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61) Raisel's riddle
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A Jewish version of the Cinderella story, in which a poor but educated young women captivates her "Prince Charming, " a rabbi's son, at a Purim ball.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage--called a "fast-moving thinking man's thriller" by The Wall Street Journal--comes a sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation. Berlin 1948. Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the West, a defiant, blockaded city...
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM.
Language
English
Description
This collection includes eight delightful tales from the Jewish tradition. Each story has been chosen for its appeal to families and each has a simple yet powerful, message.
67) Number the stars
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Georgia Hunter learns that she is a descendant of large family of Holocaust survivors, she knows that she is destined to be the recorder of their story. This is the result of years of research to gather as much detail about her relatives as she possibly can. How this group of people manages to survive years of persecution and imprisonment is astounding. It is an inspiring read, and one that honors the memory and struggle of not just the author's...
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The "stunning" debut novel (Los Angeles Times) from the bestselling author of The Flight Portfolio—the inspiration for the Netflix series Transatlantic—is a grand love story set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris, a tale of three brothers whose lives are ravaged by war, and of one family’s struggle against the forces that threaten to annihilate...
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