jewish families

Lili Bandel, having escaped the evacuation of her village by the Nazis, makes her way to Budapest in 1944 where she is taken in by the Becks, a wealthy Jewish family, whose nephew, Paul, a disbarred young lawyer, goes to great lengths to protect his loved ones, including his brother Istvan, a dentist in a nearby city who takes refuge with his assistant.

Astrophysicist Lucienne Kundera understands her eccentric mother even less than the black holes she studies and struggles to find a way to help her mother come to terms with her violent past.

Jacob Green, an adolescent boy with an over-active imagination, learns about life, love, religion, sex, and growing up from his brother and his nanny.

Sophie Applebaum, the middle child in a suburban Jewish family, struggles to find her place in life and love over the course of twenty-five years that leads her from her adolescence in Pennsylvania, to college, the big city, and back home again.

Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi in 1920s New York, rejects her father's conception of Jewish womanhood and makes a stand for independence when she takes a job as an ironer and rents a room of her own.

Newly engaged, twenty-eight-year-old Adam Newman is a prized catch in his tight-knit Jewish suburb of London, but as the plans for his wedding with his high school sweetheart, Rachel Gilbert, begin to close in around him, Rachel's younger cousin Ellie Schneider moves home from New York and she unsettles Adam with her beauty and independence, showing him what freedom is all about.

American college student Jonathan Safran Foer sets out, along with Ukranian travel agent Alex Perchov, Alex's depressive grandfather, and the family dog, in an attempt to find the village where a Ukranian woman might or might not have saved Jonathan's grandfather from the Nazis during World War II.

Hannah Verde and her father are Jews who have escaped the Spanish Inquisition by moving to England where her father sets up his printing business. There she meets Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, who introduces her to the court of King Edward VI as a "holy" fool, because Hannah can sometimes foretell the future. She stays at court after Edward dies to serve Queen Mary I and at the same time is also accepted by her half-sister, Elizabeth. Hannah soon finds her loyalties divided and she is at the center of the intrigue to replace the Catholic Queen Mary with the Protestant Princess Elizabeth.

A collection of poems with a Jewish theme, grouped in the categories of family, marriage, repair of the world, history and interpretation, prayer, and the year.