Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

Unable to stand his overcrowded and noisy home any longer, a poor man goes to the Rabbi for advice.

A tapestry that is being used to cover a hole in a church wall at Christmas brings together an elderly couple who were separated during World War II.

"In Yemen in 1920 ... Adela Damaris parents desperately seek a future husband for their young daughter. After passage of the Orphan's Decree, any unbetrothed Jewish child left orphaned will be instantly adopted by the local Muslim community. With her parents' health failing, and no spousal prospects in sight, Adela's situation looks dire until her uncle arrives from a faraway city, bringing with him a cousin and aunt who introduce Adela to the powerful...

Targeted by McCarthyism for his prewar politics, a young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis to America makes a desperate bargain with a fledgling CIA to work as a spy in a decimated Berlin. "From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage--called a "fast-moving thinking man's thriller" by The Wall Street Journal--comes a sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation....

A very old overcoat is recycled numerous times into a variety of garments.

For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control,...

In the summer of 1955, Bobo Murphy gets a job as a waiter in the Catskills and meets Amy Lourie, the most beautiful girl in the world. Unfortunately, there is no way of bridging the gulf between a wealthy Jewish girl and a rural farm boy. Thirty-eight years later Bobo runs into Amy again and this time love conquers all. By the author of To Dance with the White Dog.

This hilarious tome from three comedy legends--Barry, Adam Mansbach, and Alan Zweibel--contains the sweetness of an apricot rugelach and all the wisdom of a matzoh ball in a guide to the inner-workings of Judaism.