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Berlin, 1929: Während der Eröffnung des Kreditkaufhauses Jonass in der Torstraße 1 kommt Elsa zur Welt. Das Kaufhaus wird zu einem zweiten Zuhause für sie, wie auch für Bernhard, der zur selben Stunde geboren wurde. Sein Vater hat das Haus mitgebaut und stand Elsas Mutter bei der Geburt zur Seite. Während die beiden Kinder in inniger Freundschaft aufwachsen, wird das Gebäude zum Spiegel der Zeit. Sie müssen mitansehen, wie die jüdischen Besitzer vertrieben werden, wie das Gebäude zur Zentrale der Hitlerjugend wird und nach dem Krieg die riesengroßen Konterfeis von Marx, Engels, Lenin und Stalin darauf prangen.

Beguiled is a coming-of-age story of a first-generation immigrant girl who had dreams that were interrupted by cultural mores, by discrimination, and by her own shortcomings.

À la fin des années trente, parce qu'elle est tombée sous le charme d'un romancier d'origine juive, Eugenia, une jeune et brillante étudiante roumaine, prend soudain conscience de la vague de haine antisémite qui se répand dans son pays. Peu à peu, la société entière semble frappée par cette gangrène morale, y compris certains membres de sa propre famille. Comment résister, lutter, témoigner, quand tout le monde autour de soi semble hypnotisé par la tentation de la barbarie ? Avec pour toile de fond l'ascension du fascisme européen, ce roman foisonnant revient sur un épisode méconnu de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'effroyable pogrom de Jassy.

Imagine this: You are a married mother of two, driving to the grocery store in a storm, changing the radio station, answering your cell phone, when you notice a woman stranded by the side of the road and, on impulse, decide to pull over.... Teri Berger’s car skids in the rain, killing 20-year-old Elise and leaving Teri reeling with guilt and the rest of her family in disarray as they struggle to adjust to this new reality. Already strained family relationships are tested, and Teri’s marriage suffers, her son withdraws, and her daughter faces a heartbreaking decision.

It is the still innocent year of 1962, and 12-year-old Paige Noble awakens in a hospital room in Chicago. She has no memory of the random act of violence that has left her injured and orphaned. As she waits for her famous uncle to come for her, she develops a bond with Gladys, a comforting black nurse's aide, unaware that her son was involved in the crime. Soon, the charismatic Maxwell Noble, a celebrated photographer, is located in Europe and rushes to her side. Although he has led a globetrotting bachelor life, he surprises Paige by embracing his new responsibility.

VieVie La Fontaine begins with an encapsulated history of the rise of Adolf Hitler in post World War I Germany. At the same time that he starts his ascent, a beautiful and talented young woman, VieVie La Fontaine, continues to enjoy her life of wealth inside of Paris. This haunting story attempts to demonstrate the fear, terror, denial, and depravity of Europe as a madman rises to control most of the world. Told by a young Jewish man named Mark Lichter, the irony of the entire situation cries from the pages.

We first meet Baby, a 10-year-old Jewish boy, abused by his mother, when he learns that his GI father has been killed in Europe during a World War II battle. This shocking news, as well as the Nazi extermination of six million Jews, transforms Baby’s quest to one involving alcohol, LSD, and murder. This drug-induced euphoria continues to haunt him and his search for love because wherever he goes…realistic visions of Nazis constantly follow him. Judith, a magazine editor, attempts to rescue Baby…trying to unlock his fantasies and return him to reality. But by doing so, Baby’s paranoia and guilt just increase.

In the 998th year of the Millennial Kingdom, the season of reaping is at hand. The demons have been cast into the Lake of Fire, and Satan is bound in the bottomless pit, but the biblical prophecies state he will soon be released so God can test the loyalties of the current flesh-born generations on earth.

After midnight, Thelma Lorber enters her brother Abie’s hangout under the Williamsburg Bridge, finding Jewish mobster Louis “Pretty” Amberg in a puddle of blood on the kitchen floor. She could flee. Instead, in the dark hours of that October 1935 night before the dawn of Murder, Inc., she remains beside the fierce, funny brother who has protected her since childhood. There are many kinds of love a woman can feel for a man, but few compare to that of the baby sister for her older brother. For Thelma, a wild widow tethered to a young son, Abie is the center of her world.

After reading The Song of Songs, a short story by Sholem Aleichem, I was moved to see his original story from a different point of view. This short story retells his autobiographical tale from the point of view of the woman of that failed romance. The story examines the consequences of taking our obsessions seriously and of not saying the things that must be said because we are not allowed to say them.

Celebrate the holiday of Chanukah with eight original short stories written and read by Jewish storyteller Scott Hilton Davis. Enjoy a fun-filled journey to Oykvetchnik, the tiny shtetl town in Eastern Europe where people complain a lot. These sweet and heartwarming Chanukah stories will fill your heart with the light of Jewish history, culture, and values. As the candles burn low, the dreidels start spinning, and the smells of freshly fried latkes waft through the house, spend a few minutes remembering the lives of our ancestors and how they joyfully celebrated their Jewish traditions.

"Für Paul, in Liebe", so lautet die Widmung, die der jüdische Silberschmied Johann Blumenthal aus Hamburg 1914 für seinen Sohn auf eine Spieldose graviert. Es ist sein Abschiedsgeschenk, denn Johann meldet sich freiwillig in den Kriegsdienst, um für seine geliebte Heimat zu kämpfen. Das kostbare Andenken seines Vaters wird für Paul und seine Kinder zu einem Symbol für Hoffnung und Zusammenhalt, während der Hass auf sein Volk wächst und sich die Schlinge um die renommierte Juwelierfamilie enger zieht. Das Erbstück wird den Blumenthals Trost schenken, sie in Gefahr bringen und eines Tages trennen.

This tragic tale concerns two Jewish women living in Hamburg in Nazi Germany before WW2, Ellen Kaempfer and Betty Holstein, and a non-Jewish woman, Elfriede Mollenhauer, who tried to help them. Ellen and Betty were to be deported by cattle train, which meant standing room only, a journey that would take days. They were to be taken from Hamburg to a work camp in Poland, a journey without food or drink, with only a bucket for a toilet.

Rose Shiner's father, Leo, a one-time carnival barker and opera producer, prefers Puccini's world to his own, peddling dinette sets to the furniture trade in the Midwest. Belle, Rose's mother, fights debilitating depression, desperate to step up from her youth on the freezing Canadian prairie to a suburban castle. Rosie struggles mightily to grow in this shadow world, fighting through nightmares to find dreams steady and safe enough to sustain her in daylight.

The laughter will never stop with this once-in-a-lifetime collection of side-splitting family-friendly humor, from the brilliant humorist Arnold Fine of The Jewish Press. Includes over 340 classic Jewish jokes, one-liners, and humorous observations that will leave you rolling on the floor!

In Many Waters is the gripping story of three orphans whose lives intersect on the island of Malta during our current, urgent refugee crisis. Zoe, a budding historian, comes to Malta with her younger brother Cal to learn more about their Maltese mother, as well as the mysterious circumstances surrounding their parents’ untimely deaths. The siblings’ well-mapped plans are derailed when Cal, who is a daily swimmer in the Mediterranean, discovers a girl floating in the sea, barely alive. The small, battered fishing boat on which she has journeyed from Libya to Malta capsized in a storm: Aziza is the sole survivor.

The uneventful life of a jeweler from Tel Aviv changes abruptly in 2011 after Fareed, a handsome young man from Damascus, crosses illegally into Israel and makes his way to the ancient port city of Jaffa in search of his roots. In his pocket is a piece of a famous blue diamond known as "Sabakh". Intending to return the diamond to its rightful owner, Fareed is soon swept up in Tel Aviv's vibrant gay scene, and a turbulent protest movement. He falls in love with both an Israeli soldier and his boyfriend - the narrator of this book - and reveals the story of his family's past.

Jeune Juif persécuté à Paris sous l'occupation allemande, le héros de ce roman se retrouve en Israël après la Guerre des Six Jours, citoyen d'un pays devenu à son tour occupant de territoires arabes. David, que les souffrances de sa jeunesse ont profondément marqué, ne peut s'empêcher de réfléchir au destin d'un peuple condamné autrefois par sa faiblesse à endurer les humiliations et les tortures, condamné aujourd'hui par ses victoires à glisser vers le rôle de l'oppresseur, peut-être un jour du bourreau.

In this playful and provocative, sensual and suspenseful novel, Janice Eidus merges the timeless, romantic myth of the vampire with contemporary life in volatile New York City-and beyond. Unlike most current “Vamp Lit,” The Last Jewish Virgin will appeal to multiple generations as it explores faith and secularism, the complicated love between mothers and daughters, and the allure of "bad boys" to women of all ages. The heroine is Lilith Zeremba, a vibrant young woman rebelling against her emotionally complex feminist mother. Lilith is determined to make her own way-on her own terms-in the world of fashion, but she unexpectedly finds herself in a place where mythology and sexuality collide. She meets two men to whom she is drawn in ways that feel dangerous and yet inevitable: the much older, wildly mercurial and mesmerizing Baron Rock, and Colin Abel, a young, radiant artist determined to make the world a better place, one socially progressive painting at a time.

The Commandant of Lubizec is a harrowing account of a death camp that never actually existed but easily could have in the Nazi state. It is a sensitive, accurate retelling of a place that went about the business of genocide. Told as a historical account in a documentary style, it explores the atmosphere of a death camp. With a strong eye toward the history of the Holocaust, The Commandant of Lubizec compels us to look at these extermination centers anew.