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In 1942, Jewish courier Ester is betrayed, narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo. In a great haste, she escapes to Sweden, saving herself. Her family in Oslo, however, is deported to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Ester meets the resistance hero Gerhard Falkum, who has left his little daughter and fled both the Germans and allegations that he murdered his wife, Åse, who helped Ester get to Sweden. Their burgeoning relationship ends abruptly when Falkum dies in a fire. And yet, 25 years later, Falkum shows up in Oslo. He wants to reconnect with his daughter.

For Ilka Weissnix, everything is new. Having recently arrived in the United States, she is determined to escape the immigrant communities of New York and boards a train headed west to discover "the real America". She finds Carter Bayoux "sitting on a stool in a bar in the desert, across from the railroad."

The invading Roman Army has one goal, the complete destruction of Jerusalem and all its people. One boy from the desert in Negev, a shepherd’s son, is bullied by his friends and ridiculed by his tribal equals. But he has a dream, a dream that haunts him every night. He wants to learn to read and write. To become a scribe. That way when he is a tribal elder no one would dare bully his children. So starts his journey through unimaginable misery and cruelty to plan the most daring intrigue ever.

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, a perverse kind of heroism.

Bernard Levy was always a mystery to the community of Guilford, Mississippi. He was even more of a mystery to his son, Mickey Moe, who was just four years old when his father died in World War II. Now it’s 1962 and Mickey Moe is a grown man, who must prove his pedigree to the disapproving parents of his girlfriend, Laura Anne Needleman, to win her hand in marriage. With only a few-decades-old leads to go on, Mickey Moe sets out to uncover his father’s murky past....

David Salomon, a young violinist and composer, has left New York to find fame and fortune in Regency London. But disaster strikes not long after he arrives. A mysterious rival composer is stealing his compositions and having them performed to great acclaim—and when David tries to protest that he is the music’s true creator, he becomes the laughingstock of the beau monde he had hoped to conquer. With few friends and even fewer resources, the desperate Mr. Salomon turns to Ezra Melamed for help with discovering the identity of his shadowy foe.

Avishay is up for the Nobel Prize for Economics. There’s just one problem—he’s dead. His four closest friends agree that the well-earned prize must stay within his grasp, and so conspire to conceal Avishay’s corpse until the committee’s announcement. The potential of a glorious legacy for their late friend – and by extension, for them all – is only a mere eight days away. What could go wrong?

Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon lives on in his descendants. Gathering under the midnight stars, they perform small miracles and none are more gifted than the great Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters. Hannah, bookish and calm, can coax plants to grow even when the weather is bitterly cold. Sarah, defiant and strong, can control the impulsive nature of fire. And Levana, the fey one, can read the path of the stars to decipher their secrets.

Alice Heppenheimer, born into a prosperous German Jewish family around the turn of the twentieth century, comes of age at a time of growing opportunities for women. So, when she turns 21 years old, she convinces her strict family to allow her to attend art school, and then pursues a career in women's fashion. Alice prospers in her career and settles into married life, but she could not anticipate a Nazi Germany, where simply being Jewish has become an existential threat.

The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate. Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the mind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman.

In 1919, Rachel Rabinowitz is a vivacious four-year-old living with her family in a crowded tenement on New York City's Lower East Side. When tragedy strikes, Rachel is separated from her brother, Sam, and sent to a Jewish orphanage where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research. Subjected to X-ray treatments that leave her disfigured, Rachel suffers years of cruel harassment from the other orphans.

Nothing could keep Christopher and Rebecca apart: not her abusive parents, or even the fiancé she brought home after running away to England. But when World War II finally strikes the island of Jersey, the Nazi invaders ship Rebecca to Europe as part of Hitler’s Final Solution against the Jewish population.

When Jozef is commissioned to paint a portrait of the younger daughter of Krakow's grand Oderfeldt family, it is only his desperate need for money that drives him to accept. He has no wish to indulge a pampered child-princess or her haughty, condescending parents - and almost doesn't notice Alicia's bookish older sister, Karolina. But when he is ushered by a servant into their house on Krakow's fashionable Bernadynska street in the winter of 1937, he has no inkling of the way his life will become entangled with the Oderfelts.

Berlin, 1938. Samuel Weiss and Max von Hofmannsthal were best friends until the cruel antisemitism of Nazi Germany seeped into Berlin and tore their friendship apart. As Max rises in the ranks of the Nazi SS, Sam and his Jewish family find themselves simply struggling to survive.

It is May 2014, and Dr. Klara Lieberman—forty-nine, single, professor of archaeology at a small liberal arts college in Maine, a contained person living a contained life—has just received a letter from her estranged mother, Bessie, that will dramatically change her life. Her father, she learns—the man who has been absent from her life for the last forty-three years, and about whom she has long been desperate for information—is dead. Has been for many years, in fact, which Bessie clearly knew.

צריך להגן על היהודים, החליט הרצל. היהודים צריכים לחיות בארץ משלהם כמו כל העמים. הוא החליט לכתוב על כך ספר וקרא לו "מדינת היהודים". בספר זה מנגישה דבורה עומר את סיפור חיו של חוזה המדינה, תאודור הרצל, החל משנות ילדותו בבודפשט, המעבר לוינה והתחלת כתיבתו אודות הרעיון למצוא בית לעם היהודי.

Después de la extraordinaria acogida de su novela Salo solo. El patrullero del amor, vuelve Mauricio Kartun con quince relatos inolvidables que, a través de su oído delicado y experto, conmueven, divierten y nos hacen festejar a esa literatura que siempre encuentra a sus lectores.

¿Cómo actuarías si al encontrarte unas cartas antiguas te das cuentas que puedes cambiar la vida de otras personas? La emigración española de los años sesenta se entrelaza en esta novela con la destrucción de una guerra y el necesario perdón para seguir viviendo. Alemania, 1963. Otro tren de emigrantes españoles llega a la estación de Colonia. Entre los pasajeros, Carlos y Diego, dos jóvenes gaditanos que buscan, como tantos otros, nuevas oportunidades fuera de España.

רייצ'ל רובינשטיין-גולדבלט היא בחורה ניו-יורקית יהודייה מבית טוב שמסתירה סוד גדול: היא אוהבת את חג המולד. במשך עשור היא מסתירה ממשפחתה ומחבריה את הקריירה שלה כסופרת מצליחה של קומדיות רומנטיות לחג המולד. אך למרות שספריה הם רבי-מכר מצליחים, מחלתה הכרונית מונעת ממנה לזכות בעצמה באהבה הגדולה מהחיים שעליה היא כותבת. כאשר העורכת שלה מתעקשת שתכתוב קומדיה רומנטית המתרחשת בחנוכה, מעיין ההשראה של רייצ'ל מתייבש. בחנוכה אין שום קסם – חנוכה זה לא חג המולד! ואז מגיע לעיר ג'ייקוב גרינברג, מארגן מסיבות ידוע, ומכריז על עריכת נשף חנוכה שניו-יורק טרם ראתה כמוהו.

"ניו יורק היא מקום טוב לאי־זוגיים. כאן אף אחד לא ישאל אותה כמה ילדים יש לה ואיך זה שבחורה בגילה עדיין בגפה. היא נכנסת לאולם הקולנוע לבד, היא יושבת לבד בבית קפה, וביום ההולדת שלה, עד כמה שזה עלול להישמע מוזר, היא מזמינה לעצמה מקום אחד במסעדה, וזה כל כך בסדר כאן להזמין Table for one. למרות שמיום הולדת ליום הולדת היא נעשית מוטרדת. והבדידות — הבדידות הפכה להרגל ושינתה אותה. יותר ממה שהמוות שינה אותה." איילנד וליב הם שני ישראלים עם שמות משונים שנפגשים בניו יורק. לשניהם לב שבור, זיכרונות מרים, ושניהם מתגוררים באפר ווסט סייד.