Awards search:LA Times Book Prize

FDR and the Jews

by Richard Breitman
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, anti-Semitism, immigration and emigration
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3670
Status
Available
Call number
973.917 BRE

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel

by Michael Chabon
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
Holocaust, Pulitzer Prize, URJ High School and Young Adult list, URJ Significant Jewish Books, AR book - UG, New York, humor, men, Golem, cartoonists, LGBTQ — 3 more, World War II, diversity and inclusion, B'Tzelem Elohim - In God's Image
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
3421
Status
Available
Call number
F CHA

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories

by Nathan Englander
Paperback, 2000
Tags
Orthodox Judaism, short stories
Collections
Adult Fiction, B'nai Jacob Collection
Barcode
6157
Status
Available
Call number
F ENG

Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel

by Jonathan Safran Foer
Paperback, 2003
Tags
People of the Book author, National Jewish Book Award, AR book - UG, grandparents, World War II, family, humor, Ukraine, men
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
1995
Status
Available
Call number
F FOE

An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

by Neal Gabler
Hardcover, 1988
Tags
California, movies, Hollywood
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2913
Status
Available
Call number
384.8 GAB

Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Jewish Encounters Series)

by Masha Gessen
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Soviet Union, Birobidzhan, Russia, history, Betty's 100 Books
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4410
Status
Available
Call number
957.7 GES

Chosen By God: A Brother's Journey

by Joshua Hammer
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
Hasidim - Hasidism
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2756
Status
Available
Call number
210 HAM

Schindler's List

by Thomas Keneally
Paperback, 1992
Tags
URJ Library List, Holocaust, Booker Prize, New York Times Best Book of the Year, AR book - UG, Holocaust - Righteous Gentiles, Holocaust - Poland, World War II, Holocaust - resistance and rescue
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
2841
Status
Available
Call number
F KEN

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

by Daniel Mendelsohn
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust, family history - genealogy, Ukraine
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3786
Status
Available
Call number
973.04 MEN

Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

by Michael B. Oren
Paperback, 2003
Tags
Israel, National Jewish Book Award, Israel - history, Middle East
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3413
Status
Available
Call number
956.046 ORE

The Human Stain

by Philip Roth
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, AR book - UG, teachers, African-Americans, men, diversity and inclusion, B'Tzelem Elohim - In God's Image
Collection
Adult Fiction
Series
The American Trilogy (3), Zuckerman Bound (8)
Barcode
2104
Status
Available
Call number
F ROT

The Hired Girl

by Laura Amy Schlitz
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Sydney Taylor Award, National Jewish Book Award, teen - young adult, AR book - MG+, derekh eretz - doing the right thing, Judaism, Baltimore, Maryland, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, keeping kosher - kashrut
Collection
Teen Fiction (grades 6-12)
Barcode
3944
Status
Available
Call number
T F SCH

The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Hardcover, 1982
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Yiddish culture, short stories
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
5299
Status
Available
Call number
F SIN

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

by Art Spiegelman
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Holocaust, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, American Book Award, New York Times Best Book of the Year, Pulitzer Prize, URJ High School and Young Adult list, AR book - UG, Holocaust - Poland, World War II, Holocaust - survivors, graphic novel format
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Series
Maus: A Survivor's Tale (2)
Barcode
3022
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 SPI

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

by Art Spiegelman
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Holocaust, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, American Book Award, New York Times Best Book of the Year, Pulitzer Prize, URJ High School and Young Adult list, AR book - UG, Holocaust - Poland, World War II, Holocaust - survivors, graphic novel format
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Series
Maus: A Survivor's Tale (2)
Barcode
1167
Status
Available
Call number
T 940.53 SPI

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

by Art Spiegelman
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Holocaust, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, American Book Award, New York Times Best Book of the Year, Pulitzer Prize, URJ High School and Young Adult list, AR book - UG, Holocaust - Poland, World War II, Holocaust - survivors, graphic novel format
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Series
Maus: A Survivor's Tale (2)
Barcode
1165
Status
Available
Call number
T 940.53 SPI

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

by Art Spiegelman
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Holocaust, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, American Book Award, New York Times Best Book of the Year, Pulitzer Prize, AR book - UG, Holocaust - Poland, World War II, Holocaust - survivors, graphic novel format
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Series
Maus: A Survivor's Tale (2)
Barcode
1164
Status
Available
Call number
T 940.53 SPI

Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

by Thomas J. Sugrue
Paperback, 2008
Tags
civil rights, United States - history, African-Americans, diversity and inclusion, B'Tzelem Elohim - In God's Image
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2542
Status
Available
Call number
323.1196 SUG

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

by Jacobo Timerman
Hardcover, 1981
Tags
Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Argentina
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2566
Status
Available
Call number
365.45 TIM

Louis D. Brandeis: A Life

by Melvin Urofsky
Paperback, 2012
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Louis Brandeis, Betty's 100 Books, biography, judges and lawyers
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
4412
Status
Available
Call number
B BRA

Code Name Verity

by Elizabeth Wein
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
AR book - UG, Holocaust - resistance and rescue, historical fiction, courage - ometz lev, Cybils Award Finalist, Betty's 100 Books, women, France, England, teen - young adult, inner strength - gevurah
Collection
Teen Fiction (grades 6-12)
Series
Code Name Verity (1), Young Pilots (1)
Barcode
4513
Status
Available
Call number
T F WEI
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