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Recounts the inspiring story of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994), the prominent yet deeply modest leader who rebuilt a…
dwindling post-holocaust community into the most influential Jewish organization in the world, Chabad-Lubavitch. 2014Narrative nonfiction account of the effort by Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and a group of Holocaust survivors and Israeli spies…
to track down Adolf Eichmann, who orchestrated Adolf Hitler's policy of genocide during World War II. Some violence. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2013Everyday holiness: the Jewish spiritual path of Mussar
By Alan Morinis, E. Alan Morinis. 2008
Founder of the Mussar Institute discusses this spiritual path of orthodox Judaism which emphasizes clearing away the extremes of emotion,…
desire, and bad habits to allow one's inner essence to shine through. Details desirable qualities such as generosity and humility, and includes suggestions of how to practice. 2007Your guide to the Jewish holidays: from shofar to Seder
By Matt Axelrod, Cantor Matt Axelrod. 2014
Jewish cantor takes a light-hearted look at the eleven most important Jewish holidays. Instead of simply explaining the obligations of…
the Jewish faith as expressed in biblical texts, Axelrod shows where each holiday, along with its rituals, came from in an historical context. 2014The broken and the whole: discovering joy after heartbreak : lessons from a life of faith
By Charles S. Sherman. 2014
Rabbi chronicles his son's brain-stem stroke and its impact upon his faith. Sherman explores his family's ability to find comfort…
and courage in one another and in their Jewish traditions and tells how his son's condition pointed him toward resolutions of life's biggest questions. 2014The new Reform Judaism: challenges and reflections
By Dana Evan Kaplan. 2013
Rabbi argues that Reform Judaism must find a clear and compelling theology to thrive in America. Traces its history and…
discusses contemporary issues of worship, practice, values, and ethics. Considers topics such as Humanistic Judaism, Messianic Jews, Jubus (Jews interested in Buddha), and Jews for Jesus. 2013The story of the Jews: finding the words, 1000 BC-1492 AD (Story of the Jews #1)
By Simon Schama. 2014
Chronicles the history of the Jewish people, from the Israelites' return to Egypt in the fifth century BC to the…
expulsion of the Sephardim from Spain in 1492. Considers the roots, growth, and evolution of Judaism. Based on the 2013 BBC and PBS television documentary series. 2013The Pope and I: how the lifelong friendship between a Polish Jew and John Paul II advanced the cause of Jewish-Christian relations
By Jerzy Kluger, Gianfranco Di Simone. 2012
Autobiography recounts the author's childhood friendship in 1920s Poland with Karol Wojtyla (1920-2005), who became Pope John Paul II in…
1978. Kluger, a Jew, describes surviving World War II and reuniting with his friend after almost thirty years. Translated from Polish. 2011The Jewish festivals: a guide to their history and observance
By 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. 1938Prague winter: a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948
By 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. 2012The faith club: a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew-- three women search for understanding
By 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. 2006Unorthodox: the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots
By 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. 2012The hare with amber eyes: a hidden inheritance
By 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. 2010Terezín: voices from the Holocaust
By 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. 2011The year of goodbyes: a true story of friendship, family and farewells
By 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. 2010Maimonides: the life and world of one of civilization's greatest minds
By 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. 2008On Sukkot and Simchat Torah
By 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. 2006Treyf: my life as an Unorthodox outlaw
By 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. UnratedRuth Bader Ginsburg: the case of R.B.G. vs. inequality
By Jonah Winter, Stacy Innerst. 2017
The Christmas menorahs: how a town fought hate (Albert Whitman Concept Bks.)
By Bill Farnsworth, Janice Cohn. 1995