jewish families

Seventeen-year-old Joseph, having grown up tightly regulated by his mother, eagerly puts in his applications for college, not realizing his mom intends to accompany him to school.

Because the author's great-grandmother, a new immigrant to America, felt lonely, her mother devised a special way of helping her.

Bittersweet story of a young man torn between a mother trying to erase her past and a father struggling to maintain his dignity in a less-than-savory business.

Provides an account of the author's life growing up in mid-century Brooklyn as the Jewish-Arabic child of an Iraqi father and Syrian mother. Explores his artistic awakening in the context of his Sephardic community. Compares the tension between the Arab and Jewish nations to the tensions in his family and within himself.

A novel that imagines what might have happened in America, particularly to one Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, had Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election rather than Franklin Roosevelt and acted upon his anti-Semitic leanings.

Asher Lev, born into a devout Jewish family and community, struggles to reconcile his burning need to create art with the restrictions and expectations placed on him by his faith and his people.

A scrapbook-style collection of photographs and memoirs chronicling the history of the Jewish-American people.

Sets the story of Hansel and Gretel in Nazi-occupied Poland, casting the brother and sister as Jewish children whose parents send them into a forest to protect them, where they are taken in by an old woman--called a "witch" by local villagers--who vows to keep them safe.