Overview :How can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent the events of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell's ideas abo... Read More
Overview :For Karl and his friends, Judaism is an obstacle that is easily discarded in their turn-of-the-century world. But as a political crisis unfo... Read More
Overview :"A marvelous and disturbing book . . . an experience both painful and joyous."--Times Literary Supplement (London) The secure world of a wel... Read More
Overview :The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the l... Read More
Overview :Fleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenage peasant in Ukraine in the 1880s, is taken in by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. ... Read More
Overview :A poignant, heartbreaking new work by "one of the best novelists alive" (Irving Howe)--the story of a lonely older man and his devoted young... Read More
Overview :The eighth of Aharon Appelfeld's brilliantly original novels to be published in English, The Healer is a remarkable story about faith and fa... Read More
Overview :From "fiction's foremost chronicler of the Holocaust" (Philip Roth), here is a haunting novel about an unforgettable group of Jewish partisa... Read More
Overview :Set in contemporary Israel, The Immortal Bartfuss is perhaps the most profound and powerful portrait of a Holocaust survivor ever drawn. Usi... Read More
Overview :***NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER (2012)***From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer ("One of the best novelists alive" --... Read More
Overview :A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK How does one live after surviving injustice? What satisfaction comes from revenge? Can the past ever be left b... Read More
Overview :Set in contemporary Israel, The Immortal Bartfuss is perhaps the most profound and powerful portrait of a Holocaust survivor ever drawn. Usi... Read More
Overview :A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents' Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy--and is completely unpr... Read More
Overview :A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK How does one live after surviving injustice? What satisfaction comes from revenge? Can the past ever be left b... Read More
Overview :HONOR 2016 - Mildred L. Batchelder Honor BookWINNER 2016 - Sydney Taylor Book Award, Association of Jewish LibrariesFINALIST 2016 - National... Read More
Overview :The youngest, least-favored member of an Eastern European Jewish family, Tzili is considered an embarrassment by her parents and older sibli... Read More