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81) Far above rubies
Author
Publisher
Martin and Lawrence Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story. A Dutch woman is caught in the nightmare of Hitler's regime when she voluntarily accompanies her six stepdaughters to Auschwitz. What transpires during and after the war exemplifies a rare courage in an extraordinary heroine.
83) Back to back
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Raised by a harsh Jewish single mother who prioritizes her socialist party connections over her family in mid-twentieth-century East Berlin, Thomas is forced to abandon his dream of becoming a writer while his sister, Ella, becomes increasingly introverted.
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A pair of Jewish sisters flee pogroms and the Communist Revolution to British-occupied Palestine, where they create a blended family with a widower and his children before the horrors of the Holocaust send them to lives in France and America.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When the Nazis invade her country, Rachel Klein is a teenager in love--but becomes a secret courier for the underground. An Address in Amsterdam shows how even in the most hopeless situation, an ordinary young woman can act with courage--and even love." --
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A historical mystery set in 17th Century New York whose protagonist is Pieter Tonneman, sheriff of the island. A killer is ritually slaughtering animals and there is a rumor of Jewish witchcraft. Tonneman must find the killer before people turn on the Jews, of whom his wife is one. By the author of The High Constable.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II, a minor traffic accident brings together Eleanor Moskowitz and Patricia Bellamy. Their encounter seems fated: Eleanor, a teacher and recent Vassar graduate, needs a job. Patricia's difficult thirteen-year-old daughter Margaux, recovering from polio, needs a private tutor. Though she feels out of place in the Bellamys' rarefied and elegant Park Avenue milieu, Eleanor forms an instant...
90) Ridley Road
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-year-old Vivien Epstein, a Jewish hairdresser from Manchester, arrives in London following the death of her father. She has traveled to the city to make a new start, and quickly finds herself swept up in a city buzzing with life. Landing a job at Oscar's salon, she thrives amid the vibrant café culture of Soho and the warm camaraderie of the other hairdressers."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Estranged from her family since just after World War II, Mary Browning has spent her entire adult life hiding from her Jewish heritage. Now eighty-seven years old and a widow, she is haunted by a lifetime of secrets and fading memories of the family she left behind. Her one outlet is the writing group she's presided over for a decade, but when a new member walks in--a fifteen year old girl who reminds her so much of her beloved sister Sarah--Mary...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In 1850s Frankfurt, a Jewish girl named Hannah Meyer is admitted to the town asylum; she hasn't spoken, slept, or eaten in weeks and wagging tongues have resulted in a diagnosis of nymphomania. In an increasingly obsessed effort to cure her, Dr. Hoffmann uses all the methods at his disposal--from ice packs and blood letting to electrodes.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling to move on after her husband's death, thirty-five-year-old Anna receives an unexpected phone call from her estranged grandmother, Goldie, summoning her to New York. A demanding woman with a sharp tongue and a devotion to fashion and etiquette, Goldie has not softened in the five years since she and her granddaughter last spoke. Now she wants Anna to drive her to San Francisco to return a collection of exquisite Japanese art to a long-lost...
94) A bed in heaven
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Kata, the daughter of a Jewish father who fled Budapest during World War II, is drawn to a young man named Stefan and later learns that he is her half brother, a situation that is complicated by their mutual attraction.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
The parents of Jewish film producer Rachel Wallfisch, both Holocaust survivors didn't spare her any details, tales of Auschwitz being her bedtime stories. The novel describes the effect such family heritage can have on a person's daily life.
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A conflict breaks out between liberal and orthodox Jews in a summer resort in New York State. The liberals live in the town while the orthodox are summer tourists who are led by a hardline rabbi. By the author of The Family Markowitz.
97) We are gathered
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For readers of Maggie Shipstead and Maria Semple, a tender and funny debut that tells the story of an interfaith wedding in Atlanta -- from the perspectives of its (adoring, envious, resentful, hilarious) guests ... One afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia. Two people heading to the altar. One hundred fifty guests. The bride, Elizabeth Gottlieb, proud graduate of the University of Virginia and of Emory University School of Law, member of Atlanta's wealthy...
100) Raymond and Hannah
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A week before she's due to leave for Jerusalem, Hannah meets Raymond; a one-night stand surprisingly expands into a week-long, passionate love affair. While Hannah leaves for nine months to study Torah at an orthodox yeshiva, Raymond stays behind, researching his doctorate on love in Robert Burton's "The Anatomy of Melancholy," struggling with loneliness and Hannah's increasing religious fervor. Can this new love affair survive six thousand miles,...