The Lost Shtetl - Max Gross young adult warding off evil and negative

warding off evil and negative feelings

One day Jeanine warns Jacqui that the police are rounding up Jewish women and children

Her father and older brother escaped to Belgium and Sonia’s mother devised a plan for her two remaining children to escape to Antwerp by train

he comes face-to-face with Mirele

Spartacus and Me

The Lost Shtetl - Max Gross young adult warding off evil and negativeWINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD AND THE JEWISH FICTION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES A remarkable debut novel written with the fearless imagination of Michael Chabon and the piercing humor of Gary Shteyngart about a small Jewish village in the Polish forest that is so secluded no one knows it exists . . . until now. What if there was a town that history missed For decades, the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol existed in happy