Jüdische Literatur 09

Barney's Version (Vintage International)

Autor: Mordecai Richler

Bin ich deutscher oder jüdischer Schriftsteller?: Betrachtungen eines Kosmopoliten

Herausgeber: Nele Holdack, Marje Schuetze-Coburn, Michaela Ullmann
Autor: Lion Feuchtwanger

Yentl the Yeshiva Boy and Other Stories: including Short Friday (Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions)

Autor: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Charwood

Autor: Josh Schlossberg

Indignation (Vintage International)

Autor: Philip Roth

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

Herausgeber: Michael A. Burstein

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

Daddy: Weltbürger wider Willen

Nina Pfeffer Câmara, George Pfeffer

Die Apokalypse: (Limitierte Luxusausgabe)

The Orphan's Tale

Pam Jenoff

In Nazi-occupied Holland, 17-year-old Noa snatches a baby from a train bound for the concentration camps, fleeing with him into the snowy wilderness surrounding the train tracks. Passing through the woods is a German circus - a troupe of waifs and strays, led by the infamous Herr Neuroff. They agree to take in Noa and the baby, on one condition: to earn her keep, Noa must master the flying trapeze - under the tutorage of mysterious aerialist Astrid. Soaring high above the crowds, Noa and Astrid must learn to trust one another. . . or plummet. But with the threat of war closing in, loyalty can become the most dangerous trait of all.

The Altruists: A Novel

Andrew Ridker

A New York Times Editors' Choice 

"[ An] intelligent, funny, and remarkably assured first novel. . . . [ Andrew Ridker establishes] himself as a big, promising talent. . . . Hilarious. . . . Astute and highly entertaining. . . . Outstanding. " ( The New York Times Book Review) 

" With humor and warmth, Ridker explores the meaning of family and its inevitable baggage. The Altruists may not paint the prettiest picture, but it's a relatable, unforgettable view of regular people making mistakes and somehow finding their way back to each other. " ( People Magazine's " Book of the Week")

A Real Simple Best Book of the Year ( So Far)

Named a most anticipated book of 2019 by The Millions and Pure Wow.

A vibrant and perceptive novel about a father's plot to win back his children's inheritance.

Arthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a Midwestern college, he can't afford his mortgage, he's exasperated his much younger girlfriend, and his kids won't speak to him. And then there's the money - the small fortune his late wife, Francine, kept secret, which she bequeathed directly to his children.  

Those children are Ethan, an anxious recluse living off his mother's money on a choice plot of Brooklyn real estate; and Maggie, a would-be do-gooder trying to fashion herself a noble life of self-imposed poverty. On the verge of losing the family home, Arthur invites his children back to St. Louis under the guise of a reconciliation. But in doing so, he unwittingly unleashes a Pandora's box of age-old resentments and long-buried memories - memories that orbit Francine, the matriarch whose life may hold the key to keeping them together.  

Spanning New York, Paris, Boston, St. Louis, and a small desert outpost in Zimbabwe, The Altruists is a darkly funny (and ultimately tender) family saga that confronts the divide between baby boomers and their millennial offspring. It's a novel about money, privilege, politics, campus culture, dating, talk therapy, rural sanitation, infidelity, kink, the American beer industry, and what it means to be a "good person. "

The Ministry of Special Cases: A Novel

Nathan Englander

Nathan Englander's first novel is a timeless story of fathers and sons. In a world turned upside down, where the past and the future, and the nature of truth itself, all take shape according to a corrupt government's whims, one man, one spectacularly hopeless man, fights to overcome his history and his name - and, if for only once in his life, to put things right.

The Ministry of Special Cases, like Englander's stories before it, is a celebration of our humanity, in all its weakness and, despite that, hope.

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.

Ogottogott - Wie glaubt man und wenn ja, warum?

Jan-Christof Scheibe

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.   

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.

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.

The Prince of West End Avenue (English Edition)

Autor: Alan Isler

The Glory of Life (English Edition)

Autor: Michael Kumpfmüller
Übersetzer: Anthea Bell

Die Last der Erinnerung

Autor: Cornelia Lotter