A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europe's biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Lisbon is an astonishing novel, a compelling ...
Israeli Nobel Laureate S Y Agnon's famous masterpiece, his novel "Only Yesterday", here appears in English translation for the first time. Published in 1945, this book tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya - the several hundred idealists who returned between 1904 and 1914 to work the Hebrew ...
This memoir tells the story of the Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto who defied the Nazis against impossible odds. Kazik and his fellow Jews smuggled in arms and explosives, performed acts of resistance, held off the Nazi army for almost a month, and rescued the few surviving Jews after the Ghetto was destroyed. Kazik spent the rest ...
Herman Kruk perished in a concentration camp in 1944. One of his last acts was to bury a diary in which he had recorded the history of, and everyday life in, the Vilna ghetto during the Holocaust. This document survived, and is here published in translation, under the editorship of Benjamin and Barbara Harshav.
Since it was first published in Hebrew in 2000, this provocative book has been garnering acclaim and stirring controversy for its bold reinterpretation of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in the Middle Ages, especially in medieval Europe. Looking at a remarkably wide array of source material, Israel Jacob Yuval argues that the ...
"The Warsaw Uprising of 1944" dramatically tells the largely unknown story of the Warsaw resistance movement during World War II. Desperate to free themselves from German military oppression but also hoping to show the advancing Soviets that they could not impose easy rule upon the citizens of Warsaw, the Poles launched an almost hopeless attack ...
In "The Angel of History", Moses looks at three Jewish philosophers - Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem - who formulated a new vision of history in 1920s Germany by moving away from the spirit of assimilation and the Enlightenment belief in humanity's inevitable progress. Instead, they imagined history as discontinuous, made ...
The recipient of two of Israel's most prestigious literary awards, "The Name" tells the story of Amalia, a daughter of Holocaust survivors who seeks desperately to remake her life and escape her history.
One of Israels most celebrated writers presents an ambitious and heartbreaking novel that examines--through one womans life--the Jewish story and the state of Israel in the most intimate way possible.
A comprehensive account of the lives of the Jews who remained in Germany immediately following the Second World War. Taken from eyewitness testimony by survivors, Brenner's is the first direct account ever published.
Yoram Kaniuk has been hailed as "one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World" ("The New York Times"), and "The Last Jew" is his exhilarating masterwork. Like Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude," "The Last Jew" is a sweeping saga that captures the troubled history and culture of an entire people through ...
Dreams, memories, cinematic reality and a fertile imagination all feature in Judith Katzir's four novellas that comprise this volume. In "Schlaffitunde", the author describes her first love, who is her cousin. "Fellini's Shoes" tells of a hotel waitress who dreams of becoming a movie star, who believes she can make her dream come true with the ...
This book presents a new and comprehensive biography of one of the most prominent artists of the 20th century in dialogue with the events and ideologies of his time. It encompasses 98 years of Chagall's life (1887-1985) in Russia, France, the US as well as Germany and Israel, his deep roots in folk cultures, his personal relationships and loves, ...
When Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated from Poland to America in 1935, he left behind his wife and five-year-old son, Israel, with the promise to send for them as soon as he got settled. He never did. Mother and child moved first to the USSR and ultimately to Israel, where Zamir grew up on a kibbutz. In 1995, twenty years after their separation, ...
A study of the Nazi-run Polish press during World War II. This text, which is based on primary sources and over 100 newspapers and journals, analyzes the framework of the Nazi propaganda machine and its role in totalitarian control and compares it to the Polish underground press.
This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. "American Yiddish Poetry" runs the gamut from individualistic verse of alienation in the modern metropolis, responses to Western culture and ideologies, and experiments ...
In 1943, against utterly hopeless odds, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up to defy the Nazi horror machine that had set out to exterminate them. One of the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the uprisings, was Yitzhak Zuckerman, known by his underground pseudonym, Antek. Decades later, living in Israel, Antek dictated his ...
A critical appraisal of the politics of Jewish identity after the Holocaust and a passionate memoir by an Israeli dissenter. in 1984, Daniel Cil Brecher, then a reservist in the Education Corps of the Israeli army, refuses to cross into occupied Lebanon to deliver a morale-boosting lecture to Israeli troops fighting there. This small act of ...
This is a selection of plays by the Israeli playwright and director Hanoch Levin. Levin's artistic credo was based on a constant urge to criticize Israeli society and its mainstream ideology while simultaneously confronting the basic human and existential issues of life and death.
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book presents a comprehensive collection of Chagall's public statements on art and culture. The documents and interviews shed light on his rich, versatile, ...
This engrossing novel tells the story of four men, inmates in a Nazi concentration camp, who survive their nightmarish ordeal by taking on the roles of jesters, amusing their tormentors.
The hero of this novel bears the same name as its author--Haim Be'er--and the chronicle of his growing up includes the family stories of a beloved grandmother and the increasing certainty on the part of Haim that he will become a writer.
"Beyond the Market" launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior ...
"Sing, Stranger" is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. Here are the Proletarian or "sweat-shop" poets, sympathizing with Socialist Anarchists, who were highly popular with Yiddish audiences at the end of the nineteenth century; the lyrical ...
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