Anita Diamant Books in Order

This guide explains how writers can find a literary agent and establish a productive professional relationship. It discusses presenting work, the agent’s responsibilities, author-agent agreements, commissions, advances, and royalties within the process of selling a manuscript.

Anita Diamant explains Jewish wedding traditions and offers options for couples shaping their own ceremony. Drawing on historical practices, prayers, poems, and contemporary customs, the guide connects the marriage celebration with each couple’s beliefs and values.

Anita Diamant introduces Jewish customs for welcoming a newborn into family and community life. The guide explores baby naming, circumcision, ceremonies for daughters, and celebrations that connect the arrival of a child with religious tradition.

This naming guide presents more than a thousand Jewish names for boys and girls, with the stories and associations behind them. Anita Diamant helps parents consider how a child’s name connects family history, culture, and tradition.

Anita Diamant and Howard Cooper introduce Jewish rituals, customs, and values for modern households. From Sabbath candles and holidays to synagogue membership, the guide explains practical choices and their meanings across a range of liberal Jewish traditions.

This expanded guide to welcoming Jewish babies adds ceremonies, poems, prayers, and ideas for interfaith families. Alongside a directory of names, Anita Diamant explains customs that help parents celebrate a child’s arrival and membership in the community.

Anita Diamant presents hundreds of names drawn from the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, with definitions and scriptural references. The guide explores how naming a baby can connect family memories, religious heritage, and the stories behind biblical figures.

Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, recounts the lives of the women who raised her and her own passage into adulthood. Their shared rituals, loyalties, and secrets frame a story of love, family conflict, and loss.

Anita Diamant guides readers through conversion to Judaism, from selecting a rabbi and synagogue to understanding rituals and choosing a Hebrew name. She also addresses family relationships, religious identity, and finding a place within a new community.

Anita Diamant explains Jewish traditions surrounding dying, funerals, and bereavement, including shiva, Kaddish, and anniversary observances. The guide offers practical choices for mourners and families navigating grief, religious differences, and the needs of children after a loss.

Anita Diamant and family therapist Karen Kushner combine Jewish tradition with ideas about children’s development. Their guide covers creating a Jewish home, choosing educational opportunities, celebrating holidays, and helping children participate in family and community life.

On the beaches of Cape Ann, librarian Kathleen Levine and writer Joyce Tabachnik develop a close friendship. Facing breast cancer and growing distance within a marriage, they share painful histories and help each other confront unresolved emotional wounds.

Anita Diamant gathers autobiographical essays drawn from two decades of newspaper columns, revised with new material. Reflections on marriage, motherhood, friendship, religion, politics, and everyday choices trace the changing commitments and relationships of her own life.

In early nineteenth-century Massachusetts, the remaining inhabitants of Dogtown struggle to survive as their community dwindles. Widows, orphans, and enslaved and free Africans form uneasy relationships in a rocky Cape Ann settlement threatened with abandonment.

Anita Diamant and Karen Kushner offer practical ways to introduce Jewish learning, values, and rituals into family life. Combining developmental insights with religious traditions, the guide helps diverse households make choices suited to their children and circumstances.

Four young Jewish women who survived Nazi Europe arrive in British-controlled Palestine in 1945 and are detained at Atlit. Haunted by different wartime experiences, they form friendships while confronting confinement and the uncertainty of starting new lives.

Eighty-five-year-old Addie Baum tells her granddaughter about growing up in Boston’s Jewish immigrant community. Beginning in 1915, her recollections follow friendships, family expectations, education, work, and romance as women’s opportunities expand in twentieth-century America.

Anita Diamant follows Carol and Phil Powers as doctors and nurses try to save their newborn son, Whit, who has a congenital disorder. Her account examines neonatal care and the difficult ethical decisions surrounding critically ill infants.

This revised wedding guide helps couples combine Jewish traditions with their own values and circumstances. Anita Diamant explains ceremony choices, rituals, and celebrations, offering inclusive approaches to planning a meaningful marriage ceremony rooted in Jewish practice.

Anita Diamant examines menstrual stigma and period poverty through essays and interviews with people working for change. Inspired by the documentary, the book explores how unequal access and cultural taboos affect education, opportunity, and everyday life.