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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. As the novel opens, Helen has been summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents...
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Language
English
Description
It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately...
3) Herzog
Author
Language
English
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Description
The tragicomic world of a middle-aged Jewish professor who is thrown into a chaotic state by the breakup of his second marriage.
Author
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep. When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies...
Author
Series
Golem and the Jinni volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I-- the long-awaited follow-up to The Golem and the Jinni revisits Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world."--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American journalist--traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground railroad that led over the Pyrenees, into Spain, and finally...
9) The postcard
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front,...
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Language
English
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Description
Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a Coney Island boardwalk freak show that thrills the masses. An exceptional swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid in her father’s “museum,” alongside performers like the Wolfman, the Butterfly Girl, and a one-hundred-year-old turtle. One night Coralie stumbles upon a striking young man taking pictures of moonlit trees in the woods off the Hudson...
Author
Series
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 12
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
504 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the sixteenth century, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, flees Spain with her father because of the Inquisition and is ultimately adopted by Robert Dudley, son of King Edward's protector. She is brought to court as a fool for Queen Mary and then Queen Elizabeth and eventually she has to choose between life as a commoner and becoming entangled in the life of the royal family.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (11 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Hannah Rosenthal sets sail on the SS St. Louis, a transatlantic liner offering Jews safe passage out of Germany. She soon discovers that the overseas asylum she had been promised is an illusion.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An aging film director named Yair Moses has been invited to the Spanish pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his early work. As he and Ruth, his leading actress and longtime muse, settle into their hotel, Moses notices the painting over his bed, Caritas Romana, depicting a classical legend of a starving old prisoner man nursing at the breast of his daughter. For the first time in decades, he recalls the infamous scene from...
Author
Series
Golem and the Jinni volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
486 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master, the husband who commissioned her, dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York in 1899. Ahmad is a djinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian desert. Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a tinsmith...
15) City of secrets
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees by the tens of thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it were hunted as illegals by the British mandatory authorities there and relied on the underground to shelter them; taking fake names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for the independence of Israel. City of Secrets follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling conundrum: What damage do we do in the blindness of love? Thousands of miles from home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit windows at two little girls. They are the grandchildren she's never met, daughters of the daughter she has not seen in years. At the center of this mesmerizing story is the woman's quest to understand how...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
964 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas ... begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his...
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