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Number on Your Forearm is Blue Like Your Eyes
A Memoir
Av Eva Umlauf
Häftad, 2024
253 kr
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Beautifully translated by Shelley Frisch, The Number on Your Forearm Is Blue Like Your Eyes is a poignant and riveting memoir that sets a family story in historical context and brings psychological insight to bear on accounts of emotional trauma. Having achieved prominence as a pediatrician, child …
I Am My Mother’s Daughter
Wisdom on Life, Loss, and Love
Av Dara Kurtz
Häftad, 2020
230 kr
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For most of her adult life, Dara Kurtz kept a Ziploc bag of letters written by her mother who passed away from cancer when she was twenty-eight years old. The bag also included other letters written by her long-departed grandmothers. These letters gave Dara a glimpse into their lives and …
Growing Up Below Sea Level
A Kibbutz Childhood
Av Rachel Biale
Häftad, 2020
194 kr
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This beautifully written memoir is composed of linked stories about growing up on a kibbutz in Israel in the 1950s and 60s, when children spent most of their time, from birth on, in a Children’s House. This memoir starts with a Prologue drawn from the diaries of Rachel Biale’s mother and the …
Can Robots Be Jewish? And Other Pressing Questions of Modern Life
Av Amy Schwartz
Häftad, 2021
216 kr
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A smart, hip and provocative book for anyone interested in the rich diversity of Jewish thought on contemporary questions.Should we edit our children’s genes? Are there things that can’t be forgiven? Are Jews still expecting a messiah? Is Judaism good for women? Should Jews strive to be happy? What …
Small Bibles for Bad Times
Selected Poems and Prose of Liliane Atlan
Häftad, 2021
219 kr
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FOR LILIANE ATLAN (1932-2012), visionary French writer of plays, poetry, and prose, the creative quest was to “find a language to say the unsayable. . . to [find a way] to integrate within our conscience, without dying in the attempt, the shattering experience of Auschwitz.” Having spent the war …
Doctor on Call
Chernobyl Responder, Jewish Refugee, Radiation Expert
Av Alla Shapiro
Häftad, 2021
230 kr
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Dr. Alla Shapiro was a first physician-responder to the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. Information about the explosion was withheld from first responders, who were not given basic supplies, detailed instructions, …
Asylum, A Memoir of Family Secrets
Häftad, 2021
230 kr
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How much do we really know about the lives of our parents and the secrets lodged in their past? Judy Bolton-Fasman’s fascinating saga, "Asylum: A Memoir of Family Secrets," recounts the search for answers to the mysteries embedded in the lives of her Cuban-born mother, Matilde Alboukrek Bolton and …
Jewish Underground of Samarkand
How Faith Defied Soviet Rule
Häftad, 2023
277 kr
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A portal into the perseverance of Jewish culture in the face of attempts to destroy it.To answer his son's question: what was it like growing up in Samarkand? Rabbi Hillel Zaltzman wrote and researched this memoir and history about Chassidic Jews who found refuge in Samarkand during the World War …
Searching for Wallenberg
A Novel
Av Alan Lelchuk
Häftad, 2016
172 kr
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Yad Vashem, Jerusalem's memorial to the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War II, also recognizes non-Jewish individuals who risked their lives to save the Jews from the Nazi executioners. One of the trees that line the memorial's "Avenue of the Righteous" was planted to honor …
Smyrna in Flames, A Novel
Häftad, 2021
206 kr
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This powerful and moving historical novel is inspired by the written recollections and the memories that haunted the author’s father, Nicias Aridjis,—a captain in the Greek army, who returned from the fields of battle to Smyrna, 50 miles northwest of his hometown of Tire, in 1922 just as Turkish …
Breaking Ground: How Jackie Robinson Changed Brooklyn
Av Alan Lelchuk
Häftad, 2015
146 kr
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Portrays Robinson's career from a new perspective--that of an adoring nine-year-old fan who saw him play up close, at Ebbets Field. Through this boy's eyes, we see how the borough of Brooklyn embraced Jackie Robinson, the man and the player, as their own.
Isra-Isle
A Novel
Av Nava Semel
Häftad, 2016
168 kr
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This novel is inspired by a true historical event. Before Theodore Herzl there was Mordecai Manuel Noah, an American journalist, diplomat, playwright, and visionary. In September 1825 he bought Grand Island, downriver from Niagara Falls, from the local Native Americans as a place of refuge for the …
Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories
Av Blume Lempel
Häftad, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
172 kr
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Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Fania & Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies (2018)Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub (the translators) on encountering Blume Lempel’s stories wrote: "When we began reading and translating, we didn’t know we were going to find a mother …
Zion's Fiction
A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature
Av Sheldon Teitelbaum, Emanuel Lottem
Häftad, 2018
249 kr
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This anthology showcases the best Israeli science fiction and fantasy literature published since the 1980s. The stories included come from Hebrew, Russian, and English-language sources, and include well-known authors such as Shimon Adaf, Pesach (Pavel) Amnuel, Gail Hareven, Savyon Liebrecht, Nava …
23rd Psalm, A Holocaust Memoir
Av George Salton, Anna Salton Eisen
Häftad, 2022
188 kr
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Twenty years since its first publication, this new anniversary edition of the Holocaust memoir of George Salton (then Lucjan Salzman), gives readers a personal and powerful account of his survival through one of the darkest periods in human history. With heartbreaking and honest reflection, the …
