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Jewish Voices

Jewish Books selected from the library's Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature book discussion series, recent winners of the National Jewish Book Awards for fiction and nonfiction, and selected Jewish authors.

Portland Jewish Book Month

Join us for the first Portland Jewish Book Month: One Book, One Community. We will discuss By Fire, By Water, by Mitchell James Kaplan as part of the first city-wide celebration of Jewish books. Tuesday, November 15, 2011 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Hillsdale Library.

Kaplan, Mitchell James
By Fire, By Water
(2010)
FICTION KAPLAN 2010

Fiction

All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted: GN=graphic novel, y=teen, ygn=teen graphic novel

Babel, I. (Isaak)
Red Cavalry
(1926)
FICTION BABEL
Brooks, Geraldine
People of the Book
(2008)
FICTION BROOKS
Chabon, Michael
The Final Solution: A Story of Detection
(2004)
FICTION CHABON
Eisner, Will
A Contract with God
(1996)
GN EISNER
Fallenberg, Evan
Light Fell
(2008)
FICTION FALLENBER
Goldberg, Myla
Bee Season
(2000)
FICTION GOLDBERG
Goodman, Allegra
Kaaterskill Falls
(1998)
FICTION GOODMAN
Greif, Jean-Jacques
The fighter
(2006)
y GREIF
Grimbert, Philippe
Memory
(2008)
FICTION GRIMBERT 2008
Grossman, David
To the End of the Land
(2010)
FICTION GROSSMAN 2010
Horn, Dara
In the Image
(2002)
FICTION HORN
The World to Come
(2006)
FICTION HORN
Jen, Gish
Mona in the Promised Land
(1996)
FICTION JEN
Kafka, Franz
The Metamorphosis
(Published in German in 1915)
FICTION KAFKA (various editions)
Kaplan, Johanna
O My America!
(1980)
FICTION KAPLAN 1995
Levin, Adam
The Instructions
(2010)
FICTION LEVIN 2010
Manseau, Peter
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter: A Novel
(2008)
FICTION MANSEAU 2008
Nayman, Shira
Awake in the dark: stories
(2006)
FICTION NAYMAN
Orringer, Julie
The Invisible Bridge
(2010)
FICTION ORRINGER 2010
Ozick, Cynthia
The Puttermesser Papers
(1997)
FICTION OZICK
Pomerantz, Sharon
Rich Boy
(2010)
FICTION POMERANTZ 2010
Roth, Philip
American Pastoral
(1997)
FICTION ROTH
Nemesis
(2010)
FICTION ROTH 2010
Sandor, Marjorie
Portrait of My Mother Who Posed Nude in Wartime
(2003)
FICTION SANDOR
Schwarz, Ghita
Displaced Persons
(2010)
FICTION SCHWARZ 2010
Scliar, Moacyr
The Centaur in the Garden
(1985, c1984)
FICTION SCLIAR
Sfar, Joann
The Rabbi's Cat
(2005)
GN SFAR
Shalev, Meir
A pigeon and a boy
(2007)
FICTION SHALEV
Sholem Aleichem
Tevye the Dairyman
(1894)
FICTION SHOLEM
Shteyngart, Gary
The Russian Debutante's Handbook
(2002)
FICTION SHTEYNGAR
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Satan in Goray
(1996; published in Yiddish in 1935, English version 1955)
FICTION SINGER
Wiesel, Elie
The time of the uprooted
(2005)
FICTION WIESEL
Yehoshua, Abraham B
A Journey to the End of the Millennium
(1999)
FICTION YEHOSHUA
Yezierska, Anzia
Bread Givers: A Struggle Between a Father of the Old World and a Daughter of the New
(2003)
FICTION YEZIERSKA 2003
Zusak, Markus
The Book Thief
(2006)
y ZUSAK

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Nonfiction (including plays, poetry and fiction in the Dewey 800's for literature):

Aciman, Andre
Out of Egypt: A Memoir
(1994, 1996)
962.0092 A181o
962.1 A181o 1996
Alter, Robert
The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, And Ecclesiastes: A Translation With Commentary
(2010)
223 B58212w 2010
Ansky, S.
The Dybbuk and Other Writings
(2002; published in Russian in 1914, Yiddish version 1920)
839.1 A531d 2002
Baskin, Judith Reesa
The Cambridge guide to Jewish history, religion, and culture
(2010)
296.09 C1785 2010
Beckerman, Gal
When they come for us, we'll be gone : the epic struggle to save Soviet Jewry
(2010)
305.892404709045 B3964w 2010
Blatman, Daniel
The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide
(2010)
940.531846 B6448d 2011
Browning, Christopher R.
Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp
(2010)
940.53185 B8851r 2010
Cesarani, David
Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a "Desk Murderer"
(2006)
B-Ei24c 2006
Cole, Peter (editor)
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
(2007)
892.41 D771 2007
Feiffer, Jules
Backing into forward : a memoir
(2010)
818.5409 F297b 2010
Fletcher, Martin
Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation
(2010)
956.94054 F613w 2010
Gessen, Masha
Ester and Ruzya: How my Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace
(2004)
B-Ge332g 2004
Green, Abigail
Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero
(2010)
B-M774g 2010
Gross, Jan Tomasz
Neighbors: the Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
(2001)
940.5318 G8775n 2001
Halkin, Hillel
Yehuda Halevi
(2010)
B-J921h 2010
Harris, Ruth
Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century
(2010)
944.0812 D778h 2010
Heilman, Samuel C.
The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
(2010)
296.83322092 S3582h 2010
Herf, Jeffrey
The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust
(2006)
940.5488 H544j 2006
Jewish Publication Society
The Jewish Study Bible: Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation
(2004)
220.447 B582j 2004
Karabel, Jerome
The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
(2005)
378.161 K18c 2005
Konrád, György
A Guest in my Own Country: A Hungarian Life
(2007)
B-K83g 2007
Kosofsky, Scott-Martin
The Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook for the Jewish Year
(2004)
296.4 K86b 2004
Kushner, Tony
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
(2003)
812.5 K97an 2003
Mazower, Mark
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
(2005)
949.565 M476s 2005
Meier, Andrew
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service
(2008)
327.1247 M511L 2008
Mendelsohn, Daniel
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
(2006)
973.04924 M537L 2006
Miron, Gai, Editor
The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust
(2010)
940.5318 Y123 2009
Molnar, Haya Leah
Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania
(2010)
y 949.8031092 M727u 2010
Morris, Benny
1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War
(2008)
956.042 M875n 2008
Oney, Steve
And the Dead Shall Rise: the Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
(2003)
364.1523 O58a 2003
Oz, Amos
A Tale of Love and Darkness
(2004)
B-Oz13t 2004
Schneer, Jonathan
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
(2010)
956.04 S3582b 2010
Shulevitz, Judith
The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
(2010)
296.41 S562s 2010
Spiegelman, Art
The Complete Maus
(1997)
ygn 940.5318 SPIEGELMA
Stolow, Jeremy
Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution
(2010)
070.50973 S8758o 2010
Tawil, Hayim
Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex
(2010)
221.440956913 T234c 2010

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Selected Jewish authors (fiction and nonfiction)

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Jewish subjects in the library catalog

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Web Resources

Jewish Book Council
http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/
The sponsor of Jewish Book Month. Includes the winners of the National Jewish Book Awards.
Tablet Magazine (books section)
http://www.tabletmag.com/category/books/
Tablet is a daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture. Launched in June 2009, it’s a project of the not-for-profit Nextbook Inc. and the sister organization of Nextbook Press, which publishes a line of Jewish-themed books. Our archive holds all the articles and features that originally appeared on the website Nextbook.org.

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