Wiseman, Eva

A novel about a young Jewish girl in Budapest who suffers worse and worse conditions under Nazi rule until hope arrives in the form of a foreign man who risks his own life to save others. Based on the real-life efforts of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved up to 100,000 lives during the Second World War.

When the tolerant culture of Spain is shattered by the Inquisition, Isabel feels safe because of her Catholic upbringing and father's position as a respected doctor, until he is arrested for the family's secret Jewish heritage.

Living in a Brooklyn Hasidic community in the early 1990s, Chanie Altman anticipates marriage as soon as she graduates from seminary, a path challenged by her dream of becoming an opera singer, a taboo friendship, and the Crown Heights riots.

When the tolerant culture of Spain is shattered by the Inquisition, Isabel feels safe because of her Catholic upbringing and father's position as a respected doctor, until he is arrested for the family's secret Jewish heritage.

Thirteen-year-old Nelly, a Jewish girl living in Communist Hungary, must give up everything she cares about when her family is forced to flee the country during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and she wonders if she will ever again find a place to call home.

A novel about a young Jewish girl in Budapest who suffers worse and worse conditions under Nazi rule until hope arrives in the form of a foreign man who risks his own life to save others. Based on the real-life efforts of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved up to 100,000 lives during the Second World War.

Isabel must try to save her father, who served as court physician to Spain's king and queen, when he is arrested by the Grand Inquisitor for his Jewish heritage during the Spanish Inquisition.

In 1957, Alexandra's immigrant family is living the North American dream. But Alexandra's world is turned upside down when she discovers a secret that her parents have kept. They are not Catholic, as Alexandra believes; they are Jewish.

Jutka, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, survives the brutality of Auschwitz by dreaming of a life in Canada, but after the liberation, Jutka must decide whether she wants to follow her dreams and move to Canada to live with her last remaining relatives or start a new life with Sandor, the man she has fallen in love with, in Israel.

A fictionalized account of the last-recorded "blood libel" trial in Europe, which describes the experiences of Morris Scharf, a Jewish boy who was forced to testify against his community--including his own father--in support of a stereotype that Jews murder Christian children for their blood.