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Sophie Brody Award |
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1 - One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
MICHAEL FRANK - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
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The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the writer Michael Frank over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community, and the resilience and wisdom... |
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2 - Kaddish: Before the Holocaust and After
Jane Yolen - Holy Cow! Press
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Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, is recited in a time of deep sorrow. In it, the sacredness of the Almighty One is affirmed. In her new gathering of sixty poems, award-winning author Jane Yolen gives us a feminist view of Biblical themes and personalities such as Eve, Sarah, David... |
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3 - The Memory Monster
Yishai Sarid - Restless Books
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Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, our unnamed narrator recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland... |
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5 - When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
Ariana Neumann - Scribner
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In this astonishing story that "reads like a thriller and is so, so timely" (BuzzFeed) Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: "Like Anne Frank's diary, it offers a story that needs to be told and heard" (BOOKLIST , starred review) .In 1941,... |
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