Rivka zohar biography of albert

The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Shmuel Feiner, translated by Chaya Naor. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, 330 pp.

Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought, David Biale, Princeton University Press, 2011, 228 pp.ISBN 0812242734

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea?: French Jewry and the bekymmer of Church and State, Zvi Jonathan Kaplan, Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 2009. 148 pp. ISBN 1930675615

Rediscovering Traces of Memory: The Jewish Heritage of Polish Galicia, Jonathan Webber, and Chris Schwarz, Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2009.200 pages ISBN 1906764034

Secret Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition, Michael Alpert, Nottingham: fem Leaves Publications, 2008.ISBN: 1905512295, 262 pages

Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Israel: ‘Finding their Voice’, Sharon Kangisser Cohen, Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2005.

The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena

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Mortal Love | Jewish Book Council

Riv­ka Keren quotes Jere­mi­ah at the onset of her haunt­ing and beau­ti­ful­ly craft­ed nov­el, remind­ing us that ​“The heart is deceit­ful above all things, and is exceed­ing­ly weak — who can know it?” In her non-lin­ear plot, we are intro­duced to five char­ac­ters, near­ly all unre­lat­ed by blood, who will impact upon one another’s lives in a mad­den­ing swirl until the moment of some­what pre­dictable clo­sure at the book’s trag­ic end. 

The nov­el is set in three coun­tries, Israel, Hun­gary, and Greece, the his­to­ry of each forg­ing a tra­jec­to­ry that will bring togeth­er Ilias, a Greek Ortho­dox monk; Beno Goittzeit, a sel­f­right­eous Holo­caust sur­vivor; his lover, Mar­got Cim­bolon, who has fol­lowed him from Hun­gary; Edna, his daugh­ter, who is try­ing to free her­self from her father’s over­pow­er­ing grip; and Zohar, Edna’s surly, needy husband. 

Keren, a Hun­gar­i­an-born clin­i­cal p