Morris, Heather
Summary: Her beauty saved her life and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MORSilber, Alexandra
Summary: "A sweeping historical novel in the grand tradition of Russian literature that imagines what happens to the characters of Fiddler on the Roof after the curtain falls"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Silber 2017Howland, Naomi.
Summary: In an old Russian village, Sadie and her brothers are poor and hungry until an old woman gives Sadie a frying pan that will make potato pancakes until it hears the magic words that make it stop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: BOARD HOWSass, A. J.
Summary: "Ellen, an autistic thirteen-year-old, navigates a new city, shifting friendships, a growing crush, and her queer and Jewish identities while on a class trip to Barcelona, Spain"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SASWallmark, Laurie
Summary: "A little Jewish girl living on the Lower East Side during the flu pandemic of 1918 can't start school because her father is sick, so she makes a trade with her neighbors: chores for lessons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALNambi, Shoshana
Summary: "Sukkot is Shoshi's favorite Jewish holiday. She and her brothers love to decorate their sukkah, the hut where her family will celebrate. But who will win the Ugandan Abayudaya community's annual sukkah contest? While only one sukkah can be the best, everybody wins when neighbors work together."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kalaniot Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NAMBehar, Ruth
Summary: Estrella learns about her Cuban and Jewish heritage as she helps her aunt move from her Miami apartment to an assisted living community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEHPolydoros, Aden
Summary: Lithuania, 1943. A father drowns in the all-consuming grief of a daughter killed by the Nazis. He can't bring Chaya back from the dead, but he can use kishuf, an ancient and profane magic to create a golem in her image. A Nazi killer, to avenge her death. When Vera awakens, she can feel her violent purpose thrumming within her. But she can also feel glimpses of a human life lived, of stolen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POLAdelson, Leone
Summary: When he awakens from hibernation, Little Bear's hunger leads him to a house where a Purim celebration is just beginning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Holiday AdelsonRuby, Laura
Summary: It was only a few days ago that Tess Biedermann, Theo Biedermann, and Jaime Cruz, along with a mysterious figure from the past, managed to survive an assault on the location of the latest clue in the Morningstarr cipher -- and, in the process, made a shocking discovery about their own connection to this one-hundred-sixty-year-old enigma. Now the friends are divided. Tess and Theo have no idea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RUBLevithan, David
Summary: "A gay Jewish man has just been elected president of the United States--or so it seems, until the governor of Kansas decides that some election results in his state are invalid and awards crucial votes to the other candidate, his fellow party member. Things quickly go very wrong--and hundreds of thousands of people flock to Kansas to protest for what they believe is right and just. Among them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC LEVKessler, Liz
Summary: While helping her father empty her beloved grandmother's house, 13-year-old Liv finds an old chest that reveals Oma's involvement in the Dutch resistance during WWII and learns what it means to be brave and go above and beyond to offer someone else a life of dignity, happiness and freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KESFreethy, Sarah
Summary: "Germany, 1929. At a festive gathering of young bohemians in Weimar, two young artists, Max, a skilled Jewish architect, and Bettina, a celebrated avant-garde painter, are drawn to each other and begin a whirlwind romance. Their respective talents transport them to the dazzling lights of Berlin, but this bright beginning is quickly dimmed by the rising threat of Nazism. Max is arrested and sent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREMcBride, James
Summary: "In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCBPasternack, Sofiya
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Anya sets out to find her missing father but instead travels to Kiev, where she meets the tsar, dines with a rabbi, and rescues two brothers from a dangerous monster lurking beneath the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PASBehar, Ruth
Summary: "Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BEHBerest, Anne
Summary: "Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERNewman, Lesléa
Summary: "Dueling baker sisters Esther and Hester meet their new neighbor Sylvester, who gladly becomes their babka tester, determining which shvester's (sister's) babka is the best"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kar-Ben Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NEWOffsay, Charlotte
Summary: Follows a family as they make homemade challah bread from the heart. Includes information about challah and a recipe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE OFFLocke, Katherine
Summary: Csilla has felt protected by the Duna river her entire life, and especially during the Holocaust of World War II, but that magic seems to have broken when Communists took control of Hungary. When her parents are killed by the secret police, Csilla's deep feelings of betrayal and disconnection cause her to plan her escape from her unrecognizable homeland. They are posthumously exonerated,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LOCLevy, Yael
Summary: "After a day of roly-poly fun and shenanigans, it's bedtime for maziks, the Yiddish word for pranksters or little mischief-makers, a name Jewish parents may lovingly call their rambunctious little ones"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kar-Ben Publishing, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEVNeil, Haley
Summary: Summer vacation quickly becomes complicated for Felicity Becker as she tries to plan a perfect wedding for her mom, figure out her feelings for her friend Nancy, and wonder what dating will look like for her as an asexual person.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NEIKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: On the first night of Hanukkah, Old Bear wanders into Bubba Brayna's house and receives a delicious helping of potato latkes when she mistakes him for the rabbi. Includes a recipe for latkes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KIMPalacio, R. J.
Summary: Tells the story of Julian's Grandmaere's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019