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In the summer of 1853, in Lafayette City, Louisiana, eleven-year-old Elias Abrams loses his mother to yellow fever. Grief-stricken and alone, he becomes embroiled in the street life of New Orleans. After Elias is falsely accused of a crime, and in order to escape arrest, he enlists in the Third Louisiana Regiment, where three thousand other Jews will ultimately fight for the Confederacy. Before long, though, Elias' past catches up with him, and he...
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Jacobo's Rainbow is an historical literary novel set primarily in the nineteen sixties during the convulsive period of the student protest movements and the Vietnam War. It focuses on the issue of being an outsider the 'other' an altogether common circumstance that resonates with readers in today's America. Written from a Jewish perspective, it speaks to universal truths that affect us all. On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of a transformative...
87) Greenhorn
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"A young Holocaust survivor arrives in 1946 at a New York yeshiva where he will study and live. His only possession is a small box that he never lets out of his sight. Daniel, the young survivor, rarely talks, but the narrator, a stutterer who bears the taunts of the other boys, comes to consider Daniel his friend"--Provided by publisher.
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Sean Rosen books volume 2
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Thirteen-year-old Sean continues to work on his screenplay while juggling seventh grade, track practice, a dog-walking job, recording his podcasts, and trying to keep his movie idea a secret from his parents and a private detective sent by a Hollywood movie studio.
89) Jackie's gift
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When young Steve, who is Jewish, tells his new neighbor, Jackie Robinson, that his family does not have a Christmas tree, Jackie brings one to his neighbors, not knowing that they celebrate Hanukkah instead of Christmas. Based on a true story.
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Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.
"Imani is adopted, and she's ready to search for her birth parents. But when she discovers the diary her Jewish great-grandmother wrote chronicling her escape from Holocaust-era Europe, Imani begins to see...
92) Strawberry Hill
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Ten-year-old Allie's family moves from urban New Haven to rural Stamford, Connecticut, in the midst of the Great Depression.
93) All of me
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"Thirteen-year-old Ari faces what it is to be a man while dealing with a cross-country move, his parents' separation, being bullied for his weight, and belatedly starting bar mitzvah preparations." --
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"Estudiante modelo, deportista aplicado, primer violín, voluntariados, todo lo que sea necesario para ingresar a la universidad de sus sueños. Nada más ni nada menos que Harvard. Hasta que un colapso de estrés, una mala calificación en un examen y un tutor de Cálculo que parece salido de un sueño, entran a la ecuación para recordarle que, en su afán de perfección, está olvidándose de lo más importante de todo: VIVIR. Porque lo más hermoso...
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An original approach to the problem of anti-semitism -- a deliberate creation of circumstances which would provoke and provide spontaneous reactions in normal intercourse. Journalist Philip Green has just moved to New York City from California when the Third Reich falls. To mark this moment in history, his editor at Smith's Weekly Magazine assigns Phil a series of articles on anti-Semitism in America. Phil, a Christian, decides to adopt a Jewish identity...
96) Papa's latkes
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On the first Hanukkah after Mama died, Papa and his two daughters try to make latkes and celebrate without her.
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Two immigrant friends, Jewish Minnie and Catholic Tessa, work long hours at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, and when a fire breaks out on March 25, 1911, trapping dozens of workers inside, they help one another to escape the flames. Includes facts about the factory, the fire, and its aftermath.
100) Across the alley
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Jewish Abe's grandfather wants him to be a violinist while African-American Willie's father plans for him to be a great baseball pitcher, but it turns out that the two boys are more talented when they switch hobbies.
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