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In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver comes an immersive fantasy saga, a debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance.“A wonderfully imaginative, wholly enchanting novel of witness, survival, memory, and family that reads like a fairy tale godfathered by Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton in a wild America alive with wonders and devils alike. Thistlefoot shimmers with magic and mayhem and a thrilling emotional momentum.” —Libba Bray, bestselling author of The DivinersThe Yaga siblings—Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist—have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive an inheritance, the siblings agree to meet—only to discover that their bequest isn’t land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs. Thistlefoot, as the house is called, has arrived from the Yagas’ ancestral home outside Kyiv—but not alone. A sinister figure known only as the Longshadow Man has tracked it to American shores, bearing with him violent secrets from the past: fiery memories that have hidden in Isaac and Bellatine’s blood for generations. As the Yaga siblings embark with Thistlefoot on a final cross-country tour of their family’s traveling theater show, the Longshadow Man follows in relentless pursuit, seeding destruction in his wake. Ultimately, time, magic, and legacy must collide—erupting in a powerful conflagration to determine who gets to remember the past and craft a new future.  An enchanted adventure illuminated by Jewish myth and adorned with lyrical prose as tantalizing and sweet as briar berries, Thistlefoot is a sweeping epic rich in Eastern European folklore: a powerful and poignant exploration of healing from multi-generational trauma told by a bold new talent.

Our new favorite trope: Childhood friends. To enemies. To lovers. In a chemistry-filled debut romance.Daniel Rosenberg and Liyah Cohen-Jackson's last conversation-fourteen years ago at summer camp-ended their friendship. Until they find themselves seated next to each other on a plane, and bitterly pick up right where they left off. At least they can go their separate ways again after landing... That is, until Daniel's marketing firm gets hired by the Chicago museum where Liyah works as a junior curator, and they're forced to collaborate with potential career changing promotions on the line.With every meeting and post-work social gathering with colleagues, the tension (and chemistry) between Daniel and Liyah builds until they're forced to confront why they broke apart years ago at camp. But as they find comfort in their shared experiences as Jews of color and fumble towards friendship, can they ignore their growing feelings for each other?With sexy charm and undeniable wit, Rachel Runya Katz's sparkling debut, Thank You For Sharing, proves that if you're open to love, anything is possible."[An] excellent, multilayered look at the experiences of Jews of color in this deftly woven story...Katz successfully portrays how romance meets real life in this terrific debut." - Library Journal (starred review)"Rachel Runya Katz's Thank You for Sharing is a magical love story. This is a poignant, sharp and sexy romance with the kind of complex, big-hearted characters and emotional honesty readers will adore. I loved it!" - Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After"This book wrapped a fist around my heart and refused to let go. Gorgeously written, with two magnetic leads, an irresistible group of friends, and a warmth that radiates from every page. Rachel Runya Katz is a true talent." - Rachel Lynn Solomon, New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Talk"Impossible to put down! A delicious pressure-cooker-style slow burn of a romance, Thank You for Sharing contains the greatest 'only one bed' scene I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Not only is the romance delightful, but Rachel Runya Katz handles the complexity of grief and trauma with the tenderest of touches, creating a safe, welcoming space for her characters and readers alike. I have no doubt that readers will fall head over heels for Liyah and Daniel!" - Alexandria Bellefleur, bestselling, Lambda award-winning author of Written in the Stars and The Fiancée Farce

"Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and 900 pages latter, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Girion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular talker. Ejected from three Jewish day schools for acts of violence and messianic tendencies, Gurion ends up in the Cage, a special lockdown program for the most hopeless cases of Aptakisic Junior High. Separated from his scholarly followers, Gurion becomes a leader of a very sort, with righteous aims building to a revolution of troubling intensity."--Provided by publisher.

Sydney Taylor Honor Award winnerNational Jewish Book Award finalistNeal Shusterman, Margaret A. Edwards Award WinnerNational Book Award winner Neal Shusterman and acclaimed illustrator Andres Vera Martinez present a graphic novel exploring the Holocaust through surreal visions and a textured canvas of heroism and hope.Courage to Dream plunges readers into the Holocaust - one of the greatest atrocities in human history - delving into the core of what it means to face the extinction of everything and everyone you hold dear.This gripping, multifaceted tapestry is woven from Jewish folklore and cultural history. Five interlocking narratives explore one common story - the tradition of resistance and uplift. Neal Shusterman and Andres Vera Martinez are internationally renowned creators who have collaborated on a masterwork that encourages the compassionate, bold reaching for a dream.

I november 1622 inviterede Christian 4. de første jøder til at bosætte sig i landet. Det har indtil nu betydet 400 års danmarkshistorie med et jødisk mindretal. Selvom jøderne i nogle århundreder blev spredt til omkring ti danske byer, har den jødiske minoritet i de sidste 100 år været koncentreret om København. Der er tale om en unik integrationshistorie, hvor jøder i Danmark har markeret sig i det danske samfund på en række områder som kunst/kultur, videnskab, politik, erhvervslivet m.m. Den jødiske historie i Danmark er således omfattende. I denne bog fortæller en række ikke-jødiske forfattere om jødedommen og jøderne i Danmark. Bogens skribenter omfatter politikere, forskere, kristne og muslimer, som med hver deres vidt forskellige udgangspunkter skriver om de danske jøder. Bogens tekster er skrevet af Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen, Martin Schwartz Lausten, Merete Næsbye Christensen, Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Janus Møller Jensen, Otto Rühl, Naveed Baig, Özlem Cekic og Anne Kathrine Giversen.

"Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian--but not an historian of the Jews--is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics"--

?The most comprehensive account of Israeli history yet published.? ? The Sunday Telegraph?An epic history . . . a picture of an Israel that persevered and prevailed, that was determined to survive and was unwilling to trust its independence to others but sought peace whenever possible.? ? Foreign AffairsIsrael is a small and relatively young country, but since the day of its creation more than half a century ago, its turbulent history has placed it squarely at the center of the world stage. For two millennia the Jews, dispersed all over the world, prayed for a return to Zion. Until the nineteenth century, that dream seemed a fantasy, but then a secular Zionist movement was born and soon the initial trickle of Jewish immigrants to Palestine turned into a flood as Jews fled persecution in Europe. From these beginnings, preeminent historian Martin Gilbert traces the events and personalities that would lead to the sudden, dramatic declaration of Statehood in May 1948. From that point on, Israel's history has been dominated by conflict: Suez, the Six Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the Lebanon and the Intifada. Using contemporary documents and eyewitness accounts, and drawing on his own intimate knowledge of the country and its people, Martin Gilbert weaves together a riveting, page-turning history of a powerful and proud nation, from the struggles of its pioneers in the nineteenth century up to the present day.

Hemmelige helte er beretningen om tyskere, som under besættelsen af Danmark 1940-45 hjalp danske jøder og modstandsfolk fra fængsel og henrettelse eller som på anden måde støttede danske interesser og danskere i stort og småt. Det er somme tider stærkt rørende beretninger.Disse modige og gæve mennesker har hidtil været ignoreret, alene fordi de var tyskere, skønt netop dette gør deres indsats for Danmark så meget mere bemærkelsesværdig.Endvidere har man savnet en overbevisende forklaring på, hvorfor den rigsbefuldmægtigede i Danmark, dr. Werner Best, ’Slagteren fra Paris’, afviste alle forsøg på at forfølge de danske jøder for så pludseligt at anmode Hitler om en jødeaktion – hvorefter han saboterede den. Hvordan kunne han i det hele taget slippe afsted med at gennemføre en jødeaktion, som måtte betegnes som en markant fiasko? Der lå en passioneret personstrid med en kynisk kalkule bag.

Nationalitet - jødeHistorien om en af Letlands mest fremtrædende skikkelser i det 20. århundrede, Mavriks Vulfsons, født i januar 1918 af lettiske velhavende jødiske forældre. Glødende kommunist, uddannet ingeniør, selvlært journalist, politiker og professor i historie (kommunismen efter 1918).Mavriks Vulfsons var fire år i Den røde Hær under 2. verdenskrig og modtog tre militære hædersbevisninger. I hæren begyndte hans glansbillede af Sovjetunionen at flosse i kanten sammen med hans syn på kommunismen. Under krigen blev han også journalist, viceredaktør på hæravisen. Efter krigen arbejdede han først på en kommunistisk avis, og siden som redaktør på den mest liberale avis nogetsteds i Sovjet, Voice of Riga, som indførte en helt ny stil i den del af verden med overskrifter, humor og annoncer. Han blev populær og fik sit eget tv program.I 1988 var han den første i sin del af verden, som offentligt talte om, at Letland var en besat stat. Han var medstifter af den lettiske bevægelse for perestrojka og uafhængighed. I 1989 blev han valgt til Den øverste Sovjet og siden til Letlands parlament. Han bad Gorbatjov om at slippe Baltikum og giver et interessant billede af samme Gorbatjov. Med sine baltiske kolleger fremskaffede han kopier af den historiske studehandel om Baltikum mellem Tyskland og Sovjet - Molotov-Ribbentrop aftalen - og var en drivkraft i Baltikums genvundne uafhængighed.Bogen giver denne fascinerende personligheds historie, og man undrer sig gang på gang over, at han stadig er i live, så farligt som han har levet. Forfatteren har igennem fortællingen givet historiske "flashes" til understøttelse af den turbulens, Baltikum og Letland har været udsat for. Bogen er derfor ikke alene en meget spændende mands fantastiske og modige liv men også et historisk indblik i Baltikum, der i så mange år har været næsten negligeret af omverdenen.

I Rygtet om astrakan følger vi i nogle år to jødiske kammerater, der emigrerer fra Polen i slutningen af 1930’erne for at gøre lykken i Colombia. De møder en tropisk verden med fremmede frugter, farver og skikke. De introduceres via det jødiske samfund og prøver at finde deres plads og opbygge et nyt liv i dette land, der er fuldt af forhindringer, fordomme, modsætninger og muligheder. Hovedstaden Bogotá bliver praktisk talt en af bogens hovedpersoner gennem intense, sansede beskrivelser af denne nye verdens mennesker, gader, huse, arbejdspladser, kriminalitet og korruption. De to kammerater har vidt forskellig holdning til, hvad man i en ny verden stiller op med den gamle verdens traditioner, som man bærer i sig: Holder man fast, eller omstiller man sig? Det viser sig at blive en konfliktfyldt og dramatisk proces. Og det er bogens tidløse og almengyldige problematik. Romanen udkom oprindelig på spansk i 1991 og etablerede Azriel Bibliowicz som en historiefortæller om jødisk migration.

Historien om familien Goldstein fra Flensburg. Hvordan faren, der har en smykkeforretning, dagen efter krystalnatten bliver kørt til kz-lejren Neuengamme. Her tilbringer han syv år. Hvordan han kommer med de hvide busser i april 1945 til Malmø, hvor hans kone og datter bor.

The revised and updated edition of Azerbaijan Jews in Sports reveals the achievements of Jewish star athletes, past and present. The information is presented in an entertaining way that will appeal to many readers and fans of the sport.It is particularly notable that the book, written by seasoned sports expert and educator Asif Bayramov, is Muslim by faith.The heroes of his book overcame tremendous challenges to achieve greatness, overcame hate, and persevered through their belief in freedom and human dignity.The book teaches and promotes tolerance and friendship between people of various faiths.It contributes to the fight against bias and discrimination against religious minorities, including the Jewish community.The book is especially valuable and important now that hatred and antisemitism are on the rise in the USA and everywhere in the world.The book is intended for high school and university students and may be useful to specialists in humanizing their thinking.

The fifteen memorable narratives in The Girls of Jerusalem and Other Stories reveal a new understanding of Jewish history and memory.

The book provides a global perspective on the history of Jewish law during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on the codification works of R. Joseph Karo.

When Grandpa Flaschner retired in the 1960s, his daughter, thinking of ways to keep him busy, came up with the idea that he should write out the stories he told about his childhood. She typed his handwritten stories, and his grandson wove the stories into a semblance of order. Grandpa Flaschner's stories, translated from Yiddish, provide a colorful history of life in a small town in Galicia. Being thoughtful of other generations, he left these memories for their sharing. His voice speaks out to you in his declarative and straightforward way, with a mild Yiddish accent. If you listen well, you also hear a gentle and lyrical, sometimes sardonic, soul."We have here an authentic voice, telling in detail what life in a Galician shtetl (Mikulince) was like around the turn of the 19th to 20th century. Every detail feels important, from the description of mud to the tailors who sewed clothes for a young married woman to last her lifetime." Joan Moscovitch Webb

A month after Lauren estranges herself from both of her parents, peculiar things start happening in her apartment. Ants multiply and disappear. Moth larvae emerge from beneath her bed and consume everything she owns. Each intrusion is weirder than the next as a series of events that rival the Biblical plagues descends upon Lauren's home. Is she being punished for leaving her family? Lauren has no idea how that would even be possible, but she is determined to find out. In this haunting and poignant memoir, a no-nonsense Jewish girl from the Midwest follows the clues to an energy healer, two shamans, and an ex-Catholic nun. As the startling truth is revealed, Lauren finds herself stretching her mind and her beliefs as far as they will go. And then even further.As Lauren's journey continues to unfold, she discovers that she is bound to her family in ways that she never could have imagined. Lauren learns that the energy of leaving persists long after we close a door, and the act of moving on is often more complicated than it seems. Now, Lauren must find the courage to go back and face herself and her roots so that she can be truly free.This is the story of the ghosts who haunt us, and what it takes to confront them.

Das Zählen der 49 Tage zwischen dem jüdischen Pessach-Fest und dem Wochenfest Schawuot (Pfingsten) am 50. Tag, die sogenannte Omer-Zeit, ist in der Tora geboten (Lev 23,15-16) und wird im Judentum bis heute praktiziert. Die jüdische Mystik (Kabbala) nutzte diese Zeit, um spirituelles Wachstum anzuregen. Beim Zählen der Tage während des Getreide-Wachstums solle man nicht nur im Kopf Tage zählen, sondern diese Tage mit besonderer Achtsamkeit erleben. Dieser Omer-Kalender will dazu helfen, die 49 Tage achtsam zu gestalten. Er bietet für jeden Tag den Lobspruch zur Zählung des Omer, die Angabe des Tages und der Sefira des Tages nach der klassischen jüdischen Mystik, eine Meditation passend zum Thema des Tages, einen Satz des Tages, Anregungen zum persönlichen Nachdenken und eigenen spirituellen Wachstum, sowie Raum für Notizen. Die sieben Wochen werden unterteilt mit ganzzeitigen, stimmungsvollen Photos zum Thema Getreidewachstum.Das Buch gibt einen Einblick in eine im Judentum typische, aber im deutschen Sprachraum noch wenig bekannte Tradition von Mussar (spirituelles Wachstum) und Mystik.

The relationship between philosophy and Jewish thought has often been a matter of lively discussion. But despite its long tradition and the variety of positions that have been taken in it, the debate is far from being closed and keeps meeting new challenges. So far, research on this topic has mostly been based on historically diachronic references, analogies, or contacts among philosophers and Jewish thinkers. The contributors to this volume, however, propose another way to advance the debate: Rather than adopting a historical approach, they consider the intersections of philosophy and Jewish thought from a theoretical perspective.

Prag 1939. Da nazisterne invaderer byen, ved den unge jødiske mor Eva, at hun kun kan beskytte sin datter Miriam ved at sende hende væk. Også selv om det betyder, at hun aldrig ser hende igen. I London melder Pamela sig frivilligt til at hjælpe med at finde pladser til de jødiske børn, der ankommer fra Europa. Pamela bliver ven med en lille pige og beslutter sig for at tage hende med hjem. "Pigen på perron 1" er inspireret af virkelighedens Kindertransport, som under 2. Verdenskrig reddede tusindvis af jødiske børn ved at sætte dem på tog til London.Om forfatteren: Britiske Gill Thompson har en MA i Creative Writing og underviste i engelsk i næsten fyrre år, før hun gjorde alvor af en gammel drøm og blev forfatter. Siden debuten med "Verdener imellem" os har hun vundet et stort og dedikeret publikum til sine hjertegribende historiske romaner.

Pablo H. Vivanco zeichnet in dieser Publikation die Entwicklung des Liberalismus in der Habsburger-Monarchie über einen Zeitraum von zwei Dekaden aus politischer, kultureller und journalistischer Perspektive nach. Der berühmten These des "Versagens" des Wiener und europäischen Liberalismus und seiner Sublimierung in Kunst und Kultur der Jahrhundertwendezeit hält der Verfasser eine Differenzierung der politischen liberalen Öffentlichkeit in Wien entgegen, die sich frühzeitig und aus Anlass prägender Ereignissen von 1861 (Februar-Verfassung), 1867 ("Ausgleich") und 1873 (Börsenkrach) herausbildete und sich mit der ursprünglich breiten gesellschaftlichen Repräsentationskraft der 1848er Generation identifizierte. Konstitutionelle Tageszeitungen (z.B. "Neue Freie Presse", "Neues Wiener Tagblatt") bezogen in diesem Sinne auch Positionen gegen den politischen Katholizismus und aufziehenden deutschnationalistischen Antisemitismus. Liberale Presseorgane bilden somit, ebenso wie die publizistischen Beiträge des österreichisch-jüdischen Historikers, Journalisten und Politikers Heinrich Friedjung (1851-1920), Markierungspunkte in dieser neuen Geschichte liberaler Kultur und Öffentlichkeit in Wien, die durch den Transformationsprozess zu den demokratischen Massenparteien aus dem politischen Gedächtnis verdrängt wurde.

Her parents didn't want her. Now she carries her mom's ashes in a plush knapsack.And everywhere she goes, she's tangled up in stories.

In this Boomer memoir, Driving Miss Daisy meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. With lilting eloquence, Summer Brenner captures the tumultuous fifties and sixties of a genteel Jewish family in Atlanta, with the South's oppressive segregation and anti-Semitism. The family drama is fraught: the brother is a schizophrenic, the mother a Gucci-clad Medusa, and the father a suicide. After extensive travels, Brenner frees herself in the Bay Area to become "more beatnik than debutante." Framed by historic events, this is the moving coming-of-age story of a generation.

She took him in when no one else would. She didn't expect to fall in love... London 1939. As war casts a dark shadow in his homeland Germany, journalist Sebastien wanders the grey fog-filled streets. His heart breaks as he remembers his hurried goodbye to his mother and sister. But even if everyone in London looks at him with suspicion in their eyes, he knows he made the right choice. It was the only way to keep his family safe from the Nazis hunting him... When he sees a notice for a lodger in a pretty house on a cobbled street, he doesn't allow hope to flare within him. He's been rejected at every door he's knocked on. But when Finley, with her warm brown eyes and sparkling smile, agrees to rent him the room, he allows himself to see a chink of light in the darkness. And as they grow closer over cups of cocoa in the cosy kitchen, love begins to develop. Sebastien knows that he can't stay hidden in Finley's warmth forever though. He has to join the fight. It's the only way to save his family and put a stop to the horrors in the country he once called home. When he leaves, they promise to keep their hope and love alive. But Finley has something that she hasn't been able to tell Sebastien; something that makes her life alone in the city all the more dangerous. And as the bombs rain down in London, and Sebastien risks his life in France, will she ever get the chance to share her secret with him? A completely life-affirming and tear-jerking read about love, friendship and being a light for those who need to brave the dark. Fans of The Nightingale and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society will fall in love with The Only Light in London. What everyone is saying about The Only Light in London: 'Such a truly beautiful emotional read. Before you read this you must make sure you have tissues as you will shed lots of tears. Honestly, I just loved this book. It opens your eyes to the sad and difficult times people went through during the war but also the happy times and how everyone pulled together.' Jessica's Book Biz, ¿¿¿¿¿ 'I am quickly falling in love with the author and the stories she weaves. There is just something majestic with the way the story flows. I get sucked in and don't realize until I finish that time has passed... I honestly cannot wait until this book releases in audiobook to hear it read! Don't let this one get past you readers!' Goodreads reviewer, ¿¿¿¿¿ 'Phenomenal... From that first sentence, I never put the book down again... I was so invested in their lives that the heartbreaks and losses that came with the war in the second half felt profoundly personal. I've never read a book set during the war that made me laugh out loud, only to make me weep a few pages later. This strange occurrence happened frequently throughout the book, confusing my grandchildren and our dogs... Many serious issues are woven brilliantly into the story but with unexpected comic relief too. The icing on the cake is a beautiful love story. Five stars aren't enough for this book... I loved it!' Goodreads reviewer, ¿¿¿¿¿

The rich and varied history of the Jewish People is reflected in the glorious diversity of their food and cooking, and there are recipes here from all over the world, including an easy-to-follow guide to kashrut and kosher cooking.

THIS BOOK LOOKS AT AN EXTRAORDINARY TIME IN ISRAEL'S HISTORY. THE MAJORITY OF ITS PEOPLE WERE LOCATED IN PERSIA, NOT IN THEIR HOMELAND. GOD HAD USED HIS POWER OVER BABYLONIAN RULERS TO CAUSE THEM TO EXPAND THEIR EMPIRE. MANY JEWS WERE BROUGHT TO BABYLON AS CAPTIVES. IN A SHORT TIME THE PERSIAN EMPIRE EXPANDED TO INCLUDE THE BABYLONIAN, THUS THIS EPISODE OF JEWISH HISTORY.