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"September 1, 1939. Sixty-year-old Janusz Korczak and the students and teachers at his Dom Sierot Jewish orphanage are outside enjoying a beautiful day in Warsaw. Hours later, their lives are altered forever when the Nazis invade. Suddenly treated as an outcast in his own city, Janusz--a respected leader known for his heroism and teaching--is determined to do whatever it takes to protect the children from the horrors to come. When over four hundred...
2) The postcard
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"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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Acclaimed by literary critic Carl Van Doren as "the most important of all immigrant novels," The Rise of David Levinsky takes place amid America's biggest and most diverse Yiddish-speaking community during the early 20th century. David Levinsky, a young Hasidic Jew struggling to master the Talmud, seeks his fortune amid the teeming streets of New York's Lower East Side. All the energy formerly focused on his religious studies now turns in the direction...
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Elderly Holocaust "survivor" Jack (Yaakov Stein) now lives in Melbourne. After trying to pass off a false testimony to a young Catholic photographer, Ian Gross, he then relents and tells us the truth...Or ,does he?
With false memoirs all the rage, this is clearly a fictitious story with some real characters, at once highly entertaining and deadly serious.
Ernst Leitz II ("the photography industry's Schindler") not only designed and manufactured...
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Lena is a married, chronically infidelitous Berlin-based European writer, devoted only to gratifying her ambitions and hard-driving libido. Nathan is a footloose womanizing American author, unable to produce the big novel for which he's been contracted. When both writers meet in the Alps, they fall into a mad kind of addictive love, chasing each other selfishly, sexually and even digitally across Europe and America, turning their affair into a high-stakes...
6) Third Wind
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Two Novellas:1. Third WInd:Adam Kaminsky was busy painting one of his dreary landscapes of the views he saw outside his studio window, when a knock on the door interrupted him. Lonely and bitter, Adam caged himself in his house on the top of a hill in Rosh Pina, disconnected from society. No-one in Rosh Pina has spoken to the crazy old man for over twenty years. That's why he was puzzled by the knocking. Who dared interrupting his desolate life routine?At...
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Tattooist of Auschwitz volume 01
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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"The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved. Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies' man. He is also a Jew. On the first transport from Slovakia to Auschwitz in 1942, Lale immediately stands out to his fellow prisoners. In the camp, he is looked up to, looked out for, and put to work in the privileged position of Tätowierer- the tattooist - to mark his fellow prisoners, forever. One of them is a young...
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On a hill overlooking Jerusalem, the once-mocked Theodor Herzl lies buried in honor as the man who envisioned the modern Jewish state. Neither warrior nor financier, neither theologian nor trained statesman, he was simply a foresighted Viennese journalist who at the beginning of the 20th century brought together from all parts of Europe those Jews able to assess the coming anti-Semitism and join him in the Zionist movement. Like Moses, Herzl led his...
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Ride away on a 'round-the-world adventure of a lifetime-with only a change of clothes and a pearl-handled revolver-in this trascendent novel inspired by the life of Annie Londonderry.
"Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world."-Susan B. Anthony
Just who was Annie Londonderry? She captured the popular imagination with her daring "round the world" trip around the world on two wheels. It was, declared The New York...
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Published when the author was just twenty-three, Life Goes On was Hans Keilson's literary debut, an extraordinary autobiographical novel that paints a dark yet illuminating portrait of Germany between the world wars. It is the story of Herr Seldersen, a Jewish storeowner modeled on Keilson's father, a textile merchant and decorated World War I veteran, along with his wife and son, Albrecht, and the troubles they encounter as the German economy collapses...
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Praetorian Prefect Sextus Burrus has spent his life fighting for the glory of Rome, but that glory has lost its shine. As both his health and his career crumble, he is drawn toward the seemingly inexhaustible peace of one of his Jewish prisoners, the Apostle Paul. The moment Timothy hears his mentor and surrogate father Paul has been arrested, he rushes to Rome. Under the looming threat of execution, Timothy struggles to make sense of what is happening....
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In the summer of 1977, a young woman named Calista finds work on famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder's film set. The filming takes them to Munich, where Wilder grapples with his family history. This tender and intimate novel examines the nature of time and fame, of family, and of the treacherous lure of nostalgia.
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It's July 1940, Italy. A young Polish-born Jewish doctor, rendered stateless by the racial laws of 1938, is unable to flee the country. Henry Raupner is arrested and transported to Ferramonti Concentration Camp in Calabria, destined to become the largest internment camp for Jews in the whole of Italy. This autobiographical novel written by Henry in 1982, takes the reader back to WW2 to experience life behind the barbed wire of Ferramonti, its freezing...
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Eighteen-year-old Hannah Hagen, an outgoing and rebellious gentile girl growing up in the shadow of her father's terminal illness, meets 17-year-old Uri Geller, a modern Orthodox Jewish boy, in unlikely circumstances in the late 1990s.Their meeting brings about Hannah's spiritual and religious transformation, and life in a community that gives her connection and meaning.At the height of the suicide bombings in the early 2000's, Uri and Hannah must...
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Ketem the cat is looking for a new home. Professor Buber's house looks like a good place to live, but the local cats tell Ketem the famous writer doesn't want any pets. He once let his cat distract him when a man came to him for advice, say the cats. Since then, no more cats, they say. But Ketem has a...
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As the anti-Vietnam War movement drew to a close, a twenty-six-year-old unknown playwright began an affair with a glamorous older woman, a feminist activist and acclaimed poet/novelist at the height of her career. What she saw in a neurotic, sexually naïve, poorly educated but very sweet guy was apparent to no one, especially him. Using a wildly self-skewering but oddly sympathetic narrative voice that fulfills The New York Times' assessment of his...
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Comment raconter l'indicible?
Fin de la guerre. Le temps des combats s'achève. Un nouvel espoir se lève. Mais comment vivre auprès de ceux qui n'ont ni vu ni vécu les souffrances et la mort au quotidien? Peut-on se consacrer à l'avenir en laissant les fantmes du passé derrière soi?
Autant d'interrogations que nous livre Marie Geffray, dans ce récit sur la vie d'après-guerre. Dans un style sobre et puissant, l'auteur nous entraîne au...
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Who is Josef Katz? The fun-loving, harmonica-playing dad Sara loves so much? Or the monster who abuses Sara's mother and locks himself in the bathroom, unable to beat his addiction? Eight-year-old Sara Katz huddles under the covers, listening to her parents' muffled arguments and fighting the sleep that inevitably brings her bad dreams-dreams of her terrifying Shadow Father, a heroin addict. Is my daddy not a good father? Is it my job to fix him?...
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La Révolution tranquille d'un musicien témoin du racisme et du nationalisme de son époque.
Elijah est un klezmer, c'est-à-dire un musicien ashkénaze. Il vit en Transylvanie Roumaine, il a vingt-cinq ans en cette année mille neuf cent vingt-cinq. C'est lors d'une de ses prestations qu'il commence une révolution en trois étapes, qui opéreront sa transformation. Il prend d'abord conscience du milieu juif auquel il appartient, du racisme et...
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Avec ses convictions antinazies et son action pour aider la Résistance, Albert Goering a choisi de suivre un chemin bien différent de celui de son frère.
Qui se souvient d'Albert Goering (1895-1966) ? Seul son frère est resté tristement célèbre : Hermann Goering, le chef de la Luftwaffe et impitoyable numéro 2 du régime nazi. Son jeune frère, Albert, fut pourtant son exact contraire : profondément humaniste, antinazi convaincu, il sauva...
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