Theme: Jew

Puppet

By Book Importer | Published: April 17, 2012

A heartbreaking episode in history, explained through the story of a young servant girl in the late 1800s. The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from the village of Tisza Eszvar face the ‘blood libel’ — the centuries-old calumny that Jews murder Christian [...]

Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Hungary, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

My Family for the War

By Book Importer | Published: April 10, 2012

Before the start of World War II, ten-year-old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war while attempting to [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Europe, Germany, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Elijah Door

By Book Importer | Published: April 3, 2012

A little help from the rabbi on Passover ends a feud between the Lippas and the Galinskys.

Descriptors: Europe, Folklore, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Lily Pond

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

A year after Stephie Steiner and her younger sister, Nellie, left Nazi-occupied Vienna, Stephie has finally adapted to life on the rugged Swedish island where she now lives. But more change awaits Stephie: her foster parents have allowed her to enroll in school on the mainland, in Goteberg. Stephie is eager to go. Not only [...]

Descriptors: Europe, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Sweden » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto

By Book Importer | Published: September 7, 2011

Paul B. Janeczko’s stirring new collection of poems goes inside the walls of the notorious camp to portray the indomitable spirit of those incarcerated there. Hitler hailed Terezin (Theresienstadt) as a haven for artistic Jews, when in reality the Czech concentration camp was little more than a way station to the gas chambers. In his [...]

Descriptors: Czech Republic, Europe, Poetry, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Under A Red Sky: Memoir Of A Childhood In Communist Romania

By Book Importer | Published: June 28, 2011

Eva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city that is changing in ever more frightening ways. Eva’s family, full of eccentric and opinionated adults, will do absolutely anything to keep her safe—even if it means [...]

Descriptors: Europe, Realistic Fiction, Romania, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , » Leave a comment

I Am Fifteen-And I Don’t Want To Die

By Book Importer | Published: June 28, 2011

Christine is only fifteen, and she’s caught in the middle of a war-torn city.  Huddled in the cold, dark cellar of their bombed-out apartment building, Christine and her family listen in fear as the battle rages over their heads.  They must get out of the city–but where will they go and how will they escape?  [...]

Descriptors: Europe, Poland, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

Stone Men

By Book Importer | Published: May 5, 2011

Grandma tells Arnie how a poor peddler saved a village from being destroyed by soldiers with the help of the stone men he always made on his journeys.

Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Europe, Fantasy, Picture Book, Russia » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

One More River

By Book Importer | Published: May 24, 2010

Lesley lives in Canada and thinks life is just great, she has got friends, she likes school and they are very comfortably off. But then her father makes a fateful decision, the whole family is going to emigrate to Israel and live a more fully Jewish life,Lesley is horrified and very resistant. However, once she [...]

Descriptors: Canada, Historical Fiction, Israel, Palestine, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many People from the Nazis

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

When Holland was under Nazi rule, the Dutch lived extremely harsh lives. Thousands were in hiding, especially Jews who had managed to escape transport to the death camps. Frans Braal and his wife Mies took in anyone in need of help — Jews, children whose parents could no longer look after them, resistance fighters, and [...]

Descriptors: Biography, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Netherlands » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment