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Seen through the eyes of an illiterate 12-year-old boy, Nava Semel's moving, at times lyrical fiction explores life in the Palestine of the 1930s - a world where a young Jew is prepared to undertake multiple marriages to threatened East European women for patriotic reasons alone, where a boy's closest friends are a dog named after his hero Johnny Weissmuller (the screen Tarzan of blessed memory), his brother's first wife, and the girl next doo...

Equal parts detective novel, historical fantasia, and alternate history, Isra Isle offers a compelling exploration of modern Jewish identity.

And the Rat Laughed is a unique book. Unlike other Holocaust-related books that focus on the historical horrific events, this novel deals with the act of remembering them. It resembles a relay race in which the characters transfer memory from one another, while travelling on the axis of time. The book begins in the last day of 1999, when a survivor Grandmother in Tel Aviv shares her tragic life story as a hidden child in a pit, with only a rat...

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1999 bemüht sich eine israelische Schülerin, ihre Hausaufgabe zu machen: Sie soll ihre Großmutter über deren Verfolgungsgeschichte befragen und diese aufschreiben. Doch die Erlebnisse der inzwischen alten Frau waren zu schrecklich, um direkt erzählt zu werden. Die Großmutter nimmt Zuflucht zu einer Legende. So entsteht der Mythos vom Mädchen mit der Ratte im Erdloch. Die Ursprünge dieses Mythos versucht hundert Jahre später eine Anthropologin ...

A grandmother in Tel Aviv shares with her granddaughter her tragic life story as a child hidden in a pit with only a rat for company. A future anthropologist, researching the story's mysterious roots in 2099, discovers Father Stanislaw's personal journal documenting his rescue of that little Jewish girl.