jewish families

Provides an account of the author's life growing up in mid-century Brooklyn as the Jewish-Arabic child of an Iraqi father and Syrian mother. Explores his artistic awakening in the context of his Sephardic community. Compares the tension between the Arab and Jewish nations to the tensions in his family and within himself.

A novel that imagines what might have happened in America, particularly to one Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, had Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election rather than Franklin Roosevelt and acted upon his anti-Semitic leanings.

A scrapbook-style collection of photographs and memoirs chronicling the history of the Jewish-American people.

Sets the story of Hansel and Gretel in Nazi-occupied Poland, casting the brother and sister as Jewish children whose parents send them into a forest to protect them, where they are taken in by an old woman--called a "witch" by local villagers--who vows to keep them safe.

Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, finds herself caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, after her ability to foresee the future leads her to work for the Queen as a spy.

Madeleine Albright served as America's sixty-fourth secretary of state from 1997 to 2001 and she was part of the generation that lived through World War II. Before she was twelve, her native country, Czechoslovakia, was invaded by the Nazis. As her family fled, Madeleine experienced terror, the art of survival, and the bomb shelters of London. Many decades after the war she found out about her family's Jewish heritage.

Asher Lev, born into a devout Jewish family and community, struggles to reconcile his burning need to create art with the restrictions and expectations placed on him by his faith and his people.

Eighteen-year-old orphan Rose Meadows, hired on as assistant to German immigrant Professor Mitwisser in Depression era New York, soon finds herself filling many roles in the chaotic household, and things become further complicated when she becomes involved with the Mitwisser's equally eccentric benefactor, James A'bair.

A coming-of-age story of a Jewish teenage girl living in 1890s Chicago, aspiring to become an artist, but dealing with family problems along the way.