Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The druggist of Auschwitz The druggist of Auschwitz Dieter Schlesak "A harrowing novel about surviving in Auschwitz and the nature of evil"-- OL15414878W
Ḳufsah sheḥorah Ḳufsah sheḥorah Amos Oz,Gracia Rodríguez Please see https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1580904W. OL1580904W
The list The list Martin Fletcher "Winner of a Jewish National Book Award for his previous book, Walking Israel, NBC Special Correspondent Martin Fletcher uses meticulous research and his own family's history in this stunning novel. … OL15980826W
Saint Mazie Saint Mazie Jami Attenberg Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Pro… OL17310308W
J J Howard Jacobson "A profound, darkly comedic parable set in a future where collective memory has vanished following a historic catastrophe, and one young couple's love affair could have shattering consequences for th… OL17887374W
Aaron's leap Aaron's leap Magdaléna Platzová "Based on the real-life story of Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Aaron's Leap is framed by the lens of a twenty first-century Israeli film crew delving into the extraordinary life of a woman w… OL19707568W
Dinner at the center of the earth Dinner at the center of the earth Nathan Englander "The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges--a political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestini… OL19712825W
The secret book of kings The secret book of kings Yokhi Brandes "Discover the concealed stories of the struggles of King David and King Saul in the early days of the kingdom of Israel, seen through the eyes of Michal, Saul's daughter and David's abandoned queen."… OL19714797W
Jacob's oath Jacob's oath Martin Fletcher "As World War II winds to a close, Europe's roads are clogged with twenty million exhausted refugees walking home. Among them are Jacob and Sarah, lonely Holocaust survivors who meet in Heidelberg. B… OL19970018W
The gallery of vanished husbands The gallery of vanished husbands Natasha Solomons "A stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford London, 1958. It's the eve of the sexual revolution, but in Juliet Montague's conservative Jewish community w… OL19971238W
A replacement life A replacement life Boris Fishman "A ... story of an aspiring twenty-something Russian-Jewish writer who struggles to reconcile his immigrant roots with his fragile new American identity"-- OL19980013W
Monastery Monastery Eduardo Halfon "In Monastery, the nomadic narrator of Eduardo Halfon's critically-acclaimed The Polish Boxer returns to travel from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jaz… OL19988294W
A reunion of ghosts A reunion of ghosts Judith Claire Mitchell "In the vein of such classic family sagas as Fall on Your Knees, A Reunion of Ghosts is the confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves on the very last day of the 20th century;… OL19995238W
The last flight of Poxl West The last flight of Poxl West Daniel Torday "All his life, Elijah Goldstein has idolized his charismatic Uncle Poxl. Intensely magnetic, cultured and brilliant, Poxl takes Elijah under his wing, introducing him to opera and art and literature.… OL19996188W
Girl singer Girl singer Mick Carlon "1938: eighteen-year-old Avery, aspiring singer, is heard by Lester "Pres" Young, Count Basie's tenor saxophonist. Pres recommends her to Basie, and Avery is whisked into the jazz life. Years later, … OL20015511W
In the land of armadillos In the land of armadillos Helen Maryles Shankman "A radiant debut collection of linked stories from a two-time Pushcart nominee set in the German-occupied town of Wlodawa, Poland, where mythic tales of Jewish folklore meet the real-life monsters of… OL20021613W
The beauty queen of Jerusalem The beauty queen of Jerusalem Sarit Yishai-Levi "The #1 International Best Seller! The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a dazzling novel of mothers and daughters, stories told and untold, and the ties that bind four generations of women. Gabriela's mo… OL20026580W
The fortunate ones The fortunate ones Ellen Umansky One very special work of art--a Chaim Soutine painting--connects the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in a novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Ange… OL20049950W
Die unsichtbare Wand Die unsichtbare Wand H. G. Adler "Told in a ... stream-of-consciousness style reminiscent of our finest modernist writers, The Wall is the story of Arthur Landau, a Holocaust survivor struggling to leave behind the horrors of the pa… OL4411317W