Re: [ha-Safran]: If you could name one good book

2009-07-13 Thread Shmuel Ben-Gad
One possibility is the historical novel about the Maccabees, My Glorious Brothers by Howard Fast. Shmuel Ben-Gad, Gelman Library, George Washington University. --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the

[ha-Safran]: If you could name one good book

2009-07-10 Thread Susan Ellman
Dear safranim: I have recently had a discussion with an educator (high school level) who is trying to choose one good book about Jews to assign to her students. They will be learning about the Holocaust, but she agrees that young people need to learn there's more to being Jewish than putting