Calling All Readers: A Literary Trove for Jewish Genealogists Ellen Cassedy & Lois Ogilby Rosen

Websites, Blogs and Reviews

Jewish Book Council http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/books/

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! http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/bookclub/twitter-book-club.html

! http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book-club-themes/sephardic-jewry

Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/jewish

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! http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/82045-jewish-children-s-books

Jewish Review of Books http://jewishreviewofbooks.com/

Genealogies at Libraries and on line

Google Books archive.org Allen County Public Library BYU Harold B. Lee Library BYU Hawaii Joseph F. Smith Library LDS Family History Libraries LDS Church History Libraries Houston Public Livrary-Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research Mid-Continent Public Library- Midwest Genealogy Center and many public libraries and genealogical societies Expanded Book List (revised 4 September 2013)

Entry in BLACK is one on Lois and Ellen’s original list. Entry in BLUE indicates reader’s poll submission. An blue asterisk after an entry indicates a reader recommendation. The more asterisks an entry has, the more recommendations the book received in our poll.

Abramowicz, Hirsz Profiles of a Lost World: Memoirs of Eastern European Jewish Life before WWII Aciman, André Out of Egypt Antin, Mary The Promised Land ** Appleman-Jurman, Alicia Alicia: My Story Aronson, Chaim A Jewish Life Under the Tsars: The Autobiography of Chaim Aronson, 1825-1888 Babel, Isaac Odessa Tales Bellow, Saul Mr. Sammler’s Plant & The Bellarosa Connection Bendavid-Val, Avrom The Heavens are Empty: Discovering the Lost Town of Trochenbrod Berenbaum, Michael In Memory’s Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezín Blatt, Thomas Toivi From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival Boehling, Rebecca Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: A Jewish Family’s Untold Story Boyne, John Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Brooks, Geraldine People of the Book Buck, Pearl S. Peony Buff, Fred The St. Louis Diary of Fritz Buff Burstein, Chaya M. Rifka Grown Up Cahan, Abraham The Rise of David Levinsky * Carvajal, Doreen The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity and the Inquisition Caspary, Vera Thicker Than Water Cassedy, Ellen We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust Chemerinsky. Haim Ayarati Motele (In Hebrew. No credible English translation yet) Cohen, Kate The Neppi Modona Diaries: Reading Jewish Survival through my Italian Family Crane, Minnie and Smadar Belkind-Gerson Stored Treasures: A Memoir Datnow, Clare Klein The Nine Inheritors: The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Family and Their Ancient Torah Scroll Dawidowicz, Lucy S. From That Place and Time: A memoir, 1938-1947 Desbois, Patrick The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews De Rosnay, Tatiana Sarah’s Key De Waal, Edmund The Hare with Amber Eyes * Ehrlich, Elizabeth Miriam’s Kitchen Eliot, George Daniel Deronda Englander, Marlene S. My Dear Hindalla, Remeber Me: Letters from a Lost World, May 1937-January 1940 Epstein, Helen Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History Feuchtwanger, Lion Raquel, the Jewess of Toledo (The Spanish Ballad) Fisher, Leonard Everett A Russian Farewell Frank, Anne The Diary of a Young Girl Fremont, Helen After Long Silence * Foer, Jonathan Safran Everything is Illuminated Gavron, Jeremy The Book of Israel Gay, Ruth Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America * Gluckel The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hamelm (Translated by Marin Lowenthal) * Gold, Michael Jews Without Money: A Novel Goldsmith, Martin The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany Goldstein, Lisa The Red Magician Gordon, Noah The Last Jew Grade, Chaim My Mother’s Sabbath Days: A Memoir Gross, Joel The Books of Rachel Grubin, David The Jewish Americans [Companion book to PBS series] Hahn, Hannelore On the Way to Feed the Swans Halter, Marek The Book of Abraham Hersey, John The Wall Hesse, Karen Letters from Rifka Hoffman, Alice Incantation Hoffman, Eva After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust Hofman, Ethel G. Mackerel at Midnight: Growing Up Jewish on a Remote Scottish Island Hollander, Richard S. Every Day Lasts a Year: A Jewish Family’s Correspondence from Poland Horn, Dara, All Other Nights Hornstein, Gail A. To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Howe, Irving & Eliezer Greenberg (Editors) A Treasury of Yiddish Stories Ish-Kishor, Sulamith The Boy of Old Prague Joselit, Jenna Weissman The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950 Kaplan, Mitchell James By Fire, By Water Karski, Jan Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World Kassow, Samuel D. Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive Kirshenblatt, Mayer They Called me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust Klemperer, Victor The Klemperer Diaries, Kotik, Yekhezkel Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik Krall, Hanna Chasing the King of Hearts [To be released in September 2013, Peirene Press] Krall, Hanna The Woman from Hamburg, and Other True Stories Kranzler, Bryna The Accidental Anarchist Kreitman, Esther Singer Deborah Lagnado, Lucette The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit Lansky, Aaron Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books Larson, Erik In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Famiy in Hitler’s Berlin Lasky, Kathryn The Night Journey Lazan, Marion Blumenthal Four Perfect Pebbles Levi, Primo Survival in Auschwitz * Levitin, Sonia Journey to America & The Return Lipschitz, Chaim Uri & Neil Rosenstein The Feast and the Fast: The Dramatic Personal Story of Yom Tov Lipman Heller Liss, David The Coffee Trader Lowry, Lois Number the Stars Maimon, Solomon An Autobiography Manseau, Peter Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter Meed, Vladka On Both Sides of the Wall: Memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto Mendelsohn, Daniel The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million ** Metzker, Isaac (Editor), A Bintel Brief: Sixty years of letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward * Michener, James The Source Moustafine, Mara Secrets and Spies: The Harbin Files Nattel, Lilian The River Midnight * Némirovsky, Irène Suite Française Olczak-Ronikier, Joanna In the garden of Memory: A Family Memoir Orringer, Julie The Invisible Bridge Perera, Victor The Cross and the Pear Tree: A Sephardic Journey Potok, Chaim The Chosen & The Promise Ragan, Naomi The Ghost of Hannah Mendes Rakovsky, Puah My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoris of a Zionist Feminist in Poland Reichl, Ruth Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table Richmond, Theo Konin: One Man’s Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community Roiphe, Anne 1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir Roth, Henry Call it Sleep * Roth, Joseph The Wandering Jews Roth, Philip Goodbye, Columbus Schulzinger, Morris S. The Tale of a Litvak Shapiro, Malkah The Rebbe’s Daughter: Memoir of a Hasidic Childhood Sharenow, Richard Berlin Boxing Club Sholom Aleichem, From the Fair & Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories Shulevitz, Uri The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century Sierakowiak, Dawid The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak * Singer, Isaac Bashevis The Slave Singer, Isaac Bashevis Stories for Children Singer, Israel Joshua The Brothers Ashkenazi & The Family Carnovsky Slobodzianek, Tadeusz Our Class [play] Solomon, Anna The Little Bride: A Novel Spiegelman, Art Maus [graphic novel] Suberman, Stella The Jew Store Suhl, Yuri Uncle Misha’s Partisans & One Foot in America Uris, Leon Exodus Vishniac, Roman A Vanished World Taylor, Sydney All-of-a-Kind Family Weilerstein, Sadie Rose Ten and a Kid Wengaroff, Pauline Rememberings: The World of a Russian-Jewish Woman in the Nineteenth Century Whiteman, Maxwell Copper for America: Hendricks Family and a National Industry, 1755-1939 Whitney, Kim Ablon The Other Half of Life Wiesel, Elie Night Wincelberg, Shimon and Anita The Samurai of Wishogrod: The Notebooks of Jacob Marateck Wisse, Ruth R. A Shtetl and other Yiddish Novellas Wolf, Emma Other Things Being Equal Yolen, Jane The Devil’s Arithmetic Yoran, Shalom The Defiant: A True Story of Jewish Vengeance & Survival Yezeirska, Anzia Bread Givers ** & Red Ribbon on a White Horse: My Story Zalewski, Andrew Galician Trails: The Forgotten Story of One Family Zheutlin, Peter Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride Zimmler, Richard The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon (first novel in The Sephardic Cycle) Zorach, William Art is My Life Zunser, Miriam Shomer Yesterday: A Memoir of a Russian Jewish Family * Zusak, Markus The Book Thief

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