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A Book of Jewish Women's Prayers ~ Norman Tarnor / Hardcover / Published 1995

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A Special Kind of Mother ~ Blu Greenberg / Hardcover / Published 1998

Active Voices : Women in Jewish Culture ~ Maurie Sacks (Editor), Maurice Sacks / Paperback / Published 1995

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America and I : Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers ~ Joyce Antler (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1991
Encompassing five generations of Jewish women writers, here is a vibrant chronicle of the female tradition in 20th-century American Jewish literature, featuring some of this century's finest short story writers.

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And the Bridge Is Love : Life Stories ~ Faye Moskowitz / Paperback / Published 1993

Short-story writer Moskowitz (Whoever Finds This: I Love You, 1988) entertainingly but mawkishly divulges a few secrets from a seemingly endless font of family lore.

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Anne Frank : Child of the Holocaust (The Library of Famous Women) ~ Gene Brown / Library Binding / Published 1994
Before she died in a Nazi concentration camp, Anne Frank wrote an account of her life in hiding that offers a glimpse into one of the darkest times the world has ever known.

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Auschwitz : A Doctor's Story (Women's Life Writings from Around the World) ~ Lucie Adelsberger, et al / Hardcover / Published 1995
This memoir by Dr. Lucie Adelsberger (1885-1971) presents a lucid picture of the ordeals suffered by women in particular, through a personal account of her experience at Auschwitz beginning in 1943.

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Becoming American Women : Clothing and the Jewish Immigrant Experience, 1880-1920 ~ Barbara A. Schreier / Paperback / Published 1994
This beautifully illustrated book explores the experience of immigration and acculturation of Eastern European Jewish women in the early twentieth century through the lens of fashion and clothing. It lyrically articulates the struggles and triumphs of a remarkable group of women who were determined to become American.

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Biblical Women in the Midrash : A Sourcebook ~ Naomi Mara Hyman (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1997
Women in the Midrash: A Sourcebook also seeks to influence the tradition by both providing an opening for women to study the Bible and rabbinic midrash, and by adding women's voices to the body of Jewish writings in the form of modern midrashim.

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Black Bread : Poems, After the Holocaust ~ Blu Greenberg / Hardcover / Published 1994

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The Book of Jewish Women's Tales ~ Barbara Rush / Hardcover / Published 1994

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The Book of Jewish Women's Tales ~ Barbara Rush / Paperback / Published 1997

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Convoy to Auschwitz : Women of the French Resistance (Women's Life Writings from Around the World) ~ Charlotte Delbo, et al / Hardcover / Published 1997

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Daughters of Kings : Growing Up As a Jewish Woman in America ~ Leslie Brody (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1997
Daughters of Kings is a collection of personal stories that explores the fact that many Jewish women who are raised with a strong cultural and ethnic Jewish identity receive very little exposure to the Jewish religion itself. It relates the struggles and realities of being a Jewish woman in America and explores the reasons why many Jewish women feel ambivalent about their heritage and the effect this has on their lives and work.

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The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition ~ Anne Frank, et al / Hardcover / Published 1995

the paperback edition

the audio cassettes edition

A beloved classic since its initial publication in 1947, this vivid, insightful journal is a fitting memorial to the gifted Jewish teenager who died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945.

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Found Treasures : Stories by Yiddish Women Writers ~ Frieda Forman (Editor), et al / Paperback / Published 1994

Great Jewish Women ~ Elinor Slater, Robert Slater / Hardcover / Published 1994
From the biblical Deborah to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the individuals profiled in this volume are the authors' considered choice for Jewish women who have had the greatest impact on their respective fields.

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Her Face in the Mirror : Jewish Women on Mothers and Daughters ~ Faye Moskowitz (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1995
This resonant collection of stories, poems, and essays explores the difficult and affirming relationships between Jewish mothers and daughters. Contributors include Kim Chernin, Tillie Olsen, Grace Paley, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Judith Viorst, and others

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How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household ~ Blu Greenberg / Paperback / Published 1985

How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household ~ Blu, Greenberg / Hardcover / Published 1989

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Inventing Memory : A Novel of Mothers and Daughters ~ Erica Jong / Hardcover / Published 1997

the cassette edition

Narrated by Sarah, who in the year 2005 finds herself drawn into the tumultuous lives of her unconventional ancestors, Inventing Memory   chronicles the lives of Sara's forebears

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King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba ~ Blu Greenberg, et al / Hardcover / Published 1997

King Solomon and Queen of Sheba ~ Blu Greenberg / Hardcover / Published 1998
The Queen of Sheba comes to Jerusalem to test King Solomon's wisdom. The king answers all her questions and reveals the splendor of his realm in this epic love story for children. Based on Biblical, Rabbinic and Ethiopian sources.

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Miriam's Kitchen : A Memoir ~ Elizabeth Ehrlich / Hardcover / Published 1997
Food memoirs often delve into the meaning of life. This hardly surprises--memories are as essential to daily life as the food that sustains us. Miriam's Kitchen blends recipes and food reminiscences with family narratives and observations about the author's personal evolution as a Jew.

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On Women and Judaism : A View from Tradition ~ Blu Greenberg, Blu Greenburg / Paperback / Published 1994
A classic for nearly twenty years, ON WOMEN AND JUDAISM explores the role of Jewish women in the synagogue, in the family, and in the secular world.

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The Sayings of Menahem Mendel of Kotzk ~ Menahem Mendel, et al / Hardcover / Published 1995

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