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Author
Publisher
Touro University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This unique autobiography is set in Ukraine and Crimea and provides context for the current war in Ukraine, shedding light on the problems that exist between Ukrainians, Crimeans, and Russians. For the first time, a Jewish functionary, Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn, who served not only as a kosher slaughterer but who also performed circumcisions, provides detailed descriptions of Jewish communal life and of the interactions between the Jewish and non-Jewish...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"It’s true that the Jews are having a harder time than most people in Germany. Sometimes there’s fighting in the streets and someone calls a Jew by a terrible name. But surely it can’t be as bad as Opa thinks. Liese Goldschmidt is growing up in a small German town in the late 1930s. Rather than enjoying life like a carefree fifteen-year-old — practicing piano, enjoying music, window-shopping with friends — Liese watches in horror as her...
Author
Publisher
Hachai Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Reb YItzchak Zilber was a young man, he lived in Communist Russia. The government made strict laws against teaching Torah and observing Jewish holidays. They punished people who wouldn't spy on others and report them for breaking the rules. Because Reb YItzchak would not tell on a fellow Jew, the government sent him to a work camp that was like a jail. In spite of the danger, the Zilber Family was determined to bake matzah for themselves and...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
While helping her father empty her beloved grandmother's house, 13-year-old Liv finds an old chest that reveals Oma's involvement in the Dutch resistance during WWII and learns what it means to be brave and go above and beyond to offer someone else a life of dignity, happiness and freedom.
Author
Publisher
Mekor Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Israel, 1986. A group of boys form a club only to discover that one member's father is stuck behind the Iron Curtain. What does the note hidden inside his babushka say? And can the members of the Natan Club help their friend reunite with his missing father? As the members of the Natan Club do their best to help Grisha, other forces come together to thwart their plan. Will the rescue mission be a success?"--
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism reveals the deep - and deeply contested - century-long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American Jews who drew on the intellectual currents of the Reform movement, the Yiddish left, anti-colonialism and Jewish feminism to voice profound concerns over mainstream Jewish leaders' insistence on unqualified support for Jewish nationalism, Zionism and Israel"--
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Demonstrating how the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible represents the first, and one of the most elaborate, projects of peoplehood, Wright tells the dramatic story of the Bible's origins in relation to 1, a longstanding political division between North and South (Israel and Judah) and 2 the traumatic experience of defeat" --
Author
Publisher
Hoytsoes̀ Shai
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Yiddish
Description
Dr. Dzeḳob Sṭern ṿeysṭ nishṭ az di informatsye ṿos er hoṭ temimes̀'dig ibergegeben far a Meḳsiḳanem anṭropolodshisṭ ṿeṭ im araynfirn in a ṭoyṭlikhe iberlebenish ṿos tsieṭ zikh glaykh fun a geheyme shpiʼonazsh misye fun di Ḳalṭe Ḳrig .... --
Linked by a plot that has its roots in a heinous crime that took place decades earlier. A pale, colorless man with a penchant for mayhem; a group of hidden tzaddikim;...
Author
Publisher
Yonatan Shṿarts
Pub. Date
780 [2019 or 2020]
Language
Yiddish
Description
Ḳeyzer Napoleon iz geṿen fun di gresṭe miliṭerishe generaln ... shṭaṭsman un a poliṭiḳer .... Zayn letsṭe shlakhṭ... a masiṿe mobilizatsye ... ḳegn dem Rusishn ḳenig tsar ... nishṭ geṿusṭ az es ligṭ ingantsn nishṭ in zayne henṭ, nor in di himlishe pʻules̀ fun a raye heylige tsadiḳim talmide Baʻal Shem ṭov ha-ḳ.
Author
Publisher
The Collective Book Studio
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Oy, Chelm. Long known as home to the 'wisest' people in Yiddish folklore. But what is Chelm like today? What if the kids were more clever than the rest of the townsfolk? When the misguided adults of modern-day Chelm believe the moon has plunged into the lake, it's up to the Schlemiel siblings to convince the grown-ups that their fears of a fallen moon are unfounded"--
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler's Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: although some of their works were celebrated, these composers had lost their familiar cultures and were forced to navigate xenophobia as well as entirely different creative terrain. Others, far less fortunate, were in a kind of internal exile--composing under a ruthless dictatorship or in concentration camps and...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Warsaw, Poland, 1940s: The Nazis are on the march, determined to wipe out the Jewish people of Europe. Teenage Vladka and her family are among the thousands of Jews forced to relocate behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, a cramped, oppressive space full of starvation, suffering, and death. When Vladka's family is deported to concentration camps, Vladka joins up with other young people in the ghetto who are part of the Jewish underground: a group...