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Get the Summary of Kati Marton's The Great Escape in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Great Escape" by Kati Marton chronicles the lives of several prominent Hungarian individuals who left their mark on the world through their contributions to film, science, and literature. The book delves into the golden era of Budapest, highlighting the city's transformation into a cultural and intellectual hub, particularly...
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Get the Summary of Judy Batalion's The Light of Days in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Light of Days" by Judy Batalion chronicles the valiant efforts of Jewish women in Nazi-occupied Poland who actively participated in resistance movements against the German occupation during World War II. The book delves into the lives of these women, highlighting their bravery, resourcefulness, and determination to fight...
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En el cuadrilátero, Jakub Szapiro inspira respeto entre la comunidad judía, que lo considera un héroe, pero en las calles de Varsovia, donde opera como sicario de una poderosa organización criminal, despierta auténtico pavor. Sin embargo, la violencia y la intimidación tienen sus ventajas: Jakub vive rodeado de lujos, deleitándose en todos los privilegios que el mundo del crimen ha puesto a su alcance mientras el nazismo se cierne sobre el...
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National Jewish Book Award Finalist: A "sophisticated and engaging" novel of three innocents drawn into a criminal scheme in modern-day Jerusalem (The Wall Street Journal).
Brokenhearted haberdasher Isaac Markowitz has fled the Lower East Side for Israel, where he now assists a renowned elderly rabbi who tends to the hungry and hopeless in his courtyard. Tamar is an American hipster-turned-observant Jew who has come to Jerusalem to find a devout...
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Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society
A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation's most important economic sector
In the nineteenth century, Jewish merchants created a thriving niche economy in the United States' most important industry-cotton-positioning themselves at the forefront of expansion during the Reconstruction Era. Jewish success in the cotton...
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When Iberian Jews were converted to Catholicism under duress during the Inquisition, many struggled to retain their Jewish identity in private while projecting Christian conformity in the public sphere. To root out these heretics, the courts of the Inquisition published checklists of koshering practices and "grilled" the servants, neighbors, and even the children of those suspected of practicing their religion at home.
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Workaholic Isaac hasn't been back to his hometown since his father's funeral two years earlier, pushing his family away because of a painful secret. Hanukkah and a forced vacation lure him back to Atlanta, where he's reunited with his two lost loves- an old motorcycle and his sister's best friend Giada. While rediscovering his passion for both the bike and the woman, Isaac rebuilds his heart.
Giada has lost her Christmas spirit since returning home...
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Will it take a miracle to turn this small-town second chance reunion into true love? It's Hanukkah in the small town of Harmony Springs, and Abigail Cohen is surrounded by latkes, holiday candles, and a mother who seems determined to push her into the arms of the one man she's vowed to forget. Abby got over Ethan Weiss years ago. She moved away. She became a doctor. She hardly ever thinks about her first true love. But when her mother has a medical...
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Jesus is known to have lived a life of love, justice and mercy. His actions and teachings are permeated by these values, and they continue to inspire and guide millions of people around the world to this day.Jesus preached love of neighbor as one of the most important commandments, teaching the importance of loving not only friends and family but also strangers and even enemies. He exemplified this love through his actions, helping those in need and...
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For eighty-two-year-old Chavah, the holidays are just not the same without a house full of children and a husband to lean on. The only Pandemic-Passover solution they find? A Zoom seder. But technology isn't enough. Chavah longs for close contact. Her daughters want to protect her but will they protect her straight into loneliness? Gene's roommate kicked him out on the first night of Passover. He needs a place to stay, but rooms are hard to come by....
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Hanukkah is the Festival of Lights, celebrating an ancient miracle with candles, fried foods, and family gatherings. What better time to find true love?
From Regency Scotland to contemporary New York City, from sweet short stories to super-spicy novellas, Eight Kisses spreads a feast of love. Interfaith opposites attract. A small-town reunion offers a second chance. An interracial couple rises above initial misunderstandings. Online dating yields...
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The book you hold before you is no ordinary Haggadah. If you've ever suffered through a Seder, you're well aware of the fact that the entire evening can last as long as the exodus from Egypt itself. There are countless stories, dozens of blessings, and far too many handwashings while the meal turns cold. Now prepare to be entertained by another version of the book that's responsible for this interminable tradition.
With this hilarious parody Haggadah...
13) Hanukkah Hearts
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Relocated to New York City from the Midwest, Becky Cohen follows her dream by snagging a choice entry level job at Homes and Ralph Publishing. Hanukkah is not a recognized holiday there, so Becky must remain in New York. Squished into a tiny two-bedroom apartment with three young women, Becky misses her family's home and the rowdy companionship of her brothers. She plans to Skype with her family during their Hanukkah celebration, until her father...
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"I'm not old," quips Marjie Zacks, "I'm experienced."
With the same inimitable wit found in her first book, It All Ends Up in a Parfait Glass, Marjie takes readers for a romp down memory lane and into the joys and absurdities of her "young senior" years. Marjie tells tales on herself that will have readers laughing one minute and tearing up the next. She examines questions like:
• Why can't we see or hear as well when we wear a medical...
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As the great Mel Brooks said, " Humor is just another defense against the universe" - and in these chaotic times, an irreverent and chaotic book like When the Rains Came, will definitely help you gird your loins AND laugh your head off. This entertaining collection of flash fiction, has been mysteriously spun out of the very deep, extended, chaotic, intense, personal experiences of a unique, one-of-a-kind person....
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Th3K1ng0fK1ng5Tommy is a teen genius who dominates the online world of Call of Duty (COD). In reality, the brilliant but nerdy Tommy is a constant target for schoolyard bullies. That is until the new kid, the athletic Ethan comes to town; a Jewish kid whose dead Grandfather talks to Tommy and guides him toward his goal of developing a device that will allow him to travel into the Fourth Dimension while promising grampa Joshua he will watch out for...
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Growing up in Tzfat at the turn of the twentieth century, Esther does not know what to expect when she marries Moshe, a trunk-maker with dreams of following his brothers to start a new life in America. Tzfat may not be perfect . . . but what about the challenges of the new world, so strange and so far from everything Esther and Moshe have ever known?Those challenges, after all, are considerable-from the constant economic struggle of feeding and housing...
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With Blue's father in prison for selling marijuana and his mother estranged for over the last seven years, Blue is doing well, all considering. As the second addition to the not-so-nuclear Dixon family of Lisa, her ten-year-old son, Dwight, and the retired, Jewish introvert, Av, Blue finds himself living in a much better area of Halifax, Nova Scotia, going to a much better school and for the first time, actually applying himself academically as he...
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Back in the USSA is a remarkable non-fiction hybrid that, in so many ways, defies classification. Seen through the eyes of expatriate author, Boris Dragunsky, it is a work in three stages. In part a Russian Jewish family saga that begins inside Stalin's Soviet Union during World War II, it introduces us to some remarkable historical insights, including a portrait of Boris's uncle, Soviet Colonel General David Dragunsky (Twice Hero of the Soviet Union),...
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The short stories in Dance Me to the End of Love reflect the real day-to-day life of ordinary people of different ages, genders, professions, and ethnicities with connections to a believable world of imagined events. They take place in the former Soviet Union, in the United States, and in the emigration in-between. Love, marriage, infidelity, disillusionment, intimacy and the lack of it, rootlessness are subjects that move from an improbable reality...
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