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âComprehensive. . . . Always thoughtful. . . . A nuanced account of a leader whose influence endures in the Middle East.ââKirkus Review
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Golda Meir (1898â1978) was the first and only woman to serve as prime minister of Israel. She was born in Kiev into a childhood of...
"We weren't religious per se. The most frequent mention of God in our house was my mother yelling 'Goddammit!'"
Elisa Bernick grew up "different" (i.e., Jewish) in the white, Christian suburb of New Hope, Minnesota during the 1960s and early 1970s. At the center of her world was her mother, Arlene, who was a foul-mouthed, red-headed, suburban Samson who ultimately shook the walls of their family until it collapsed. Poignant and provocative,
...This tale of a mischievous dinosaur who visits a boy on Hanukkah and causes a commotion as he helps celebrate the holiday will bring giggles to children who may recognize themselves (or their siblings!) in some of the dino’s exploits. Look for more dinosaur holiday adventures in the future!
A haunting memoir of war, genocide, displacement, and a daughter's search for the literary works of her mother's murdered twin.
Grieving the death of her mother in 2013, author Isa Milman embarked on a heart-wrenching journey to unravel a family mystery—the whereabouts of her aunt's long-lost poems, published in Poland in the early 1930s—which evolved into a broader investigation of her family's life before, during, and
..."A vital, understated contribution to the body of Holocaust literature."-Kirkus Reviews
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/andrea-von-treuenfeld/going-backy/
How many Jewish women do you know who moved back to post-war Germany?
In this collection of survivor stories, you'll meet 16. Each of these women recounts her life story with grace and courage, even as they remember
...Un hombre ejemplar, que luego de ser sastre y tener una vida feliz, le fue arrebatada, por causa de la segunda guerra mundial. Lo llevaron como prisionero de guerra a los campos de concentración, donde fue asesinada toda su familia, excepto a su esposa e hija. Este caballero por haber tenido el conocimiento en su arte, era el encargado de realizar los trajes a los generales nazis, le dieron el privilegio de poder sacar a dos integrantes
..."Inspiring. Exhilarating. Astonishing. An epic tale of brotherhood, ingenuity, and survival." —Heather Dune Macadam, International Bestselling author of 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
Told through meticulous interviews with his son, this is an extraordinary memoir of endurance, faith, and a unique skill that kept...
Performed by Anna Cordell and Dov Forman featuring a foreword written and read by Charles HRH The Prince of Wales and dedication written and read by Lily Ebert.
"Utterly compelling, heartbreaking, truthful and yet redemptive . . . a testimony of irrepressible spirit and an unforgettable family chronicle. I couldn't stop reading it."—Simon Sebag Montefiore
In this life-affirming intergenerational
...A New York Times bestseller
A USA Today bestseller
The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English
Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary. "I just want a friend. I want somebody to talk
12) Distant Fathers
"A beautifully ingenious memoir, saturated in the history of the European 20th century, and made all the more compelling by Ann Goldstein's luminous translation."
—Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments
This singular autobiography unfurls from author Marina Jarre's native Latvia during the 1920s and '30s and expands southward to the Italian countryside. In distinctive writing as poetic as it is precise, Jarre
...When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture in his new home. These symbols of...
The astonishing #1 bestselling story of a boy who survived the war by hiding in the Polish forest
Maxwell Smart was eleven years old when his entire family was killed before his eyes. He might have died along with them, but his mother selflessly ordered him to save himself. Alone in the forest, he dug a hole in the ground for shelter and foraged for food in farmers' fields. His clothes in rags and close to starvation, he
...The first and only memoir from the Nobel Prize--winning author, in the form of an illuminating, often funny, and often combative interview--with himself
Dossier K. is Imre Kertész's response to the hasty biographies and profiles that followed his 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature--an attempt to set the record straight.
The result is an extraordinary self-portrait, in which Kertész interrogates himself about
In this memoir, an Israeli woman born on a kibbutz recounts her childhood there and examines the movement’s effects on the nation.
The kibbutz is one of the greatest stories in Israeli history. These collective settlements have been written about extensively over the years: The kibbutz has been the subject of many sociological studies, and has been praised as the only example in world history of entire communities attempting,
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