How Huge the night ? ☺☻
Holocaust
Fifteen-year-old Julien Losier just wants to fit
in. But after his family moves to a small village in central France in hopes of
outrunning the Nazis, he is suddenly faced with bigger challenges than the
taunting of local teens.
Nina Krenkel left her country to obey her
father’s dying command: Take your brother and leave Austria. Burn your papers.
Tell no one you are Jews. Alone and on the run, she arrives in Tanieux, France,
dangerously ill and in despair.
Thrown together by the chaos of war, Julien begins
to feel the terrible weight of the looming conflict and Nina fights to survive.
As France falls to the Nazis, Julien struggles with doing what is right, even
if it is not enough—and wonders whether or not he really can save Nina from
almost certain death.
Based on the true story of the town of Le
Chambon—the only French town honored by Israel for rescuing Jews from the
Holocaust—How Huge the Night is a compelling, coming-of-age drama that
will keep teens turning the pages as it teaches them about a fascinating period
of history and inspires them to think more deeply about their everyday choices.
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Rahel
and the Golem of Prague
A Kabalistic Love Story
Rabbi Loew's golem was brought to life from mud to protect Jews against Christian blood libel. This Jewish Frankenstein was not supposed to have feelings that could get in the way of his lethal obligations. Yet he seems to have fallen for Rahel, the beautiful daughter of the most obscure rabbi in the Prague Ghetto. This combustible combination ignites in a holy fire crackling with divine sparks. If you enjoy this short story, please download "Prague Spring," a mystery/thriller also by David Del Bourgo.
Rabbi Loew's golem was brought to life from mud to protect Jews against Christian blood libel. This Jewish Frankenstein was not supposed to have feelings that could get in the way of his lethal obligations. Yet he seems to have fallen for Rahel, the beautiful daughter of the most obscure rabbi in the Prague Ghetto. This combustible combination ignites in a holy fire crackling with divine sparks. If you enjoy this short story, please download "Prague Spring," a mystery/thriller also by David Del Bourgo.
2. The Witch of Prague
Fantasy
The witch Unorna pursues true love. While she is being
pursued by Israel Kafka who is madly in love with her, Unorna falls madly in
love with ""The Wanderer,"" who goes about the world in
search of his long lost love, Beatrice. Unorna is not able to make the Wandered
fall in love with her without making many attempts at casting spells on him and
plotting against anyone who comes in her way. Can her hypnotic powers succeed,
and can she free herself from her agony through the purity of her love? By
Marion Crawford"
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Borders
Holocaust
"A worthwhile addition to the Holocaust
genre, particularly suitable to a classroom setting...." --Kirkus Indie
Reviews
"Blue-eyed Claire lives with her close-knit family—her parents and 10-year-old sister, Hannah—in the southeastern Polish town of Dynow. Down the street are her zaydie (grandfather), who has a meaningful story for every occasion, and her bubbie (grandmother), who enjoys remembering what it was like to be an adolescent. As the story begins, Claire’s primary concern is whether a chicken bought for dinner will be blessed as kosher by the rabbi. But it’s September 1939, and many Jews are at risk. Jewish men are rounded up after Germans cross the Polish border, but Claire’s father and grandfather escape. Many Christians in Dynow turn a blind eye as Jews are shot to death and buried, or burned alive in the synagogues. After being exiled, Claire reunites with her father and her zaydie in eastern Poland, and eventually she and her family must choose whether to become Russian citizens. Through it all, Claire sustains the belief that safety and happiness are tied to passage to Palestine. Aviv’s novel is a compelling tale about sacrifice, family loyalty and hard choices in hard times. An underlying theme examines why the Jews didn’t fight back, echoed in the recent film Defiance. At the center is gritty Claire, a resilient character of sand and sass, who’s honest about her feelings and her reactions to historic events. In spite of her tender years, she is often vocally at odds with those around her, as she intuits that life has changed fundamentally and possibly irrevocably, as she learns to navigate new worlds with new rules. At the core is a basic survival instinct—like choosing boots over food in Siberia—even as she longs for a return to normalcy. Life lessons include poverty, benefiting from the black market, and learning who among many strangers can be trusted. The pacing, though not brisk, is steady, as is interest in the fates of Claire and her family as they attempt to keep the Jewish soul alive in emaciated bodies. Along the way, there are touching moments of first love, jealousy and sexual attraction, juxtaposed with displacement, nonstop hunger and disease. ...the narrative is strong, with valuable insights for teens and young teens."
"Blue-eyed Claire lives with her close-knit family—her parents and 10-year-old sister, Hannah—in the southeastern Polish town of Dynow. Down the street are her zaydie (grandfather), who has a meaningful story for every occasion, and her bubbie (grandmother), who enjoys remembering what it was like to be an adolescent. As the story begins, Claire’s primary concern is whether a chicken bought for dinner will be blessed as kosher by the rabbi. But it’s September 1939, and many Jews are at risk. Jewish men are rounded up after Germans cross the Polish border, but Claire’s father and grandfather escape. Many Christians in Dynow turn a blind eye as Jews are shot to death and buried, or burned alive in the synagogues. After being exiled, Claire reunites with her father and her zaydie in eastern Poland, and eventually she and her family must choose whether to become Russian citizens. Through it all, Claire sustains the belief that safety and happiness are tied to passage to Palestine. Aviv’s novel is a compelling tale about sacrifice, family loyalty and hard choices in hard times. An underlying theme examines why the Jews didn’t fight back, echoed in the recent film Defiance. At the center is gritty Claire, a resilient character of sand and sass, who’s honest about her feelings and her reactions to historic events. In spite of her tender years, she is often vocally at odds with those around her, as she intuits that life has changed fundamentally and possibly irrevocably, as she learns to navigate new worlds with new rules. At the core is a basic survival instinct—like choosing boots over food in Siberia—even as she longs for a return to normalcy. Life lessons include poverty, benefiting from the black market, and learning who among many strangers can be trusted. The pacing, though not brisk, is steady, as is interest in the fates of Claire and her family as they attempt to keep the Jewish soul alive in emaciated bodies. Along the way, there are touching moments of first love, jealousy and sexual attraction, juxtaposed with displacement, nonstop hunger and disease. ...the narrative is strong, with valuable insights for teens and young teens."
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