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Was bedeutet Familie? Was heißt jüdisch sein? Wie umgehen mit Alter, Krankheit, Tod? Yasmina Rezas neuer Roman kreist um große Fragen. Die Geschwister Popper: Serge, verkrachtes Genie und homme à femmes, Jean, der Vermittler und Ich-Erzähler, und Nana, die verwöhnte Jüngste mit dem unpassenden spanischen Mann. Eine jüdische Familie. Nach dem Tod der Mutter entfremdet man sich immer mehr. Zu ihren Lebzeiten hat keiner die alte Frau nach der Shoah und ihren ungarischen Vorfahren gefragt. Jetzt schlägt Serges Tochter Joséphine einen Besuch in Auschwitz vor.

Abandoning the ship was risky. It meant Anna never returning to Scotland and reuniting with her daughter. Instead, Anna and her highlander, Alain MacArthur, faced an uncertain future in colonial Manhattan, where they knew no one, except for an old adversary seeking revenge. Anna’s story would have remained unknown if it were not for Hanna Duncan’s dogged pursuit of the truth about her ancient ancestor.

My Mother's Son, the meticulously crafted debut novel from David Hirshberg, is a story told by a radio raconteur revisiting his past in post-World War II Boston, the playground and battleground for two brothers whose lives are transformed by discoveries they never could have imagined.

Sarah Taube cowers in the bakery cellar clutching her three children, listening to the sounds of shooting by the White Cossacks during a pogrom. In order to survive, she enters into a bargain with the ruthless Commissar, Dimitri, an orthodox Jew transformed by tragedy into a high-ranking Bolshevik. Will Dimitri be able to protect Sarah Taube and her family? Will Sarah Taube be reunited with her wanderlust husband, who leaves for South Africa to seek his fortune and find himself, and will she realize her life-long dream to go to America?

Helsingør, Denmark, 1943. In the midst of the German occupation during World War II, Inger Bredhal joins the underground resistance and risks her life to save members of Denmark’s Jewish community and help them escape to Sweden. Copenhagen, 2018. Inger’s granddaughter Cecilie Lund is mourning her death when a mysterious discovery while cleaning out Inger’s flat leads past and present to intersect. As long-held secrets finally see the light of day, Cecilie learns the story of her grandmother’s courage and bravery.

In America, we're good at dividing ourselves into tribes - into "insiders" and "outsiders" - based on race, background, and beliefs. But what happens when a person is an outsider within her own tribe? Serach Gottesman, the mathematically gifted eldest daughter of a rigidly Orthodox-Jewish Boro Park family and Paloma Rodriguez, the street-smart Bronx-bred daughter of a neglectful Latina immigrant mother, seek broader vistas within a relationship that is forbidden by both of their communities.

Goodbye, Columbus es la historia de Neil Klugman y la hermosa y espiritual Brenda Patimkin. Él es del Newark pobre, ella es del suburbio high class de Short Hills. Su encuentro en unas vacaciones de verano y su affaire posterior nos hablan de las clases sociales, la sospecha y el amor.

Based on Siegfried Kra's own childhood, Twilight in Danzig reveals life as a Jew during the beginning of Hitler's reign. Jonas Kruger's parents are scions of Danzig society, his father a coal merchant, his mother a lovely socialite. But the rise of Hitler forces them to examine their identity and face the most difficult decision of their lives: to stay in Germany in spite of Hitler's atrocities, to try to reform from within? Or to find a means of escape for the entire family, to flee penniless to a country that doesn't want them?

Dror Eytan is a ruthless, heartless, violent extortionist. I am a simple teacher who has never had to deal with people like Eytan. Eytan wants the money. I don't have it. My friend's life is at stake. What have I got myself into? Help.

A mysterious stranger surprises an unscrupulous banker and makes him an offer he can't refuse. Or can he?

Jane Egan, daughter of Liam and Joan, enters a world her father had struggled with all his adult life. Was this a gift or a curse on the Egan family? Why had Jane now been chosen? A story of intrigue, history, and sadness. Go with Jane on this journey, and see if you can understand how this could happen.

In a quiet forest in Belarus, two boys stumble across a long-kept secret: the mass grave where Stalin's police secretly murdered thousands in the 1930s. The results of the subsequent investigation have far-reaching effects, and across the Atlantic in Toronto, Leah Jarvis, a lively, curious young lawyer, finds herself tasked with an impossible case: the deportation of elderly Stefan Drozd, who fled his crimes in Kurapaty for a new identity in Canada.

Rotem está echada en una cama. A su lado, su hija Nili se empeña en leerle la novela que ha escrito describiendo la relación entre ellas. En esos folios Nili vuelca el odio hacia su madre, que no es más, ni menos, que un cúmulo de celos por lo que la madre ha representado, por su forma de ser mujer, por su manera de soportar lo que viniera gracias a una estabilidad interior que ganó gobernando su cuerpo con el ejercicio físico y la meditación.

Although the Germans arrived a few months ago and occupied Paris, so far nothing has changed in the life of Monique, a 15-year-old Jewish girl. But in recent days, the Germans have begun to hang orders on billboards, instructing all Jews to mark themselves with a yellow badge on their clothes.

92 BCE. A widow and an old scribe together raise Haim, a boy whose lineage cursed him from birth. When Haim is 11 years old, he runs away into a world populated by Samaritan bandits, a cultic pagan temple devoted to horror, and the whiterobed priests of Qumran. Desperate and lonely, Haim searches for community, friendship, and belonging while being plagued by a hunger for meaning he cannot satisfy.

It is 1878, and from a little town on the banks of Russia’s Volga River, a penniless, Jewish youth sets out for America. He has two strikes against him. One is that, being dyslexic, he can neither read nor write. And the other is that the steamship ticket to take him to his cousin in New York, instead deposits him on the quay of a little port on the Buffalo River in South Africa, where he knows no one.

On a chilly autumn night in New York, the lives of two men born decades and continents apart collide when Max Redmond is found bludgeoned in his Washington Heights apartment. While investigating the crime, Detective Tolya Kurchenko comes across the dead man’s diaries, written by Redmond over four decades. He hopes the diaries will lead him to the killer. In fact, they help him sort out the complexities of his own identity.

Delightful Chanukah tales your family will enjoy again and again. Spell it however you like, this audiobook is more than one Hanukkah story! It goes to 11! A rediscovered classic for children and adults, that feels fresh, read by an Audie Award nominee. Once again, Izzy Abrahmson takes us on a visit to The Village. This collection of linked and overlapping stories about Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, culminates in a thrilling novella. As Mrs. Chaipul says, "It's like rye bread. You don't need to be Jewish to enjoy it".

Six lands, three religions, one true love. 1497. The Mediterranean is in upheaval, and Beatriz finds herself in the midst of the turmoil. Expelled from Spain along with the rest of the country's Jews not five years earlier, she is horrified to learn of the Portuguese king's decree that all Jews must covert to Christianity. Beatriz has promised her fiance, Yusef, a merchant at sea, that she will wait for him in Lisbon, but when events spiral out of control, Beatriz faces conversion, death, or separation. If she stays, what of her identity?

Rebecca’s family members were murdered during the Holocaust. Soon after she starts work at a dream job, her life changes forever when she meets a charming, wealthy widower. He becomes her lover and takes her to his exclusive club and on vacations to exotic locations. She discovers he works for a company that conducted business with the Nazi government. What decision does she make?