they live in the same north London neighbourhood of Stamford Hill, they come from two culturally different communities that rarely interact.Miri is a sheltered but contemplative young woman from a Chassidic family. Her strict upbringing...
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  • All the Shining People by Friedman, Kathy
    Kathy Friedman

    All the Shining People

    Finalist, 2023 Trillium Book Award Finalist, Writers Union of Canada 2023 Daunta Gleed Literary Award Finalist, 2023 ReLit Award for Short Fiction Twelve exquisitely written stories depicting the search for human connection and the attempt to fit in far from home. All the Shining...
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  • Beyond This Broken Sky: A completely heartbreaking and unforgettable WW2 historical novel by Curham, Siobhan
    Siobhan Curham

    Beyond This Broken Sky: A completely heartbreaking and unforgettable WW2 historical novel

    940, London: An unforgettable novel about the strength of the human spirit in the face of war and the remarkable women who put themselves in danger on the front lines during the Battle of Britain.As a volunteer for the ambulance service, Ruby has the...
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  • Where Madness Lies by True, Sylvia
    Sylvia True

    Where Madness Lies

    'A masterful novel. Where Madness Lies unfolds against the backdrop of the Holocaust and seamlessly reflects back to us our own perilous times. Told with utter insight and beauty.' Annie Weatherwax, author of All We Had, now a major motion picture. Germany, 1934. Rigmor,...
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  • The Child on Platform One by Thompson, Gill
    Gill Thompson

    The Child on Platform One

    Inspired by the real-life escape of thousands of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Europe on the Kindertransport trains to London. Prague 1939. Young mother Eva has a secret from her past. When the Nazis invade, Eva knows the only way to keep her daughter Miriam...
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  • Badenheim 1939 by Appelfeld, Aharon
    Aharon Appelfeld

    Badenheim 1939

    A small masterpiece of world literature, set in Europe months before the Nazis began their rise. It is spring 1939. And Badenheim, a resort town vaguely in the orbit of Vienna, is preparing for its summer season. The vacationers arrive as they always have,...
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  • The Mapmaker's Daughter by Corona, Laurel
    Laurel Corona

    The Mapmaker's Daughter

    "Vividly detailed and beautifully written, this is a pleasure to read, a thoughtful, deeply engaging story of the power of faith to navigate history's rough terrain."--BooklistHow Far Would You Go To Stay True to Yourself?Spain, 1492. On the eve of the Jewish expulsion from...
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  • The Book of Aron by Shepard, Jim
    Jim Shepard

    The Book of Aron

    Small and sullen, Aron is eight years old when his family moves from a rural Polish village to hectic Warsaw. At first gradually and then ever more quickly, his family's opportunities for a better life vanish as the occupying German government imposes harsh restrictions....
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  • Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi by Manishtana
    Manishtana

    Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi

    Ariel Samson is just your run of the mill anomaly: a 20-something black Orthodox Jewish rabbi looking for love, figuring out life, and floating between at least two worlds.Luckily, it gets worse.Finding himself the spiritual leader of a dying synagogue, and accidentally falling into...
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  • The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Gilman, Susan Jane
    Susan Jane Gilman

    The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street

    A clever and complex woman builds an ice cream empire after immigrating from Russia in this stunning novel of power, Prohibition, and performance set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America. In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales...
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  • To Know a Woman by Oz, Amos
    Amos Oz

    To Know a Woman

    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "[To Know a Woman has] the powerful undertow of myth . . . A rich and affecting novel." -- New York Times Following the accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid...
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  • A Deadly Act by Dunsky, Jonathan
    Jonathan Dunsky

    A Deadly Act

    What if you suspected your husband of murder?Israel, 1951: Private investigator Adam Lapid has never had a case like this.Five years before, his client lied to the police, giving a false alibi to her husband. Now, she's sure he committed murder, and she wants...
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  • The Full Catastrophe by Cook, Méira
    M駟ra Cook

    The Full Catastrophe

    Winner, 2023 Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction Finalist, 2023 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award A compassionate and funny novel about defining yourself, the communities that support us, and the journeys that secrets propel. Charlie Minkoff, a thirteen-year-old boy born with intersex traits,...
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  • The Auschwitz Detective by Dunsky, Jonathan
    Jonathan Dunsky

    The Auschwitz Detective

    The boy was murdered in Auschwitz. The killer isn't a Nazi.Poland, 1944: Adam Lapid used to be a police detective. Now he's a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.Reduced to a slave after losing his family in the gas chambers, Adam struggles to find a reason...
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  • The Great Madness by Hameiri, Avigdor
    Avigdor Hameiri

    The Great Madness

    "Since its first publication in 1929, The Great Madness attracted generations of enthusiastic readers. It is a unique combination: an eventful war novel, depicting life in the trenches like the best European examples of World War I literature; a powerful mani-festation of solidarity toward...
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  • Prairie Sonata by Rabin, Sandy Shefrin
    Sandy Shefrin Rabin

    Prairie Sonata

    Richly textured and lyrically written, Prairie Sonata is the story of Mira Adler and her journey from innocence to experience. Mira grows up in post-World War II Canada, in a close-knit Manitoba community founded by secular Jews from Eastern Europe. At the heart of...
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  • Strangers on the Praia: A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao by French, Paul
    Paul French

    Strangers on the Praia: A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao

    Based on true stories and new research, Paul French weaves together the stories of those Jewish refugees who moved on from wartime Shanghai to seek a possible route to freedom via the Portuguese colony of Macao - "the Casablanca of the Orient". The delicately...
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  • Upper West Side Story by Pashman, Susan
    Susan Pashman

    Upper West Side Story

    Meet Bettina Grosjean, a professor of Women's History, and her husband, a high-ranking environmental policymaker in the New York City mayor's office. Once a pair of student radicals, they are now raising their two brainy children on New York's Upper West Side. Upper West...
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  • Adults and Other Children by Cohen, Miriam
    Miriam Cohen

    Adults and Other Children

    An "acute portrayal of failed relationships and struggles to transcend social norms,"--New York Times Book Review (editor's choice) "Readers can detect deadpan realism influences of Lorrie Moore and the feminism of Angela Carter in these stories, but the work is distinctly and originally Cohen's...
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  • By Fire, By Water by Kaplan, Mitchell James
    Mitchell James Kaplan

    By Fire, By Water

    Recipient of the Independent Publishers Award for Historical Fiction (Gold Medal), the Foreword Book of the Year Award for Historical Fiction (Bronze Medal), and an honorable mention in the category of General Fiction for the Eric Hoffer Award. Luis de Sant ngel, chancellor to...
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  • Jewish Stories of Prague: Jewish Prague in History and Legend by Tomek, V. V.
    V. V. Tomek

    Jewish Stories of Prague: Jewish Prague in History and Legend

    For more than eight centuries, the Jews of Prague lived in the Prague ghetto. During that time, Jewish Prague had always been a place of much mystery to outsiders, even to the closest Christian neighbors. Uncover the secrets of this long forgotten world. Learn...
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  • Sadness Is a White Bird by Rothman-Zecher, Moriel
    Moriel Rothman-Zecher

    Sadness Is a White Bird

    **A 2019 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist** **A 2018 National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Debut Fiction** In this "nuanced, sharp, and beautifully written" (Michael Chabon) debut novel, a young man prepares to serve in the Israeli army while also trying to reconcile his...
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  • The Fruit of Her Hands: The Story of Shira of Ashkenaz by Cameron, Michelle
    Michelle Cameron

    Fruit of Her Hands

    Based on the life of the author's thirteenth-century ancestor, Meir ben Baruch of Rothenberg, a renowed Jewish scholar of medieval Europe, this is the richly dramatic fictional story of Rabbi Meir's wife, Shira, a devout but rebellious woman who preserves her religious traditions as...
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  • Viagra Diaries by Brooker, Barbara Rose
    Barbara Rose Brooker

    Viagra Diaries

    A funny, fearless, and inspiring novel about dating after the age of sixty. THE NOVEL THAT PROVES THERE'S PLENTY OF LIFE--AND HOT SEX--AFTER SIXTY! Just because Anny Applebaum qualifies for a senior discount doesn't mean she's ready for retirement. But if she wants to...
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  • Here I Am by Foer, Jonathan Safran
    Jonathan Safran Foer

    Here I Am

    A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I AmHow do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American?...
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  • Eavesdropping in Oberammergau by Salk, Hilary
    Hilary Salk

    Eavesdropping in Oberammergau

    Eavesdropping in Oberammergau presents the lives of two families--a Jewish-American military family and a German family--plus a character derived from a true story who meet in Oberammergau, Germany, in the years immediately following World War II. The novel knits together the friendship between the...
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  • Silent Hall by Dolkart, Ns
    Ns Dolkart

    Silent Hall

    Five bedraggled refugees and a sinister wizard awaken a dragon--and defy the gods After their homeland is struck with a deadly plague, five refugees cross the continent searching for answers. Instead, they find Psander--a wizard whose fortress is invisible to the gods and who...
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  • The Shawl by Ozick, Cynthia
    Cynthia Ozick

    The Shawl

    From the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a story about the Holocaust that "burns itself into the reader's imagination with almost surreal powers" (The New York Times)."Read this great little book of Cynthia Ozick's: It contains dazzling staggering pages filled...
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  • From a Sealed Room by Kadish, Rachel
    Rachel Kadish

    From a Sealed Room

    In this affecting, perceptive novel, Rachel Kadish reflects on the ghosts of the past, the tensions of war, and the difficult bonds of family. When Maya enrolls at Hebrew University in Jerusalem shortly after the Gulf War, she hopes to leave New York and...
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