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שלוש נובלות מכונסות בקובץ הר העצה הרעה: "הר העצה הרעה", "אדון לוי", "געגועים". המקום, בכל שלושת הסיפורים, הוא ירושלים; הזמן - שלהי תקופת המנדט; וחומר הבעירה של שלושתם הוא הגעגוע. בהר העצה הרעה, על פי המסורת הנוצרית, התכנסה מועצת הכוהנים שהחליטה למסור את ישו לצליבה. לימים נבנה על ההר ארמונו המרהיב של הנציב העליון הבריטי, מוקד המאבק בין השליטים הבריטים לבין היהודים בארץ ישראל.

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.

Food critic Sarah Greenberg is a normal thirty-nine-year-old content with her ordinary life. In fact, the only real excitement she has is the occasional hand she lends at her family’s Chicago magic shop. Until one day when the ordinary becomes extraordinary and a simple introduction to her boyfriend’s teenage daughter unearths a family trait long dormant in Sarah. Without even trying, she can do magic.

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.

What would you do if you had a second chance at first love? That’s Sally’s dilemma. Sally Lieberman chose to become an Orthodox Jew in her twenties because it was comforting, calming and full of community and family. It didn’t hurt that religious observance brought her to the man of her dreams—her patient, sexy husband, Barry.

Jack had big plans for Christmas: fly home to see the family he misses like crazy, eat his weight in holiday cookies and enjoy plenty of forced-family fun in matching pajamas. Instead, a record-breaking snowstorm leaves him stranded alone in Chicago. Meanwhile, Nessa's Hanukkah plans were nonexistent. With her roommates off on their own adventures and her family busy elsewhere, she was ready to spend the holiday binge-watching TV alone.

When William von Antrim decided to pursue a career as a doctor, working to help Jewish survivors recover from the horrors of World War II, he believed he was doing all in his power to help his people survive. A German refugee himself, William fled to America with his mother after she was accused of being of Jewish descent. William's father left them with only his estate, his family name, and his legacy. A legacy that proves to be William's downfall.

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.

Paris, 1941. At the height of World War II, young and headstrong Josephine Portier is the protégé of a wealthy family in the highest echelons of Paris society. When she meets the arrogant but handsome Gabriel, she wants nothing to do with him—until he reveals a shocking secret about her adoptive family that puts her in grave danger. With her life turned upside down and the Nazi forces ever advancing, Josephine finds a new calling when she joins the French underground Resistance. Her dislike for Gabriel soon flourishes into love, but their romance is short lived.

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.

2026 PEN AMERICA AWARD FOR TRANSLATION FINALIST From “one of the great—if not the greatest—contemporary Yiddish novelists” (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march...

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.

A prismatic mind-bending epic about the splintering of a family into different worlds Everyone had been survived into different futures and I would never see any of them again. I could sense this. I would hear them in their separate rooms, within their separate lives, but I would not be able to...

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.

Forget the jelly doughnuts. Hanukkah's about to get spicy.... Benji Roth couldn't be happier. His bakery in the small town of Serenity, Pennsylvania is thriving, and he doesn’t even mind being the only Jewish person in town. Except when his cousin, Issac, comes to visit, of course. Everyone is friendly—well, almost everyone. Gorgeous Gil Navarro, the owner of the spice shop across the street, comes in every morning for a muffin but barely looks at him and never says a word.

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.

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...

Debbie Gordon has six months to get a life. When her only child and family move away, long-divorced legal secretary Debbie can finally leave her sleepy New England hometown and retire to Florida. Her helicopter daughter has other ideas, but they finally agree Debbie can use the six months on her lease to make a life in Florida. If not, she must move in with her daughter's family in Delaware, most likely as their unpaid nanny. In Florida, Debbie's high hopes of a budget Golden Girls lifestyle disappear when she encounters the wacky, eccentric residents of her shabby rental community.

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.

למיקי מילוא היו החיים "הכי רגילים בעולם": שני ילדים מוצלחים, בעל שווה שהיה איש צבא ועכשיו הוא איש עסקים, ועבודה נחמדה, עד היום שבו מגיעה שיחת הטלפון וקוטעת באבחה את השגרה המבורכת שלה.