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Items with the tag:

family saga

Cover of Hazel Says No
Fic­tion
Hazel Says No
Jes­si­ca Berg­er Gross
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Fic­tion
The Red House
Mary Mor­ris
Cover of Laughing in Yiddish
Poet­ry
Laugh­ing in Yiddish
Jamie Wendt
Cover of Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land
Non­fic­tion
Melt­ing Point: Fam­i­ly, Mem­o­ry, and the Search for a Promised Land
Rachel Cock­erell
Cover of The Trunk
Fic­tion
The Trunk
Alberto Vigevani; Wil Schutt, trans.
Cover of My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy
Non­fic­tion
My Child­hood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Com­e­dy, a Skok­ie Elegy
Edward Hirsch
Essay

Assim­i­la­tion and Iden­ti­ty: Writ­ing ​‘The Palace at the End of the Sea’

Simon Tolkien
May 26, 2025
Cover of The Baker of Lost Memories
Fic­tion
The Bak­er of Lost Memories
Shirley Rus­sak Wachtel
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Chil­dren’s
The Keep­er of Stories
Caroline Kusin Pritchard; Selina Alko, illus.
Cover of Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation
Fic­tion
Unfin­ished Acts of Wild Creation
Sarah Yahm
Excerpt

Excerpt — Arthurs: Home of the Nosh: A Big Per­son­al­i­ty Cook­book of Deli­cious Jew­ish Favorites 

Rae­gan Steinberg, Alexan­der Cohen
May 5, 2025
Cover of Arthurs: Home of the Nosh: A Big Personality Cookbook of Delicious Jewish Favorites
Cook­book
Arthurs: Home of the Nosh: A Big Per­son­al­i­ty Cook­book of Deli­cious Jew­ish Favorites 
Rae­gan Steinberg
Alexan­der Cohen
Cover of The Greatest
Chil­dren’s
The Great­est
Veera Hiranan­dani; Vesper Stamper, illus.
Fiction—From the Journal

Our Aunt of the West

Basia Wino­grad
April 25, 2025
Cover of I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust
Non­fic­tion
I Seek a Kind Per­son: My Father, Sev­en Chil­dren, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust
Julian Borg­er
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Non­fic­tion
Holo­caust: Ger­man His­to­ry and Our Half-Jew­ish Family
Thomas Paul Bernstein
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