BOOKS 2024

How far would Britain go to smuggle a secret weapon into Nazi Germany? The Jewish scientist Roman Lozinski, who is hiding with his family in the Warsaw ghetto, has a secret: he holds in his hands the key to the technology that can make the surface bombs of the Allied bombers accurate and deadly.

At a relatively late stage in his life, he discovered the tools that allowed him to increase the joy of life and reduce melancholy and anxiety, and to feel a little more complete and happy with the world, at least according to his measure. Now it's your turn.

Some important things to know about Idit, in case you have someone to know her: she is of average height, has laughing eyes, is religious, addicted to her career in the advertising agency and is very close to her blind grandmother. Ah, Vaidit is almost forty and still single. Everyone is trying to match her, get to know her...

Stories and essays based on autobiographical, tragic and comedic material. Their author is a former Soviet Jew who describes his family's history in the atmosphere of state and popular anti-Semitism that prevailed in the Soviet Union. He takes his readers to pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine to introduce them to the history of Ukrainian Jews.

When Leo opens his assignment letter, two words jump out at him from the cover: Top secret! The letter leads him to the strange guard's house, past the village wall. From now on, Leo will be the guard's apprentice, and his job will be to protect the village from the terrifying forest monsters.

From the top of a heavenly balcony, Naama watches the best show in town, which takes place in the bosom of a knitted-domestic family in the days of the illusory corona epidemic. Most of the time she leans down and listens and is compassionate and angry and tries to help, but sometimes she actually feels like taking advantage of the dead and not being bothered in the pleasure of the rest.

Relying on a wide variety of sources, Michael Meir tells the life story of Rabbi Leo Beck (1873-1956), one of the most significant Jewish religious thinkers of the twentieth century. In his book, he emphasizes Beck's dual work - both as a spiritual man urging man to realize the image of God in him and to respond to the demand of the moral order, and as a brave leader of his community living in the shadow of the Nazi regime.

On a land trying to heal the rifts left by the war, one boy takes the first steps on a path that will lead him to wonders he never imagined and terror he never saw - and to the strength he didn't know lay within him. Seven days, battles and knowledge, Elisha ben Abuya - the greatest of the infidels - remembered his youth. In his turbulent lover, in his enigmatic teacher and in his vengeful rival

At the beginning of the 20th century, it seemed that the Western world was marching safely into a better future: the economy flourished, the buds of the welfare state appeared, and hundreds of years of struggle for freedom seemingly heralded the victory of liberal democracy. But then the First World War broke out, which changed the face of Europe.

What causes Israeli society to radicalize, fall to the margins, and go through a process of internal dissolution, which leaves it weak in the face of its internal and external challenges? The book sheds a bright light on one of the significant and central answers to this question: hate. The hatred within Israeli society, between social and identity groups. This hatred is the main engine of a large part of those processes of radicalization and dissolution.

One of the most famous literary characters in the world, Sherlock Holmes, first appeared in 1887 and starred in four novellas and 56 short stories, written by his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Within a few years Holmes was on the stage, first in several unknown plays, and then in a popular play by William Gillette. The great detective has appeared in dozens of plays, radio and television shows and films.

In his book "Ruth", Ado Gore weaves our familiar world anew, and presents in his special way the endless circle in the search for meaning, after the question of what are the forces that move the world and after the familiar and tormenting question of justice, good and evil. The book takes its readers on a brave journey through history, imagination and their own lives.