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It is late March 1868. In Munich, composer Richard Wagner is completing his new opera Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg. It has been a difficult few years for him, and much depends upon the success of this new work. Following the tense auditions, an anonymous note warns Wagner that the premiere will be the date of his ruination.

Roaming India in 1939 and the early 1940s, two flawed but extraordinary men latch onto each other with shocking consequences as each follows an ill-fated quest for “enlightenment.” Moses, a Polish Jew, is fleeing both the Nazis and his own failed marriage; Sahadeva, an itinerant Hindu monk, is trying to resolve his crisis of religious belief. Both men find themselves embroiled in hardship, shame, and chaos, stumbling into scandal and ultimately tragedy.

Thirteen-year-old Lisa has escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. She arrives in London unable to speak a word of English, her few belongings crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind. Lonely and homesick, Lisa is adopted by a childless couple. But when the Blitz blows her new home apart, she wakes up in hospital with no memory of who she is or where she came from. The authorities give her a new name and dispatch her to a children's home. With the war raging around her, what will become of Lisa now?

Die Brüder Karl und Paul Effinger brechen aus Süddeutschland nach Berlin auf, um Schrauben zu produzieren. Dort heiraten sie in die alteingesessene Familie Oppner ein, es gelingt der gesellschaftlicher Aufstieg. Doch spätestens nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg beginnen die bürgerlichen Gewissheiten zu bröckeln. Auch die prachtvollen Feste können nicht mehr über den sich immer brutaler äußernden Antisemitismus in der Gesellschaft hinwegtäuschen. Die Auflehnung der jungen Generation wirbelt die gutbürgerliche Familie zusätzlich durcheinander.

Roger Ferris is one of the CIA's soldiers in the war on terrorism. He has come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an intense mission: to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as "Suleiman". Ferris' plan for getting inside Suleiman's tent is inspired by a masterpiece of British intelligence during World War II: he prepares a body of lies, literally the corpse of an imaginary CIA officer who appears to have accomplished the impossible by recruiting an agent within the enemy's ranks.

"Mimi, it's me. Nick," he whispered, his Nazi uniform a mockery of the boy who once promised to protect her. She stared through her tears at eyes she'd never forgotten—now belonging to the enemy. When the Nazis invade Paris, the peaceful world Mimi shares with her beloved grandmother Chloe—is shattered forever. In a single, brutal day, police tear through their neighborhood, ripping Jewish families from their homes and destroying lives built over generations.

In a quiet lakeside hotel nestled in the shadow of the Italian Alps, seventeen-year-old Giulia Leone lives a life untouched by war – until the day ruthless German SS officers arrive in the village . Her father's hotel is no longer a place of peace, but a trap for the Jewish guests who have taken refuge there. Among them is Ester, the bright, spirited girl who has become Giulia's closest companion. When a daring plan to help Ester's family escape spirals into chaos, Giulia is the only one who gets away.

A spellbinding novel of World War II based on the little-known history of the X Troop—a team of European Jews who escaped the Continent only to join the British Army and return home to exact their revenge on Hitler’s military. A lone soldier wearing a German uniform stumbles into a British...

La vie réglée d'une des filles Reich, famille juive ultra-orthodoxe de Jérusalem, bascule lorsque la brigade des mœurs, qui sévit clandestinement dans son quartier, la soupçonne d'être une femme adultère (en hébreu sotah). Prête à tout pour ne pas déshonorer sa famille, elle est contrainte de s'exiler. Dans le monde vertigineux de New York, ses convictions seront mises à l'épreuve. Comment redonner un sens à sa vie ? Ce roman, inspiré d'une histoire vraie, nous fait pénétrer au cœur d'une communauté qui vit au rythme de rites ancestraux.

Agli inizi degli anni Quaranta, il maggiore delle SS Hans Lichtblau viene messo alla guida di un programma di ricerca che utilizza i prigionieri dei campi di concentramento come cavie, ma anche come assistenti, inquadrati nel Kommando Gardenia. Sullo sfondo degli esperimenti, la "soluzione finale del problema ebraico", l'avanzata nazista in Russia e la colonizzazione dei territori dell'Est, poi, inaspettata, la disfatta e la caduta di Berlino.

שלוש נובלות מכונסות בקובץ הר העצה הרעה: "הר העצה הרעה", "אדון לוי", "געגועים". המקום, בכל שלושת הסיפורים, הוא ירושלים; הזמן - שלהי תקופת המנדט; וחומר הבעירה של שלושתם הוא הגעגוע. בהר העצה הרעה, על פי המסורת הנוצרית, התכנסה מועצת הכוהנים שהחליטה למסור את ישו לצליבה. לימים נבנה על ההר ארמונו המרהיב של הנציב העליון הבריטי, מוקד המאבק בין השליטים הבריטים לבין היהודים בארץ ישראל.

בספרה השאפתני ביותר, ומבחינות רבות גם האקטואלי ביותר, משרטטת יוכי ברנדס את סיפור חייו של רבי עקיבא מזווית ראות חדשה. היא מפענחת באורח סיפורי מבריק וסוחף את הכרעותיו הדרמטיות של הרועה הבּוּר, שבגיל מבוגר הפך למנהיג כריזמאטי, ומע ניקה לנו הזדמנות נדירה לפגוש את חז"ל לא כמושג ערטילאי, אלא כבני אדם. בני אדם משכמם ומעלה, אך גם יצריים מאוד, חרדים למעמדם, פוגעים ונפגעים.

Against the simmering tensions of summer 1939, a group of evacuees flee Vienna for the sanctuary of Newtown House in Ireland. Haunted by their pasts and those they have left behind, Gisela Müller and Hans Schmitt struggle to settle into their new, rural Irish home. Tasked with being a companion to the precocious and spoiled Nola de Freyne, Gisela misses her previous scholarly life terribly.

It is 1944 in Budapest, and the Germans have invaded. Miklos Nagy risks his life and confronts the dreaded Adolf Eichmann in an attempt save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the death camps. But no one could have foreseen the consequences.... It is 2005 in Sydney, and Annika Barnett sets out on a journey that takes her to Budapest and Tel Aviv to discover the truth about the mysterious man who rescued her grandmother in 1944.

Twenty years of addiction to cloud, a drug which wipes the user’s short-term memory, have left single mom Mellie with her mind in fragments. With the help of a tough-minded sponsor, and motivated by her own medically challenged daughter, Mellie clings to a fragile sobriety. Then, on the evening of her 29th day sober, a stranger pulls into her driveway and her heart surges. However, when Mellie’s pursuit of this man and the past they may share threatens her sponsor, Mellie will have to put her tiny family and her recovery at risk in hopes of saving the woman who saved her first.

In the foment of Weimar-era Berlin, the Oppermann brothers represent tradition and stability. One brother oversees the furniture chain founded by their grandfather, one is an eminent surgeon, and one a respected critic. They are rich, cultured, liberal, and public-spirited, proud inheritors of the German Enlightenment. They don't see Hitler as a threat. Then, to their horror, the Nazis come to power, and the Oppermanns and their children are faced with the terrible decision of whether to adapt—if they can—flee or try to fight.

בחורף של שנת 1959 עולמו של שמואל אַש הצעיר מתהפך עליו: חברתו עוזבת אותו, הוריו פושטים רגל, והוא נאלץ לקטוע את לימודיו באוניברסיטה. לאחר ייאוש הוא מוצא לו מפלט ופרנסה בבית אבן ירושלמי נושן, ששָׁם עליו לשמש איש שיחה לזקן נכה ושנון. כשהוא מגיע לביתו החדש פוגש שמואל אישה יפה ומושכת ושמה עתליה אברבנאל, המבוגרת ממנו כמעט פי שניים, והיא רומזת לו שמוטב שלא יתאהב בה, פן יסולק מן המקום כמו קודמיו.

קובץ הסיפורים ארצות התן ראה אור לראשונה בשנת 1965, וסימן כבר אז את עוצמתו של עמוס עוז כמספר מחונן. הוא היה בן 23 בלבד כאשר כתב שלושה מתוך עשרת הסיפורים המכונסים כאן; בכולם מופיעים המאפיינים שילוו את יצירתו בשנים הבאות: תיאורים וירטואוזיים של נוף נפשי וגיאוגרפי, תובנות פסיכולוגיות ומוסריות , שילוב נקודות המבט ואותה רגישות נדירה לשפה העברית.

“Don’t tell anyone we’re Democrats,” warned Mother when we moved to Bakersfield, CA, a town often referred to, back then, as redneck central. “And for heaven’s sake, don’t tell them you’re Jewish.”

When a controversial celebrity rabbi drops dead over his matzoh ball soup at the famed Canter's Deli in Los Angeles, retired private eye Amos Parisman - a 60ish, no-nonsense Jewish detective who lives with his addled wife in Park La Brea - is hired by the temple's board to make sure everything is kosher. As he looks into what seems to be a simple, tragic accident, the ante is raised when more people start to die or disappear, and Amos uncovers a world of treachery and hurt that shakes a large LA Jewish community to its core.