Chaim: 77 books

I bring you up to believe that nothing is good enough for you, and you grow up to be good for nothing. Thus, Mrs. Bindle, on learning that Ben, her only-begotten son, has decided to be a Rabbi; what is more, a Rabbi in a small provincial town in Scotland. Her anxiety proves to be not unjustified,...

Tracing the author's life from preschool to 7th grade, the narrative is dominated by Jewish studies, music, schooling, hard life lessons, and some very difficult family dynamics. Growing up in Dayton, Ohio, the blind author had painful introductions to the Holocaust, religious prejudice, and...

"Schlaflos in Tel Aviv" versammelt Erzählungen aus mehr als fünfundzwanzig Jahren, realistische und fantastische, über Begegnungen und Begebenheiten. Chaim Noll erzählt u.a. von einem Schuljungen in Berlin, der versucht, sich Geld für eine Fahrkarte zu erbetteln, einem jungen Israeli,...

Was bedeutet es für den aus Italien eingewanderten Alessandro, dass sich die jüdische Abstammung seiner Mutter nicht klären lässt? Warum ändert der Krieg Michaels Verhältnis zu Henry James grundlegend? Und warum ist in der Wüste mitten im Sommer Weihnachten? Und Kolja? Der stammt eigentlich...

Ein junger Mann in der DDR in den Siebzigerjahren. Sein Vater ist Funktionär, es geht ihm überdurchschnittlich gut - dass die Ehe der Eltern bröckelt, interessiert ihn kaum. Er verbringt die Tage im Haus der Künstlerfamilie seiner Freundin, die Mutter zieht Strippen von Ost nach West. Alle haben...

Gibt es Streit in der Ehe, Probleme mit dem Nachbarn oder eine Krise im Job, gehen gläubige Jüdinnen und Juden nicht zum Coach oder zum Therapeuten – sie gehen zum Rabbi. Weisheit und Witz, Glaube und Gelassenheit sind im Judentum von jeher eng miteinander verknüpft. Rabbis verkörpern all das:...

After the Revolutionary War, despite political independence, the United States still relied on other countries for manufactured goods. Francis Cabot Lowell was one of the principal investors in building the India Wharf and the shops and warehouses close to Boston harbor. His work was instrumental...

Lord Jakobovits has been described by one commentator as Mrs Thatcher's father confessor. A staunch defender of Victorian values and family life, he has propounded his views with a forthrightness and vigour which have often placed him at the centre of controversy and have given him national prominence....

A coming-of-age classic about two Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, this “profound and universal” story of what we share across cultures remains deeply pertinent today (The Wall Street Journal). It’s the spring of 1944 and fifteen-year-olds Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders...

“Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul.”—The New York Times All beginnings are hard—that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must begin to hold his own against neighborhood...

Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British crown were persecuted with loss of employment, eviction from their homes, heavy taxation, confiscation of property and imprisonment. Loyalist Americans from...

This book is about all my family, to be able to survive and live on, and build a future.

The arrival in 1620 of the Mayflower and Puritan migration occupy the first pages of the history of colonial America. Less known is the exodus from New England, a century and a half later, of their Yankee descendants. Yankees engaged in whaling and the China Trade, and settled in Canada, the American...

At the time of the World�s Columbian Exposition of 1893, the United States was fast becoming the world�s leading economy. Chicago, the host city, had grown in less than half a century from a village to the country�s second-largest metropolis. During this, the Gilded Age, the world�s most extensive...