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Benghazi-Bergen-Belsen: The Lost Story of the Holocaust of North African Jews
An epic romance retrieves from oblivion the lost story of the Holocaust of North African Jews
Silvana Haggiag is a brilliant and beautiful young woman in her early twenties, dismissive of the patriarchal norms that govern her Jewish community in the Libyan city of Benghazi. When Silvana’s family is violently uprooted from its home and homeland, she is taken along with other Libyan Jews through the blazing Sahara Desert and war driven Italy to freezing Germany. In the long and tumultuous journey from her birth town to the German concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, Silvana’s, navigating her family through horror and distress, she is confronted with dire dilemmas and retrieves hidden strengths. Away from her language, detached from any familiar ground, she is forced to cope with the terrors of a cruel and arbitrary humanity, and prevail.
A breathtaking novel based on profoundly detailed historical research
Benghazi-Bergen-Belzen, the first novel about the Holocaust of Libyan Jews, brilliantly depicts the transformations and tribulations this intriguing community has undergone during the Second World War. Violently uprooted from their autonomic lifestyle and thrown into a language, culture and geography completely foreign to their own, Libyan Jews, Like other Jews living among Arabic speaking Muslims, were doomed to profound detachment, cut off even from the new ways of life formed among the camps’ prisoners. Placed at the bottom of the Nazi race-hierarchy for their oriental origin, they were incomprehensible to the European eye and perceived as intimidating, even by their fellow European Jewish prisoners. The novel was chosen by the Israeli Ministry of Education to be included in the Holocaust studies program for high school students.
Editorial Reviews:
“The novel’s greatness is in the autonomous position it grants not only to the Holocaust of the Mizrahi Jews, but also to the past life in the country of origin.” – Dr. Hanna Hertzig, “Haaretz Books”
“A work that is both a linguistic and social event… The return to the stark naked reality of Bergen-Belsen, to the precise and poisoned moment in which the stripping of the identity occurs, the testimony’s attempt to deliver the identity, is at the heart of the book’s brilliance.” – Professor Haviva Pedaya, “HaOkets”
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Mail Order Bride: Westward winds: A Clean Historical Cowboy Romance (Montana Mail Order Brides Book 1)
A historical western cowboy romance novel about a mail order bride.
Bored socialite Tessa craves adventure, and finds it when she becomes a mail order bride to Montana rancher and widowed father Dean Samuels. Can this pair — as different as night and day — find love?
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Drained (An Agent Hank Rawlings FBI Thriller Book 1)
Drained: Book 1 in the Agent Rawlings Series of FBI Thrillers
A known serial killer is once again taking lives in Chicago. Bodies drained of blood are being strewn across the city.
For former Tampa homicide sergeant, Hank Rawlings, tracking down the man responsible for the killings becomes his first assignment at his new position, agent in the FBI’s homicide division of the serial crimes unit.
Almost before the ink dries on the new job’s acceptance papers, Hank finds himself in Chicago, knee-deep in an investigation with a mounting body count.
While every lead brings him and his partner closer to the killer, the one that puts them directly in front of him threatens them most.
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