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This drama is about love and marriage. But the path to marriage in this play is unusually hazardous. ... To win Portia's hand, Bassanio must put his future at risk in an attempt to choose correctly among three caskets or chests of gold, silver, and lead. If he chooses rightly, he wins, in marriage, the beautiful, intelligent, and supremely resourceful Portia and her great wealth. If he chooses wrongly, he must forever abandon Portia and may never...
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2016.
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English
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Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places that once felt like home. Hannah and her best friend, Leo Martin, make a pact: whatever the future has in store for them, they'll meet it together. Hope appears in the form of the SS St. Louis, a transatlantic...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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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 they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (5 video files, approximately 295 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Simon Schama presents The Story of the Jews, a five-part look at 3000 years of Jewish history and the impact the Jews have made on the world. The five-hour series follows Schama – who has written and presented 50 documentaries on art, literature and history and is a Contributing Editor of the Financial Times, as he travels from Russia and the Ukraine to Egypt, Israel and Spain, exploring the imprint that Jewish culture has made on the world and...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 56 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Simon Schama’s epic series continues with the story of medieval Jews struggling to preserve their identity — and sometimes their lives — under the rule of Christianity and Islam. Whether labeled “Christ-killers” by the Christians or “dhimmi” (non-Muslim citizens of an Islamic community) by the Muslims, diaspora Jews built new lives and invented new ways of being Jewish in exile.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 56 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Simon Schama explores the bright, hopeful moment when Enlightenment thinkers and revolutionary armies brought ghetto walls crashing down — allowing Jews to weave their wisdom, creativity and energies into the very fabric of modern life in Europe.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 56 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Prize-winning author and Emmy-Award winner Simon Schama explores the Jewish experience from ancient times to the present day. The story begins 3,000 years ago with the emergence of a tribal people in a contested land and their extraordinary book, the Hebrew Bible, a chronicle of their stormy relationship with a faceless, formless, jealous God.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 56 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Simon Schama plunges viewers into the lost world of the shtetl, the Jewish towns and villages sewn across the hinterlands of Eastern Europe, which became the seedbed of a uniquely Jewish culture. Shtetl culture would make its mark on the modern world, from the revolutionary politics of the Soviet Union to the mass culture of Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood.
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"Raymond-Raoul Lambert's Diary has been among the most important untranslated records of the experience of French Jews in the Holocaust. Lambert, a leader of the Union of French Jews (UGIF), was, in the words of the historian Michael Marrus, "arguably the most important Jewish official in contact with the Vichy government and the Germans." Lambert's Diary survived the war and was published in France in 1985. It reveals Lambert's efforts to save the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Adult - Best Children's Novels for Adults
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In 1943, during the German occupation of Demark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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Sussex Academic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource (256 pages)
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English
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Four peoples, each with its own culture, language and faith, shared a small Mediterranean town and experienced, each in its own way, the upheavals of war, modernity, emigration and occupation. With the German takeover in 1943, the Holocaust in 1944 and the beginning of Greek rule in 1947, this multiethnic world perished forever. At the centre of this book stands the Sephardi community - Spanish-speaking Jews who arrived in Rhodes sometime after the...
14) Daniel Deronda
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Deronda, a high-minded young man searching for his path in life, finds himself drawn by a series of dramatic encounters into two contrasting worlds: the English country-house life of Gwendolen Harleth, a high-spirited beauty trapped in an oppressive marriage, and the very different lives of a poor Jewish girl, Mirah, and her family. As Deronda uncovers the long-hidden secret of his own parentage, Eliot's moving and suspenseful narrative opens up a...
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English
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The 1913 murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan would have far-reaching consequences for Georgia and the nation; in the years that followed a Jewish man named Leo Frank was convicted on dubious evidence, a governor's career toppled while an anti-Semite became Georgia's senator, and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith was formed.
“The Silent and The Damned: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank” tells the horrifying story of...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Joe Louis was the most marketable sports figure on earth at the beginning of 1937. On January 20, 1937 he fought an upstart Jewish boxer, Bob Pastor, at Yankee Stadium. The former New York University football player went the distance, 11 rounds, wounding Louis' ego in the process. This bout occurred before Louis captured the heavyweight title from German boxer Max Schmeling. The Associated Press gave Louis 4 rounds, Pastor 2, and scored two rounds...
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Bnei Baruch, Laitman Kabbalah
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (160 pages)
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English
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"Like a Bundle of Reeds explains why unity and mutual responsibility can heal our society and mitigate anti-Semitism. Using numerous quotes and references from Jewish sages and historians, the author sheds light on some of the Jews' most daunting and mystifying questions: What is our role on this planet? Are we truly "the chosen people"? If we are, what were we chosen for? What is causing anti-Semitism, and can it be cured?."--
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource
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English
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The years 1926 and 1927 marked the beginning of an anti-obscenity campaign in Philadelphia. According to news accounts many publishers and distributors of illicit literature had relocated to Philly from other major cities. Despite the support of Catholic leaders and others New York City didn't approve measures to shutdown theatrical productions and plays, Neither did Gotham authorities initiate controversial efforts to clampdown on "obscenity". Ironically...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Juana Bormann was one of the most tormenting and evil of the women who worked guarding female prisoners at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. From camp survivors we know that Bormann used her Alsatian dog to rip the clothes and flesh from the unfortunate victims of her blind wrath. Age 53 when she went on trial at Leuneburg, Germany in September 1945, Juana or Johanna, had been a religious zealot in her former life before World War II...
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Berlinica Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (314 pages)
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English
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This richly-illustrated book depicts 750 years of Jewish history as well as Jewish life in Berlin today. The Prussian capital was, for many centuries, the center of Jewish life in Germany. Its Jewish citizens strongly influenced the city's cultural and literary life and led the way in the sciences, from the 18th century salon of Rachel Varnhagen to the cabarets of the Weimar Republic. However, economic crisis, hyper-inflation, and the depression of...
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