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Rashi's daughters

Book III: Rachel
2005

As Husbands Go

2012
Astonished when her seemingly devoted husband is found murdered in a prostitute's apartment, Susie, a mother of four-year-old triplets, bristles at her neighbors' mixed reactions and tackles everyone from her husband's partners to the DA to restore her family's honor.

Blues in the Night

2002
True-crime writer Molly Blume investigates a hit and run accident that doesn't seem like an accident at all.

A Jewish mother from Berlin

a novel ; Susanna : a novella
1997
Contains "A Jewish Mother from Berlin," in which Martha Jadassohn combs the seedy areas of Berlin looking for the man who raped her five-year-old daughter, and "Susanna," a novella telling of Sussanna's search for her lost lover in 1920s Berlin.

The deeper song

1998
When Judith, the daughter of a high priest of Solomon, decides to write the scriptures which had always been told orally, she confronts Jewish practices, particularly as applied to women.

Black, White, and Jewish

autobiography of a shifting self
2001
Rebecca Walker discusses how she dealt with her mixed heritage and remained true to both her African-American and Jewish cultures.

My wounded heart

the life of Lilli Jahn, 1900-1944
2004
Personal letters recount the experiences of Lilli Jahn, a young Jewish woman who was taken to the Breitenau labor camp in 1942.

Jubana!

the awkwardly true and dazzling adventures of a Jewish Cubana goddess
2005
Gigi Anders describes the challenges of growing up as a Jewish Cuban girl in the United States, focusing on her relationship with her eccentric mother.

Daughters of absence

transforming a legacy of loss
2000
A group of creative young women discuss what it was like to grow up in the shadow of their parents' Holocaust ordeal and how they incorporated that legacy into their work.

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