In May we celebrate Jewish-American Heritage Month and Asian and Pacific-American Heritage Month.
All of the books listed are shelved within the display on the first floor of the library and may be checked out!
Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Books:
Juvenile Collection
American dragons : twenty-five Asian American voices / edited by Laurence Yep. Call Number: FIC.AM348AM
American eyes : new Asian-American short stories for young adults / edited by Lori M. Carlson ; introduction by Cynthia Kodahata. Call Number:FIC.AM25C1994
Children of the river / Linda Crew. Call Number: FIC.C8664CH
Dia’s story cloth / written by Dia Cha ; stitched by Chue and Nhia Thao Cha ; compendium by Joyce Herold. Call Number: 973.0495C34D
Made in the South Pacific : arts of the sea people / Christine Price. Call Number: 709P931
Zen and the art of faking it / by Jordan Sonnenblick. Call Number: FICSo592z2007
General Collection
America’s Asia : racial form and American literature, 1893-1945 / Colleen Lye. Call Number: PS159.A85L942005
Asian-American heritage; an anthology of prose and poetry / Edited by David Hsin-Fu Wand. Call Number: PS508.A8W3
The Columbia documentary history of the Asian American experience / edited by Franklin Odo. Call Number: E184. O6 C63 2002
Domestic violence in Asian American communities : a cultural overview / Tuyen D. Nguyen. Call Number: HV6626.2.D6752005
Eating identities : reading food in Asian American literature / Wenying Xu. Call Number: PS153.A84X82008
From concentration camp to campus : Japanese American students and World War II / Allan W. Austin. Call Number: D769.8.A6A942004
New faiths, old fears : Muslims and other Asian immigrants in American religious life / Bruce B. Lawrence. Call Number: BL2525.L392002
Sexual naturalization : Asian Americans and miscegenation / Susan Koshy. Call Number: PS374.M53K672004
Unsettled visions : contemporary Asian American artists and the social imaginary / Margo Machida. Call Number: N6538.A83M372008
Jewish-American Heritage Books:
Juvenile Collection
The Golem : a Jewish legend / Beverly Brodsky McDermott. Call Number: 398.2M143
Hana’s suitcase : a true story / by Karen Levine. Call Number: 940.5318.L5785h2003
Heroes of American Jewish history / by Deborah Karp. Edited by Benjamin Efron. Picture editor: Sol Scharfstein. Call Number: 920K12814
Remember the days : a short history of the Jewish American / Milton Meltzer ; illustrated by Harvey Dinnerstein. Call Number: 917.306M496
General Collection
1,201 questions and answers about Judaism / David C. Gross. Call Number: BM570.G681992
The blood of Abraham / Jimmy Carter. Call Number: DS63.1.C371985
Engendering Judaism : an inclusive theology and ethics / Rachel Adler. Call Number: BM729.W6A291999
Everyman’s Talmud / with an introd. to the new American ed. by Boaz Cohen. BM504.C6
The holocaust and the literary imagination / Lawrence L. Langer. Call Number: PN56.3.J4L3
The Holocaust in American life / Peter Novick. Call Number: D804.45.U55N681999
Jewish holiday crafts / by Joyce Becker. Call Number: 745.5B388
Jewish publishing in America : the impact of Jewish writing on American culture / Charles A. Madison. Call Number: Z473.M214
Mishpokhe : a study of New York City Jewish family clubs / William E. Mitchell ; foreword by Marshall. Call Number: F128.9.J5M5
New lives : survivors of the holocaust living in America / Dorothy Rabinowitz. Call Number: D810.J4R3
The nine questions people ask about Judaism / by Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin ; foreword by Herman Wouk. Call Number: MB565.P71981
The politics of indecision : origins and implications of American involvement with the Palestine problem / by Daniel Tschirgi. Call Number: E183.8.I731983
Remember the days : a short history of the Jewish American / Milton Meltzer ; illustrated by Harvey Dinnerstein.
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