Campbell Hall
Ahmanson Library
Diversity Resources
Jewish Bibliography
J 811.008 Poe
Livingston, Myra Cohn. Poems for Jewish holidays. 1st ed. New York: Holiday House, [1986].
A collection of sixteen poems, by twelve contemporary authors, celebrating Jewish holidays such as Yom Kippur and Purim.
909.04 Wig
Wigoder, Geoffrey. Jewish art and civilization. Seccaucus, N.J: Chartwell Books, [1972].
940.5318 Bar
Bar-On, Dan. Legacy of silence : encounters with children of the Third Reich. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, [1989].
325.73 Fin
Finkelstein, Norman H. The other 1492 : Jewish settlement in the New World. 1st ed. New York: Scribner, [1989].
Describes the causes, events, and aftermath of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
751.73 Cza
Czarnecki, Joseph P. Last traces : the lost art of Auschwitz. New York: Atheneum, [1989].
940.5318 Bar
Barosin, Jacob. "A remnant --". New York: Holocaust Library, [1988].
940.5318 Isa
Isaacson, Judith Magyar. Seed of Sarah : memoirs of a survivor. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1990].
940.5318 Top
Topas, George. The iron furnace : a Holocaust survivor's story. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, [1990].
940.5318 Wit
Witnesses to the Holocaust : an oral history. Boston: Twayne Publishers, [1990].
940.5318 Deu
Deutschkron, Inge. Outcast : a Jewish girl in wartime Berlin. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Fromm International Pub. Corp, [1989].
940.5315 Adl c.2
Adler, David A. We remember the Holocaust. 1st ed. New York: H. Holt, [1989].
Discusses the events of the Holocaust and includes personal accounts from survivors of their experiences of the persecution and the death camps.
940.5318 Tor
Tory, Avraham. Surviving the Holocaust : the Kovno Ghetto diary. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, [1990].
940.5318 Per
Perl, William R. The Holocaust conspiracy : an international policy of genocide. 1st ed. New York, NY: Shapolsky Publishers, [1989].
221.95 Fis
Fisher, Leonard Everett. The Wailing Wall. 1st ed. New York: Macmillan, [1989].
Surveys the history of the Jewish people in Palestine and their activities around the First and Second Temples the site of which is now marked by the Western or Wailing Wall, with an emphasis on events before 70 A.D.
940.5318 Mil
Miller, Judith. One, by one, by one : facing the Holocaust. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1990].
92 Reiss
Reiss, Johanna. The journey back. New York: Crowell, [1976].
After spending three years hiding from the Nazis, a Jewish family is reunited and begins the job of rebuilding their country and family.
940.5318 Bau
Bauer, Yehuda. A history of the holocaust. New York: F. Watts, [1982].
940.5318 Rei
Reiss, Johanna. The upstairs room. New York: Crowell, [1972].
A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.
940.5318 Lei
Leitner, Isabella. Fragments of Isabella : a memoir of Auschwitz. 1st ed. New York: Crowell, [1978].
940.5318 Zys
Zyskind, Sara. Stolen years. Minneapolis, Minn: Lerner Publications Co, [1981].
940.5318 App
Appleman-Jurman, Alicia. Alicia : my story. Toronto: Bantam Books, [1988].
940.5318 Eps
Epstein, Helen. Children of the Holocaust : conversations with sons and daughters of survivors. New York: Putnam, [1979].
296.4 Jew
Jewish liturgy : prayer and synagogue service through the ages. New York: Leon Amiel, [1975].
296.437 Gre
Greenfeld, Howard. Passover. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1978].
A history of this 3000-year-old Jewish holiday and an explanation of the Seder which commemorates it.
Video 940.5318 Cou
The Courage to care. New York, NY: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, [1986].
Three non-Jewish individuals tell how they risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust.
Tape 398.2 Day
Rubenstein, Robert E. The Day the rabbi stopped the sun and other Jewish tales. Eugene, OR (90 E. 49th, Eugene 97405): R.E. Rubenstein, [p1984].
940.5318 Nom
Nomberg-Przytyk, Sara. Auschwitz : true tales from a grotesque land. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1985].
940.5318 Har
Hart, Kitty. Return to Auschwitz : the remarkable story of a girl who survived the Holocaust. 1st Atheneum paperback ed. New York: Atheneum, [1983, 1981].
940.5318 Los
The Lost generation : children in the Holocaust. New York: Pilgrim Press, [1982].
940.5318 Lif
Lifton, Robert Jay. The Nazi doctors : medical killing and the psychology of genocide. New York: Basic Books, [1986].
940.5318 Ste
Stein, R. Conrad. Warsaw ghetto. Chicago: Childrens Press, [1985].
Recounts life in the Jewish quarter in Warsaw from 1939 to 1945 when the years of hunger and privation culminated in the complete destruction of that ghetto.
J 92 Wiesel
Greene, Carol. Elie Wiesel, messenger from the Holocaust. Chicago: Childrens Press, [1987].
A brief biography of the winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, who having survived the Holocaust, dedicated his life to speaking and writing about these terrible events so that they would not be forgotten.
92 Strauss
Henry, Sondra. Everyone wears his name : a biography of Levi Strauss. Minneapolis, MN: Dillon Press, [1990].
Traces the life of the immigrant Jewish peddler who went on to found Levi Strauss & Co., the world's first and largest manufacturer of denim jeans.
940.5318 Wie
Wiesenthal, Simon. Justice, not vengeance. 1st American ed. New York: Grove
Weidenfeld, [1989].
92 Wiesenthal
Noble, Iris. Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal. New York: J. Messner, [1979].
Presents an account of the activities of Simon Wiesenthal who has been instrumental in locating and prosecuting members of the Nazi SS, many of whom disappeared at the end of World War II.
323.11 Dol
Dolan, Edward F. Anti-Semitism. New York: F. Watts, [1985].
Examines the origin and development of antisemitism as well as the effect it has had on the Jewish people.
940.5318 Dwo
Dwork, Deborah. Children with a star : Jewish youth in Nazi Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, [1991].
940.5318 Ber
Bernheim, Mark. Father of the orphans : the story of Janusz Korczak. 1st ed. New York: Dutton, [1989].
A biography of the Polish doctor, author, founder of orphanages, and promoter of children's rights, whose life, though swept away in the Nazi holocaust, was dedicated to his love for children.
P 370.114 Mor
Moral development, moral education, and Kohlberg : basic issues in philosophy, psychology, religion, and education. Birmingham, Ala: Religious Education Press, [1980].
940.5318 Nei
Neimark, Anne E. One man's valor : Leo Baeck and the Holocaust : illustrated with photographs. 1st ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, [1986].
Relates the story of a German Jew who became a great rabbi and national spiritual leader and fought courageously against the persecution of his people during the Nazi years.
940.5318 Gie c.2
Gies, Miep. Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1987].
940.5318 Fin c.2
Finkelstein, Norman H. Remember not to forget : a memory of the Holocaust. New York: F. Watts, [1985].
A brief introduction to the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were systematically exterminated by the Nazis during World War II.
F Wie 2/01
Wiesel, Elie. Night. Toronto: Bantam, [1982, 1960].
940.5318 Cha
Chaikin, Miriam. A nightmare in history : the Holocaust, 1933-1945. New York: Clarion Books, [1987].
Traces the history of anti-Semitism from biblical times through the twelve years of the Nazi era, 1933-1945, and describes Hitler's plans to annihilate European Jews by focusing on the Warsaw Ghetto and the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. Also discusses the continuing effort to remember the horrors of the Holocaust.
940.5318 Sen
Sender, Ruth Minsky. The cage. 1st ed. New York: Macmillan, [1986].
A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis, in a Polish ghetto, during deportation, and in a concentration camp.
940.5318 Ber
Bernbaum, Israel. My brother's keeper : the Holocaust through the eyes of an artist. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1985].
The author describes the Holocaust and explains how he tries to tell the story of that catastrophic slaughter of Jews through his art.
940.5318 Abe
Abells, Chana Byers. The children we remember : photographs from the Archives of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem, Israel. 1st ed. New York: Greenwillow Books, [1986].
Text and photographs briefly describe the fate of Jewish children after the Nazis began to control their lives.
92 Klein
Klein, Gerda (Weissmann). All but my life. New York: Hill and Wang, [1957].
940.5318 Koe
Koehn, Ilse. Mischling, second degree : my childhood in Nazi Germany. New York: Greenwillow Books, [1977].
The memoirs of a German girl who became a leader among the Hitler Youth while her Social Democratic family kept from her the secret of her partial Jewish heritage.
940.5318 Wil
Willenberg, Samuel. Surviving Treblinka. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, [1989].
940.5318 Aus
The Auschwitz album : a book based upon an album discovered by a concentration camp survivor, Lili Meier. 1st ed. New York: Random House, [1981].
296.43 Bac
Bacon, Betty. Jewish holidays. Champaign, Ill: Garrard Pub. Co, [1967].
296.435 Dru
Drucker, Malka. Hanukkah : eight nights, eight lights. New York: Holiday House, [1980].
Introduces the history, customs, rituals, foods, games, and gifts associated with the Festival of Lights and includes recipes, crafts, and puzzles for celebrating the Jewish holiday.
296.43 Cuy
Cuyler, Margery. Jewish holidays. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1978].
Describes the rituals connected with the Jewish holidays throughout the year and gives instructions for making a variety of related objects from easily available materials.
296.4 Car
Cardozo, Arlene. Jewish family celebrations : the Sabbath, festivals, and ceremonies. 1st ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1982].
296.435 Cha
Chaikin, Miriam. Light another candle : the story and meaning of Hanukkah. New York: Clarion Books, [1981].
Retells the story of Hanukkah and explains its symbols by describing high points in Jewish history, worship, and culture.
940.5318 Bla
Blady Szwajger, Adina. I remember nothing more : the Warsaw Children's Hospital and the Jewish resistance. 1st American ed. New York: Pantheon Books, [1990].
Video 940.5318 Abo
About the Holocaust. New York: PDR Productions, Inc, [1980].
Video 940.5318 Cam
The Camera of my family. New York: The League, [198-].
Presents the history of one German-Jewish family, emphasizing the devastating impact of Nazi crimes.
940.5318 Tro
Troller, Norbert. Theresienstadt : Hitler's gift to the Jews. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1991].
940.5318 Yah
Yahil, Leni. The Holocaust : the fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, [1990].
940.5318 Mat
Matalon Lagnado, Lucette. Children of the flames : Dr. Josef Mengele and the untold story of the twins of Auschwitz. 1st ed. New York: Morrow, [1991].
92 Gissing
Gissing, Vera. Pearls of childhood. 1st U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1988].
940.5318 Mel
Meltzer, Milton. Never to forget : the Jews of the holocaust. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, [1976].
940.5318 Rog
Rogasky, Barbara. Smoke and ashes : the story of the Holocaust. 1st ed. New York: Holiday House, [1988].
Examines the causes, events, and legacies of the Holocaust which resulted in the extermination of six million Jews.
940.5318 Adl
Adler, David A. The number on my grandfather's arm. New York, N.Y: UAHC Press, [1987].
A little girl questions a number printed on her grandfather's arm and he explains how he received it in a Nazi concentration during World War II.
709.33 Sed
Sed-Rajna, Gabrielle. Ancient Jewish art : East and West. [Secaucus, N.J.]: Chartwell Books, [1985, 1975].
940.5318 Lei
Leitner, Isabella. The big lie : a true story. New York: Scholastic Inc, [1992].
The author describes her experiences as a survivor of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during World War II.
940.5318 Sie c.2
Siegal, Aranka. Upon the head of the goat : a childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, [1981].
Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.
940.5318 Rab
Rabinowitz, Dorothy. New lives : survivors of the holocaust living in America. 1st ed. New York: Knopf : distributed by Random House, [1976].
940.5318 Sta
Stadtler, Bea. The holocaust : a history of courage and resistance. New York: Behrman House, [1974, 1973].
Describes the experiences of Jews in Germany and other European countries during the twelve years of the Third Reich when more than six million of their number were systematically destroyed.
940.5318 Adl
Adler, David A and Ritz, Karen. A picture book of Anne Frank. 1st ed. New York: Holiday House, [1993].
Traces the life of the young Jewish girl whose diary chronicles the years she and her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic.
940.5318 Sen
Sender, Ruth Minsky. The Holocaust lady. 1st ed. New York: Macmillan, [1992].
In an effort to teach children about the Holocaust, the author describes the impact of this horrifying event on her life and the lives of other survivors.
92 Chagall
Bober, Natalie. Marc Chagall : painter of dreams. 1st ed. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, [1991].
Traces the life of the noted painter, from his birth in Russia to his death in France, with an emphasis on his Jewish background.
325.73 Suh
Suhl, Yuri. An album of the Jews in America. New York: F. Watts, [1972].
Discusses the contributions of Jewish immigrants to the history and culture of the United States from 1492 to the present.
305.8 Vis
Brown, Wesley. Visions of America : personal narratives from the promised land. 1st ed. New York: Persea Books, [1993].
92 Wiesel
Stern, Ellen Norman. Elie Wiesel, witness for life. New York: Ktav Pub. House, [1982].
261.26 Car
Cargas, Harry J. Shadows of Auschwitz : a Christian response to the Holocaust. Rev. ed. New York: Crossroad, [1990].
940.5318 Hya
Hyatt, Felicia B. Close calls : the autobiography of a survivor. New York: Holocaust Library, [1991].
940.5318 Sen
Sender, Ruth Minsky. To life. 1st ed. New York: Macmillan, [1988].
A Holocaust survivor recounts her liberation from a Nazi concentration camp, search for surviving family members, and long and difficult ordeal of trying to immigrate with her husband and two children to America.
920 Lym
Lyman, Darryl. Great Jews on stage and screen. Middle Village, N.Y: Jonathan David Publishers, [1987].
909.04 Enc
Encyclopedia of Jewish history : events and eras of the Jewish people. New York, N.Y: Facts on File Publications, [1986].
940.5318 Wie
Wiesel, Elie. The night trilogy. New York: Hill and Wang, [1987, 1985].
296.4 Cha
Chaikin, Miriam. Menorahs, mezuzas, and other Jewish symbols. New York: Clarion Books, [1990].
Explains the history and significance of many Jewish symbols, such as the Shield of David, the menorah, and the mezuza, and discusses holiday symbols and rituals.
909.04 You
Shamir, Ilanah. The young reader's encyclopedia of Jewish history. 1st American ed. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Viking Kestrel, [1987].
Provides information about main events, eras, and critical figures in Jewish history with 300 photographs, maps, charts, and drawings. Includes a glossary and timeline of key events.
296.4424 Kim
Kimmel, Eric A and Weihs, Erika. Bar mitzvah : a Jewish boy's coming of age. New York, N.Y: Viking, [1995].
291.38 How v.1
Matlins, Stuart M. How to be a perfect stranger : a guide to etiquette in other people's religious ceremonies. 1st ed. Woodstock, Vt: Jewish Lights Pub, [1996-<1997 >].
940.5318 Sch
Schur, Maxine. Hannah Szenes : a song of light. 1st ed. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, [1986].
A biography of the Jewish heroine whose mission to help rescue European Jews in World War II cost her her life.
940.5318 Mel
Meltzer, Milton. Rescue : the story of how gentiles saved Jews in the Holocaust. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, [1988].
A recounting drawn from historic source material of the many individual acts of heroism performed by righteous gentiles who sought to thwart the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust.
940.5318 Bau
Bauer, Yehuda. Flight and rescue: Brichah. [1st ed.]. New York: Random House, [1970].
940.5318 Lod
Lodz ghetto : inside a community under siege. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Viking, [1989].
940.5318 Obe
Oberski, Jona. Childhood. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, [1983].
940.5318 Rub
Rubin, Arnold P. The evil that men do : the story of the Nazis. New York: J. Messner, [1977].
Describes the rise of Nazi power and the events of the Holocaust when more than six million Jews and other minorities were systematically destroyed.
940.5318 Voi
Voices from the Holocaust. New York, N.Y: New American Library, [1981].
305.8924 Pre
Press, David Paul and Kaplan, Elizabeth. Jewish Americans. New York: Marshall Cavendish, [1995].
944.081 Wer
Werstein, Irving. I accuse : the story of the Dreyfus case. New York: J. Messner, [1967].
Reviews the trials and bitter controversy that lasted for years regarding the guilt or innocence of the Jewish French army officer accused by the French of spying for the Germans.
P 940.5318 Zor
Zornberg, Ira. Classroom strategies for teaching about the Holocaust : 10 lessons for classroom use. New York, N.Y: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, [1983].
REF 911.1766 DeL
De Lange, N. R. M. Atlas of the Jewish world. New York: Facts on File, [1984].
REF 940.5318 Enc
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan Pub. Co, [1990].
REF 940.5318 Pic
The Pictorial history of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan Pub. Co, [1990].
Video F Sch v.2
Spielberg, Steven. Schindler's list. Universal City, Calif: MCA Universal Home Video, [1994, 1993].
The true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer & war profiteer, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust.
940.5318 Bac
Bachrach, Susan D. Tell them we remember : the story of the Holocaust. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, [1994].
791.4309 Gab
Gabler, Neal. An empire of their own : how the Jews invented Hollywood. 1st Anchor books ed. New York: Doubleday, [1989, 1988].
J 296.1 Pod
Podwal, Mark H. The book of tens. 1st ed. New York: Greenwillow Books, [1994].
940.5318 Hil
Hillesum, Etty. An interrupted life : the diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943. 1st American ed. New York: Pantheon Books, [1983].
940.5318 Ros
Rossel, Seymour. The Holocaust. New York: Watts, [1981].
Discusses how, between 1938 and 1945, the Nazis planned and carried out a program of extermination against the Jews of Europe now known as the Holocaust, and how the Holocaust continues to affect our everyday lives.
940.5318 Sie
Siegal, Aranka. Grace in the wilderness : after the liberation, 1945-1948. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [1985].
Liberated from a German concentration camp at the end of World War II but haunted by the memory of her ordeal, fifteen-year-old Piri starts a strange new life as a Jew in Sweden.
940.5318 Koh
Kohner, Hanna. Hanna and Walter : a love story. 1st ed. New York: Random House, [1984].
940.5318 Wie v.2
Wiesel, Elie. Against silence : the voice and vision of Elie Wiesel. New York: Holocaust Library, [1985].
759.7 Cha
Greenfeld, Howard. Marc Chagall. New York: Abrams, [1989].
Examines the life and work of the painter whose Russian Jewish background did not prevent him from making an international search for his own ways of expression.
305.8924 Hoo
Hoobler, Dorothy and Hoobler, Thomas. The Jewish American family album. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [1995].
940.5318 Aus
Auschwitz and âSwiebocka, Teresa. Auschwitz : a history in photographs. Bloomington: Published for the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oâswiñecim, and Ksiñaçzka i Wiedza, Warsaw, by Indiana University Press, [1993].
Video 940.5318 Att
Steenburgen, Mary. The attic : the hiding of Anne Frank. [United States]: Cabin Fever Entertainment, [1992].
During the World War II Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Miep Gies risks everything she has to hide two Jewish families in the attic over the office where she works.
398.2 San
Sanfield, Steve and Gaber, Susan. Bit by bit. New York: Philomel Books, [1995].
When Zundel the tailor wears out his beautiful coat, he continues to make smaller and smaller garments from the material that is left.
398.2 Adl
Adler, David A and O'Malley, Kevin. Chanukah in Chelm. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard/Morrow, [1997].
When the rabbi tells Mendel to get a table for the Chanukah menorah, Mendel makes the task more difficult than it should be.
940.5318 Moc
Mochizuki, Ken and Lee, Dom. Passage to freedom : the Sugihara story. 1st ed. New York: Lee & Low Books, [1997].
J 296 Wei
Weiss, Bernard P. I am Jewish. 1st ed. New York: PowerKids Press, [1996].
Introduces the ancient religion of Judaism through the eyes of a Jewish child living in St. Louis.
940.5318 Per
Perl, Lila and Lazan, Marion Blumenthal. Four perfect pebbles : a Holocaust story. 1st ed. New York: Greenwillow Books, [1996].
940.5318 Adl
Adler, David A and Ritz, Karen. Child of the Warsaw ghetto. 1st ed. New York: Holiday House, [1995].
940.5318 Tec
Tec, Nechama. Dry tears : the story of a lost childhood. New York: Oxford University Press, [1984].
92 Frank
Brown, Gene. Anne Frank : child of the Holocaust. 1st ed. Woodbridge, Conn: Balckbirch Press, [1991].
A biography of the thirteen-year-old Jewish girl whose diary, published after her death in a Nazi concentration camp, made her famous all over the world.
940.5318 We
Boas, Jacob. We are witnesses : five diaries of teenagers who died in the Holocaust. 1st ed. New York: Henry Holt, [1995].
940.5318 Ber
Bernstein, Sara Tuvel. The seamstress : a memoir of survival. New York: Putnam, [1997].
940.5318 Opd
Opdyke, Irene Gut and Armstrong, Jennifer. In my hands : memories of a Holocaust rescuer. New York: Knopf, [1999].
Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
940.5318 Gid
Giddens, Sandra. Escape : teens who escaped from the Holocaust to freedom. 1st ed. New York: Rosen Pub, [1999].
Tells the stories of four teenagers who survived the horrors that the Nazis perpetrated on Jews during World War II.
940.5318 Anf
Anflick, Charles. Resistance : teen partisans and resisters who fought Nazi tyranny. 1st ed. New York: Rosen Pub, [1999].
920 Why
Holliday, Laurel. Why do they hate me : young lives caught in war and conflict. New York, N.Y: Pocket Books, [1999].
940.5318 Lob
Lobel, Anita. No pretty pictures : a child of war. 1st ed. New York: Greenwillow Books, [1998].
The author, known as an illustrator of children's books, describes her experiences as a Polish Jew during World War II and for years in Sweden afterwards.
940.5318 Lea
Leapman, Michael. Witnesses to war : eight true-life stories of Nazi persecution. London: New York, N.Y., USA, [1998].
Bk Tape F Gre
Greene, Bette and Dickey, Dale. Summer of my German soldier. Prince Frederick, Md: Recorded Books, [p1995, 1973].
Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a twelve-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.
Bk Tape J Yol
Yolen, Jane and Rosenblat, Barbara. The Devil's arithmetic. Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, [p1996].
940.5318 Vel
Velmans-Van Hessen, Edith and Velmans-Van Hessen, Edith. Edith's story. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Soho, [1999?].
P 296.74 Gor
Gordis, Daniel. Becoming a Jewish parent : how to explore spirituality and tradition with your children. 1st ed. New York: Harmony Books, [1999].
Video 792.642 Fid
Stern, Isaac. Fiddler on the roof. Digitally remastered ed. Culver City, CA: MGM/UA Home Video, [1996].
Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.
940.5318 Tal
Talbott, Hudson. Forging freedom : a true story of heroism during the Holocaust. New York: Putnam, [2000].
Chronicles the brave exploits of Jaap Penraat, a young Dutch man, who risked his life during World War II to save the lives of over 400 Jews.
978.02 Hir
Hirschfelder, Arlene B. Photo odyssey : Solomon Carvalho's remarkable Western adventure,
1853-54. New York: Clarion Books, [2000].
Describes the life of Carvalho, a Jewish photographer who accompanied John Charles Fremont on his last expedition to the West.
940.5318 Lev
Levine, Ellen. Darkness over Denmark : the Danish resistance and the rescue of the Jews. New York: Holiday House, [2000].
An account of people in Denmark who risked their lives to protect and rescue their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis during World War II.
Video 152. Wav
The Wave. Culver City, Calif: Zenger Video [distributor], [199?].
A high school teacher drills his students on ideas of power, discipline, and superiority to illustrate the development of attitudes such as those that allowed Germans to deny responsibility for genocide under the Nazis. Intended to stimulate thinking among those who maintain that "it can't happen here.".
220.92 Ros
Ross, Lillian Hammer and Teis, Kyra. Daughters of Eve : strong women of the Bible. New York, NY: Barefoot, [2000].
Retelling of the stories of women from the Bible, including Miriam, Zipporah, Ruth, Abigail, Huldah and Esther, who use their wits, inner strength and faith to overcome the challenges that face them.
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