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Author
Publisher
Fig Tree Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in post-Giuliani New York City, The Sea Beach Line melds mid-20th-century pulp fiction and traditional Jewish folklore as it updates the classic story of a young man trying to find his place in the world. After being expelled from Oberlin for hallucinogenic drug use, Izzy Edel seeks out his estranged father--a Polish Jew turned Israeli soldier turned New York street vendor named Alojzy who is reported to be missing, possibly dead. To learn about...
1724) A bag of marbles
Publisher
Gaumont
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 48 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The true story of two young Jewish brothers in German occupied France who, with a mix of mischievousness, courage and ingenuity, will be forced to fend for themselves in order to survive the enemy invasion and try bring their family back together.
1725) Writers of the Holocaust
Author
Series
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 132 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles ten men and women who have written about or whose writings were influenced by their experiences during the Holocaust.
1726) Raoul Wallenberg
Author
Publisher
Holmes & Meier
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
xli, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
1727) The great dictator
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book.
Language
English
Description
In Chaplin's first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie...and who thwarts his plans for world domination.
1728) The lily pond
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Having left Nazi-occupied Vienna a year ago, thirteen-year-old Jewish refugee Stephie Steiner adapts to life in the cultured Swedish city of Gothenburg, where she attends school, falls in love, and worries about her parents who were not allowed to emigrate.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxi, 179 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Our Promised Land takes readers inside radical Israeli settlements to explore how these settlements were formed, what the people in them believe, and their role in Israel and the Middle East today. Drawing on three years of research in these settlements, Our Promised Land offers an in-depth exploration of a topic that is often mentioned in headlines but little understood. Attempting to take a neutral perspective on a contentious topic, the book offers...
1730) Resistance to the Nazis
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
56 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how certain people, both Jews and Gentiles, were brave enough to stand up to the Nazis during the Holocaust despite the price they would pay if caught.
1733) Parallel journeys
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First Aladdin Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 244 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their parallel journey through World War II. Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck were born just a few miles from each other in the German Rhineland. But their lives took radically different courses: Helen's to the Auschwitz extermination camp; Alfons to a high rank in the Hitler Youth. While Helen was hiding in Amsterdam, Alfons was a fanatic believer in Hitler's...
1734) Inglourious Basterds
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
10th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author, known as an illustrator of children's books, describes her experiences as a Polish Jew during World War II and for years in Sweden afterwards.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II. Those questions have only grown and festered, making Pius XII one of the most controversial popes in Church history, especially now as the Vatican prepares to canonize him. In 2020, Pius XII's archives were finally opened, and David I. Kertzer--widely recognized as one of the world's...
1737) Promises to keep
Author
Publisher
Barricade Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
xvii, 298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
1738) Lost
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1911 New York, sixteen-year-old Essie Rosenfeld must stop taking care of her irrepressible six-year-old sister when she goes to work at the Triangle Waist Company, where she befriends a missing heiress who is in hiding from her family and who seems to understand the feelings of heartache and grief that Essie is trying desperately to escape.
1739) The doll shop downstairs
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
118 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
When World War I breaks out, nine-year-old Anna thinks of a way to save her family's beloved New York City doll repair shop. Includes brief author's note about the history of the Madame Alexander doll, a glossary, and timeline.
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