Krasner, Barbara
Summary: Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Jewish immigrants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 KRASummary: A young man agrees to fulfill the duties of a 'shomer,' the ritualistic practice of looking after a dead body over the course of one night. He soon finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VIGAshton, Dianne.
Summary: The ways in which Hanukkah was reshaped by American Jews reveals the changing goals and values that emerged among different contingents each December as they confronted the reality of living as a religious minority in the United States. Bringing together clergy and laity, artists and businessmen, teachers, parents, and children, Hanukkah has been a dynamic force for both stability and change in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.435 ASHWouk, Herman
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 296 WOUDiamant, Anita.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.7 DIADrazin, Meira
Summary: To Milla Bloom everything seems easy for her best friend, Honey Wine. Milla envies Honey's confidence, her charm, and her big, chaotic, loving family -- especially when they provide a welcome escape from Milla's small family and their silent house. The two friends do everything and go everywhere together. So when Honey joins Milla's school for sixth grade, why is it not as great as Milla...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DRAWouk, Herman
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cliff Street Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296 WOUDiamant, Anita
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 296.7 DIAKimmelman, Leslie.
Summary: Uncle Jake gets to blow the shofar twice within ten days, as the family celebrates first Rosh Hashanah and then Yom Kippur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIMKatz, Ariana
Summary: With a chapter for each month of the Hebrew calendar, For Time Such as These offers spiritual practices and holiday rituals rooted in movements for racial justice, decolonization, feminism, and queer and trans liberation. Rabbi Ariana Katz and Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg offer ways to approach Jewish time, Torah, and traditional Jewish practice that draws on embodied ritual, mystical tradition,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 296.4 KATWisnia, David S.
Summary: "This powerful memoir takes the reader from a peaceful home in Sochaczew to terror in Auschwitz-Birkenau and lastly to the safety of the Screaming Eagles. David Wisnia, a child singing star, was the middle child in a family of five. His father was a prosperous furniture manufacturer; his mother a contented housewife. After the family moved to Warsaw, David's family happily celebrated his Bar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ComteQ Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 WISThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THOUrbatsch, Kevin
Summary: Presents advice on setting up and managing a special needs trust, covering trust benefits, funding, duties of trustees, pooled trusts, taxes, wills, and death of beneficiaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2023