Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past.

Phryne Fisher's contentment at the Jewish Young People's Society Dance is cute short when her dancing partner's father asks her to investigate the strange death of a devout young student in Miss Sylvia Lee's Easy Marker bookshop. Miss Lee has been arrested for the murder, but Phryne believes that she is a very unlikely killer. The investigation leads her into the exotic world of Yiddish, refugees, rabbis, kosher dinners, Kadimah, strange alchemical...

During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry--only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war.

Some of the most beautiful English written here by a French national. Written by a man with an extraordinary breadth of experience for his time, an epic romantic fantasy, and a stark portrayal of the commoner struggling for independence from the morass of religious and governmental autocracy. Written in the dawning of French revolution, and full of interesting historical anthropological tidbits.

“Talia Carner is a skillful and heartfelt storyteller who takes the reader on journey of the senses, into a world long forgotten.”
—Jennifer Lauck, author of Blackbird

“Exquisitely told, with details so vivid you can almost taste the food and hear the voices….A moving and utterly captivating novel that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.”
—Tess Gerritsen, author of The Silent

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In 1944, blonde and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin is saved from a firing squad only to be pressed into service by SS-Kommandant Colonel Aric von Schmidt at the transit camp of Theresienstadt. In order to survive as Aric's secretary, "Stella" must stand by as her people are sent to Auschwitz. When she cautiously appeals to him on their behalf, Aric's compassion gives her hope. Perhaps God has placed her there for such a time as this ...

"From a basket of old clothes, Anna's babushka, Uncle Vladimir's shirt, Aunt Havalah's nightdress, and an apron of Aunt Natasha's become the Keeping Quilt, passed along from mother to daughter for almost a century. For four generations the quilt is a Sabbath tablecloth, a wedding canopy, and a blanket that welcomes babies warmly into the world.In strongly moving pictures that are as heart-warming as they are real, Patricia Polacco tells the story...

After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, Sarah, a Jewish teenager, agrees to help the resistance by posing as the daughter of a wealthy Nazi to gain access to the blueprints of a bomb that could destroy Western Europe.

The Chaimovitch family flee the cruelties of Czarist Russian to face the uncertainties of a new life in Palestine.

"Avital Cohen isn't wearing underpants--woefully, for unsexy reasons. Chronic pelvic pain has forced her to sideline her photography dreams and her love life. It's all she can do to manage her family's kosher bakery, Best Babka in Brooklyn, without collapsing. She needs hired help. And distractingly handsome Ethan Lippmann seems the perfect fit. Except Ethan isn't there to work--he's undercover, at the behest of his ironfisted grandfather. Though...