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"A rich and riveting debut marrying centuries-old folklore to twenty-first-century queer literary fiction, City of Laughter spans four generations of Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years. Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an eighteenth century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to bring laughter to the...
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This contemporary companion to the Jewish year cycle is not only a bellwether for radical Jews who want their lives and practice to be rooted in their political commitments but also an educational resource in Jewish tradition, holidays, and ritual. With a chapter for each month of the Hebrew calendar, For Times Such as These offers spiritual practices and holiday rituals rooted in movements for racial justice, decolonization, feminism, and queer and...
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"In this partially illustrated early chapter book set in 1947, when a young girl's father is away in Europe helping refugees, she is left to deal with a stray peacock who has arrived in her family's yard, much to her mother's dismay. The girl devises a plan to earn the peacock's trust and return it to its home at the zoo."--
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"Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly....
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"The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, unknown story of "Countess Janina Suchodolska," a Jewish woman who rescued more...
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As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
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How Judaism and food are intertwined
Judaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eating particular foods, or around fasting and then eating particular foods. Through fasting, feasting, dining, and noshing, food infuses the rich traditions of Judaism into daily life. What do the complicated laws of kosher food mean to Jews? How does food in Jewish bellies shape the hearts and minds of Jews?...
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En Cruzar fronteras, reclamar una nación, Sandra McGee Deutsch analiza cómo un grupo de inmigrantes doblemente marginal-las mujeres judías-logró crear su identidad nacional argentina, forjar relaciones sociales, comunitarias y laborales, y contribuir de este modo a consolidar la comunidad judía más grande de América Latina en un contexto político cambiante y en ocasiones adverso.
Desde esta perspectiva, aporta una mirada diferente a la que...
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Get the Summary of Kati Marton's The Great Escape in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Great Escape" by Kati Marton chronicles the lives of several prominent Hungarian individuals who left their mark on the world through their contributions to film, science, and literature. The book delves into the golden era of Budapest, highlighting the city's transformation into a cultural and intellectual hub, particularly...
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For the last two thousand years, the Jewish nation, true and loyal to its ancient heritage, has condemned Flavius Josephus as a traitor to the Jews and a lackey of the Flavian Romans. My research into the Jewish War by Josephus shows that the longheld perception as a traitor is quite mistaken.Josephus used 'genres disjunction' in his War narrative to convey a hidden perception opposed by the public perception. The public perception is of the foreground...
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Get the Summary of Judy Batalion's The Light of Days in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Light of Days" by Judy Batalion chronicles the valiant efforts of Jewish women in Nazi-occupied Poland who actively participated in resistance movements against the German occupation during World War II. The book delves into the lives of these women, highlighting their bravery, resourcefulness, and determination to fight...
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New version combining Maccabees I & Maccabess II in 26 chapters with insightful footnotes identifying placenames and explaing historical context.Prefaced with an Overview describing geopolitical historical and cultural background.Followed by extensive PostScript narrating resultant aftermath, strife and civil war leading to the Temple destruction and Exile.
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One Wednesday evening, the governments of the world send out a mass text message announcing that the world will end in one month. In the thirty days leading up to the last day of the world, our protagonist, a young man in his late twenties, has watched the love of his life leave, has lost his job and friends and sense of meaning, and has moved back home to spend his final weeks with his survivalist father, Jewish studies/author mother, and Yiddish-speaking...
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After a series of risky black ops missions, Steve is looking forward to a straightforward intelligence assignment in beautiful Israel. What he finds is a conspiracy that will rock the Middle East and the world. He also finds Neena Shahud, an attractive Mossad agent waging a personal vendetta against Hezbollah.First Steve must save Neena's life, then he must figure out why the Middle East is about to explode and stop it. But, by the time Steve and...
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"The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone-Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London-reveals how the idea of "industrial murder" is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways. He...
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In 2007 Ukraine, after Yefim Shulman, beloved husband, grandfather and World War II veteran, passes away, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase that reveals his lifelong secret, which forces them to reassess the man they thought they knew and the country he defended.
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