"The Jewish mother feels her job isn't done even after death. You're never too dead to be a Jewish mother." –Mallory Lewis, daughter of Shari Lewis * What do Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Jon Stewart, Bette Midler,...
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Auteur:Rosen, RenéeSommaire:With their relationship unwelcome, Leeba and Red soon find themselves in the middle of the civil rights movement, and they discover that, in times of struggle, music can bring people together.
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Auteur:Park, JacquelineSommaire:A sweeping saga of intrigue and romance set during the Italian Renaissance and told through the eyes of Grazia dei Rossi, a young Jewish woman torn between duty and forbidden romance, who wins our hearts with her recorded secrets of...
- Auteur:Sobler, AlixSommaire:
Anne Frank has survived the war, and at age 25, she's ready to start a new chapter in New York City. Eager to publish a memoir of her time in hiding, Anne is sure it will launch her career as a writer. But when the only interested...
- Auteur:Adams, AlinaSommaire:
Spanning nearly a century, from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, this family saga centers on three generations of women in one Russian Jewish family, each striving to break free of fate and history, each yearning for love...
- Auteur:Meltzer, JeanSommaire:
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK SELECTED BY * POPSUGAR * BUSTLE * BUZZFEED * GOODREADS MEMBERS "The Matzah Ball had me laughing out loud...an all-around terrific read." - Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author Oy! To...
- Auteur:Harris, EveSommaire:
Set in the Orthodox Jewish community in North West London, The Marrying of Chani Kaufman is the poignant and humorous story of nineteen-year-old Chani Kaufman and the lead-up to her wedding night. Nineteen-year-old Chani lives in the...
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Auteur:Jenoff, PamSommaire:In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shows the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a time of war Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks...
- Auteur:Silcoff, MireilleSommaire:
After the death of a favourite aunt with a decadent and intriguing past, a young woman travels back to Montreal for the funeral and reconsiders her own deteriorating life as a failing fashion school student in New York City.
- Auteur:Lecoat, JennySommaire:
Summer 1940: Hedy Bercu fled Vienna two years ago. Now she watches the skies over Jersey for German planes, convinced that an invasion is imminent. When it finally comes, there is no counterattack from Allied forces, the Channel Islands...
- Auteur:Shea, ChristinaSommaire:
Smuggled out of Hungary to escape the Nazi menace, five-year-old Eva Farkas now lives with her aunt and uncle in Romania. Renamed Anca Balaj, she's told to forget her Hungarian past and language and accept a new identity. But when...
- Auteur:Gillham, David R.Sommaire:
A captivating novel of a Berlin girl on the run from the guilt of her past and the boy from Brooklyn who loves her 1955 in New York City: the city of instant coffee, bagels at Katz's Deli, and ultramodern TVs. But in a certain walk...
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Auteur:Yezierska, AnziaSommaire:A love story of a working-class Salome and her "highborn" John the Baptist, the novel is based on the real-life story of Jewish immigrant Rose Pastor's fairytale romance with the millionaire socialist Graham Stokes. It also reflects...
- Auteur:Epstein, NadineSommaire:
This collection of biographies of brave and brilliant Jewish female role models-selected in collaboration with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and including an introduction written by the iconic Supreme Court justice herself- provides young people...
- Auteur:Robson, JenniferSommaire:
To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer's wife in this story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events from the most perilous days of World War II.
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Auteur:Harrison, KathrynSommaire:"Stunning...This is Kathryn Harrison in top form."'Augusten Burroughs In the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes and Running in the Family, a memoir of the author's upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset...
- Auteur:Arato, RonaSommaire:
Ruth Gruber, born in to a Jewish American family in 1911, was drawn to adventure and driven to fight injustice throughout her eventful seven-decade career as a journalist.
- Auteur:Benick, GailSommaire:
Set in the tumultuous 1970s when women, African Americans, and the gay and lesbian community fought for equality while a "New Right" mobilized in defense of political conservatism and traditional family values, Memory's...
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Auteur:David-Weill, NatalieSommaire:When your son's a genius, it's hard not to brag-even in the afterlife-in this "funny and fascinating novel about Yiddish mothers in Paradise" (Le Point). Rebecca Rosenthal, a thirty-eight-year-old mother and professor at the Sorbonne,...
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Auteur:Klug, Lisa AlcalaySommaire:Hot Mamalah is a start-to-finish celebration of the strengths, challenges and triumphs of Jewish women — the good, the great, the P.M.S.y and the menopausal! This “ABC’s of She” dishes up a delicious smorgasbord of everything whole-y...
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