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It's the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish community centered on North Main Street in Memphis, has been reduced to a single tenant. Lenny Sklarew awaits the draft by peddling drugs and shelving books - until he learns he is a character in a book about the rise and fall of this very Pinch. Muni Pinsker, who authored the book in an enchanted day containing years, arrived in the neighborhood at its height and was smitten by an alluring tightrope walker.

Just before WWI, Golda comes to America yearning for independence, but she tosses aside her dreams of freedom and marries her widowed brother-in-law after her sister dies giving birth to their son, Morty. In the crowded streets of Brooklyn where Jewish and Italian gangs demand protection money from local storekeepers and entice youngsters with the promise of wealth, Golda, Ben, and Morty thrive as a family.

What if achieving your dream means destroying your family, and obtaining your desire means losing who you love? In 1st century Galilee, two Jewish brothers, Judah and Seth, face this dilemma. They run from their father, but in opposite directions, leaving heartache in their wake. Judah's actions are inconceivable; Seth's behavior is rigidly outrageous; but their Abba's? His love and forgiveness makes no sense to anyone!

Already sold in eight countries around the world, these nine energized, irreverent stories from Nathan Englander introduce an astonishing new talent.

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.

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.

In Tel Aviv's high-stakes business world, Dafna works in a startup teetering on the brink of financial doom. Divorced for six years and starved for passion, she goes on a wild one-night stand with a hot, much younger bartender. A few days later, the tattooed barman strolls into her startup. Surprise! Turns out he is Erez Ben Ami, the CPA assigned to go over their books with a fine-tooth comb. Erez is a single dad, with a young brother to support. His boss offers him a dream position, but there's a catch: first, review a new, promising startup and make it as favorable as possible. His future...

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.

Even though he escaped the gas chambers, he was never truly free. In occupied Poland, there are whispers of a terrifying darkness in the northern forests. When a young Lodzi Ashstein learns the horrifying truth about the Treblinka extermination camp, he is kidnapped and tormented by a senior SS officer, Janich Heiss. After a prisoner uprising, Heiss disappears into the woods and Lodzi is left with nothing but his nightmares and the eternal scars of a survivor. More than 70 years later, Heiss has been mysteriously murdered, and Lodzi is accused of a crime of revenge. When attorney Thaddeus ...

When tragedy strikes her police officer lover, Dora Ellison is forced to become a reluctant investigator and what an investigator she is! Childhood trauma has left her with a violent streak she turns toward bullies and criminals. Her investigation of a murder that wasn't a murder reveals a multi-layered dark web of local corruption that leads to danger & violence she is uniquely equipped to battle.

A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris' ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap in to the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik - a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts.

Jerusalem, 180 BCE. For 800 years the Zadokite priesthood has led the Jewish people. But the world is changing. Without, Rome is rising, crushing the other powers of the ancient world beneath it. Within, a power struggle inside the House of Zadok is a golden opportunity for interlopers, who seek to unseat them from the throne. On the background of these tumultuous times, Judah, scion of a minor priestly lineage, comes of age in Judea. While experiencing love, friendship, and conflict, he slowly transforms into the warrior and leader his people are waiting for.

From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In a world turned upside down, where the past and the future, and the nature of truth itself, all take shape according to a corrupt government's whims, one man, one spectacularly hopeless man, fights to overcome his history and his name - and, if for only once in his life, to put things right.

Él era Oskar Schindler. Un empresario alemán, miembro del partido nazi, que, con osadía e ingenio, se convirtió en un héroe en medio del horror de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En este gran hito de la literatura sobre el Holocausto, Thomas Keneally recrea magistralmente sus peligrosas proezas y cómo utilizó su fortuna para comprar una fábrica cerca de un campo de concentración y así salvar la vida de más de 1.300 judíos.

The Argentinean by Mois Benarroch is a gripping and introspective novella that delves into themes of memory, trauma, and revenge. The story follows an unnamed protagonist, an Argentinean immigrant living in Israel, who unexpectedly encounters a man from his past—Mario, known as "El Cachorro," a former torturer from the dark days of Argentina's military dictatorship. This chance meeting in a Jerusalem mall triggers a flood of repressed memories and emotions, forcing the protagonist to confront the horrors he endured decades ago. As the protagonist grapples with the shock of seeing his ...

Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies, it’s his responsibility to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for 11 months. To the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses - imperiling the fate of his father’s soul. To appease her, Larry hatches an ingenious if cynical plan, hiring a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to recite the prayer and shepherd his father’s soul safely to rest.

Moscow, February 1953. A week before Stalin's death, his final pogrom, "one that would forever rid the Motherland of the vermin", is in full swing. Three government goons arrive in the middle of the night to arrest Solomon Shimonovich Levinson, an actor from the defunct State Jewish Theater. But Levinson, though an old man, is a veteran of past wars, and his shocking response to the intruders sets in motion a series of events both zany and deadly as he proceeds to assemble a ragtag group to help him enact a mad-brilliant plot: the assassination of a tyrant.

סיפורה המרתק של דרמה המתרחשת מאחורי הקלעים של תעשיית הטלוויזיה הישראלית. ארבע שנים לאחר שעלתה לשידור התוכנית "כוכב השנה" של הערוץ השני, היא זוכה לפופולריות חסרת תקדים. הרבה מיליונים גורף הערוץ מפרסומאים שהעדיפו לפרסם דווקא בתוכנית זו. הערוץ השני מאמין כי מכרה הזהב שלו יניב רווחים עוד זמן רב, אבל לפתע, קמה ל"כוכב השנה" מתחרה בערוץ 10 - תוכנית ריאליטי, שאינה מצליחה לצבור פופולריות, עד שאירעה תפנית בלתי צפויה שמציבה את התוכנית בראש סקרי הצפייה. כסף רב, תככים, תשוקות ופרשיות אהבה מניעים את סיפור הדרמה הגדולה של "בשידור חי". זהו ספרו ה-36 של רם אורן, שכל ספריו היו לרבי-מכר.

Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats him with bitter severity. He begins an intense friendship with a Jewish boy his age, talented and mercurial Anton Zweibel, a budding concert pianist.

Philip Roth, one of the best-known and award winning literary masters of our time, engages his readership with insightful and challenging novels of the human condition. With The Dying Animal, he revisits the character David Kepesh. At age 60, Kapesh is drawn out of his carefully ordered existence and into an obsessive affair with one of his students.