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From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award>Teddy's job is to process visa applications, and by 1939, refugees from Nazi-conquered Poland, Austria, and other countries are desperate to secure safe passage to America. As Hitler sweeps through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, and Holland, the screws tighten and law after virulent law is passed to threaten the lives, indeed the very existence of the Jewish people. When Teddy and his gi...

È la sera della prima al grande teatro dell'Opera di Chicago. Morbide stole e sete fruscianti si scostano per far largo al vecchio Elliot Rosenweig, il più ricco e importante mecenate della città. All'improvviso fra la folla appare un uomo anziano in uno smoking rattoppato. Tra le mani stringe convulsamente una pistola che punta alla testa di Rosenweig. La voce trema per la rabbia, ma lo sguardo è risoluto quando lo accusa di essere in realtà ...

From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award-A spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb-now in paperback! Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a theoretical physicist. His idyllic childhood was soon marred by increasing levels of bigotry against his family and the rest of the Jewish community, and after his uncle is arrested on Kristallnacht, he...

Einst verriet er ihre Familie, jetzt sucht sie Vergeltung »Verräter« schmiert die 92-jährige Britta Stein an die Fassade von Ole Henryks Restaurant in Chicago. Sie schwört, dass der Däne, der von der ganzen Stadt als Held gefeiert wird, sich in Wahrheit im Zweiten Weltkrieg als Nazi-Kollaborateur schuldig gemacht hat. Um die Behauptungen der alten Dame zu beweisen, muss die Anwältin Catherine Lockhart tief in die Vergangenheit reisen. Und...

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From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award-Ronald H. Balson's An Affair of Spies chronciles a spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb...

One of Newsweek's 20 New Books to Cozy Up With this FallDefending Britta Stein is a story of bravery, betrayal, and redemption-from Ronald H. Balson, the winner of the National Jewish Book AwardChicago, 2018: Ole Henryks, a popular restauranteur, is set to be honored by the Danish/American Association for his many civic and charitable contributions. Frequently appearing on local TV, he is well known for his actions in Nazi-occupied Denmark dur...

Einst versprach er ihr, sie zu retten. Nun ist die Zeit der Vergeltung gekommen.Deutschland, 1946: In einem Lager für Displaced Persons setzt Eli Rosen alles daran, an Informationen über seine Frau Esther zu gelangen. Sie verschwand im besetzten Polen, als er versuchte, seine Familie mit einem Pakt vor den Deutschen zu retten. Doch der Verräter von einst wird noch immer geschützt.Chicago, 1965: Mithilfe einer Journalistin versucht Eli, ein Kom...

A story of bravery, betrayal, and redemption-from the winner of the National Jewish Book Award.Chicago, 2018: Ole Henryks, a popular restauranteur, is set to be honored by the Danish/American Association for his many civic and charitable contributions. Frequently appearing on local TV, he is well known for his actions in Nazi-occupied Denmark during World War II-most consider him a hero.Britta Stein, however, does not. The ninety-year-old Chic...

National Jewish Book Award winter Ron Balson returns triumphantly with Eli's Promise, a captivating saga of the Holocaust and its aftermath spanning decades and continents. Readers will not be able to put this book down, but will turn the pages compulsively with heart in throat, eager to learn the fate of the Rosen family. Balson's meticulous historical detail, vivid prose and unforgettable characters further solidify his place among the most ...

Defending Britta Stein is a story of bravery, betrayal, and redemption-from Ronald H. Balson, the winner of the National Jewish Book AwardChicago, 2018: Ole Henryks, a popular restauranteur, is set to be honored by the Danish/American Association for his many civic and charitable contributions. Frequently appearing on local TV, he is well known for his actions in Nazi-occupied Denmark during World War II-most consider him a hero.Britta Stein, ...

National Jewish Book Award winter Ron Balson returns triumphantly with Eli's Promise, a captivating saga of the Holocaust and its aftermath spanning decades and continents. Readers will not be able to put this book down, but will turn the pages compulsively with heart in throat, eager to learn the fate of the Rosen family. Balson's meticulous historical detail, vivid prose and unforgettable characters further solidify his place among the most ...

Der Musik verdanken sie ihre Liebe - bis sie grausam getrennt werden. Nun ist es an der Zeit, ihnen Gerechtigkeit widerfahren zu lassen.Berlin, 1931: Als Tochter des Konzertmeisters Wilhelm Furtwänglers zeigt Ada früh ihr Talent als Geigerin. Doch weder ihre Liebe zu dem jungen Kurt noch ihr Erfolg bei den Philharmonikern können sie als Jüdin vor den Nazis schützen. Ada sucht Zuflucht in Bologna, aber auch Italien erweist sich als gefährlicher...

Lena Woodward, an elderly woman, enlists the help of both lawyer Catherine Lockhart and private investigator Liam Taggart to appraise the story of her harrowing past in Nazi occupied Poland. At the same time, Lena's son Arthur presents her with a hefty lawsuit under the pretense of garnering her estate--and independence--for his own purposes. Where these stories intersect is through Lena's dubious account of her life in war-torn Poland, and he...

Ronald H. Balson's The Girl from Berlin is the winner of the Book Club category for the 2018 National Jewish Book Award. In this new novel, Liam and Catherine come to the aid of an old friend and are drawn into a property dispute in Tuscany that unearths long-buried secretsAn old friend calls Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart to his famous Italian restaurant to enlist their help. His aunt is being evicted from her home in the Tuscan hills by...

Chigaco, 2004: Bei einer Spendengala wird Elliot Rosenzweig, ein angesehener jüdischer Bürger, vom hochbetagten Ben Solomon mit einer Waffe bedroht und beschuldigt, ein ehemaliger SS-Offizier zu sein – der “Schlächter von Zamość“. Obwohl alles auf eine Verwechslung hindeutet, beharrt Ben darauf, jenen Mann wiedererkannt zu haben, der von von Bens Familie als Ziehsohn großgezogen wurde – und sie und Bens Geliebte Hannah später an die Deutschen ...

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From the author of Once We Were Brothers comes a saga inspired by true events of a Holocaust survivor's quest to fulfill a promise, return to Poland and find two sisters lost during World War II.