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Eliza’s world broke apart when she was sixteen and her mom died of cancer. Now, years later, she has rebuilt her life to include a director-of-development job at a nonprofit, a Manhattan apartment, and an easy-on-the-eyes bedroom buddy—just the kind of no-strings relationship she wants, even if it’s less than her best friend, Mo, thinks she deserves. But when Eliza’s dad dies unexpectedly, her beloved aunt Claude arrives at the shiva with a letter from her mom—to be opened only after her father’s death. Inside the letter? A bombshell.

Septimania, la primera novela de Jonathan Levi tras su aclamado libro A Guide for the Perplexed, es una gran obra: una historia al mismo tiempo personal y mítica, con temas tan grandes como el universo y tan pequeños como una semilla de manzana. "Septimania es una obra maestra: un libro que...

Gerusalemme, l’inverno tra la fine del 1959 e l’inizio del 1960. Shemuel Asch decide di rinunciare agli studi universitari – e in particolare alla sua ricerca intitolata Gesù visto dagli ebrei – a causa dell’improvviso dissesto economico che colpisce la sua famiglia e del contemporaneo abbandono da parte della sua ragazza, Yardena. Shemuel è sul punto di lasciare Gerusalemme quando vede un annuncio nella caffetteria dell’università. Vengono offerti alloggio gratis e un modesto stipendio a uno studente di materie umanistiche che sia disposto a tenere compagnia, il pomeriggio, a un anziano disabile di grande cultura.

Marika is a social worker trying to heal her drug addict clients, but she can't seem to mend her damaged self. She avoids love because love sits too close to death. Her choices have left her carefully ordered life a lonely, disconnected one. Everything is about to change. Big-hearted, quirky, emotionally walled-off Marika embarks on a plan that ultimately forces her to confront the very thing she's spent her life avoiding: love.

De padre tunecino y madre de origen argelino, Hubert Abraham Haddad, nacido en Túnez en 1947, siempre ha tenido presentes sus raíces judías y bereberes. Estandarte de la francofonía, ha escrito más de 15 novelas pero con Palestina, Premio Renaudot 2009 y Premio de los Cinco Continentes de...

The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. Triggered by the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone’s lives soon take a dramatic turn. Shelly, the younger of the two Cohen sisters, runs off to the West Coast to immerse herself in the emerging (and lucrative) world of technology. Her sister, Nancy, gets married at the age of twenty-one to a traveling salesman with a shadowy lifestyle, while their mother, Frieda, hurls herself into a boozy, troubled existence in Miami, trying to forget the past even as it haunts her.

An epic generational story about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Jenni Daiches's Somewhere Else explores today's most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which: how to find identity in displacement. An epic generational story about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Jenni Daiches's Somewhere Else explores today's most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which: how to find identity in displacement.

Teddy’s job is to process visa applications, and by 1939, refugees from Nazi-conquered Poland, Austria, and other countries are desperate to secure safe passage to America. As Hitler sweeps through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, and Holland, the screws tighten and law after virulent law is passed to threaten the lives, indeed the very existence of the Jewish people. When Teddy and his girlfriend Sara are introduced to an orphaned young girl named Katy, who has been abandoned on the grounds of a nursery school, they agree to adopt her.

When a black hole suddenly consumes Israel and as mysterious anomalies spread across the globe, suddenly the world teeters on the brink of chaos. As antisemitic paranoia and violence escalate, Jewish citizens Ethan and Ella find themselves navigating a landscape fraught with danger and uncertainty.

Brokenhearted haberdasher Isaac Markowitz has fled the Lower East Side for Israel, where he now assists a renowned elderly rabbi who tends to the hungry and hopeless in his courtyard. Tamar is an American hipster-turned-observant Jew who has come to Jerusalem to find a devout man to spend her life with. And Mustafa, a devoted Muslim, works as a janitor at the Temple Mount, also known as al-Aqsa, a site holy to both faiths.

At the height of World War II, Yaakov-Jacques Kalderon is a Jewish soldier in the Yugoslavian army, fighting against the German forces. When he falls captive at the hands of the enemy Yaakov knows that in order to survive, he will have no choice but to hide his identity from everyone – even the closest of allies.

When We Were Bad is a spellbinding, witty and poignant portrayal of a family in crisis, in love, and in denial. 'As intelligent as it is funny. A beautifully observed literary comedy as well as a painfully accurate description of one big old family mess. A joy' – The Observer In North London...

Trust Me tells the story of a turbulent year in the life of Lewis Nelson and his daughter Skye, who spend their time together at the edge of a fragile wilderness in Western Oregon.

I Rosenthal non sono una famiglia come le altre. Eric e Hannah sono ebrei osservanti e vivono con i tre figli – Gideon, Elsie e Tovyah – e nonno Yosef, sopravvissuto alla Shoah, in una villa nella zona nord di Londra. Avvocato mite e dai modi cortesi lui, giornalista oltremodo ambiziosa lei, entrambi credono profondamente nella verità, parola per parola, dell’Antico Testamento, dunque in una vita dove Dio (e il demonio) sono presenti in ogni istante. Vita densa di fede e di precetti in cui i tre ragazzi, ciascuno per sé, crescono faticosamente in cerca di uno spazio proprio.

Sarah Jacobs meets Zari Heller when Zari arrives in Cleveland, Ohio, after three years in a German displaced persons camp. It is 1948 and Sarah is twelve years old. When Zari moves into Sarah’s family house, they begin a friendship which lasts throughout their lives. Zari opens Sarah to the world beyond her neighborhood, and Sarah helps Zari survive her life after the war. Together, they bear witness to the Jewish Experience in Europe during the Second World War.

Faye Kaplan used to be engaged. She also used to have a successful legal practice. But she much prefers her new life as a potter in Woodstock, New York. The only thing missing is the perfect guy. Not that she needs one. She’s definitely happy alone. That is, until she finds her town papered with anti-Semitic flyers after yet another failed singles event at the synagogue. Desperate for comfort, Faye drunkenly turns to the only thing guaranteed to soothe her—pottery. A golem protector is just what her town needs…and adding all the little details to make him her ideal man can’t hurt, right?

Nine-year-olds Max Sassaport and Ruby Johnson are best friends who can't imagine a world where they aren't together. Unfortunately, no one-not their families, nor anyone else in rural Georgia in 1906-wants to see a White middle-class Jewish boy get too close to the Black daughter of a sharecropper. It's only a matter of time before fate will separate the two. And that day comes on the eve of Ruby's womanhood, when a violent act sends her running from her home to the life of a child laborer at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta.

È il 1938 e la tredicenne Sofia vive in una masseria nel Gargano insieme alla sua grande famiglia, affollata di fratelli, cognate, nonni e nipoti. In quella casa ci sono tante stanze da letto quante le dita di una mano, e tutte ruotano attorno a quella centrale, che è bianchissima, misteriosa e nessuno vi può accedere. È la stanza del Santo: lì accadono i prodigi, ci si va solo per fare i figli. Sofia sa che lei non varcherà mai quella soglia. Suo padre, con "parole che hanno i denti", le ha spiegato che un marito vuole una donna utile, e che lei non lo è.

Ezra Friedman sees ghosts, which made growing up in a funeral home complicated. It might have been easier if his grandfather’s ghost didn’t give him scathing looks of disapproval as he went through a second, HRT-induced puberty, or if he didn’t have the pressure of all those relatives—living and dead—judging every choice he makes. It’s no wonder that Ezra runs as far away from the family business as humanly possible. But when the floor of his dream job drops out from under him, Ezra finds himself back in the thick of it.

Alice Heppenheimer, born into a prosperous German Jewish family around the turn of the twentieth century, comes of age at a time of growing opportunities for women. So, when she turns 21 years old, she convinces her strict family to allow her to attend art school, and then pursues a career in women's fashion. Alice prospers in her career and settles into married life, but she could not anticipate a Nazi Germany, where simply being Jewish has become an existential threat.