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Author
Series
The Brill Reference Library to Judaism volume Volume 59
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Series
Ancient Judaism and early Christianity volume Volume 110
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Author
Series
Jewish identities in a changing world volume Volume 31
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A guide to contemporary Judaism by law professor and public intellectual Noah Feldman"--
What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar and columnist Noah Feldman draws on a lifelong engagement with his religion to offer a wide-ranging interpretation of Judaism in its current varieties. How do Jews today understand their relationship...
13) Not so shy
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Shai hates having to move to America and is determined to find a way get back home to Israel--until she starts opening up to new experiences and friendships.
14) Going bicoastal
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating timelines, Jewish seventeen-year-old Natalya spends one summer in New York with her dad, trying to muster the courage to talk to her girl crush, and the other in Los Angeles with her estranged mom, going for a guy she never saw coming.
"Natalya Fox has twenty-four hours to make the biggest choice of her life: stay home in NYC for the summer with her dad (and finally screw up the courage to talk to the girl she's been crushing...
15) Afikomen
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this wordless time-travel adventure, three children at a Passover seder visit ancient Egypt to help baby Moses find his way safely to Pharaoh's daughter. When a family settles at the table for Passover, their dog nabs the afikomen bag (containing matzah used for the seder) and dives under the tablecloth. The children follow him and find themselves transported to ancient Egypt. There, they see baby Moses' mother and sister Miriam placing him in...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the château where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking...
17) Meet the Latkes
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Latke's family is a family of potato pancakes. After lighting the menorah and gobbling the gelt, Grandpa Latke tells everyone the Hanukkah story, but it's up to the Latke family dog to set the record straight"--
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
In 1905 North Dakota, eleven-year-old Russian immigrant Shoshana is bullied for being Jewish, but after listening to the music of her homeland, she is reminded of the resilience and traditions her people have brought all the way to the prairie.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz--a certain death sentence--Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"The inspirational true story of how 22-year-old Henny Sinding courageously helped smuggle hundreds of Jewish families in occupied Denmark to safety in Sweden during the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.