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A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life

Dana Reinhardt

Sixteen-year-old atheist Simone Turner-Bloom's life changes in unexpected ways when her parents convince her to make contact with her biological mother, an agnostic from a Jewish family who is losing

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The Rough Guide to Klezmer

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Never Mind the Goldbergs

Matthue Roth

A 17-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl leaves her home in New York for the summer to film a television show in California.

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Hitler Youth

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Follows the lives of several children who followed the National (Nazi) Socialist Party from 1933 to 1945 recounting stories of their service and rebellion.

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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man the

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Hello, America

Livia Bitton Jackson

The author tells the story of how she and her mother came to New York City in 1951 to try to leave the horrors of the Holocaust behind, but found it harder than they expected to fit into this "new wor

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Naked in the Promised Land

Lillian Faderman

Feminist author recalls her journey from immigrant's daughter to model and stripper to women's studies scholar.

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Burnt Bread and Chutney

Carmit Delman

The author, of Indian and Eastern European descent, describes growing up in Midwestern America and on an Israeli kibbutz with a complex racial heritage.

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Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi

David Chotjewitz

In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Ger

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Daily Life During the Holocaust

Eve Nussbaum Soumerai

Draws from journals, diaries, photographs, poetry, and personal testimonies of Holocaust victims, as well as documents of the Nazi regime, to provide information about the day-to-day lives of Jews and

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