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Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known--Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus, no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Latke's family is a family of potato pancakes. After lighting the menorah and gobbling the gelt, Grandpa Latke tells everyone the Hanukkah story, but it's up to the Latke family dog to set the record straight"--
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A collection of eight poems, each taking place on a different night of Hanukkah and following the history of Jews from twelfth-century England to twentieth-century Israel.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 526
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Author
Series
Covenant house volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Determined to return the Ark of the Covenant to Shiloh, Levite musician Ronen never expected that Eliora, the Philistine girl he rescued years ago, would be part of the family he's tasked to deceive. As his attempts to charm her lead them in unexpected directions, they question their loyalties when their beliefs about the Ark and themselves are shaken."--
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a 98-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness (Edith Eger, author of 'The Choice and The Gift').
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 2
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1998
Language
English
Description
The author reveals the changes in thinking that made Western civilization possible. He portrays the ancient Jewish society and their vision that would later inspire the concept of individual worth.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Over the course of one day, traces the loss of the author's Zionist faith against a backdrop of Jewish history, recounting how his growing disaffection with the modern state of Israel was shaped by the mythologies and realities of the Jewish homeland.
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