Number The Stars by Lois Lowry
This incredibly moving, award-winning young-people’s novel is set in Denmark in 1943, while the country was under Nazi occupation during World War II. The story tells about the life of …
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by Lorraine Blatt, Librarian Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman This is a memoir of a spirited, valiant, and uniquely courageous young girl who survived the nightmare of the Holocaust in …
The English Girl by Daniel Silva
Another engaging novel takes place in Corsica, Europe, and Britain and has ties to Russia. Allon is asked by a member of MI5 to find an English girl who disappeared …
The Heist by Daniel Silva
Silva’s master spy Gabriel Allon is a highly respected art restorer who also is an occasional spy for the Mossad. Allon spends much of his time in Europe restoring great …
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by Lorraine Blatt, Librarian Last month I described three of the five books donated to Sha’are Shalom by Pat Myers and Mark Holt. This month I will give you a …
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by Lorraine Blatt – Librarian This past month the Library received a donation of five really interesting and timely books from Pat Myers and Mark Holt. The first book is …
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by Lorraine Blatt, Librarian Legends of Our Time, by Elie Wiesel The famed Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel wrote Legends of Our Time in 1968. It is a series of short …
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by Lorraine Blatt – Librarian Mourning & Mitzvah A Guided Journal for Walking the Mourner’s Path Through Grief to Healing By Anne Brener This book is “an integration of Jewish …
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by Lorraine Blatt, Librarian This month’s book reviews feature addiction in the midst of the Jewish Community. “Twelve Jewish Steps to Recovery” by Rabbi Kerry Olitzky & Stuart Copans, MD. A …
Sarah Key Book Review
Sarah’s Key by Tatianna de Rosnay Review by Lorraine Blatt The novel Sarah’s Key takes place in Paris in 1942 and in Paris in 2002. In July 1942, the French police …