Re: [ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion
With all due respect, the Boy in the Striped Pajamas is pretty well recognized as being an inappropriate representation of the Holocaust. It is aimed, first of all, at younger readers, but it is so unrealistic as to be discouraged by most Holocaust experts and educators. That being said, has anyone suggested an obvious book -- Night, by Elie Wiesel? That should be a standard, in my opinion. Cheryl Banks On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Rachel Fischer rkfisc...@att.net wrote: Schindler's List or The Boy in the Striped Pajamas are higher level books and were made into movies. Rachel Fischer __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
Re: [ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion
I understand that The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is fiction. There are so many great nonfiction titles that could be used. Marty Goldberg Penn State Univ. - Original Message - From: Rachel Fischer rkfisc...@att.net To: hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 8:41:55 PM Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion Schindler's List or The Boy in the Striped Pajamas are higher level books and were made into movies. Rachel Fischer __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran -- Martin Goldberg Penn State-Univ. Libraries Monaca, PA 15061 (724) 773-3791 Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
Re: [ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion
Leah Friedman wrote: I'm searching for a holocaust novel or memoir appropriate for an English class in a Bais Yaakov high school. It must be age appropriate regarding reading level (9th to 11th grades), appropriate for a religious girls' school, and well written for an English classroom. I know, I know. Anne Frank is a classic and everybody and his cat has done a book report on it. And yes I know you asked for a book not a graphic novel but humour me here for a moment. I bought this graphic novel in Spanish thinking it was going to be some re-fried something or other. But, no, it was not. I read it through and I was very pleasantly surprised to find that it's not Anne's diary. It does not focus on the social dynamics of the enclosed group. Instead the graphic novel captures the growth process of a total brat into a promising young adult who through writing discover her own follies and strengths. The graphic novel ends not in the more dramatic Nazi raid but in the sad, albeit anti-climatic, Bergen-Belson followed by an epilogue about Mr Frank and how the House of Anne Frank came into being. The Nazis are there (kind of hard to ignore their existance) but curiously, they are not the focus of Anne's psycological and spiritual growth. They may have been the underlying cause/catalyst as to why Anne was forced to concentrate her efforts of self-realization but it was she who overcame the situation and turned it to her advantage. I think it shows that, whatever the circumstances might be, they can not be used as an excuse to leave off the work of spiritual growth, i.e., you can let life be a total lemon or you move on to a higher consciousness and make lemonade. I think all adolescents need to read case studies of other adolescents who found a way to overcome themselves as much as their situation. When I was a kid, I stumbled upon Up From Slavery by Booker T. at the public library, which inspired me enough to read it about 18 times. As part of an English Classroom, one can analyse the format as well as the content and ask How does the format aid the text? If Anne had survived Bergen Belson would her spiritual growth have continued? ...would she have become a bona fide writer? or were the stories written in the attic really a form of psyco-therapy? ...what sort of stories would she have written as she grew into adulthood? ...would she have become a true novelist or would she have turned her hand to magazine short stories or perhaps become a journalist. ...would she have left off writing altogether? ...would she have made aliya to Israel? http://www.annefrank.org/en/Shop/Books/Anne-Frank---Graphic-biography-English/ All the best from a very very very hot Valencia (Spain) Alba Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (España) email: lajav...@lajavura.org mailto:lajav...@lajavura.org tlf 963 802 129 móvil 658 721 769 UStream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/la-javura-on-line Webpage: http://www.lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia Blog de Bitacora de los Viajes con La Javurá http://bitacoralajavura.posterous.com/ __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
Re: [ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion
Leah, The book I Choose Life: Two Linked Stories of Holocaust Survival and Rebirth by Goldie Finkelstein and her husband Sol Finkelstein edited by Jerry L. Jennings. It is a story of people with great belief in God and amazing optimism after the man’s miraculous survival of near death situations. The authors live in New Jersey. They talk about their life in schools and centers within a driving distance. An interview with Mr. Finkelstein and his son is available on the website of the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. The paperback edition I s available on AMAZON for $16. Please feel free to call me if you have further questions. Amalia Amalia Warshenbrot Director emeritus Levine-Sklut Judaic Library Resource Center Charlotte NC Email: amalia...@att.net Phone: 704-365-3313 From: Leah Friedman Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 11:50 AM To: hasaf...@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Subject: [ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion I am looking for a needle in a haystack and thought you might help: I'm searching for a holocaust novel or memoir appropriate for an English class in a Bais Yaakov high school. It must be age appropriate regarding reading level (9th to 11th grades), appropriate for a religious girls' school, and well written for an English classroom. I've done research and so far have only come up with books that are for a younger, more middle school, audience. Thanks! Leah Friedman __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
Re: [ha-Safran] Holocaust book suggestion
Leah Friedman is looking for a Holocaust novel or memoir suitable for a Bais Yaakov high school. I suggest Motherland, a memoir by Fern Shumer Chapman. The author's mother escaped from Germany in 1938, and mother and daughter travel to the mother's home town in 1990. Her mother has never escaped the trauma of being sent to America at the age of 12 and subsequent loss of her family in the Holocaust, and throughout her life has felt unloved and unable to talk about her past. In Germany, mother and daughter uncover the town's memories and secrets, from the town historian, a former Nazi, to a childhood friend who actively resisted the Nazis. Through the visit, both Jews and townspeople face their past, and the memories and motivations that were long buried. The memoir is more about the legacy of the Holocaust more than its horrors, and is a mother-daughter story as well. Eva Radding Librarian Facing History and Ourselves 16 Hurd Road Brookline, MA 02445 617-735-1680 www.facinghistory.org This email and any information attached to it may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any use or dissemination of the information is prohibited. Please notify the sender that you received the email in error and delete any record of this message. __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
Re: [ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion
Mr. Schoen, I apologize for promoting AMAZON. You are absolutely right. AJL members should support Judaica book dealers like those that you mention below. I met most of them at the convention and benefited from their services. You suggest to list them on AJL Website. I copy AJL president on this mail for her consideration. Do you carry the book that I mentioned ? Please accept my apology, Amalia From: Schoen Books Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 12:52 PM To: Amalia Warshenbrot Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion Amalia as one of the few remaining Judaica book dealers with henry Hollander and Dan Wyman and Aron Lutwak to name some others, perhaps you could first suggest contacting a Judaica book dealer when seeking a book and if to no avail contact Amazon amazon is putting us all on the ropes and we need the lifeline of fellow Judaica book lovers to keep us in the ring... ajl listing us on their web site would be useful todah rabah ve shalom Yekutiel aka Ken Schoen schoen books At 12:29 PM 8/20/2012, you wrote: Leah, The book I Choose Life: Two Linked Stories of Holocaust Survival and Rebirth by Goldie Finkelstein and her husband Sol Finkelstein edited by Jerry L. Jennings. It is a story of people with great belief in God and amazing optimism after the manâs miraculous survival of near death situations. The authors live in New Jersey. They talk about their life in schools and centers within a driving distance. An interview with Mr. Finkelstein and his son is available on the website of the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. The paperback edition I s available on AMAZON for $16. Please feel free to call me if you have further questions. Amalia Amalia Warshenbrot Director emeritus Levine-Sklut Judaic Library Resource Center Charlotte NC Email: amalia...@att.net Phone: 704-365-3313 From: Leah Friedman Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 11:50 AM To: hasaf...@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Subject: [ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion I am looking for a needle in a haystack and thought you might help: I'm searching for a holocaust novel or memoir appropriate for an English class in a Bais Yaakov high school. It must be age appropriate regarding reading level (9th to 11th grades), appropriate for a religious girls' school, and well written for an English classroom. I've done research and so far have only come up with books that are for a younger, more middle school, audience. Thanks! Leah Friedman -- __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran -- Kenneth Schoen, SCHOEN BOOKS...specializing in: Judaica, the Holocaust and modern European history Books with a past...looking for a future! http://www.schoenbooks.com see also www.trigere.com 7 Sugarloaf Street, South Deerfield, MA. 01373 (413) 665-0066 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update
Re: [ha-Safran] Holocaust book suggestion
Fern Schumer Chapman also wrote a middle-grade/YA novel based on her mother's story, Is It Night or Day? that you may want to consider along with Motherland. She is available for author visits (we are having her speak to our 8th-12th graders for Yom Hashoah this year). Below is an excerpt from her website at http://fernschumerchapman.com/ about both books, and the third book she is working on: Recently, these two books have led to another amazing story. On the ship that brought her to America, young Edith became best friends with 12-year-old Gerda Katz, but the two hadn't seen each other since their arrival in 1938. After a Naperville, Illinois middle-school class read Is It Night or Day?, the students were so moved by the story that they made it a class project to reunite the two women. Fulfilling a shared life-long dream, the two women, now in their 80s, finally saw each other again last summer in Seattle, Washington. In 2012, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) will dedicate most of an hour-long show to the reunion of Edith and Gerda. The Naperville students' technological efforts, Gerda's life, the story of Edith and Gerda's friendship, and their reunion 73 years after their long-ago immigration journey will be the subject of Fern's third book. Good luck! Rachel Kamin, Director The Joseph and Mae Gray Cultural Learning Center North Suburban Synagogue Beth El 847/432-8903 x242 or rka...@nssbethel.org blocked::mailto:rka...@nssbethel.org August Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays Thursdays 9:00am-5:00pm From: hasafran-bounces+rkamin=nssbethel@lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:hasafran-bounces+rkamin=nssbethel@lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Eva Radding Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 1:15 PM To: hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Holocaust book suggestion Leah Friedman is looking for a Holocaust novel or memoir suitable for a Bais Yaakov high school. I suggest Motherland, a memoir by Fern Shumer Chapman. The author's mother escaped from Germany in 1938, and mother and daughter travel to the mother's home town in 1990. Her mother has never escaped the trauma of being sent to America at the age of 12 and subsequent loss of her family in the Holocaust, and throughout her life has felt unloved and unable to talk about her past. In Germany, mother and daughter uncover the town's memories and secrets, from the town historian, a former Nazi, to a childhood friend who actively resisted the Nazis. Through the visit, both Jews and townspeople face their past, and the memories and motivations that were long buried. The memoir is more about the legacy of the Holocaust more than its horrors, and is a mother-daughter story as well. Eva Radding Librarian Facing History and Ourselves 16 Hurd Road Brookline, MA 02445 617-735-1680 www.facinghistory.org This email and any information attached to it may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any use or dissemination of the information is prohibited. Please notify the sender that you received the email in error and delete any record of this message. = __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion
Hi Leah - one suggestion you might consider is our newest book, The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, by Captain Witold Pilecki. This presents a different view on Auschwitz. Rabbi Michael Schudrich, the Chief Rabbi of Poland, calls it essential reading for anyone interested in the Holocaust. The New York Times gave it a glowing review on June 24, saying it is a historical document of the greatest importance, and naming it a New York Time Editors' Choice the following week. This is the first time Pilecki's comprehensive report on his nearly 3-year undercover mission at Auschwitz, which was written in 1945 and suppressed by the postwar communist regime in Poland, is being published in English. While, as you might imagine, some of the scenes described are very difficult, the language would be at a high school level and the report is written in a conversational way, as if Pilecki is in the room telling us his story. We also include discussion questions at the end of the book which would be appropriate for classroom use. More info at: http://www.polandww2.com/auschwitz-volunteer/the-auschwitz-volunteer-about-t he-book I'd be happy to answer any questions or provide additional info. BTW, Amazon is offering the paperback edition today at a 41% discount. Best, Terry Terry A. Tegnazian President Aquila Polonica Publishing 10850 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90024 Tel: 310-470-0770 Email: terry at aquilapolonica.com Website: http://www.aquilapolonica.com/ www.AquilaPolonica.com; http://www.polandww2.com/ www.PolandWW2.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PolandWW2 http://www.facebook.com/PolandWW2 Twitter: http://twitter.com/polandww2 http://twitter.com/polandww2 Aquila Polonica Publishing is dedicated to publishing, in English, the Polish experience of World War II with first-hand accounts, memoirs, photographs, artwork, poetry, literature and historical studies. NEW! http://www.polandww2.com/auschwitz-volunteer/the-auschwitz-volunteer-about- the-book The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, by Captain Witold Pilecki, translated by Jarek Garlinski. A Featured Selection of the History Book Club. A Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Military Book Club. Watch the trailer on YouTube: http://bit.ly/AuschwitzVolunteerBookTrailer http://bit.ly/AuschwitzVolunteerBookTrailer A historical document of the greatest importance. The New York Times Editors' Choice Remarkable revelations. Publishers Weekly Earthshaking. A book which I hope will be widely read. Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for Strategic International Studies Extraordinary. Maclean's (Canada) An Allied hero. Professor Norman Davies Essential reading for anyone interested in the Holocaust. Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:50:29 -0400 From: Leah Friedman lyhau...@gmail.com Subject: [ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion I am looking for a needle in a haystack and thought you might help: I'm searching for a holocaust novel or memoir appropriate for an English class in a Bais Yaakov high school. It must be age appropriate regarding reading level (9th to 11th grades), appropriate for a religious girls' school, and well written for an English classroom. I've done research and so far have only come up with books that are for a younger, more middle school, audience. Thanks! Leah Friedman __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
Re: [ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion
I highly recommend All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein. I just finished this beautiful memoir, and was thorougly moved by it. This woman spent most of the war as a slave worker, and then survived a death march. She received the Presidential medal of Freedom in 2010. Tamara Silberman From: Amalia Warshenbrot amalia...@att.net To: Leah Friedman lyhau...@gmail.com Cc: Hasafran hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 12:29 PM Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion Leah, The book I Choose Life: Two Linked Stories of Holocaust Survival and Rebirth by Goldie Finkelstein and her husband Sol Finkelstein edited by Jerry L. Jennings. It is a story of people with great belief in God and amazing optimism after the man’s miraculous survival of near death situations. The authors live in New Jersey. They talk about their life in schools and centers within a driving distance. An interview with Mr. Finkelstein and his son is available on the website of the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. The paperback edition I s available on AMAZON for $16. Please feel free to call me if you have further questions. Amalia Amalia WarshenbrotDirector emeritus Levine-Sklut Judaic Library Resource Center Charlotte NC Email: AmaliaIma@ATT.netPhone: 704-365-3313 From: Leah Friedman Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 11:50 AM To: hasaf...@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Subject: [ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion I am looking for a needle in a haystack and thought you might help: I'm searching for a holocaust novel or memoir appropriate for an English class in a Bais Yaakov high school. It must be age appropriate regarding reading level (9th to 11th grades), appropriate for a religious girls' school, and well written for an English classroom. I've done research and so far have only come up with books that are for a younger, more middle school, audience. Thanks! Leah Friedman __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran__ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Holocaust book suggestion: To Live And Fight Another Day by Bracha Weisbarth
To Live And Fight Another Day by Bracha Weisbarth is a good suggestion for your holocaust book search. Here the review from AJL “To Live And Fight Another Day” is a book that you will not want to put down – it is easy to read, keeps your interest throughout, is heartwarming and honest. This semi-autobiography (the main character is fashioned after the author's brother) is about a band of mostly Jewish partisans as they participate in dangerous missions to sabotage the Nazis in the Ukraine. They blow up railroads, defend victims of Nazi terror, avenge brutality, all the time knowing that unknown informers would be rewarded with a kilo of salt and two kilos of sugar for turning them in. They survive through terrible winters in forests and eventually join Russian partisan forces. Not only is this well written for junior high through adult, it is on a topic rarely published. An essential purchase. ... AJL Newsletter Available from Amazon.com, Baker and Taylor, Ingram, Barnes and Noble. ISBN-13: 978-9657344279 Here is the review from Book Talk BOOK TALK Bracha Weisbarth, a survivor and Director of Library Services at the Waldor Memorial Library in New Jersey, has written a fine novel based on her family's experiences during the Holocaust. It is dedicated to her brother, Benny, who led their family out of the ghetto before a Nazi Final Aktion and later, into the forests, where their father and his brothers, experienced foresters, had been working in a slave labor camp. After leaving his surviving family in a Displaced Persons Camp, Benny, the story's narrator, reflects on his past while imprisoned in a British camp in Cyprus after being captured by British soldiers as he and other survivors try to enter Palestine illegally. Benny, thirteen years old, and his two sisters, little Sheindale and Nina, his older sister, and their parents belong to a highly respected, financially secure family in their village of Malinsk in the southwest corner of the Ukraine in an area known as Volyn. Occupying two large houses, the family owned a factory for spinning wool, a flour mill, a farm and parcels of land in the forest. Three generations of the family had been born in this shtetl. They had dealt fairly and honestly with all. Fortunately, Benny's tall, strong charismatic father and his brothers had done favors for several Ukrainian peasants, even giving them some of their cows during the Russian occupation so that the family would not be accused of capitalism. A few peasants had become real friends. The Nazis who have occupied the town after the Russians retreat force the Jews to a nearby town, Berezne, where a Jewish ghetto has been organized. When a former employee of Benny's father who, being of German descent, has been appointed by the Germans to manage their woolen factory, visits them with food and milk, he warns them to go to the forest and hide because the Nazis are planning something terrible for the ghetto the following day. Despite Benny's entreaty, the family refuses to leave until Benny grabs the hand of little Sheindale and tells his mother and sister that he is taking her to hide with Fedor, a Ukrainian friend in a neighboring village. This causes his mother to don a peasant style babushka and his older sister, Dina, to follow him out of the ghetto, but not his grandparents or young aunts who stay and will perish the following day. The frightened, grieving family hide in Fedor's hayloft for several days until Benny, disguised as a peasant boy, and Fedor's son drive a wagon to Fedor's nephew's home in the forest. There they meet Benny's father who, having heard of the massacre, is also at the nephew's home. He grieves for his family in a dramatically touching scene. Then Benny arrives. They decide that the family must move deep into the forest in order to survive, but first Benny volunteers to go to their Ukrainian friends to get supplies for the long perilous sojourn. From here on, the story becomes one of adventure and ingenuity - first for survival and then for revenge. Luckily, Benny's father and his brothers know the forest intimately, and the Germans don't, but the Jewish family has to out-improvise Robinson Crusoe in order to survive once winter comes. Due to his small size, blond Ukrainian looks, great intelligence and daring, Benny becomes the scout, a role that becomes more perilous as the story progresses and the family morphs into partisans. After meeting other Jewish refugees in the forest and later, organized Russian partisans, they actively fight the Nazis. Adventure continues postwar, as well. This story has everything: pathos, Yiddishkeit, ingenuity, adventure, tragedy, tenderness and a young boy hero with whom readers will identify as they enter the story. Written in the first person, it is a finely honed portrayal of Jewish survival and partisan activity based on the author's experience. Was she Sheindale?
Re: [ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion
Schindler's List or The Boy in the Striped Pajamas are higher level books and were made into movies. Rachel Fischer __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] holocaust book suggestion
I am looking for a needle in a haystack and thought you might help: I'm searching for a holocaust novel or memoir appropriate for an English class in a Bais Yaakov high school. It must be age appropriate regarding reading level (9th to 11th grades), appropriate for a religious girls' school, and well written for an English classroom. I've done research and so far have only come up with books that are for a younger, more middle school, audience. Thanks! Leah Friedman __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
