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three children who survived the
Holocaust in hiding — from
their childhoods hunted as prey
in Poland, France and Holland
to their adulthoods in New York,
where they created meaningful
lives as a doctor, psychologist
and social worker, respectively.
A Voice Still Heard:
Selected Essays of Irving
Howe (Yale), edited by Nina
Howe, features a foreword by
Morris Dickstein, followed by 16
essays on politics, literature, cul-
ture and Judaism by the literary
giant, political critic and public
intellectual who died in 1993.
The Rag Race: How Jews
Sewed Their Way To Success
in America and the British
Empire (NYU Press) by Adam
D. Mendelsohn traces the
involvement of Jewish immi-
grants in the shmatta (rag)
business and draws connections
between that involvement and
the economic ascent of Jews in
America.
Joseph Berger's The Pious
Ones (HarperCollins) is the vet-
eran New York Times reporter's
skillful observations of the
Orthodox community, one that
he has covered for decades, with
portraits of leading personalities,
analysis of recent controversies
and a view of faith and daily life.
Lynn Davidman's Becoming
Un-Orthodox: Stories of
Ex-Hasidic Jews (Oxford
University Press) is based on
conversations with 40 individu-
als who left their Chasidic worlds
in America and shared their
often painful stories. The author,
now a professor of Jewish studies
at the University of Kansas, also
writes personally; she lost her
faith as a teenager and was cast
out from her Orthodox family
and friends.
Sociologist Roger Friedland
studies love, sex and God.
Amore: An American Father's
Holiday (Harper) is his account
of his and his wife Debra's deci-
sion to weather the adolescent
storm outside the U.S., allow-
ing their girls to come of age in
Rome, a city where love is alive
and families hold together. ❑
– Compiled by Sandee
Brawarsky and Gail Zimmerman
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to horse trail, wagon rut to stagecoach route,
plank road to highway. More than 200 vin-
tage photos help tell the story.
FOR THE SHORT STORY
LOVER
A collection of new stories, Tel Aviv
Noir (Akashic), edited by Etgar Keret and
Assaf Gavron and translated by Yardenne
Greenspan, includes short literary works
— by Keret and Assaf, as well as by Shimon
Adaf, Alex Epstein, Julia Fermentto, Antonio
Ungar and others — set in the shadows of
the White City, which, as Keret explains,
"reveal the concealed, scarred face of this
city that we love so much:"
Israel-raised, New York writer Shelly
Oria's collection of short stories, New York
1, Tel Aviv 0 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux),
tells of the fragility of human relation-
ships, where characters are as intelligent
and charming as they are lonely. A couple
discovers the ability to stop time together;
another couple lives with a constant loud
beeping in their apartment although only
one of them can hear it; a father leaves
his daughter in Israel to pursue a painting
career in New York.
FOR THE YOUNG ADULT
Like No Other (Razorbill), a young adult
novel by Una LaMarche, tells the story of
doomed love between a 16-year-old Chasidic
girl and her black boyfriend in Crown
Heights, Brooklyn.
FOR THE KINDER
In Latke the Lucky Dog (Kar-Ben; ages
2-7) by Ellen Fischer and illustrated by
Tiphanie Beeke, a fuzzy puppy named Latke
is rescued from an animal shelter on the first
night of Chanukah and joins the family just
in time for the celebrations.
Lullaby (Jewish Lights Publishing; ages
3-6) by Debbie Friedman with illustrations
by Lorraine Bubar is the first children's book
based on the music of the late singer-song-
writer. Friedman's song "Lullaby" encour-
ages children and those who care for them
to reflect together over the day's activities,
to look with hope toward tomorrow and to
take comfort in God's presence. The book
includes a CD of the original music and lyr-
ics by Friedman.
The Good, the Bad 6, the Beagle
(Macmillan; ages 10-12) by Catherine
Lloyd Burns is the story of a feisty 11-year-
old Jewish girl who believes that a furry
lemon beagle from the neighborhood pet
store will be the solution to the endless
worries she has about life in general and
friendship in particular. The problem: Her
psychiatrist parents won't buy her the puppy
or stop meddling in her life.
In Nest (Wendy Lamb Books), Esther
Ehrlich delivers a poignant middle-grade
novel about 11-year-old Naomi "Chirp"
Orenstein; her older sister, Rachel; her psy-
chiatrist father; and her dancer mother. A
tragic change in their lives demonstrates the
healing power of love and friendship.
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