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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1948 Connecticut, enjoying summertime weeks of freedom at a popular Jewish beach with their children, beautiful Ada thrives away from her strict husband, while chef Vivie develops diplomatic skills, and unmarried Bec is forced to choose between family beliefs and her passion for a married man.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on a vast array of sources, including interviews with the last surviving seamstress, this powerful book tells the story of the brave women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, exposing the greed, cruelty and hypocrisy of the Third Reich.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, A member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Joining a diverse group of visitors at the site of a former Nazi concentration camp, Polish-American academic Clements Olin performs research while witnessing personal and political tensions erupting among his fellow participants.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Transitioning from her Jewish faith to dieting to maintain an illusion of existential control, Rachel bonds with an Orthodox woman at a frozen yogurt shop before embarking on a journey of food, desire and spiritual fulfillment.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1939 Germany, Hanna Rombauer is sent to a "bride school" where she becomes increasingly disturbed by lessons of hatred, prejudice, and misogyny, and when she discovers a pregnant Jewish woman hiding near the school, she proposes a risky plan that would free them both.
14) Born survivors: three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the true account of three pregnant women who met in Auschwitz, where they concealed their pregnancies from infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele and fought for their survival as well as the survival of their newborns as they embarked on a treacherous journey to freedom.
16) Evergreen
Author
Series
Werner family saga volume 1
Publisher
Dell Pub
Pub. Date
1987, c1978
Language
English
Description
A young Polish immigrant woman, in love with the scion of the German-Jewish banking family for which she works as a maid, marries fellow immigrant Joseph Friedman and lifts him from poverty to a real-estate fortune by one act of illicit passion.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.
The crime was called in by Rina Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to discover that she is a calm and intelligent witness. She is also
...Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK
WINNER OF THE JQ–WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE
"A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost forever—and a reminder, in our own troubled era, never to forget." —People
An "exceptional" (The Wall Street Journal) and "poignant" (The New York Times) book in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Française...
WINNER OF THE JQ–WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE
"A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost forever—and a reminder, in our own troubled era, never to forget." —People
An "exceptional" (The Wall Street Journal) and "poignant" (The New York Times) book in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Française...
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