Les Amériques ne figurent encore sur aucune carte quand Moshé décide de fuir son shtetl misérable et les pogroms qui le ravagent. Répondant à l’appel du large et de l’inconnu, le boychik de quatorze ans embarque comme moussaillon sur un...
Jews
- Auteur:Barwin, Gary, Saint-Martin, Lori, Gagné, PaulSommaire:
- Auteur:Lieberman, LeanneSommaire:
Lauren Yanofsky doesn't want to be Jewish anymore. Her father, a noted Holocaust historian, keeps giving her Holocaust memoirs to read, and her mother doesn't understand why Lauren hates the idea of Jewish youth camps and family...
- Auteur:Wind, Eddy deSommaire:
In 1943, amidst the start of German occupation, Eddy de Wind worked as a doctor at Westerbork, a Dutch transit camp. His mother had been taken to this camp by Nazis but Eddy was assured by the Jewish Council she would be freed in...
- Auteur:Davis, AubreySommaire:
A magic meat grinder helps a poor Jewish couple learn a little gratitude after the three wishes it grants them go awry. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Auteur:Davis, AubreySommaire:
In this fresh take on a classic tale, a magic meat grinder helps a poor Jewish couple learn a little gratitude after the three wishes it grants them go awry. A cautionary story that questions today's consumerism and excessiveness...
- Auteur:Green, GilaSommaire:
Eve and Manny are engaged in post-civil war Israel, but Manny has a secret: he’s falling in love with his religious roots and turning his back on moral relativism. As their wedding date approaches, Manny deserts Eve, and in the midst of...
- Auteur:Jacobson, HowardSommaire:
- Auteur:Levi, LiaSommaire:
A Jewish girl grows up during a difficult time of racial discrimination and war, and discovers light in unexpected places.
- Auteur:Beker, Bronia, Beker, JosephSommaire:
Bronia and Josio (Joseph) grew up in Kozowa, a shtetl filled with lively culture, eccentric characters and extended family. When Bronia met Josio, she was charmed by his confidence and fearlessness. Separated when Josio was drafted into...
- Auteur:Richler, MordecaiSommaire:
Joshua Then and Now is about Joshua Shapiro today, and the Joshua he was. His father a boxer turned honest crook, his mother an erotic dancer whose greatest performance was at Joshua bar mitzvah, Joshua has overcome his inauspicious...
- Auteur:Petrovskiĭ-Shtern, ĬokhananSommaire:
This is the first study of the military experience of some one to one-and-a-half million Jews who served in the Russian Army between 1827, the onset of the conscription of Jews in Russia, and 1917, the demise of the tsarist regime. The...
- Auteur:Stiefel, Barry L., Rittenberg, David, Gruber, Samuel D.Sommaire:
Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World is a blend of cultural and architectural history that examines Jewish heritage as it expanded among the continents and islands linked by the Atlantic Ocean between the mid-15th and early 19th...
- Auteur:Schwartz, EllenSommaire:
Jesse's project about his immigrant ancestors is due tomorrow and he hasn't started. In a last-ditch effort to find some information about his great-great grandfather, Yossi, Jesse rummages through the mess in the attic until he finds a...
- Auteur:Klein, EddieSommaire:
An idealist and a dreamer, young Icchok Klein writes poetry in the Lodz ghetto, a talent that leads to him to be rescued by a tight inner circle, where he comes under the protective wing of the chairman of the Council of Elders,...
- Auteur:Thon, ElsaSommaire:
Elsa Thon was a sixteen-year-old photographer's apprentice when the Nazis occupied her town of Pruszków, Poland. When her family was sent to the Warsaw ghetto, Elsa joined a community farm and was recruited by the Underground. Despite...
- Auteur:Goldenberg, AnnaSommaire:
In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg's great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hans, their elder son, survives by hiding in an apartment in the middle of Nazi-controlled Vienna....
- Auteur:Auerbacher, IngeSommaire:
The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems.
- Auteur:Farhoud, AblaSommaire:
A writer observes Hasidic Montreal and a diverse community.
- Auteur:Elkeles, SimoneSommaire:
In this sequel to How to Ruin a Summer Vacation, EVERYTHING in 16-year-old Amy Nelson Barak’s life is going wrong! Her mom got married and moved to the suburbs, and now they are going to have a baby. Amy moves in with her dad in Chicago...
- Auteur:Elkeles, SimoneSommaire:
Y.A.L.S.A. 2007 Teens’ Top Ten "A breezy read." —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books “Fresh, fun and fabulous! Guaranteed NOT to ruin your summer vacation!” —Mari Mancusi, author of Boys that Bite How To Ruin a Summer Vacation...