Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Jewish

Hace 2.000 aNos un predicador llamado JesUs fue condenado a la crucifixiOn . Un hombre llamado SimOn, de Cirene, se vio obligado a ayudar a JesUs a llevar la cruz pesada. Desde entonces, sus descendientes han salvaguardado un secreto increIble.

2,000 years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher named Jesus was condemned to be crucified--an all too familiar spectacle in Jerusalem in those days. A man named Simon, from Cyrene was compelled to help Jesus carry the heavy cross through the crowded streets. What did Simon witness? What did he and Jesus talk about? Eager to learn more...

'An elegantly crafted, beautifully written novel about love, survival and hope against all the odds' William Ryan

'Tightly written and suspenseful... a darkly compassionate fable of human endurance in absolute extremity' Stevie Davies

'...a dark jewel that holds up for examination the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love' Guy Kennaway

'Stephan Collishaw takes your hand and leads you into a world of tragic beauty, inspiring strength and delicate kindness in the midst of horror' Aiste Dirziūte

Fifteen-year-old Yael is...

Babel was born in 1894 into multicultural Odessa's thriving Jewish community....

Red Shoes for Rachel, Sandler s award-winning collection of three novellas, features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate diverse genres, including magic realism, satire, and autobiography, and profound psychological profiles to create touching portrayals of the human experience. Zumoff s translation of Sandler s original Yiddish collection makes the J. I. Segal Award winning volume available to English readers for the first time.

In the collection s eponymous novella, Rachel, a daughter of Holocaust survivors raised in Brighton Beach, encounters a Moldovan Jewish...

The Gig of Their Lives

When a faded HOLLYWOOD LEGEND, a has-been BROADWAY IMPRESARIO, and an out-of-work NEW YORK ACTOR meet at WEST PALM ACRES, an upscale retirement community in West Palm Beach, each of their lives is magically and beautifully revived, proof that there is no expiration date on talent -- or love.

"A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." --Philip Roth

"One of America's most important novelists" (New York Times), the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals--an older lawyer and a young novelist--whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert.

Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized personality have,...

Set in 1917-1925, On the Shore follows the upheaval in an immigrant Jewish family when a son lies about his name and age to fight in WWI. Without telling his family, 16-year-old Shmuel Levinson (a.k.a. Sam Lord) strives to prove his manhood and escape his father's pressure that he become a rabbi by enlisting in the Navy. His smart but rebellious younger sister, Dev, mourns his disappearance, while chafing against her father's expectation that she marry instead of pursuing a career in science. Their successful uncle, Gershon Mendel, confronts failure when he ventures beyond their...

One very special work of art--a Chaim Soutine painting--will connect the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in this enthralling and transporting debut novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles.

It is 1939 in Vienna, and as the specter of war darkens Europe, Rose Zimmer's parents are desperate. Unable to get out of Austria, they manage to secure passage for their young daughter on a kindertransport, and send her to live with strangers in England.

Six years later, the war finally over, a grief-stricken Rose attempts to build a...

Botticelli's Muse is the first of a three-volume series that begins in 1477 and culminates with the execution of Girolamo Savonarola in 1498. Book one spans 1477 to 1478, the time it took Botticelli to paint his masterpiece, La Primavera, and to conceive his most iconic work, Birth of Venus. Both paintings hang in the Uffizi Gallery Museum in Florence, Italy.

Book One: BOTTICELLI'S MUSE

In 1477, Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli never thought his life was going to be easy after being fired by his prestigious patron and friend Lorenzo de' Medici. The...