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• Heart of a Stranger

  An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging

  Buchdahl, Angela, 1972-

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  "From the first Asian American to be ordained as a rabbi, a stirring account of one woman's journey from feeling like an outsider to becoming one of the most admired religious leaders in the world."

• Continuum

  Man, Chella, 1998-

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  "Continuum traces the life of Chella Man, an artist and actor who shares the intersections of their Deaf, transgender, genderqueer, Jewish, and Chinese identities."

• Beautiful Country

  a Memoir

  Wang, Qian Julie, 1987-

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  In this "modern day Jewish American immigrant tale," Wang recounts her childhood as an undocumented immigrant to the United States. "Searing and unforgettable, Beautiful Country is an essential book about the cost of making a home in a hostile land…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Happy for You

  Stanford, Claire,

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  “[Eve­lyn] is Japan­ese and Jew­ish and doesn’t know where she fits into either culture.…The bril­liance of Hap­py For You is in how it man­ages to con­vey many emo­tions and many lessons. As a satir­i­cal nov­el about tech cul­ture, it’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Molly on the Range

  Recipes and Stories From An Unlikely Life on a Farm

  Yeh, Molly

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  In this cookbook, popular food blogger Molly Yeh celebrates her Jewish/Chinese background with recipes like Asian Scotch Eggs and Scallion Pancake Challah Bread. She also ties in Scandinavian recipes from her new hometown on the North…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

  a Memoir

  Madden, T Kira,

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  “This stun­ning, com­pul­sive­ly read­able debut mem­oir tells the sto­ry of T Kira Madden’s com­ing-of-age in the swampy, sur­re­al world of wealthy Boca Raton, Flori­da.… Mad­den gropes through the shad­ows of mem­o­ry and research to uncov­er…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Talk

  a Memoir in Conversations

  Jacob, Mira, 1973-

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  "Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• See: Loss. See Also: Love

  a Novel

  Tominaga, Yukiko,

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  "A tender, slyly comical, and shamelessly honest debut novel following a Japanese widow raising her son between worlds with the help of her Jewish mother-in-law, as she wrestles with grief, loss, and-strangest of all, joy."

• The Song of the Jade Lily

  a Novel

  Manning, Kirsty

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  "1939, Shanghai: Beautiful local Li and Jewish refugee Romy form a fierce friendship, but the deepening shadows of World War II fall over the women as they slip between the city's glamorous French Concession district and the teeming streets of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Kings of Shanghai

  the Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

  Kaufman, Jonathan

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  "By the 1930s, the Sassoons had been doing business in China for a century, rivaled in wealth and influence by only one other dynasty--the Kadoories. These two Jewish families, both originally from Baghdad, stood astride Chinese business and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Rose of Shanghai

  Randel, Weina Dai

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  "1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. He loses…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Whole Story of Half a Girl

  Hiranandani, Veera

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  "When Sonia's father loses his job and she must move from her small, supportive private school to a public middle school, the half-Jewish half-Indian sixth-grader experiences culture shock as she tries to navigate the school's unfamiliar social…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not Your all-American Girl

  Rosenberg, Madelyn, 1966-

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  “Lau­ren is Chi­nese Amer­i­can and Jew­ish. She has always been aware of her mixed her­itage — how could she not be, when one of her grand­moth­ers, Wai Po, lives with her fam­i­ly, and the oth­er, Saf­ta, lives near­by? … By the book’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Ryū

  Cohen, Emi Watanabe

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  This middle grade novel is set in 1960s Japan, "where ten-year-old Kohei Fuji­wara is try­ing to make sense of his dam­aged fam­i­ly: a father who died, a moth­er under stress, and an ill, angry grand­fa­ther. When an Amer­i­can girl of mixed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Welcome Back, Maple Mehta-Cohen

  McGovern, Kate

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  "Maple Mehta-Cohen has a secret, and she has worked hard to make sure no one finds out. Maple loves to tell, and spends much of her time dictating, her stories about her half-Indian, half-Jewish sleuth into her recorder. But despite her storytelling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What Jewish Looks Like

  Kleinrock, Liz,

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  "Too many Jews have been told: 'You don't look Jewish!' It begs the question, 'what does Jewish look like?'... These bold profiles and inspiring everyday stories come together to create a tapestry that beautifully reflects the multifaceted essence…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shanghai Sukkah

  Hyde, Heidi Smith,

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  "To escape the Nazis, a young Jewish boy named Marcus and his family move to Shanghai, where Marcus and his new friend Liang build a sukkah on the roof and together they celebrate Sukkot and the Chinese Moon Festival."

• Mixed-up Mooncakes

  Matula, Christina

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  "While helping her family celebrate two extra-special harvest holidays -- the Jewish holiday of Sukkot and the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, Ruby realizes there's something missing to blend these two holidays together and must figure out what it is."

• Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas

  Ehrenberg, Pamela

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  "A boy is worried that his little sister's climbing will spoil the first night of Hanukkah, when his family combines his father's Jewish traditions with his mother's East Indian cooking."

• Many Things at Once

  Hiranandani, Veera

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  "A young girl with a Jewish mother and a South Asian father learns more about her family's history and embraces her multifaceted identity."