Judaism

Books on Jewish life, history and memory. Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes follows his family, the Ephrussis, a wealthy Jewish banking dynasty, from Odessa to Paris and Vienna, through the collection of tiny Japanese netsuke that passed down the generations. When the Nazis seized the family's Vienna palace in 1938, the collection survived, hidden by a loyal maid. A moving story of assimilation, loss and survival. More books will join this category; see Religion & Spirituality and Jewish History.

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Jewish History

Jewish history is a story of communities, migrations and survival across many centuries and countries. Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes tells one family's part in it: the Ephrussis, Jewish grain traders and bankers who rose to wealth in nineteenth-century Odessa, Paris and Vienna, and lost almost everything after the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. A collection of netsuke, saved by a maid, links the generations. Beautifully written and deeply moving. More books will join this category; see Judaism.

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