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S t o r i e s o f J e w i s h I m m i g r a n t s |
Picture Books |
Easy Fiction |
Fiction |
Non-Fiction |
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Picture Books
- Cohen, Barbara.
- Molly's Pilgrim. illus. Daniel Mark Duffy. Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1998.
- Told to make a Pilgrim doll for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly is embarassed when her mother tries to help her out by creating a doll dressed as she herself was dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom.
- Edwards, Michelle.
- Papa's Latkes. illus. Stacey Schuett. Candlewick Press, 2001.
- On the first Hanukkah after Mama died, Papa and his two daughters try to make latkes and celebrate without her.
- Lakin, Pat.
- Don't Forget. illus. Ted Rand. Tambourine Books, 1994.
- While buying the ingredients for her first cake--a surprise for her mother's birthday--Sarah shares secrets with the friendly neighborhood shopkeepeers, especially with the Singers, who have blue numbers on their arms.
- Michelson, Richard.
- Grandpa's Gamble. illus. Barry Moser. Marshall Cavendish, 1999.
- When Grandpa tells a boy and his sister why he prays so much, they stop thinking that he is just a boring old man.
- Too Young for Yiddish. illus. Neil Waldman. Talewinds, 2002.
- When Aaron was a boy, his Grandpa, or Zayde, would not teach him Yiddish, but as an adult, Aaron longs to learn the language and history of the old country from Zayde and his many books.
- Moss, Marissa.
- In America. Dutton, 1994.
- While Walter and his grandfather walk to the Post Office, Grandfather recounts how he decided to come to America, while his brother Herschel stayed in Lithuania.
- Rael, Elsa.
- Rivka's First Thanksgiving. illus. Maryann Kovalski. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2001.
- Having heard about Thanksgiving in school, nine-year-old Rivka tries to convince her immigrant family and her rabbi that it is a holiday for all Americans, Jews and non-Jews alike.
- Schweiger-Dmi'el, Izhak.
- Hanna's Sabbath Dress illus. Ora Eiton. Simon & Schuster, 1996.
- When Hannah helps an old man and her new Sabbath dress gets dirty, she is afraid her mother will be sad.
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Easy Fiction
- Cohen, Barbara.
- Make a Wish, Molly. illus. Jan Naimo Jones. Doubleday, 1994. J Cohen
- Molly, who recently emigrated with her family from Russia to New Jersey, learns about birthday parties and who her real friends are.
- Moss, Marissa.
- Hannah's Journal: The Story of an Immigrant Girl. Harcourt, 2000. J Moss
- In the Russian shtetl where she and her family live, Hannah is given a diary for her tenth birthday, and in it she records the dramatic story of her journey to America.
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Fiction
- Blos, Joan W.
- Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme. illus. Paul Birling.
Scribner's Sons, 1994. J Blos
- At the request of her sixth grade teacher, Edwina Rose Sachs records events in the lives of her Polish immigrant family and their friends living in Brooklyn in the early 1900s.
- Glaser, Linda.
- Bridge to America: Based on a True Story. Houghton Mifflin, 2005. J Glaser
- Eight-year-old Fivel narrates the story of his family's Atlantic Ocean crossing to reunite with their father in the United States, from its desperate beginning in a shtetl in Poland in 1920 to his stirrings of identity as an American boy.
- Griffis, Molly Levite.
- Simon Says. Eakin Press, 2004. J Griffis
- Simon, a sixth-grader who had been sent from Germany to live with an American family when he was six years old, spends the summer of 1942 facing his feelings of abandonment and learning about antisemitism in his small Oklahoma town.
- Karwoski, Gail.
- Quake!: Disaster in San Francisco, 1906. illus. Robert Papp. Peachtree, 2003. J Karwoski
- Tells the story of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as seen through the eyes of Jacob, a thirteen-year-old Jewish boy who lives in a boarding house with his father and younger sister.
- Matas, Carol.
- The War Within: A Novel of the Civil War. Simon & Schuster, 2001. J Matas
- In 1862, after Union forces expel Hannah's family from Holly Springs, Mississippi, because they are Jews, Hannah reexamines her views regarding slavery and the war.
- Napoli, Donna Jo.
- The King of Mulberry Street. Wendy Lamb Books, 2005. J Napoli
- In 1892, Dom, a nine-year-old stowaway from Naples, Italy, arrives in New York and must learn to survive the perils of street life in the big city.
- Oswald, Nancy.
- Nothing Here But Stones: A Jewish Pioneer Story. H. Holt, 2004. J Oswald
- In 1882, ten-year-old Emma and her family, along with other Russian Jewish immigrants, arrive in Cotopaxi, Colorado, where they face inhospitable conditions as they attempt to start an agricultural colony, and lonely Emma is comforted by the horse whose life she saved.
- Sachs, Marilyn.
- Lost in America. 2005. J Sachs
- Follows the experiences of Nicole, a teenaged French Jew, from 1943 to 1948, as she loses her parents and sister to the concentration camps and then leaves her native France to make a new life for herself in New York City.
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Non-Fiction
- Machlin, Mikki.
- My Name is Not Gussie. Houghton Mifflin, 1999. J 973.04924 MAC
- A young girl describes the difficulties and joys that she and her family experience when they come from Russia to settle in New York City in the early twentieth century. Based on stories from the author's mother.
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