Titoli in Ebraismo

Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented a program that records everything its users do. When an Egyptian library invites her to visit as a consultant, her jealous sister Judith persuades her to go. But in Egypt's post-revolutionary chaos, Josie is kidnapped - leaving Judith free to usurp her sister's life, including her husband and daughter, while Josie's talent for preserving memories becomes her only hope of escape. A century earlier, Solomon Schechter, a Cambridge professor, hunts for a medieval archive hidden in a Cairo synagogue.

The year is AD 29, and Jerusalem chafes under the Roman Empire’s continued presence and oppressive rule. In spite of that unpleasant fact, life goes on—but not for everyone. People die, some because it is their time, others by misadventure. One death in particular brings the city’s daily routine to a halt. A badly burned body is found behind the veil of the holy of holies—the temple’s inner sanctum and the most sacred space on earth for the Jews.

A murdered servant girl is found in the palace of King Herod Antipas. The prefect, Pontius Pilate, is in attendance. The populace has already been buzzing over the brutal death of one of their prophets, John, known familiarly as the Baptizer, and scandal is in the air.

Successful event planner Mira Erdman never expected to see Brush Hill Camp again. But these days, the old sleepaway camp in the Berkshires offers “adult” experiences for New York’s twentysomething Jewish singles. And Mira’s bubbie knows it’s the perfect place for her granddaughter to find love. Since losing her mom, Mira has basically given up on dating. But for Bubbie’s sake—and with best friend Josie at her side—she’s resigned to giving grown-up camp a try.

Inheriting a seaside cottage comes with strings attached in this touching romance where an introverted remote worker must leave her city apartment and learn to connect with others—and find love—in real life. Mallory Rosen loves working from home—minimum contact with others suits her just...

By the end of 1943, nearly all of Europe’s Jewish population had fled, been deported, captured, or killed by Hitler. Only Hungary, and its almost 900,000 Jews, remained free from Hitler’s subjugation. They lived under government edicts and restrictions but without fear of harm. That changed in March 1944, after the Nazi defeat at Stalingrad, as an avaricious Hitler conquered Hungary and declared his plan for mass extermination of the Jewish people. With the notorious Adolf Eichmann supervising the process, Nazis began rounding up Hungary’s Jewish population.

"Like Bookish People, the novel sparkles with kooky details plucked from literary culture. A comedy of errors that gets it just right." --Kirkus An unexpected catastrophe of literary proportions . . . Aspirant, bookish, and close to broke, 26-year-old Clemi steps into her dream job at a...

“A dazzling fictional debut, Jason Diamond’s Kaplan’s Plot calls to mind both John Irving’s darkly funny tales of family dysfunction and E. L. Doctorow’s evocative dives into the early 20th century American underworld. At the same, Diamond sneaks in deeper truths about family history...

When Cy Adler dies, it’s a shock to everyone, especially his daughter, Cammy. Almost thirty, slightly aimless, and stuck in a basement apartment in Queens, she’s forced to return to River Hill, her one-square-mile New Jersey hometown, to sit shiva. Cammy’s fraught relationship with her mother, Beth, has never been easy. And now, with her beloved father gone, she would rather be anywhere but back in her childhood room, in a house filled with guests noshing on snacks and offering their condolences. So Cammy does whatever she can to make it through seven turbulent days of mourning.

It’s 1963, two years since Barbara Feldman’s husband died. Raising two kids, she’s finally emerging from her cocoon of grief. Not yet a butterfly, but she’s anxious to spread her wings. Then one day her mother-in-law, Ruth, shows up on her doorstep with five suitcases, expecting a room of her own with a suitable mattress. Abrasive and stuck in her ways yet well meaning, Mother Ruth arrives without warning to help with the children. How can Barbara say no to a woman who is not only a widow herself but also a grieving mother?

Kurz vor der Hochzeit beichtet Robert seiner schwangeren Frau, dass er als SS-Offizier im Konzentrationslager Dachau arbeitet. Doch auch Anneliese hat Robert ein Geständnis zu machen: Ihr Vater ist Jude. Und da ist noch die schwangere Jüdin Esther, die Anneliese im Luftschutzkeller kennenlernt und der sie unbedingt helfen will. Diese Hilfe führt sie ins KZ Ravensbrück.

A Paste Most Anticipated Historical Fiction for Fall An “epic and marvelously entertaining” family saga by award-winning author Linda Grant about the European Jewish experience from WWI to the present day, that “constantly moves forward even as it looks sorrowfully back” (Financial...

México, 1924. Desde las frías tierras de Europa oriental, donde ser judío se ha convertido en un estigma y sinónimo de persecución, dos jóvenes parejas atraviesan el gran océano para escapar del antisemitismo y de las guerras que están exterminando a su gente. En México hallan una riqueza que los sorprende, así como una comunidad que los recibe con los brazos abiertos, sin embargo, el peso del pasado es una carga difícil de sobrellevar y una retahíla de secretos y traiciones, que ocultan como cualquier familia, los perseguirá hasta el Nuevo Mundo.

Tasha Ancel, de dieciséis años, se gira para echar un último vistazo al lugar que le ha robado la libertad y la infancia. No sabe cómo ha sobrevivido; la mayoría ha muerto tras las puertas del campo de concentración. Por primera vez en meses, su corazón late con la esperanza de un futuro y de sacar adelante a los niños que ahora se aferran a ella. Las SS arrancaron a Tasha de los brazos de su madre unos días antes de que la deportaran. De ella, solo conserva un mechón de cabello pelirrojo.

"A fable becoming reality of a woman becoming herself: Tehila Hakimi's Hunting in America just purely bangs." —Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus "A wry, mesmerizing voice. . . . You can’t stop turning the pages." —Lit Hub's "22 Novels You Need to Read This...

“Syrian Jewish culture gets the Jane Austen treatment, with sisters Nina, Fortune and Lucy—the rebel, the good girl and the baby of the family, respectively—all on the marriage market. What’s Mama Cohen to do? Chehebar’s witty debut dives deep into Brooklyn’s Syrian Jewish community...

צריך להגן על היהודים, החליט הרצל. היהודים צריכים לחיות בארץ משלהם כמו כל העמים. הוא החליט לכתוב על כך ספר וקרא לו "מדינת היהודים". בספר זה מנגישה דבורה עומר את סיפור חיו של חוזה המדינה, תאודור הרצל, החל משנות ילדותו בבודפשט, המעבר לוינה והתחלת כתיבתו אודות הרעיון למצוא בית לעם היהודי.

¿Cómo actuarías si al encontrarte unas cartas antiguas te das cuentas que puedes cambiar la vida de otras personas? La emigración española de los años sesenta se entrelaza en esta novela con la destrucción de una guerra y el necesario perdón para seguir viviendo. Alemania, 1963. Otro tren de emigrantes españoles llega a la estación de Colonia. Entre los pasajeros, Carlos y Diego, dos jóvenes gaditanos que buscan, como tantos otros, nuevas oportunidades fuera de España.

רייצ'ל רובינשטיין-גולדבלט היא בחורה ניו-יורקית יהודייה מבית טוב שמסתירה סוד גדול: היא אוהבת את חג המולד. במשך עשור היא מסתירה ממשפחתה ומחבריה את הקריירה שלה כסופרת מצליחה של קומדיות רומנטיות לחג המולד. אך למרות שספריה הם רבי-מכר מצליחים, מחלתה הכרונית מונעת ממנה לזכות בעצמה באהבה הגדולה מהחיים שעליה היא כותבת. כאשר העורכת שלה מתעקשת שתכתוב קומדיה רומנטית המתרחשת בחנוכה, מעיין ההשראה של רייצ'ל מתייבש. בחנוכה אין שום קסם – חנוכה זה לא חג המולד! ואז מגיע לעיר ג'ייקוב גרינברג, מארגן מסיבות ידוע, ומכריז על עריכת נשף חנוכה שניו-יורק טרם ראתה כמוהו.

אשה עומדת על רציף הרכבת ומחכה, כשלפתע לוכד את עיניה גבר מוכּר ולא מוכּר. מישהו שנראה כמו אהוב נעוריה – זה שהפרידה ממנו שברה את חייה לשניים: לפני ואחרי. היא חוזרת הביתה, אל בעלה וילדיה, אבל כל מה שהתאמצה לשכוח חוזר אליה.