jewish families

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.

Lili Bandel, having escaped the evacuation of her village by the Nazis, makes her way to Budapest in 1944 where she is taken in by the Becks, a wealthy Jewish family, whose nephew, Paul, a disbarred young lawyer, goes to great lengths to protect his loved ones, including his brother Istvan, a dentist in a nearby city who takes refuge with his assistant.

Astrophysicist Lucienne Kundera understands her eccentric mother even less than the black holes she studies and struggles to find a way to help her mother come to terms with her violent past.

Jacob Green, an adolescent boy with an over-active imagination, learns about life, love, religion, sex, and growing up from his brother and his nanny.

Sophie Applebaum, the middle child in a suburban Jewish family, struggles to find her place in life and love over the course of twenty-five years that leads her from her adolescence in Pennsylvania, to college, the big city, and back home again.

Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi in 1920s New York, rejects her father's conception of Jewish womanhood and makes a stand for independence when she takes a job as an ironer and rents a room of her own.