From Here: Lessons in Love & Loss from 9/11
Felice Zaslow
Felice and Ira Zaslow’s love story spanned almost four decades, from the beaches of Far Rockaway to a comfortable suburban existence on the South Shore of Long Island.
Then came the morning of September 11, 2001.
Through the days, weeks and months that followed, Felice had to find her way through unfathomable trauma, on a path she had to forge herself, seeking guidance and role models along the way. This remarkable and inspiring memoir puts a very personal face on a national tragedy, confronting the darkness by looking for the light that is always present.
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Portrait of a Rabbi-Historian: How Did We Get Here?
Rabbi Lance J. Sussman
Rabbi Lance J. Sussman announces his latest book, Portrait of a Rabbi-Historian: How Did We Get Here? With a foreword by Jonathan D. Sarna, his newest anthology explores modern Jewish history with an emphasis on the American experience in a collection of articles he wrote while pursuing a dual career as a rabbi and a scholar over the last forty years. This book joins Portrait of an American Rabbi: In His Own Words (2023) and Portrait of a Reform Rabbi: Continuity and Change (2024) to form a trilogy by this historian of the American Jewish experience.
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The Threads Remain
Glenn Shapiro
Lives are torn apart. Lives are woven together…
1930s: Young Jewish couple Max and Gerda are running their treasured family toyshop, but impending danger will force them to make unimaginable choices to stay alive.
1940s: Just 15 and drafted into the SS, Josef is unprepared for war. Serving his country will force Josef to question all he knows about himself.
1950s: A death in 16-year-old Friedrich’s family propels him to investigate the past and uncover the truth about who he really is.
As they battle to survive life in Nazi Germany, Max, Gerda, Josef and Friedrich’s lives intersect in unexpected and profound ways.
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The Wall at the Sugar Factory
Sherry V. Ostroff
Shaindel Pogrebiski’s world is shattered by the brutal pogroms following the Russian Revolution. To survive, she flees with her daughter—but where can they go? What country will take in Jews? The world is indifferent to the bloodbath upending their lives.
Investigation into 20th-century pogroms has refocused the beginning of the Holocaust. The pogroms, 1918-1921, normalized the massacre of Jews, paving the way for future atrocities. Twenty years later, at the behest of the Nazi regime, Ukrainians stepped forward and murdered their Jewish neighbors.
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Navigator Down! A Jewish P.O.W. in Nazi Germany
Rick Lockenbach
Lt. David Stein was a navigator on a B-17 bomber during WWII. He was captured after his plane was shot down over Germany on mission number 40. What was it like for him and other Jewish-American POWs held captive in Germany, when they knew that Nazis were exterminating European Jews? One Amazon reviewer says: “The chapter ‘Special Treatment for Jewish POWs’ gave me chills as I read about the courageousness of the Jewish POWs in keeping their faith and of the steadfast determination of the other POWs to protect their Jewish comrades-in-arms from a fate unknown.”
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