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Jewish pirates of the Caribbean : how a generation of swashbuckling Jews carved out an empire in the new world in their quest for treasure, religious freedom--and revenge / by Kritzler, Edward,1941-2010.;
MARCIVE 03/04/09Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-315) and index.Columbus and Jamaica's chosen people -- Adventuring in the New World -- The king's essential heretics -- Samuel Palache, the pirate rabbi -- Amsterdam, the new Jerusalem -- Zion warriors in the new world -- Exodus to heretic island -- Cromwell's secret agents -- The golden dream of Charles II -- Buccaneer island -- Epilogue: Searching for the lost mine of Columbus.
Subjects: Crypto-Jews; Buccaneers; Pirates; Jews;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Jewish pirates of the Caribbean : how a generation of swashbuckling Jews carved out an empire in the New World in their quest for treasure, religious freedom--and revenge / by Kritzler, Edward,1941-2010.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-315) and index.Columbus and Jamaica's chosen people -- Adventuring in the New World -- The king's essential heretics -- Samuel Palache, the pirate rabbi -- Amsterdam, the new Jerusalem -- Zion warriors in the New World -- Exodus to heretic island -- Cromwell's secret agents -- The golden dream of Charles II -- Buccaneer island -- Epilogue: Searching for the lost mine of Columbus.
Subjects: Buccaneers; Crypto-Jews; Jewish pirates; Jews;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The midwife of Venice / by Rich, Roberta.(CARDINAL)601003;
Hannah Levi, a Jewish midwife, must decide if she will accept payment for delivering a countess' baby, as she is torn between breaking a Papal edict forbidding Jews from providing medical care to Christians and her desperate need to ransom her husband from pirates.
Subjects: Fiction.; Midwives;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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When pirates came to Brooklyn / by Shalant, Phyllis.(CARDINAL)764726;
Lee Bloom is a 10 year old Jewish girl growing up in the early 1960s in Brooklyn. She makes a new friend, Polly, who has a vivid imagination. They have wild adventures in the attic. During the year, Lee comes face to face with many forms of bigotry and friendship, discrimination, and the dangers of subtle bigotry is interwoven with the children's play, throughout the story.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Best friends; Courage in children; Discrimination; Discrimination; Friendship in children; Friendship; Friendship; Identity (Philosophical concept); Imagination in children; Imagination; Jews; Jews; Multiculturalism; Multiculturalism; Prejudices; Friendships.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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The pirate princess : and other fairy tales / by Philip, Neil.(CARDINAL)340998; Weber, Mark(Mark A.),1958-illustrator.(CARDINAL)656904; Naḥman,of Bratslav,1772-1811.Selections.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-88).The pirate princess -- The fixer -- The gem prince -- The treasure -- The merchant and the poor man -- The turkey prince -- The lost princess.890LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fairy tales.; Jewish legends.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Flowers in the gutter : the true story of the Edelweiss Pirates, teenagers who resisted the Nazis / by Gaddy, Kristina R.,author.(CARDINAL)814826;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-292) and index.Prologue: late 1942 -- Part one: 1932-1938 -- Part two: 1939-1942 -- Part three: 1942-1943 -- Part four: 1943-1944 -- Part five: Fall 1944 -- Part six: 1944-1945 -- Part seven: 1945-2019 -- A note on "The Navajos"."The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized group of working-class young people in the Rhine Valley of Germany. They faced off with Nazis during the Third Reich and suffered consequences for their resistance during and after World War II."--Their earliest memories were of the Nazi rise to power and of their parents fighting Brownshirts in the streets, being sent to prison, or just disappearing. By the time they were teenagers, the Nazis expected them to be part of the war machine. Fritz, Gertrud, and Jean and hundreds like them said no. They grew bolder, painting anti-Nazi graffiti, distributing anti-war leaflets, and helping those persecuted by the Nazis. The Gestapo pursued and arrested hundreds of Edelweiss Pirates. In the war's desperate final year, some Pirates joined in sabotage and armed resistance, risking the Third Reich's ultimate punishment. This is their story. --Ages 12-18.Grades 10-12.950LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Informational works.; Young adult literature.; Edelweisspiraten (Resistance groups); Anti-Nazi movement; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Teenagers;
Available copies: 23 / Total copies: 25
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Not one damsel in distress : world folktales for strong girls / by Yolen, Jane,author.(CARDINAL)138811; Guevara, Susan,illustrator.(CARDINAL)356691;
Includes bibliographical references.Atalanta the huntress (Greece) -- Nana Miriam (Niger) -- Fitcher's bird (Germany) -- The girl and the puma (Argentina) -- Li Chi slays the serpent (China) -- Brave woman counts coup (United States/White River Sioux) -- Pretty Penny (United States/Ozark Mountains) -- Burd Janet (Scotland) -- Mizilca (Romania) -- The pirate princess Poland/Jewish) -- The samurai maiden (Japan) -- Bradamante (France) -- Molly Whuppie (England) -- The princess Kemang (Indonesia) -- Masha and the bear (Azerbaijan).A collection of fifteen traditional tales from various parts of the world, with the main character of each being a fearless, strong, heroic, and resourceful woman.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Fairy tales.; Women; Folklore; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10
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Just my type : a book about fonts / by Garfield, Simon.(CARDINAL)265193;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338) and index.Introduction : love letters -- We don't serve your type -- Capital offence ; Gill Sans -- Legibility vs readability ; Albertus -- Can a font make me popular? ; Futura v Verdana -- The hands of unlettered men ; Doves -- The ampersand's final twist -- Baskerville is dead (long live Baskerville) ; Mrs. Eaves & Mr. Eaves -- Tunnel visions -- What is it about the Swiss? ; Frutiger -- Road Akzidenz -- DIY -- What the font? -- Can a font be German, or Jewish? ; Futura -- American Scottish ; Moderns, Egyptians, and fat faces -- Gotham is go -- Pirates and clones ; Optima -- The clamour from the past ; Sabon -- Breaking the rules ; The interrobang -- The Serif of Liverpool ; Vendôme -- Fox, gloves -- The worst fonts in the world -- Just my type.A romp through the history of fonts and the lives of the great typographers, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.
Subjects: Biographies.; Graphic design (Typography); Type and type-founding.; Type and type-founding; Type and type-founding; Type and type-founding; Typographers;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 18
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An apple for the creature / by Harris, Charlaine.(CARDINAL)341426; Kelner, Toni L. P.(CARDINAL)436862;
A collection of thirteen original stories that take academic anxiety to whole new realms.
Subjects: Paranormal fiction.; Paranormal fiction, American.; Fiction.; Schools;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13
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Teenage resistance to the Nazi regime / by Murray, Hallie,author.(CARDINAL)415349; Byers, Ann,author.(CARDINAL)394616;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Both Jewish and Gentile teens played a key role in resisting the Nazi regime, and in this book students will learn first-hand of the different resistance groups in Nazi Germany, from the anti-authoritarian pranksters Edelweiss Pirates to the communist Baum Group to the anti-fascist Christians of The White Rose. This book also examines resistance outside of Germany. While Western European countries focused on military resistance and rescuing children, resistance in Eastern Europe primarily meant survival, as Aryan-looking Jews became couriers carrying badly-needed food to those in need. Students may be inspired toward high-level ethical discussions of the role children played in certain resistance activities and the impossible choices faced by those embroiled in guerrilla warfare in the forests of Eastern Europe"--Grades 7-12.
Subjects: Anti-Nazi movement; World War, 1939-1945; Teenagers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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