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Wim and Marie, an ordinary Dutch couple, have been hiding Nico, a Jewish man, for many months during the Occupation, and seemingly without suspicion ... More

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Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime, with his mother's glamorous card evenings to look forward to ... More

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While A Traveler Disguised focused on the rhetoric of the speaking voice or the persona in these classics, the nine essays gathered here concentrate ... More

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Stephen Wade offers a guide to major writers, their key works, and influential background factors including the postmodern, the master-narrative and ... More

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This book explores through literature the long and complex evolution of Jewish identity in Israel and the central role that language, ideology, ... More

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Oppression and suffering sharpened Jewish self-consciousness and this was given expression in the first works of fiction in modern Hebrew literature. ... More

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Hayyim wakes up one morning only to find out that the entire town thinks he's "gone to Heaven." But he's still here! With the help of the Rabbi, ... More

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A biography of the thirteen-year-old Jewish girl whose diary, published after her death in a Nazi concentration camp, made her famous all over the ... More

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"Jewish stories," writes Adam Biro, "resemble every people's stories." Yet at the same time there is no better way to understand the soul, history, ... More

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Once upon a time in the city of Tunis, a flirtatious young girl was drawn into Lilith's dangerous web by glancing repeatedly at herself in the mirror ... More

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Drawn from the archives of YIVO, the Institute for Jewish Research, and superbly translated, these funny, pious, moralistic, and magical tales, ... More

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Discusses the events of the Holocaust and includes personal accounts from survivors of their experiences of the persecution and the death camps.

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Everyone knows about Anne Frank, and her life hidden in the secret annexe - or do they? Peter van Pels and his family are locked away in there with ... More

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Keizer's thrilling, critically acclaimed debut puts an unforgettable new spinon the World War II suspense novel: what if the Resistance had ... More

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Bech is back in fine, fierce form in this quasi-novel, the third of Updike's books about the peripatetic Jewish-American author forever embattled by ... More

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Looks at the role of Jewish American fiction in the larger context of American culture.

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This book redefines identity within contemporary Judeo-Argentinean fiction through the transforming notion of Jewishness and national identity in ... More

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Contents include: Maxim Gorky, Russia And The Jews; Leonid Andreyev, The First Step; Vladimir Korolenko, Mr. Jackson's Opinion On The Jewish Question ... More

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Jerome's bubbie is a matchmaker--the greatest in the whole neighborhood. She's found a match for everyone, except for Mr. Sussman--and herself, that ... More

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With Old World charm, universal humor, and just a bit of chutzpah, Caldecott Medalist Simms Taback offers this lively spin on 13 playful tales which ... More

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Estie, who does not always like people very much, enjoys pretending to be an animal--until she finds out how to be a "mensch."

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The collection of Jewish folk tales that the "New York Times" called "a delightful little book . . . a classic of its kind . . . full of merriment ... More

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When Little Bear wakes up from hibernation and goes off in search of food, the smells of a feast draw him to a nearby house. Bright, jolly ... More

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Explains how a botched mission by two angels created the town of fools known as Chelm.

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