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The PostcardAnne BerestAmazon summary: Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling. See also review in NYT:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/books/anne-berest-the-postcard.html4 books, + ebook and audiobook
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There is nothing so whole as a broken heart: Mending the world as Jewish AnarchistsCindy Milstein (editor)These 35 essays, many written from feminist and queer perspectives, journey into past and contemporary trauma in ways that are humanizing and healing. They build bridges from bittersweet grief to rebellion and joy.2 books + ebook
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KoshersoulMichael W. TwittyEssays and food/cooking info on African American-Jewish traditions. Has won awards4 books + audiobook & ebook
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Judaism without TribaliamRabbi Rami ShapiroRabbi expounds on unity among Jewish factions and why this is important in our time.6 books
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The Girl in the Middle: Growing up Between Black & White, Rich and PoorAnais GranofskyMemoir with bittersweet memories, celebrity author2 audiobooks
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Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul MateLetty Cottin PogrebinFiction by well known author. A New York love story complicated by the legacies and modern tension of Jewish American and African American history, Single Jewish Male Seeking explores what happens when the heart runs into the reality of politics, history, and the weight of family promises.1 book
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One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost WorldMichael FrankThe remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the author over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale.4 books + 4 CDs + ebook + audiobook
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In Memory of Memory (recommending an excerpt)Maria StepanovaWith the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of an entire century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of an ordinary family that somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. The family’s pursuit of a quiet, civilized, ordinary life—during such atrocious times—is itself a strange odyssey.2 books & ebook
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A Rosenberg by any other name : a history of Jewish name changing in AmericaKirsten Lise FermaglichOur thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on clichés: ambitious movie stars who adopted glamorous new names or insensitive Ellis Island officials who changed immigrants' names for them. But as Kirsten Fermaglich elegantly reveals, the real story is much more profound.2 books
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The Matchmaker's GiftLynda Cohen LoigmanFrom Lynda Cohen Loigman, the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters, comes a heartwarming story of two extraordinary women (grandmother and granddaughter from two different eras who defy expectations to utilize their unique gift of seeing soulmates in the most unexpected places in The Matchmaker's Gift.1 book
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The Color of LoveMarra B. GadIn this award-winning memoir, a mixed-race Jewish woman recounts her journey from adoption and prejudice to helping the family that once shunned her.Marra B. Gad's biological parents were a black man and a white Jewish woman. In 1970, at three days old, she was adopted by a white Jewish family in Chicago. For them, it was love at first sight—but the world was not ready for a family like theirs.1 ebook + 1 audiobook
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Singnal FiresDani ShapiroAn ancient majestic oak stands beneath the stars on Division Street. And under the tree sits Ben Wilf, a retired doctor, and ten-year-old Waldo Shenkman, a brilliant, lonely boy who is pointing out his favorite constellations. Waldo doesn’t realize it but he and Ben have met before. And they will again, and again. Across time and space, and shared destiny.3 books + 3 ebooks + 4 audiobooks
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The Beauty Queen of JerusalemSarit Yishai-LeviGabriela's mother Luna is the most beautiful woman in all of Jerusalem. Desperate to understand their relationship, Gabriela pieces together the stories of her family's previous generations. Set against the Golden Age of Hollywood, the dark days of World War II, and the swinging '70s, The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem follows generations of unforgettable women as they forge their own paths through times of dramatic change.1 book
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The Ruined HouseRuby NamdarAndrew P. Cohen, a successful NYU professor of comparative culture, is suddenly plagued with strange and inexplicable visions of an ancient religious ritual. As his superficially perfect world begins to unravel, he is forced to question his beliefs.1 book
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AusterlitzW.G. SebaldAusterlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by “one of the most gripping writers imaginable” (The New York Review of Books), is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, one Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, the fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, he follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion.1 hardcopy, 1 electronic
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