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by Nathan Englander. When his father dies, it falls to Larry — the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews — to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. But to the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses, imperiling the fate of his father’s soul.
Spanning over 500 years, Ruth Behar’s epic middle-grade novel tells 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. A Winding Line: Three Hebrew Poets. by Maya Bejerano, Sharron Hass, and Anat Zecharia. A Winding Line gathers poems from the last decade ...
Nov 14, 2023 · In honor of Native American Heritage Month, The Weitzman welcomes you to a virtual book talk featuring author Rebecca Clarren and her latest work, The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota and an American Inheritance. This poignant narrative unravels the hidden complexities of immigrant roots intertwined with the devastating legacy of the loss of Indigenous land.
Jun 5, 2024 · This two-part virtual book club will explore racial and ethnic “passing” in literature and the struggle of Black and Jewish Americans to feel that they belong. Professor Donavan Ramon will guide participants in a discussion of key themes in “The Human Stain” by Philip Roth and “Passing” by Nella Larsen and compare the two novels.
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avg rating 3.84 — 9,403 ratings — published 2021. Want to Read. Rate this book. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Books shelved as jewish-book-club-ideas: Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman, The Pages by Hugo...
Mar 23, 2021 · The Book of Lost Names, best-selling author Kristin Harmel’s fifth book set during World War II, is an evocative work of historical fiction based on true accounts of document forgers who saved thousands from the Nazis. The novel’s rich portrait of Eva, a Jewish woman who becomes an unlikely keystone of an underground operation that smuggles ...
Rebecca Clarren. Judith Rosenbaum, CEO of the Jewish Women's Archive, talks with Rebecca Clarren on her book, The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance, exploring the intertwined stories of her family and the Lakota and the devastating cycle of loss of Indigenous land, culture, and resources that continues today. June 20 ...
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