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• How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

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  "Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Life in Recipes

  Food, Family, and Memories

  Nathan, Joan,

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  "A memoir-in-recipes from the best-selling and award-winning author that looks back at her family and at the long century of Jewish cooking in Europe and America. In her most personal book, Joan Nathan looks back at her own family's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Matchmaker's Gift

  a Novel

  Loigman, Lynda Cohen,

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  "Loigman's latest is a gem. A scrappy Jewish teenager newly arrived in 1920s New York struggles to follow her calling as a matchmaker––seventy years later, her cynical divorce-attorney granddaughter realizes she has very inconveniently…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Exploring American Jewish History Through 50 Historic Treasures

  Decter, Avi Y.,

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  "Exploring American Jewish History through 50 Historic Treasures offers students and general readers new perspectives on the rich complexity of Jewish experiences in America. As one of America's most fascinating and enduring minorities,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Künstlers in Paradise

  a Novel

  Schine, Cathleen,

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  "There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Faster

  How a Jewish Driver, An American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best

  Bascomb, Neal,

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  "For fans of Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, the pulse-pounding story of how a Jewish race car driver and an American speed queen triumphed over Hitler's fearsome Silver Arrows on the eve of World War II." -- Publisher…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories

  a Graphic Novel

  Eisner, Will

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  "A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories" is a seminal graphic novel by Will Eisner, published in 1978. The work is composed of four interrelated stories set within a tenement in the Bronx, capturing the struggles and complexities…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eat Something

  a Wise Sons Cookbook : for Jews Who Like Food and Food Lovers Who Like Jews

  Bloom, Evan,

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  "Here is a cookbook for Jews who like food and food lovers who like Jews. From nationally recognized Jewish deli and Bay Area favorite, Wise Sons, this cookbook presents over 50 recipes for salads, soups, baked goods, holiday dishes, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Forest Dark

  a Novel

  Krauss, Nicole,

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  "One of America’s most important novelists" (New York Times), the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book Rescuer

  How a Mensch From Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come

  Macy, Sue,

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  "Presents the story of the man who founded the National Yiddish Book Center and describes the worldwide effort he currently leads to collect unwanted Yiddish books and save the Yiddish language from extinction." -- Publisher provided.

• The Adventures of Augie March

  Bellow, Saul

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  "The great novel of the American dream, of “the universal eligibility to be noble,” Saul Bellow’s third book charts the picaresque journey of one schemer, chancer, romantic, and holy fool: Augie March. Awarded the National Book Award in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Enemies, a Love Story

  Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991,

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  "In Enemies, A Love Story – an ode to the complicated postwar experience of Holocaust survivors – Isaac Bashevis Singer tells the story of Herman Broder, a man lost in his own indecisiveness and dishonesty. Almost before he knows it,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jew(ish)

  a Primer, a Memoir, a Manual, a Plea

  Greene, Matt, 1985-

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  "What does it mean to be Jew(ish) in 2020? Caught between tradition and modernity, between a Jewish family and a non-Jewish son, Matt Greene ponders the big questions concerning identity, religion, family and Seinfeld." -- Adapted from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• By the Grace of the Game

  the Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and An Unprecedented American Dream

  Grunfeld, Dan,

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  "A family's unique story from escaping the Holocaust to landing in America to playing in the NBA." -- Publisher provided.

• Koshersoul

  the Faith and Food Journey of An African American Jew

  Twitty, Michael, 1977-

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  "The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food. In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories

  And Five Short Stories

  Roth, Philip

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  "From the Pulitzer Prize–winnning writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion comes "a masterpiece" (Newsweek) that illuminates the subterranean conflicts between parents and children and friends and neighbors in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 52 Shabbats

  Friday Night Dinners Inspired by a Global Jewish Kitchen

  Kramer, Faith,

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  "Perfect for homemade communal meals, 52 Shabbats is an accessible cookbook full of delightful recipes, techniques, and shared traditions for the modern Jewish family. Kramer invites everyone, regardless of religious background, to honor…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• King Solomon's Table

  a Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking From Around the World

  Nathan, Joan

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  "From the James Beard Award-winning, much-loved cookbook author and authority: a definitive compendium of Jewish recipes from around the globe and across the ages." -- Publisher provided.

• People Love Dead Jews

  Reports From a Haunted Present

  Horn, Dara, 1977-

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  "A startling exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Reflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the blockbuster travelling exhibition called "Auschwitz," the Jewish…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Here I Am

  Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-

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  "How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others’? These are the questions at the…Read moreRead more of this annotation