September 06, 2010   27 Elul 5770

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The primary purpose of the library is educational; to contribute to the development of Jewish social, intellectual and spiritual values. The library collection supports the adult and juvenile educational programs of the synagogue, meets the professional needs of the rabbi and religious school staff, and provides adult and juvenile recreational reading.

Congregants may check out books for a six week period. The library computer can be used to search for books. Directions for its use are posted directly above the computer. All books must be signed out. Please print your name and date on the card in the back of each book and leave the card in the bin located just inside the door. Books should be returned to the designated bin located next to the computer.

New Books  
Check Out Our New Books
 
Please stop by our beautiful new library to check out the new books/DVDS which are currently on display. Many thanks to all of the library fund contributors who make these purchases possible.
 
Another order is currently in process as well. Our new books include:
 
Adult Fiction :
A Pigeon and A Boy: A Novel by Meir Stanley. Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award
Farewell, Shanghai: A Novel by Angel Wagenstein. A 2007 National Book Award Finalist
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. A novel of the Sarajevo Haggadah.
Away by Amy Bloom. The story of a young immigrant woman who crosses continents to find the daughter she believed to have perished in the pogrom that killed her husband and parents.
To This Day by S.Y. Agnon. The first English translation of this Nobel Prize winner's 1951 novel.
 
Adult Non-Fiction:
The Jewish Americans book and DVD set: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America
Shanghai Diary by Ursula Bacon: A memoir of one girl's escape to China during World War II.
 
Juvenile Fiction:
A Mezuzah on the Door by Amy Meltzer. Ages 5-8. A story about the experience of moving to a new home.
My New Shirt by Cary Fagan. Kindergarten-grade 4. Every year David's beloved bubbe gives him a stiff white shirt for his birthday.
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman. Age 14 up. A dybbuk enters the body of a ventriloquist in order to track down the Nazi who killed him and his sister.
The Castle on Hester Street by Linda Heller. Grades 1-3. A delightful immigration story. Winner of the 1952 Sydney Taylor book award.
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World by E. L. Konigsberg. Grades 6-9. An edgy friendship between two adolescent boys.
A Picture for Marc by Eric Kimmel. Grades 4-6. Based on Marc Chagall's boyhood.



 
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Bonnie Silbermann


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