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Par Hayyim Schauss, Ḥayim Shoys. 1996
Historical background for Jewish festivals and feast days. Uses details of the celebrations to help explain the basic precepts of…
Judaism. Describes the biblical origin of observances and traces the ways they have evolved. Translated from Yiddish by Samuel Jaffe with a 1996 foreword by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner. 1938Par Madeleine Albright, Madeleine Korbel Albright. 2012
Former U.S. secretary of state chronicles the history of Czechoslovakia, where she was born in 1937 into the family of…
a Jewish diplomat who later converted to Catholicism. Relates her family's flight from Nazism and communism and traces the fate of her Jewish relatives. Companion to Madam Secretary (DB 57048). Violence. Bestseller. 2012Par Candia McWilliam. 2012
Memoir of Scottish novelist McWilliam, who became functionally blind in 2006 because of the involuntary closing of her eyelids from…
a condition known as blepharospasm. McWilliam reviews her life, describes undergoing a two-part operation to restore her vision, and explores a possible psychological basis for her sightlessness. Strong language. 2010Par Priscilla Warner, Suzanne Oliver, Ranya Idliby. 2007
After the 9/11 attacks three American women--one Jewish, one Christian, and one Muslim--decided to collaborate on an interfaith children's book…
to show the similarities among their religions. They discovered that their own misunderstandings had to be addressed first, leading to candid dialogue as their faith club sought common ground. 2006Par Deborah Feldman. 2012
Author, born in the 1980s, describes being raised by her Hasidic grandparents in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood after her mother left…
her developmentally disabled father. Discusses being an outcast and her arranged marriage, limited access to reading material, and lack of educational or employment opportunities. Bestseller. 2012Par Edmund De Waal, Edmund De Waal. 2011
British ceramic artist relates tracing his family's history through the ownership of a collection of netsuke, ornamental Japanese carvings, which…
he inherited in 1994. Describes the wealthy Ephrussi clan's lives in Vienna and Paris and their origins as Jewish merchants from Odessa, Russia. 2010Par Ruth Thomson. 2011
Uses extracts from diaries and memoirs to describe Terezín, Czechoslovakia, in 1941-1945, when the Nazis turned the small town into…
a transit camp for imprisoning Jewish people before sending them to the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Relates the prisoners' feelings and their observations about camp events. For grades 5-8. 2011Par Debbie Levy. 2010
Inspired by her mother Jutta's poesiealbum--an album of poems written by friends--and Jutta's diary, Levy presents a blank-verse recollection of…
the rapidly increased danger for Jews in Nazi Germany, which culminated in Jutta's family moving to the United States before World War II. For grades 5-8. 2010Par Susan R. Barry. 2010
Neuroscientist explains that even after childhood surgery for strabismus, she had no depth perception. Recalls being unaware, despite her scientific…
training, that vision therapy could train her to use both eyes simultaneously. Describes the ocular exercise regimen given her by optometrist Theresa Ruggiero and her emotions upon experiencing stereopsis. 2009Par Joel L. Kraemer. 2008
Professor uses primary sources to pen a biography of medieval Jewish philosopher, physician, and religious legal authority Moses Maimonides (1138-1204).…
Discusses the Islamic influences on Maimonides' thought during his life in Arab-ruled Spain, northern Africa, and Egypt. Highlights his Mishneh Torah, Guide of the Perplexed, and other writings. 2008Par Cathy Goldberg Fishman, Melanie Hall. 2006
Introduces the history and the customs of these two Jewish holidays. Follows a family's celebration of Sukkot, the festival of…
booths, and of Simchat Torah, rejoicing in the synagogue to mark the beginning of the annual cycle of reading from the Torah. For grades K-3. 2006Par Jeffrey S Heier, Jeffrey Heier. 2010
A retina specialist answers questions about the causes, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of age-related wet and dry macular degeneration.…
Includes patient commentary and discusses the future possibilities of research trials. 2010Par Elissa Altman. 2016
Elissa Altman grew up in Queens, New York, in a home in which tradition, religion, family expectations, and the forbidden…
were the fixed points in her childhood. But her youth was also laced with contradiction and hope, betrayal and the yearning for acceptance. Adult. UnratedPar Jonah Winter, Stacy Innerst. 2017
Par Bill Farnsworth, Janice Cohn. 1995
Par Lesléa Newman, Leslea Newman, Amy June Bates. 2015
Composer Moshe Cotel adopts a six-toed, black-and-white kitten whom he calls Ketzel, and when he needs a piece to enter…
in a contest for music less than a minute long, it is Ketzel who provides the solution. For preschool-grade 2Dès qu'elle a senti ce petit être au creux de ses bras, si fragile, Deborah Feldman a su ce qu'elle…
devait faire. A peine âgée de 19 ans, elle a toujours vécu au sein de la communauté hassidique Satmar. Elle a toujours suivi les principes implacables qui régissent les moindres détails de sa vie : ce qu'elle peut porter, à qui elle peut parler... Tous les principes sauf celui de ne pas lire de littérature. Les moments de lecture volés de son enfance, passés à découvrir les êtres de papier indépendants et fiers de Jane Austen et Louisa May Alcott, lui ont donné envie de découvrir une autre vie, au milieu des gratte-ciel de Manhattan. Elle sait qu'il est temps d'échapper à son mariage dysfonctionnel avec un homme qu'elle connait à peine, d'abandonner ses responsabilités de bonne fille Satmar et de laisser cours à ses désirs. Indépendamment des obstacles, il est temps, pour elle et son fils, de trouver le chemin du bonheur et de la liberté. Le récit autobiographique de Deborah Feldman, jeune femme juive qui a fui son milieu religieux et qui a inspiré la série Netflix UnorthodoxPar Robert Theodore Branco. 2007
Par Art Schreiber, Hal Simmons. 2014
A high level radio news broadcast exec at the top of his career, Art awoke at a resort near Santa…
Fe, New Mexico, unable to see. Art's refusal to give up and his struggle to live life to the fullest is inspiring. His story is compelling in demonstrating courage, compassion, and resilience in the face of tragedyPar Mustafa Akyol. 2017
Not only is Jesus written of in the Quran, but the Islamic picture of him resonates with Pre-existing Christian sources.…
There is a fascinating similarity between Islam and Jewish Christianity, a branch of the early church that was branded as heresy. Jewish Christians were observant Jews who honored Jesus as a human, not divine, Messiah, and sought salvation by faith and works, not by faith alone. Unrated