Jüdische Literatur

Charwood

Autor: Josh Schlossberg

Indignation (Vintage International)

Autor: Philip Roth

Du sollst nicht morden: Der Rabbi und der Kommissar 1

Autor: Michel Bergmann
Erzähler: Dietmar Bär
Verlag: SchallundWahn

Jewish Futures: Science Fiction from the World's Oldest Diaspora

Herausgeber: Michael A. Burstein

Die Villa in Berlin: Eine jüdische Familiengeschichte 1924-1934

Autoren: Feinberg, Anat

The Tetouan Trilogy: "Mois Benarroch is the best mediterranean Sephardi writer in Israel." Haaretz. (La trilogía tetuaní / The Tetouan Trilogy הטרילוגיה התטואנית)

Autor: Mois Benarroch

To the End of the Land

David Grossman, Jessica Cohen (translator)

From one of Israel's most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life - the greatest human drama - and the cost of war.

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking, she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the "notifiers" who might darken her door with the worst possible news.

Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along an unlikely companion: their former best friend and her former lover, Avram, once a brilliant artistic spirit. Avram served in the army alongside Ilan when they were young, but their lives were forever changed one weekend when the two jokingly had Ora draw lots to see which of them would get the few days' leave being offered by their commander-a chance act that sent Avram into Egpyt and the Yom Kippur War, where he was brutally tortured as P O W. In the aftermath, a virtual hermit, he refused to keep in touch with the family and has never met the boy.

Now, as Ora and Avram sleep out in the hills, ford rivers, and cross valleys, avoiding all news from the front, she gives him the gift of Ofer, word by word; she supplies the whole story of her motherhood, a retelling that keeps Ofer very much alive for Ora and for the listener, and opens Avram to human bonds undreamed of in his broken world. Their walk has a "war and peace" rhythm, as their conversation places the most hideous trials of war next to the joys and anguish of raising children. Never have we seen so clearly the reality and surreality of daily life in Israel, the currents of ambivalence about war within one household, and the burdens that fall on each generation anew.

Grossman's rich imagining of a family in love and crisis makes for one of the great antiwar novels of our time.

Don't Stop The Carnival: A Novel

Herman Wouk

Ogottogott - Wie glaubt man und wenn ja, warum?

Jan-Christof Scheibe

The Sisters of the Winter Wood

Rena Rossner

The Tenth Muse

Catherine Chung

The first thing I remember being said of me with any consistency was that I was intelligent - and I recognised even then that it was a comment levelled at me with as much disapproval as admiration.   Still, I never tried to hide or suppress my mind as some girls do, and thank God, because that would have been the beginning of the end.

From childhood, Katherine knows she is different and that her parents are not who they seem to be. But in becoming a mathematician, she faces the most human of problems - who is she? What is the cost of love, and what is the cost of ambition?     

On her quest to conquer the Riemann Hypothesis, the greatest unsolved mathematical problem of her time, she turns to a theorem with a mysterious history that holds both the lock and key to her identity and to secrets long buried during World War I I.  

Forced to confront some of the biggest events of the 20th century and rethink everything she knows of herself, Katherine strives to take her place in the world of higher mathematics, reclaiming the voices of the women who came before her whose love of the language of numbers connects them across generations.   

The Tenth Muse is a brilliant, involving novel asking questions about who gets to tell the story of intellectual endeavour and those who lost everything during World War I I.   

Alter (Yiddish)

Jacob Dinezon

kaddish.com: A novel

Nathan Englander

The celebrated Pulitzer finalist and prize-winning author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank delivers his best work yet, a streamlined comic masterpiece about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father.

Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies, it's his responsibility to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for 11 months. To the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses - imperiling the fate of his father's soul. To appease her, Larry hatches an ingenious if cynical plan, hiring a stranger through a website called kaddish. com to recite the prayer and shepherd his father's soul safely to rest.

Sharp, irreverent, hilarious, and wholly irresistible, Englander's tale of a son who makes a diabolical compromise ingeniously captures the tensions between tradition and modernity - a book to be devoured in a single sitting whose pleasures and provocations will be savored long after.

People of the Book: A Novel

Geraldine Brooks

Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called "a tour de force"by the San Francisco Chronicle, this ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in 15th-century Spain.

When it falls to Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, to conserve this priceless work, the series of tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding - an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair - only begin to unlock its deep mysteries and unexpectedly plunges Hanna into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics.

The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss

David Bentley Hart

Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion " God" frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. Are those engaged in these arguments even talking about the same thing? In a wide-ranging response to this confusion, esteemed scholar David Bentley Hart pursues a clarification of how the word " God" functions in the world's great theistic faiths. Ranging broadly across Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Vedantic and Bhaktic Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, Hart explores how these great intellectual traditions treat humanity's knowledge of the divine mysteries. Constructing his argument around three principal metaphysical moments, "being, consciousness, and bliss", the author demonstrates an essential continuity between our fundamental experience of reality and the ultimate reality to which that experience inevitably points. Thoroughly dismissing such blatant misconceptions as the deists' concept of God, as well as the fundamentalist view of the Bible as an objective historical record, Hart provides a welcome antidote to simplistic manifestoes. In doing so, he plumbs the depths of humanity's experience of the world as powerful evidence for the reality of God and captures the beauty and poetry of traditional reflection upon the divine.

Etzel Andergast

Jakob Wassermann

The Last Rose of Shanghai: A Novel (English Edition)

Autor: Weina Dai Randel

THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF JERUSALEM: The Dazzling #1 International Bestseller (English Edition)

Autor: Sarit Yishai-Levi

Die Last der Erinnerung

Autor: Cornelia Lotter

Deception (English Edition)

Autor: Philip Roth

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