Jewish books to read

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Isaac’s army by M. Brzezinski, 2013 

Matthew Brzezinski reminds us that, through a combination of cunning and luck, some Jews managed to stay out of the Polish concentration camps entirely. This book focuses on Warsaw, where the highest concentration of European Jews once lived, as the heartland of Jewish life. The Warsaw Ghetto and its harrowing conditions for Jews are seen from three viewpoints: that of the Osnos family, who dramatically flee Poland and encounter various immigration nightmares; that of the Mortkowicz family, who are forced to hide their young daughter inside a Catholic convent while they literally hole up with Gentile families outside the Ghetto; and that of an assortment of orphans, led by Isaac Zuckerman, who organised the forces of Jewish resistance inside the Ghetto. 

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