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בספרה השאפתני ביותר, ומבחינות רבות גם האקטואלי ביותר, משרטטת יוכי ברנדס את סיפור חייו של רבי עקיבא מזווית ראות חדשה. היא מפענחת באורח סיפורי מבריק וסוחף את הכרעותיו הדרמטיות של הרועה הבּוּר, שבגיל מבוגר הפך למנהיג כריזמאטי, ומע ניקה לנו הזדמנות נדירה לפגוש את חז"ל לא כמושג ערטילאי, אלא כבני אדם. בני אדם משכמם ומעלה, אך גם יצריים מאוד, חרדים למעמדם, פוגעים ונפגעים.

קובץ הסיפורים 'רץ' הוא ספרו הראשון למבוגרים של דויד גרוסמן, יליד ירושלים (1954), לאחר 'דו-קרב', ספרו לילדים. גרוסמן החל לפרסם את סיפוריו בכתב-העת 'סימן קריאה'. עוד לפני פרסומו של הספר כבר צוין גרוסמן על-ידי רבים (דן מירון, אורי ברנשטיין, מנחם פרי ואחרים) כסופר הראוי לתשומת-לב רבה ביותר. מיד עם פרסומו הפך הספר לרב-מכר, ודויד גרוסמן, שהיה עד אותה עת אנונימי, נעשה באחת סופר מוכר ומוערך.

Melbourne 1993: Ezra and Yonatan are best friends whose lives are forever changed when their school, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Yahel Academy, is rocked by a scandal and they are thrown onto two divergent paths. Twenty years later, the lives of the two men are very different: Ezra identifies as secular and atheist, while Yonatan has been ordained as a rabbi and even teaches at the academy. By chance they are reunited, and the events of their past and present collide with devastating consequences.

Meet Mazie Phillips: big hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty - even when Prohibition kicks in - and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, holds her dearest secrets.

His younger brother will be greater than he . . . With those words, Menashe's dreams collapse. As Yosef's eldest son, his position had seemed secure. But now Efrayim—bold, charming Efrayim, who's everything Menashe is not—is taking his place. With their people. With the pharaoh. With Jendayi, the slave Menashe loves. Efrayim, meanwhile, sees his dreams confirmed. Surely it's his destiny to unite the Egyptians and Hebrews. To marry a princess and achieve splendor surpassing that of his brother.

Therapy might get her closer to feeling happy, but surviving 50 minutes of psychological interrogation is hard without obsessing about raspberry donuts or wondering why the couch, carpet, and wall color in her shrink's office are all the same shade of kill-me-now-beige, and why every decision she makes is wrong.

It's 1913 and a young, carefree and recklessly innocent girl, Mina, goes out into the forest on the edge of the Baltic sea and meets a gang of rowdy young men with revolution on their minds. It sounds like a fairy tale but it's life.

Mark ist Mathematiklehrer an einem Warschauer Mädchengymnasium. Seine unauffälligste und schlechteste Schülerin heißt ausgerechnet Bella. Doch auf einem Gebiet ist sie überbegabt: auf dem der Gefühle. Ihre magischen Kräfte lösen in Mark eine leidenschaftliche Begierde aus. Hoffnungslos verfällt er dem jungen Mädchen … Geboren 1904 im polnischen Radzymin als Sohn eines Rabbiners und 1935 nach Amerika ausgewandert, machte Isaac Bashevis Singer die jiddische Literatur zur Weltliteratur.

1980s Cork. Jack Shine is sorting through his mother's belongings when he discovers a shoe box full of love letters and newspaper clippings. Jack's mother, Rebekah, was a young woman when the Second World War broke out, and she came to Cork alone as a Jewish refugee from Vienna. She died when Jack was young, and he never learned of his father's identity. So, who wrote these love letters to Rebekah and why did she keep newspaper clippings about a famous Austrian footballer player? Who was 'The Paper Man'?

Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the terror of the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl Kahn and her lovestruck, impulsive younger sibling Frieda sail for America to join their sister in New York. But discriminatory new immigration laws bar their entry, and the young women are turned back at Ellis Island. With few options, Pearl and Frieda head for Havana, Cuba, convinced they will find a way to overcome this setback.

For fifteen years, Shoshana Goldman has avoided her childhood synagogue. Her successful custom-furniture store keeps her busy enough, and the synagogue brings bad memories not peace. It will take nothing short of a minor miracle to change her mind. Intrigued by her friends’ convictions that the new “hot Rabbi” is that minor miracle, Shoshana agrees to attend a service. It’s only one service, right? But meeting the new Rabbi changes everything.

Abi thought she had a charmed life. She’s got her dream job, family and friends who love her, and she just bought a great old house! Everything would be perfect, if not for the logging company that’s just set up shop next door. And the guy she can’t seem to stop shtupping. Who just happens to be their chief tree cutter. Er, logger. Lumberjack?

In 1942 German-occupied Paris, 19-year-old Leah Manheim turns up the collar of her blue coat against a biting wind as she waits outside Saint-Ambroise Cathedral for English Marine Commando, Aidan McQueen. When she signed up with the resistance she knew all the risks. Luckily her friends smuggled her parents out of Paris and away from the looming danger of arrest and transport to a concentration camp. Leah must keep her wits about her, focus on her mission, and survive….

Artist and photographer Mikky dos Santos is brilliant, but rebellious. After a personal catastrophe in New York, she insists on going to Greece to authenticate a priceless 900-year-old Torah, where she makes a promise to return it to the Jewish museum in Rhodes.

En el verano de 1943, Gina, una estudiante de familia acomodada, se enamora perdidamente de Betto, un intrépido muchacho judío que forma parte de una organización clandestina. Entre ambos surge una original, intensa y prohibida relación que transcurre en el devenir de una de las tragedias más impresionantes de la historia reciente de Europa.

Maremma toscana, novembre ’43. Le Case è un borgo lontano da tutto. René è il ciabattino del paese. Tutti lo chiamano Settebello, nomignolo che si è tirato addosso in tenera età, dopo aver lasciato tre dita sul tornio. Oggi ha cinquant’anni – schivo, solitario, taciturno. Niente famiglia. Ma c’è Anna, l’amica di sempre, che forse avrebbe potuto essere qualcosa di più... René non ha mai avuto il coraggio di dichiararsi. Poi ecco la guerra, che cambia tutto. Ecco che Settebello scopre la Resistenza. Possibile che una rivoluzione di questo tipo possa partire addirittura dalla suola delle scarpe?

Gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal, voor de lezers van Haar naam was Sarah en De tatoeëerder van Auschwitz. Ooit was Alma Rosé een van de meest gerespecteerde violistes van Europa. Haar optredens lieten geen publiek onberoerd. Maar toen de nazi's Europa overnamen, kon niets haar redden. In Auschwitz is elke dag een gevecht om te overleven. Alma is niet langer Alma, maar gevangene 50381; het nummer op haar huid getatoeëerd in bleke inkt. Samen met duizenden anderen zit ze opgesloten, gescheiden van haar geliefden, wachtend op een ongewisse toekomst.

"Zur Mittagszeit des 10. März 1902 ahnte niemand, dass der Untergang der Familie Kohanim von nun an seinen Lauf nehmen sollte." Samuel Kohanim, Oberhaupt einer der ältesten jüdischen Familien in Westpreußen, ist durchschnittliches Unglück gewöhnt. Seine Frau Mindel, schroff und wortkarg von Natur, gebar ihm sieben Mädchen. Die "sieben biblischen Plagen", wie die Kohanim-Töchter im Dorf genannt werden, strapazieren die väterliche Geduld.

Die "Lebensbilanz" der Literatur-Nobelpreisträgerin - und eine große Geschichte über Schuld und Schulden. Ein steuerliches Ermittlungsverfahren, das zwar inzwischen längst eingestellt wurde, das aber selbst intimste E-Mails auswertete, wird für Elfriede Jelinek zum Anlass, auf ihre "Lebenslaufbahn" zurückzublicken. Erstmals erzählt sie literarisch die Geschichte des jüdischen Teils ihrer Familie. In die persönlichen amtlichen Angaben schieben sich Berichte über das Schicksal von Verwandten, die während der Nazizeit aus Österreich fliehen mussten, die deportiert und ermordet wurden.

1931: Der Alltag im von der Wirtschaftskrise gebeutelten Berlin ist schwer. Fines Mutter Ulla Dehmel gelingt es kaum, für ihre Kinder zu sorgen. Schließlich ist sie gezwungen, Fine und ihre Geschwister bei einer Pflegefamilie auf dem Land unterzubringen. Zunächst ist Fine entsetzt, dass sie Berlin verlassen muss, aber nach und nach arrangiert sie sich mit dem neuen Leben. Dann kommen die Nazis an die Macht, und es zeigt sich, dass Ullas Sorge um ihre halbjüdischen Kinder berechtigt war. Schon bald wird Fine ihr jüdisches Erbe zum Verhängnis und droht, ihre große Liebe zu zerstören.