Catalog Search Results
Language
English
Description
In October 1942, Esther Stermer, the matriarch of a Jewish family in the Ukraine, leads her family underground to hide from the pursuing Nazis – and stays nearly a year and a half. Their harrowing story of survival living in near total darkness in two cold, damp caves is one like no other ever told. It was life...like No Place On Earth.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron, but Hoodie's world hasn't changed that much. He's got basketball to play, studies to avoid, and a supermarket full of delicious kosher snacks to eat. The people of Tregaron aren't happy that so many Orthodox Jews are moving in at once, but that's not Hoodie's problem. That is, until he meets...
Author
Language
English
Description
WHETHER OR NOT you have read "Gentleman's Agreement," "Focus," "Eagle At Your Eyes," or have seen the motion picture "Crossfire," you owe it to yourself to read EVERYMAN's HISTORY OF THE JEWS, because by doing so you will know and understand the Jewish people.
This book will fill a long-felt want--it is a popular, readable history and it is intended for Jews and Gentiles. It will tell the Jews so much that he has always wanted to know and it will...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Le peuple juif est essentiellement un peuple historique dont les destinées reflètent ce quil y a dinsondable dans la vie divine et échappent à toute explication matérialiste ou basée sur des faits positifs; la prédominance du «métaphysique» y est on ne peut plus évidente et sa séparation davec l«historique» ayant disparue, aucun obstacle ne soppose à lappréhension du sens interne des événements. Cest la découverte que je fis lorsque,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Judaism is often called the religion of reason. It is this, but it is also the religion of the soul. It recognises the value of that mystic insight, those indefinable intuitions which, taking up the task at the point where the mind impotently abandons it, carries us straight into the presence of the King."
Israel Abrahams was one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his time. In this volume he attempted to take up a few of the most characteristic...
Author
Language
English
Description
What does it mean to become a Jewish woman?
This growing up business isn't always what it's cracked up to be: It can be complicated and scary and seem impossibly hard. With all the choices and challenges before her, how does a girl become a young Jewish woman?
The JGirl's Guide is a first-of-its-kind book of practical, real-world advice using Judaism as a compass for the journey through adolescence. This newly updated and expanded survival guide...
Author
Language
English
Description
Meet four Israeli teens as they make their choices to join one of the many branches of the Israel Defense Forces, and learn about the various branches of the IDF. As we get to know the four teens and how they plan to fulfill their mandatory service, we learn how the IDF with its advanced technology, intelligence, and weapons systems, grew to be one of the most admired armies in the world.
Author
Language
English
Description
Eva Zimmermann is eight-years-old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city that is changing in ever more frightening ways. Eva's family, full of eccentric and opinionated adults, will do absolutely anything to keep her safe-even if it means hiding her identity from her. With razor-sharp depictions of her animated relatives, Haya Leah Molnar's memoir of her childhood captures...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1941 in occupied Paris, brothers Maurice and Joseph play a last game of marbles before running home to their father's barbershop. This is the day that will change their lives forever. With the German occupation threatening their family's safety, the boys' parents decide Maurice and Joseph must disguise themselves and flee to their older brothers in the free zone. Surviving the long journey will take every scrap of ingenuity and courage they can...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1996, on her 15th birthday, Bat-Chen Shahak was killed by a suicide bomber in Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Center. But the gifted teenager left behind a rich legacy of diaries, letters, poems and drawings. Following her death, her parents gathered her writings and created The Bat-Chen Diaries ; this is the first English translation of her work.
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Pueblo Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request