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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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730L
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English
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Adult - Teen Books for Adults
Teens - Books Made Into Movies
Teens - Historical Fiction
Teens - The Best of the Best Teen Books
Teens - Books Made Into Movies
Teens - Historical Fiction
Teens - The Best of the Best Teen Books
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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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"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
Kids - Historical Fiction for Middle Graders
Kids - Suggestions for Fifth Graders
Kids - Historical Fiction for Middle Graders
Kids - Suggestions for Fifth Graders
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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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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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Sussex Academic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
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...
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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.
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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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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
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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Bnei Baruch, Laitman Kabbalah
Pub. Date
2014.
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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?."--
12) The lost shtetl
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"What if there was a town that Hitler missed? For over fifty years the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol has existed virtually untouched and unchanged. Spared of the Holocaust and Cold War, Kreskol has enjoyed an isolated peace. But when a marriage dispute spirals out of control, Kreskol is suddenly rediscovered and brought into the 21st Century. Pesha is in a loveless, arranged marriage and summons the courage to escape Kreskol on foot. But when her...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 760L
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English
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a novel based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - literally scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust. Lale used the infinitesimal...
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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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Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Pub. Date
1993.
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1 online resource (364 pages)
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English
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"Kantor writes from the perspective of a traditional Jew, covering events such as the Flood, giving of the Torah, and the fall of the Tower of Babel, placing these within the chronology of history along with the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel."--
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Allen and Unwin
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource (384 pages)
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English
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"The tale of a Jewish martyr and his sister who died together in Mexico City in 1596 explores his determination to never lose heart, and to cling to his faith and cultural identity in the face of totalitarian oppression It is 1596 and in Mexico the Inquisition is at its most efficient. A young man trembles in his cell as he prays for salvation, torn between the Christianity he was schooled in and his ancestral faith. What heresies will the Holy Office...
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Nachshon Press LLC
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (128 pages)
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English
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"Gold Medal Non-fiction Young Adult Moonbeam Book Award winner Depicting the history of Israel from biblical Abraham to the present, this sophisticated, four-color graphic adaptation is academically grounded, guiding readers through highlights both in historical detail and from Israel's world view. History, religion, politics, and the current Middle East situation are all given comprehensive coverage in the text, which opens in a university setting...
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2005.
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1 online resource (273 pages)
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English
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The history of Jews in Chicago is a fascinating, complex and largely unknown story. Thanks to the unstinting efforts of Walter Roth, much of this history has been preserved. Now, for the first time, this material has been distilled into a single volume, chronicling events and people from the late nineteenth century to the end of World War II. There are six broad themes, each of which includes several essays: the first of which is "Chicago Jews and...
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Energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories from Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.
In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man gets a special dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute. "The Wig" takes an aging wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful. In "The Tumblers," Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward...
In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man gets a special dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute. "The Wig" takes an aging wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful. In "The Tumblers," Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward...
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