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Once my name was Sara : a memoirMemoir of a woman born in Berlin in 1929 who escaped with her family to Shanghai in 1939, moved to Australia in 1950, and then to the US in 1953.
After such knowledge : memory, history, and the legacy of the HolocaustExplores the historical, psychological, and moral implications of the "second-generation" experience of the children of Holocaust survivors.
Mosaic : a chronicle of five generationsFamily history starting in Krakow, Poland, in 1890 and spanning more than a hundred years, five generations, and four continents. Based on oral histories and the diaries of more than a dozen men and women.
Crisis of morality & reaction to the HolocaustTBI member Dr. Joseph Rebhun explores the moral consequences of the Holocaust.
Hostage to war : a true storyThe author relates her experiences from 1941-1953, when she struggled to survive as a Russian teenager caught up in the horrors of World War II.
- What is American about the American Jewish experience?
Collection of seven essays that explore the specifically American context in which the Jewish and Judaic experience has unfolded.
Inspecting Jews : American Jewish detective storiesScholarly analysis of Jewish detective stories as a genre of literature and also as a reflection of contemporary acculturation in the American Jewish popular arts.
King of the JewsClassic novel of the Holocaust explores the moral dilemma of the Judenrat, the group of Jewish leaders who in each ghetto were forced to collaborate in the destruction of their own people.
King’s ransom : a novel based on a true storyHistorical fiction based upon the story of Tsar Boris III, King of Bulgaria, and his extraordinary efforts to save his country’s Jewish population from Hitler. Historically accurate, Boris’ courageous actions are interwoven with the love story of Daria, the Jewish attendant to the Bulgarian royal family, and Dobri, a sergeant in the king’s guard.
The secret of Gabi’s dresserGabi’s world is turned upside down when the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia. When a rumor begins to circulate that Jewish girls are being taken away from their families, what is Gabi to do? She could run away, or find a hiding place -- but where? Inspired by the true experiences of the author’s mother.
Popular Titles
The only one clubWhen the first graders begin making Christmas decorations, we discover that Jennifer is different in a way that no one can see. She is the only Jewish student in her class. The teacher tells Jennifer that she can make Hanukkah decorations instead, and Jennifer is thrilled to be singled out. At home that night she creates "The Only One Club", and before long Jennifer and all her classmates realized that everyone is "the only one" in some way.
The runaway latkesWhen three potato latkes escape from a frying pan on the first night of Hanukkah, everyone in town joins in the chase; modeled on the secular story of the gingerbread man.
Jeremy’s dreidelJeremy creates a clay dreidel with braille dots for his dad, who is blind. Includes instructions for making unusual dreidels and for playing the game.
