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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 61 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
"That night I just remember running. No time to catch your breath, just running, because you want to be gone from the village before the sun comes up." -Avishai Mekonen, 400 MILES TO FREEDOM. In 1984, the Beta Israel, a secluded 2,500-year-old community of observant Jews in the northern Ethiopian mountains, fled a dictatorship and began a secret and dangerous journey of escape. Co-director Avishai Mekonen, then 10 years old, was among them. In this...
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English
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This title examines the fascinating life of Drake. Readers will learn about Drake's childhood, family, education, and rise to fame. Colorful graphics, oversize photos, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text that explores Drake's early interest in acting and rapping that led to his role on Degrassi: The Next Generation, his successful mixtapes, and eventually the release of his albums Thank Me Later and Take Care. Drake's...
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English
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"1938, Italy. Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice--until prime minister Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, and everything changes. Now there are laws saying Jewish children can't go to school, Jews can't work, or go on vacation. It's difficult for Lia to understand why this is happening to her family. When her father loses his job, they must give...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The documentary follows a group of aging Holocaust survivors during what may be their last summer together at a compound in the Catskill Mountains of New York. For twenty-five years they have spent the long summer days in the company of others who understand their pasts and their pain.
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Language
English
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"In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known--Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus, no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin,...
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Publisher
Carol Pub. Group
Pub. Date
©1994
Physical Desc
xii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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Description
Offers profiles, ranging from Biblical times to the modern era, of the most influential Jewish men and women of all time, in religion, music, science, diplomacy, literature, philosophy, sports, and many other fields.
12) Night
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Language
English
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Description
"Night--A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family ... the death of his innocence ... and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The diary of Anne Frank, Night awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again"--Provided by publisher....
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of a young girl and a Holocaust survivor whose friendship led to a significant change in their community and beyond"--
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Language
English
Description
"Firsthand account of a Holocaust survivor who knew Anne Frank."--Kirkusreviews.com.
In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt....
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of unnumbered plates ; illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, inspiring memoir of one woman's escape from an extremist religious sect and an extraordinary rise from housewife to shoe designer, to CEO and co-owner of the modeling agency Elite World Group. Ever since she was a child, every aspect of Julia Haart's life-what she wore, what she ate, what she thought-was controlled by the dictates of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. At nineteen, after a lifetime spent caring for her seven younger siblings, she...
17) Lost in America
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1981
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 259 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Downtown Bookworks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
160 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents thirty-six mini biographies that offer a fascinating window into the ways these extraordinary, outspoken and odds-defying Jewish women have approached their fields and embraced their identities.
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