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Belgium, July 1939: Simone Lyon is the daughter of a Belgium national hero, the famous General Joseph Lyon. Her best friend Hava Daniels, is the eldest daughter of a devout Jewish family. Despite growing up in different worlds, they are inseparable. But when, in the spring of 1940, Nazi planes and tanks begin bombing Brussels, their resilience and strength are tested. Hava and Simone find themselves caught in the advancing onslaught and are forced to flee.

It’s 1933, and Ivor Castle, Oxford-educated and Jewish, arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel in the trial of the two men accused of murdering Haim Arlosoroff, a leader of the Jewish community in Palestine whose efforts to get Jews out of Hitler’s Germany and into Palestine may have been controversial enough to get him killed.

Anna, Bernie en Elica sluiten een verbond om voor altijd vriendinnen te blijven. Maar zal hun vriendschap de verschrikkingen van de oorlog doorstaan? De belofte van mijn zus is deel 1 van de Oorlogszussen-serie. Anna komt uit een rijke Joodse familie, terwijl Bernie en Elica uit arme Oostenrijkse gezinnen komen die nauwelijks kunnen rondkomen. Voor hen voelt het alsof ze zussen zijn. Maar naarmate ze ouder worden, worden hun sociale verschillen steeds duidelijker.

En su conmovedor relato en primera persona, una joven es testigo de la desgarradora ocupación de su ciudad por el Tercer Reich. A través de su testimonio personal, narra los días tumultuosos que acompañaron la llegada de los nazis, pintando un vívido retrato de la conmoción, el miedo y la desesperación que impregnaron cada rincón de su existencia.

In the foment of Weimar-era Berlin, the Oppermann brothers represent tradition and stability. One brother oversees the furniture chain founded by their grandfather, one is an eminent surgeon, and one a respected critic. They are rich, cultured, liberal, and public-spirited, proud inheritors of the German Enlightenment. They don't see Hitler as a threat. Then, to their horror, the Nazis come to power, and the Oppermanns and their children are faced with the terrible decision of whether to adapt—if they can—flee or try to fight.

Yahudi'leri en değerli varlıkları olan eski inancından zorla koparmak isteyen dini fanatik grup Flagellantlar, kalplerinde nefret ve ellerinde kanla Almanya'da görülmüşlerdi. Bildikleri tek kurtuluş yolu kaçmaktı. Parıldayan sokaklarda yüksek duvarlar oluşturmuş kar tanelerinin gizemli şarkısı altında birçok kere iç çekildi ve yola çıkıldı. Şimdi sıcak gözyaşları, buz kesmiş, acı çeken yüzlerden aşağı süzülüyordu ve karlar üzerinde parlayan buz damlacıklarına dönüşüyordu.

שלוש נשים ושני גברים המשוועים לחום ואהבה סוגרים מעגלים. סיפור אהבה מפתיע, מרתק ונוגע ללב על אהבה בין פליטת שואה וגבר ישראלי, שראשיתו בברלין, המשכו בישראל וסופו, אחרי שלושים שנה, בשטוקהולם.

Step into the turbulent world of 1950s Israel with "The Scent of Heat", a gripping and emotionally charged novel by E.P. Sery. Narrated by the captivating Catherine Divaris, this audiobook tells the story of Ariella Paz, a young woman torn between duty, love, and the pursuit of her dreams. At just 19 years old, Ariella is serving in the Israeli military while caring for her devastatingly ill mother. Her dream of escaping to America feels increasingly out of reach—until she meets Arik Emmanuel, her boss’s charming and enigmatic friend.

Harryboy Boas is a gambling man. An independent Jewish bachelor, he lives in a Hackney boarding house: reading Zola, betting on the dogs at the track, womanising, philosophising, and repressing his tortured wartime past. Until, that is, a new family moves in. As his life dramatically unravels—financially, emotionally, and existentially—Harryboy descends into a murky criminal underworld where debts, violence, gangsters and revenge are the inevitable payback for those who can't pay up ...

Inspired by the life and work of Charlotte Salomon, this novel shows an artist intent on pursuing her art against all odds. As a young German-Jewish art student at The Berlin Art Academy during Hitler's rise to power in 1938, Charlotte's first place prize is denied because she is a Jew, her enrollment annulled. After Kristallnacht, she is sent from Berlin into exile with her grandparents.

לפעמים לילה כזה זה כל מה שצריך, היא אמרה לעצמה, יש את הרגעים האלה שאת פשוט לא יכולה לישון לבד. אז תדעי שזה זה, היא ניסתה לשכנע את עצמה, אתם בסך הכול שני אנשים עם אינטרס משותף, אין סיבה שלא תעשו עם זה משהו. אבל יש סיבה, היא חשבה. וזכרה כמה מטונפת היא מרגישה אחרי לילות כאלה, כמה רחוקה, כמה בלתי נראית. והיה הדיל שלה עם אלוהים שהיא נזכרה בו לפעמים עדיין – אבל אם הוא לא מקיים את החלק שלו, מה זה אומר לגבי החלק שלה? מירב היא בחורה חכמה ומוצלחת, ובעיקר רווקה.

Avital Cohen isn’t wearing underpants—woefully, for unsexy reasons. Chronic pelvic pain has forced her to sideline her photography dreams and her love life. It’s all she can do to manage her family’s kosher bakery, Best Babka in Brooklyn, without collapsing. She needs hired help. And distractingly handsome Ethan Lippmann seems the perfect fit. Except Ethan isn’t there to work—he’s undercover, at the behest of his ironfisted grandfather. Though Lippmann’s is a household name when it comes to mass-produced kosher baked goods, they don’t have the charm of Avital’s bakery.

Argentina, 1988. Human remains are found on a beach - a gruesome echo of when the tide brought home dozens of bodies thrown from planes during Argentina's Dirty War. Flights of death, their passengers known as the Disappeared. International Tribune reporter Jonny Murphy is in Buenos Aires interviewing families of the missing, desperate to keep their memory alive, when the corpse turns up. His investigations with his companion, freelance photographer Paloma, have barely started when Argentina's simmering financial crisis explodes around them.

Successful event planner Mira Erdman never expected to see Brush Hill Camp again. But these days, the old sleepaway camp in the Berkshires offers “adult” experiences for New York’s twentysomething Jewish singles. And Mira’s bubbie knows it’s the perfect place for her granddaughter to find love. Since losing her mom, Mira has basically given up on dating. But for Bubbie’s sake—and with best friend Josie at her side—she’s resigned to giving grown-up camp a try.

It’s 1963, two years since Barbara Feldman’s husband died. Raising two kids, she’s finally emerging from her cocoon of grief. Not yet a butterfly, but she’s anxious to spread her wings. Then one day her mother-in-law, Ruth, shows up on her doorstep with five suitcases, expecting a room of her own with a suitable mattress. Abrasive and stuck in her ways yet well meaning, Mother Ruth arrives without warning to help with the children. How can Barbara say no to a woman who is not only a widow herself but also a grieving mother?

This powerful new novella is a darkly comic portrait of a Jewish family in today's Poland, struggling to express their love for one another in the face of a past that cannot and will not be forgotten. The grandfather is a doctor, a Holocaust survivor who has now vowed to live only for pleasure.

At an auto da fe in 16th century Portugal, Diego Lopes was chained to a stake and a pyre was lit. Then, according to both Christian and Jewish witnesses, he mysteriously disappeared in front of thousands of astonished spectators. The only point of contention was that the Christians believed he was so evil that he was dragged body and soul directly to hell, while the Jews believed he was so righteous that he was taken body and soul up to heaven.

In the wake of the 1967 Six Day War, Tamar Abadi's world collapses when her sister-in-law is killed in what appears to be a terror attack but what is really the result of a secret relationship with a Palestinian poet. Tamar's husband, Salim, is an Arab and a Jew. Torn between the two identities, and mourning his sister's death, he uproots the family and moves them to the US.

Just days after the close of World War II, Bess Myerson, the daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx, is competing in the Miss America pageant. At stake: a $5,000 scholarship. The tension and excitement in Atlantic City's Warner Theatre are palpable, especially for traumatized Jews rooting for one of their own. So begins Bessie. Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson, who, in 1945 at age twenty-one, remarkably rises to become one of the most famous women in America.

One Wednesday evening, the governments of the world send out a mass text message announcing that the world will end in one month. In the thirty days leading up to the last day of the world, our protagonist, a young man in his late twenties, has watched the love of his life leave, has lost his job and friends and sense of meaning, and has moved back home to spend his final weeks with his survivalist father, Jewish studies/author mother, and Yiddish-speaking grandfather.