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Seventy-nine-year-old wealthy Jewish widow Esther Kellerman lives in a small suburb outside of Columbus, Ohio. Esther thinks she has a pretty good life. She plays bridge, reads for her book club, and routinely drives her Cadillac DeVille into the mailboxes of her neighbors. Her latest mailbox mishap leads her to the doorstep of some mysterious new residents of her neighborhood. As she introduces herself to Sarah, the elderly woman who answers the door, Esther soon realizes that there’s something wrong with her.

A motley collection of characters populate these short, short stories, shaped by the daily barrage of media aimed at the general populace. Dramatic, and darkly funny, they revolve around Jewish identity. The schlemiel - a figure in Jewish folklore who is unlucky and inept at the same time - is not always apparent, but is evoked as a guiding concept. People cling to would-be wisdoms, memes, and TV tag-lines, while failing to locate their misplaced communities. A particularly apt audiobook for our current world, where chaos and anxiety reign.

A sweet story about a very special relationship between a boy and a very unusual friend....

Pour améliorer votre hébreu! Augmenter votre vocabulaire facilement! Ecoutez un livre en hébreu facile! Un amour "interdit" entre un jeune juif et une jeune chrétienne en Israël dans les années 80.

In the glittering world of money-mad 1905 New York City, Jewish financier Simon Rosedale plans to force his way into high society through marriage, and has his eye on Lily Bart. One of the most beautiful women in the city, Lily is a down-at-heels aristocrat plagued by gossip, and might be vulnerable to his proposal. With his money and her style and connections, he can rise to the top - but will she lower herself to marry a Jew?

Samuel and Aron Katz's fragile childhood connection is severed when Aron leaves pre-WWII Poland for Palestine, and yet again when Samuel is sent to an arctic Soviet Gulag. Now, Aron must decide how far he will go to save his younger brother. From Poland to wartime Tel Aviv, from a frozen Soviet prison camp to Allied-controlled Iran, and deep into Mandatory Palestine's desperate preparations against Nazi invasion - Moon Path probes the ties that bind siblings and the forces that tear them apart.

It is 1919 in Siberia. Michal - a young, sheltered girl - has eyes for a man other than her betrothed. For a young girl growing up in a traditional Jewish settlement, an arranged marriage is a fact of life. However, destiny, it seems, has other plans for Michal. When a Cossack pogrom invades her small village, the protected life Michal has grown accustomed to and loves will crumble before her eyes. Everything she knows is gone, and she is forced to leave her home and embark on a journey to Berlin with the man she thought she wanted.

The terrors of the Lodz Ghetto and the tales of survival continue in this sequel to The Devil’s Bookkeepers.

Tel Aviv and Seattle. A woman who does the unthinkable. Two best friends living far apart, and how that separation shapes their lives. Is the grass really greener on the other side of the fence? Which comes first, family or country? And how far should we go to secure our happiness? In Hope to See You Soon, author Revital Horowitz challenges her listeners to confront these questions, and to grapple with the meaning of friendship, family, and country - the meaning of life itself.

Shortly before the global pandemic, the world found itself at the threshold of a cataclysm of a different kind - a besieged Israel prepared to use any means at its disposal to counter the increasingly bellicose actions of an Iran intent on relieving domestic pressure by attacking the Jewish state.

Het boek van verloren namen is een ode aan de veerkracht van de menselijke geest. Eva Traube Abrams, een bibliothecaresse in Florida die eigenlijk al aan haar pensioen toe is, ruimt op een ochtend boeken op als haar oog valt op een foto in een openliggend tijdschrift. Ze verstijft; het is een afbeelding van een achttiende-eeuws religieus boekwerk dat ze herkent als 'het boek van verloren namen'.

Sullo sfondo di una Haifa scossa dalla guerra del 1973, si dipana lo scenario de L'amante, il più sinceramente israeliano dei romanzi di Yehoshua. L'autore si affida alle voci dei suoi personaggi, ai loro sogni, ai ricordi, ai desideri, alle aspettative: sono le parole di Adam, agiato proprietario di una grande officina meccanica; le riflessioni della figlia Dafi, quindicenne insonne e ribelle; i sogni della moglie Asya, intellettuale precocemente ingrigita; gli stupori di Na'im, giovane operaio arabo; i vaneggiamenti della novantenne Vaduccia.

In Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn, wird Surie Eckstein, 57 Jahre alt, bald Urgroßmutter. Ihre 10 Kinder sind zwischen 14 und 39 Jahre alt. Sie und Yidel heirateten als Surie 16 Jahre alt war und führen eine glückliche Ehe. Doch dann findet Surie heraus, dass sie schwanger ist. Mit 57 Jahren. Sie ist geschockt, schämt sich und fühlt sich ausgeliefert. Sie traut sich nicht ihrer Familie die Nachrichten mitzuteilen, nicht einmal ihrem Mann erzählt sie etwas von Ihrer Schwangerschaft und so kommt es, dass sie zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben ein Geheimnis hat. Ein Geheimnis, dass sie schleichend und immer weiter von ihrer Gemeinschaft trennt.

Bulgaria, 1942. Boris III debe entregar 20 mil judíos a los nazis para su exterminio, pero el rey y su pueblo no piensan ceder. Así también resiste el pequeño Alberto, de tan sólo seis años, cuando los oficiales de las ss se llevan por la fuerza a su padre. Ahora es el hombre de la familia, debe cuidar a su hermano menor y a su madre, quien busca mantener a sus hijos a salvo de los horrores de la guerra y no perder la esperanza de estar una vez más junto a su querido esposo.

Europe, on the eve of the Second World War, and a Jewish family feels the Nazi danger closing in. Led by their indomitable mother, Marie, the Reesers make a daring escape from under the watchful eyes of the Gestapo, fleeing their comfortable home in Czechoslovakia to safety and a new life in Canada. Their lives are saved, but all else is lost, including four beautiful and valuable paintings that Marie loved.

The House of Izeiu is a novel inspired by the life and experiences of Sabine Zlatin, who, as a Jew using a fake identity, managed to find families to care for Jewish children who were in French refugee camps. She created a safe home for a number of other children called "The House of Izeiu" which is now a museum.

This best-selling novel in Israel follows the life and thoughts of Caleb, a contemplative dog unusually fascinated with human affairs. Born into a German Jewish household in the mid-1930s, Caleb witnesses firsthand the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust. When events separate him from his Jewish owners, he is adopted by a Nazi family and employed by the SS as a military dog.

Jacobo's Rainbow is a historical literary novel set primarily in the 1960s during the convulsive period of the student protest movements and the Vietnam War. It focuses on the issue of being an outsider - the "other" - an altogether common circumstance that resonates with listeners in today's America. Written from a Jewish perspective, it speaks to universal truths that affect us all.

In the tradition of epic novels like Exodus and Cast a Giant Shadow, Isaac’s Beacon is a sweeping historical tale based on the real events of Israel’s founding - bringing alive the power and complexities of the birth of the Jewish state out of the ashes of the Holocaust. Best-selling author David L. Robbins, called “the Homer of World War II”, turns his mastery of the historical novel to another defining moment of the 20th century: the birth of the state of Israel.

Consie is home for a funeral when she stumbles upon a family letter sent from Germany in 1945, which contains staggering news: Consie's great-uncle Hermann, who was transported to Auschwitz with his wife and three daughters, might have escaped. This seems improbable to Consie. Did people escape from Auschwitz? Could her great-uncle have been among them? What happened to Hermann? Did anyone know? These questions are at the root of Consie's excavation of her family's history as she seeks, 70 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, to discover what happened to Hermann.