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In a small town in upstate New York in 1928, four-year-old Evelyn Wilson goes missing. Instantly, old prejudices claw to the surface. As a frenzy of panic and bloodlust overwhelms all reason, the community turns on the Schatzman family. A terrible witch hunt follows. The Schatzmans' young son is accused of horrifying crimes. As their life in America falls apart, leaving nothing but anguish and devastation, some of the Schatzmans decide to return home to Berlin. But Germany in the 1930s is no safe harbor.

In questa nuova avventura di Giambattista Bugatti, il boia papalino noto come Mastro Titta, la scenografia è ancora quella di una Roma ottocentesca, a pochi passi dall'annessione al nascente Regno d’Italia. Siamo nel 1859: la scomparsa di un bambino ebreo, figlio di un ufficiale francese, fa temere il suo rapimento da parte della balia, che lo avrebbe sottoposto ad un battesimo forzato per poi crescerlo nel cattolicesimo. Ma il ritrovamento dei cadaveri, sia del bambino che della nutrice, sembra complicare notevolmente la situazione.

Herta lives a contented life until Nazi Germany invades the Netherlands. As Jews, she and her family face persecution. Across town, Julia finds herself in the midst of upheaval when her husband becomes involved in Nazi activities. Then Herta and Julia’s husbands go missing—one to hide from the Nazis, and the other to collaborate with them. As the Jewish population faces rising tension, Herta feels compelled to find a hiding place for her daughters. 

Marek and Annette, who have escaped from Poland following the pogroms against the Jews, lead a simple and happy life in France’s capital together with their two young children. Their Christian neighbor, Helena, an immigrant from Italy who dances at the Folies Bergère nightclub for a living, develops a close relationship with the couple at the center of which is a secret affair with Marek. When the Nazis enter Paris, the family’s life, as well as Helena’s, is about to change. Marek embarks on a mission to arrange for his family’s escape but soon disappears without a trace.

This is a story of an anguished love affair between two adult children (Ariel and Mira) of Holocaust survivors who cannot get their parents' pain out of themselves. But his anger and his volatility lead her to a kinder, gentler Englishman, Michael. However, she cannot accept his goodness, nor what appears to be a dullness compared to the wildness of Ariel. They become involved in a love triangle, and the seemingly cuckolded man goes mad and wants to punish the woman. She takes it because she feels she deserves it, having been treated badly by her survivor mother.

Прекрасная Суламифь ведет обычную жизнь советской служащей, исследует творчество еврейского поэта Бялика, ее возлюбленный Алеша — писатель средней руки, сын некогда важного чина из всесильного КГБ. У обоих свои тайны, свои горести. Судьбы их семей переплетаются самым удивительным образом.

1941, Lithuania. Young Pola Wawer is the daughter of a successful engineer and on the cusp of a promising ophthalmology career, when her home city of Vilnius is invaded by Nazi forces. With her husband taken by the Gestapo and her home no longer her own, Pola flees the city with her parents in pursuit of safety. Almost everywhere they turn, they are met with persecution and hate, until they finally find salvation in the most unexpected of places—among the countryside villages, home of the windmills of her father's design.

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.

A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents’ Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy—and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine’s practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave his flourishing dress shop for a...

Mira’s body lies lifeless in her designer recliner, an empty pill bottle on the floor beside her. Her frozen eyes are no longer able to see the Seattle city lights sparkling below, and her lungs no longer able to breathe the fresh Puget Sound air. Joined by the spirit of Jakob, who departed his body lying dead on the bloody battlefield of Lexington, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775, their spirits hover together near the ceiling of her downtown high-rise.

“Deeply moving, compulsively readable, Hotel Cuba chronicles the early twentieth century immigrant experience with a profound understanding and crackling urgency I’ve not previously encountered. I could not put it down and I could not stop thinking about it long after I’d reached its...

From the author of The Dutch Wife comes a riveting novel set during World War II about two sisters, one of whom secretly adopts a Jewish baby and the other who is married to a Nazi sympathizer Amsterdam, 1941. When the Nazis invade Amsterdam, singer Johanna Vos watches in horror as her Jewish...

When Hadassah Morfawitz flees Nazi Germany with her siblings and arrives in New York, she is determined to turn the city into her own Mount Olympus—at any cost. In choosing orphaned concentration camp survivor Zev Kretinberg as her husband and accomplice—ensuring his loyalty with the promise of riches and the burial of a dark past—she begins a ruthless journey toward the upper echelons of Park Avenue synagogue society.

Three Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust survival venturing through memory, trauma, and identity, while raising the curtain on the unforgiving discipline of ballet. In post-WWII New York, John Curtin suffers lasting damage from having been forced to sing for the concentration camp kommandant who murdered his family. John trains to be a psychiatrist, struggling to wrest his life from his terror of music and his past.

“An old-fashioned book, free of cynicism, encroaching technology and intricate plotting, but imbued with a heartfelt and optimistic view of humanity—in other words, a book filled with feeling and moral values.”—New York Times Book Review From the internationally acclaimed, award-winning...

Una grande saga famigliare dagli anni Venti ai nostri giorni. Un padre una madre e due figlie che si troveranno a impersonare due diversi destini, quello dell'impegno politico antifascista l'una, quello della docilità e della sconfitta l'altra. E una miriade di altri personaggi a comporre il vasto tessuto: un'attrice protetta dal Regime e che diventerà delatrice, una sarta fascista, una sprovveduta servetta di campagna, un genero di un'altra classe sociale, zii, cugini...

Dawoud is on the run from his murky past, aiming to discover where he belongs. He tries to assimilate into different groups along his journey through North Africa and Israel, changing his clothes, his religious affiliations, and even his name to fit in, but the safety and peace he seeks remain elusive. It seems prejudice is everywhere, holding him back, when all he really wants is to create a simple life he can call his own. A chameleon, Dawoud—or David, Adal, or Dawit, depending on where and when you meet him—is not lost in this whirl of identities. In fact, he is defined by it.

Serach and Paloma—renegade daughters of two tightly insular cultures—have renounced family relationships, cherished traditions, and communal ties for the sake of their forbidden bond. They are comfortably ensconced in their loving partnership when an unexpected death, a seductive offer, and a crime bring their pasts roaring back into their lives, with devastating results. Acts of Atonement is the ongoing story of the battle between roots and desires.

Based on actual events, a gripping novel of sex, love, history and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandatory Palestine, by the acclaimed author of A Palestine Affair "The story of what is arguably Israel’s foundational murder trial—a tale of multiple identities and loyalties." —Joshua...

Two Jewish sisters, one in London, the other in Warsaw, see their worlds fall apart as Hitler invades Poland. Hanna escapes The Blitz, while her sister and parents are forced into the Ghetto. Hanna joins the Special Operations Executive in an attempt to free her family from the ever-tightening Nazi stranglehold, and is aided by a Polish woman who befriends them. Casting light into one of the darkest periods of World War II, acclaimed author V.S. Alexander's powerful novel tells of two Jewish sisters of Polish descent who unite in a fight to save their family from the Warsaw Ghetto.

Moving away from their lovely apartment in Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind and life in Buchenwald would appear to be idyllic. Lying just beyond the forest that surrounds them is the looming presence of a work camp. Frau Hahn's husband has been assigned as the camp's administrator. When Frau Hahn's poor health leads her into an unlikely and poignant friendship with one of Buchenwald's prisoners, her naIve ignorance about what is going on so nearby is challenged.

Brought to you by Penguin. September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. The war's outcome is far from certain. An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, dedicates himself to helping those escaping from the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, the world's smallest...

Usando las palabras como anclas para no caer en la locura, David Grossman, Man Booker International Prize 2017, ha querido cerrar una historia que empezó con La vida entera y nos lleva a lugares donde solo el genio de un gran escritor puede llegar.

Nei giorni dell’occupazione nazista una famiglia di ebrei romani in fuga trova rifugio in una canonica di campagna. Giacomo, il padre, è però costretto per lavoro a fare delle rapide sortite nella capitale, finché una sera non torna a casa. Elsa, con le due ragazze adolescenti, Milena e Dora, una volta tornata alla libertà dovrà farcela con le sue forze. Come è avvenuto l’arresto di suo marito? Chi ha parlato? Elsa non vuole che le figlie sappiano e che restino incatenate al passato e alla tragedia. Vuole che guardino avanti, al futuro.

After his rabbi declares young Danny Epstein is now a man in the eyes of God, Danny witnesses a sight so gruesome he turns against a God that would allow such a thing to happen. Now grown and a firefighter in Buffalo, NY, Danny is adept at putting out house fires, but can he put out the internal fires that have plagued him ever since his bar mitzvah? It takes more than water to extinguish some flames.

Dies ist ein Epos von alttestamentarischer Wucht, das uns von Seite zu Seite mehr gefangen nimmt. Kenntnisreich führt Franz Werfel in das 5. vorchristliche Jahrhundert und gibt tiefe Einblicke in die so verschiedenen Kulturen Ägyptens, Babylons und Jehudas. Hautnah erleben wir die Kämpfe Mardukh Nebukadnezars gegen Jerusalem und die Zerstörung des Tempels. Inmitten dramatischer Auseinandersetzungen ringt ein Mann mit seinem Gott um die Seele und das Schicksal seines Volkes: Jeremias.

Lady Marblehead is not pleased. In fact, she’s furious. Not only is someone trying to poison her, but the impertinent scoundrel is after her jewels, too. All the clues seem to point to her new doctor, a young Jewish man recently arrived in London. But is he really the one responsible? Or is there some darker, more malevolent force at work? In this first book in the Jewish Regency Mystery Series, it’s up to wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth Mr. Ezra Melamed to find the culprit—before the poisoner strikes again.

Brzeziny, Poland, 1939. Zofia's comfortable lifestyle overturns when her husband, Jabez, who monitors Nazi activity, has gone missing. Rather than fleeing the country with her young son, as she had promised Jabez who is fearing retaliation, she decides to stay. She cannot possibly leave her friend, Aanya. Since their childhood they have amazed fellow Brzeziners that it does not matter that Aanya is Jewish and deaf, and that Zofia is Catholic and hearing. Now, more than ever with war looming, Zofia will do whatever is necessary to protect her family and Aanya.

Cuando durante la caída del imperio romano, los bárbaros se hicieron con la menorá, candelabro de siete brazos del templo de Salomón, va a contagiarse el desánimo entre la comunidad judía. Tiene que recuperarse su símbolo nacional y religioso a cualquier precio. Y es la historia de la persona que va intentar recuperar ese objeto sagrado, la que constituye el meollo de la historia narrada como siempre con la meticulosidad a que nos tienen acostumbrados el señor Zweig.

I foråret 1943 sidder den unge franske filosof Simone Weil på et kontor i London og arbejder på en rapport for De Gaulles franske eksilregering. Sammen med sine forældre er hun året forinden flygtet til New York på grund af nazisternes jødeforfølgelser, men der kunne hun umuligt blive. Hun er – mener hun selv – nødt til at tage del i al den lidelse som Anden Verdenskrig afstedkommer i Europa. Hun vil fysisk ind i kampen mod nazismen.

Henry Silberbaum ist kein Rabbi, wie er im Buche steht. Er liebt Kriminalromane, Polohemden, seine Espressomaschine und sein Rennrad. Aber auch seine Schüler und die Bewohner des Jüdischen Seniorenstifts in Frankfurt liegen ihm am Herzen. Als eine alte Dame überraschend stirbt, ist sich der Rabbi sicher: Das war Mord. Doch keiner glaubt ihm. Kann er den brummigen Kommissar Berking davon überzeugen, der ihn kürzlich verhaftet hat? Henry riskiert seinen Job, um die Wahrheit zu finden. Und plötzlich befinden sich der Rabbi und der Kommissar mitten in einem lebensgefährlichen Mordkomplott.

En los años treinta, en plena crisis económica, un niño judío crece en Nueva York. A la vez que se enfrenta al entorno cerrado del gueto y a las peculiaridades de su familia, realiza su propio descubrimiento de un mundo demasiado hostil.

The Levi family is in their darkest hour. The sudden death of Nir, the middle child, launches a dark journey filled with moments of light and hope. At the Jewish weeklong mourning period—the shiva—a mysterious stranger arrives and sets into motion a series of events that are both tangible and otherworldly. It is a journey to discover the bonds that have both broken and healed this family. It is up to the listener to decide what power the Resurrector has, but one thing is certain—it is important to heal relationships with loved ones before it is too late.

Eva Reich never felt she had to choose between the worlds of her Jewish father and Christian mother. History chose for her. Poland, 1941. From the moment she stepped off the freight train that brought her family to Auschwitz, Eva Reich fought for her survival. From growing up surrounded by her Christian relatives in Berlin, she is thrown into the Jewish work camps of Nazi-occupied Poland. There, she experiences cruelty, intimidation, and hatred. But also kindness, fearlessness, and bravery--from the people she least expected.

Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Romances of 2022 Miriam Blum has no choice but to face the past she thought she’d left behind when she inherits her great-aunt’s Christmas tree farm in this witty, glittering, heart-filled romcom with “all of the warm, queer, Jewish holiday vibes you...

En Polonia, mientras la Segunda Guerra Mundial avanza, una madre esconde junto con su joven hija, un prodigio musical cuyo sonido más leve podría costarles sus vidas. Mientras soldados nazis persiguen a los judíos de su pueblo, Róza y su hija de cinco años, Shira, huyen, buscando refugio en el granero del vecino. Escondidas en el henar día y noche, Shira lucha para mantenerse tranquila y callada, pero la música alrededor de la granja la llama constantemente. Para apaciguar a su hija, Róza le cuenta la historia de una niña en un jardín encantado.

L’amicizia può salvare dall’orrore? In una Roma occupata dai nazisti, l’incontro magnetico tra due lupi solitari, due adolescenti in cerca di se stessi. Dalla caduta del fascismo alla razzia degli ebrei romani, una fiaba nera sull’amicizia e l’identità. Il capolavoro di Lia Levi. Con una nota di Anna Foa: "Il Vaticano: aboliamole le Leggi razziali, ma non tutte". Un ragazzo ebreo e uno non ebreo aspirano segretamente a scambiarsi i ruoli.

Fans of the Hallmark Channel and Gilmore Girls will adore this delightful rom‑com about a city girl who goes in search of small-town happiness, only to discover life—and love—are nothing like the TV movies. Emerging journalist Adina Gellar is done with dating in New York City. If she’s...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A heart-wrenching exploration of the decisions women must make when their loyalties are put to the test.” –Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary A woman must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz in...

Ana will never forget her mother’s face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he remembers. When a woman from a Jewish reclamation organization seizes them, believing she has their best interest at heart, Ana sees an opportunity to reconnect with her roots, while Oskar sees only the loss of the home he loves.

"The youthful-sounding Sarah Bierstock is an excellent choice to narrate this coming-of-age novel... Bierstock creates a likable character in Isabel, and listeners will want her to find her path--even if takes an affair with a professor to eliminate the bad options."- AudioFile An incisive...