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The Matzah Ball / by Meltzer, Jean,author.;
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Hanukkah fiction.; Jewish women; Man-woman relationships; Women novelists;
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The love elixir of Augusta Stern : a novel / by Loigman, Lynda Cohen,author.;
"It's never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs-an active senior community in southern Florida-she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father's old pharmacy-and the man who broke her heart sixty years earlier. As a teenager growing up in 1920's Brooklyn, Augusta's role model was her father, Solomon Stern, the trusted owner of the local pharmacy and the neighborhood expert on every ailment. But when Augusta's mother dies and Great Aunt Esther moves in, Augusta can't help but be drawn to Esther's curious methods. As a healer herself, Esther offers Solomon's customers her own advice-unconventional remedies ranging from homemade chicken soup to a mysterious array of powders and potions. As Augusta prepares for pharmacy college, she is torn between loyalty to her father and fascination with her great aunt, all while navigating a budding but complicated relationship with Irving. Desperate for clarity, she impulsively uses Esther's most potent elixir with disastrous consequences. Disillusioned and alone, Augusta vows to reject Esther's enchantments forever. Sixty years later, confronted with Irving, Augusta is still haunted by the mistakes of her past. What happened all those years ago and how did her plan go so spectacularly wrong? Did Irving ever truly love her or was he simply playing a part? And can Augusta reclaim the magic of her youth before it's too late?"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Jewish women; Love; Magic; Man-woman relationships; Pharmacists; Women pharmacists;
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The brothers of Auschwitz / by Adler, Malka,1946-author.; Canin, Noel,translator.; translation of:Adler, Malka,1946-Its'o u-Bernard.English.;
"Dov and Yitzhak live in a small village in the mountains of Hungary, isolated both from the world and from the horrors of the war. But one day in 1944, everything changes. The Nazis storm the homes of the Jewish villagers and inform them they have one hour before the train will take them to Auschwitz. Six decades later, from the safety of their living rooms at home in Israel, the brothers finally break their silence to a friend who will never let their stories be forgotten."--Cover flap.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Brothers; Jewish families;
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The story of the forest. by Grant, Linda.;
It's 1913 and a young reckless girl goes out into the forest on the edge of the Baltic Sea and meets a gang of rowdy young men with revolution on their minds. It sounds like a fairy tale but it's not the supernatural - the adventure leads to flight, emigration, and the story of a migrant family adapting to a new land, a new language and the pursuit of idealism or happiness. But what is owed to those left behind, trapped in the old lands? From the flour mills of Latvia to Liverpool suburbia to post-war Soho, The Story of the Forest follows the lives of those trying to make sense of themselves in a new world, haunted by the memory of what might have been.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Historical fiction.; FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Historical / World War II; FICTION / Jewish; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Sagas;
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What shape is your bagel? : a first book of Jewish food / by Shahar, Kober.; Macaroons (Musical group);
Babies and toddlers are introduced to Jewish culture and foods in a book that rhymes its way through the shapes of various favorites such as triangular hamantaschen, circular bagels and square matzah.
Subjects: Board books.; Shapes; Judaism; Shape; Bagels; Jewish cooking;
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Time and time again / by Greenfield, Chatham,author.;
Stuck in a time loop, queer Jewish teens Phoebe and Jess start to fall for each other, causing chronically ill Phoebe to worry about a future that may never come.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Lesbian fiction.; Queer fiction.; Novels.; Lesbians; Love; Time; Woman-woman relationships; Jewish teenagers; Lesbians; Love; Time; Woman-woman relationships; Jewish teenagers;
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Songs for the brokenhearted : a novel / by Tsabari, Ayelet,1973-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."1950. Thousands of Yemeni Jews have immigrated to the newly founded Israel in search of a better life. In an overcrowded immigrant camp in Rosh Ha'ayin, Yaqub, a shy young man, happens upon Saida, a beautiful girl singing by the river. In the midst of chaos and uncertainty, they fall in love. But they weren't supposed to; Saida is married and has a child, and a married woman has no place befriending another man. 1995. Thirty-something Zohara, Saida's daughter, has been living in New York City-a city that feels much less complicated than Israel, where she grew up wishing her skin were lighter, her illiterate mother's Yemeni music quieter, and that the father who always favored her was alive. She hasn't looked back since leaving home, rarely in touch with her mother or sister, Lizzie, and missing out on her nephew Yoni's childhood. But when Lizzie calls to tell her their mother has died, she gets on a plane to Israel with no return ticket. Soon Zohara finds herself on an unexpected path that leads to shocking truths about her family-including dangers that lurk for impressionable young men and secrets that force her to question everything she thought she knew about her parents, her heritage, and her own future"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Family secrets; Jewish women; Jews; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy;
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The book of V. : a novel / by Solomon, Anna,author.;
"This propulsive historical novel intertwines the lives of the Bible's Queen Esther, a senator's wife in the 1970s, and a Brooklyn mother in 2016, whose stories trace surprising and moving parallels across centuries"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Esther, Queen of Persia; Women; Jewish women; Wives; Mothers; Man-woman relationships;
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Across so many seas / by Behar, Ruth,1956-;
Includes bibliographical references."Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Jewish fiction.; Jewish girls; Jews; Families; Refugees;
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We were the lucky ones / by Hunter, Georgia,1978-author.;
An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who scatter at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive, and to reunite. It is the spring of 1939, and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows ever closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships facing Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurc family will be flung to the far corners of the earth, each desperately trying to chart his or her own path toward safety. As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death by working endless hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. Driven by an extraordinary will to survive and by the fear that they may never see each other again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere. In a novel of breathtaking sweep and scope that spans five continents and six years and transports readers from the jazz clubs of Paris to the beaches of Rio de Janeiro to Krakow's most brutal prison and the farthest reaches of the Siberian gulag, We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the capacity of the human spirit to endure in the face of the twentieth century's darkest moment"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Jews; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish families; Jews, Polish; World War, 1939-1945;
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