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Unorthodox match volume 1
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English
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A powerful and moving novel of faith, love, and acceptance, from the international bestselling author of The Devil in Jerusalem. Yaakov is a man of God, a father, a Talmud scholar, and a widower. After failing to save his wife's life, he is struggling both financially and spiritually. Lola is a woman from the secular world who has suffered terrible tragedy and hardship in her life. To find her place she has turned to God and the Orthodox community...
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"Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
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Tfutza Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Yitzchak Eisen and Heinz von Müller. The story of an unlikely friendship and astoundingly successful partnership that bridges Jewish and Gentile societies of Frankfurt of the 1800s. The story of a wealthy family of Jewish textile merchants in prewar Lodz who are hunted by a faceless enemy. The story of Franz von Miller, a rabid antisemite and SS officer on a mission to fulfill his ancestor's last will and testament. The story of brothers Shimshon...
6) The envelope
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Shaar Press
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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Avraham Rosenbaum is an only child of elderly parents, Holocaust survivors with a secret that embitters them and mystifies him. What is it? His father dies and Avraham finds an envelope that will change his life. He is not an only child! He has a sister he has never seen, a woman who has been banished from his parents' lives - but never from their broken hearts. Her name is Rivkah. No, it used to be Rivkah - but now it is Samira, because as a young...
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Tfutza Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Why didn't you return the car to Abba in the end?" Efrat stared at her father-in-law's car, bewildered. "And where's our car?" "I'm - " Eyal cleared his throat uncomfortably, knowing he had to break the news at some point. "I brought it in." Her gaze was mistrustful. "For what?" "I'm having it bulletproofed," he admitted, reading the changing expressions on his wife's face: Surprise, fear, and then pragmatic acceptance. "I read once that it's illegal...