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Product Description: A Table for One is set in the intimate Jerusalem cafes of the 1950's and 1960's where the scent of fresh roasted coffee and cigarette smoke wafted in with the elan of a lost European culture. The writer's son, Meir Appelfeld, paints cityscapes, vistas of the city, where he himself lives...read more

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9781592641109 | Toby Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A Table for One is set in the intimate Jerusalem cafes of the 1950's and 1960's where the scent of fresh roasted coffee and cigarette smoke wafted in with the elan of a lost European culture.

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9780805241778 | Schocken Books, February 6, 2007, cover price $23.00

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9780805211269 | Schocken Books, August 8, 2006, cover price $14.00

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As each of her employers disappears or is murdered, Katerina, a Gentile domestic servant working in a series of Jewish households in the years before the Holocaust, is repeatedly forced into a life of privation and spiritual poverty. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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9780679406105 | Random House Inc, September 1, 1992, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: As each of her employers disappears or is murdered, Katerina, a Gentile domestic servant working in a series of Jewish households in the years before the Holocaust, is repeatedly forced into a life of privation and spiritual poverty

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9780805211986 | Reprint edition (Schocken Books, February 7, 2006), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: As each of her employers disappears or is murdered, Katerina, a Gentile domestic servant working in a series of Jewish households in the years before the Holocaust, is repeatedly forced into a life of privation and spiritual poverty.
9780393311105 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1994, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: As an old woman, a gentile peasant from the Ukraine reminisces about the most touching and cruel events in her life: leaving home at an early age; working as a housekeeper in a Jewish household; learning to love the family--and, moreso, their beliefs--and the pain she ultimately endures because of that love.

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9789500306461 | 1 edition (Losada/ Espana, October 1, 2005), cover price $18.75

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The award-winning novelist recounts his miraculous survival of the Holocaust, from a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp at the age of seven, his escape from the camp, his life in hiding in the Ukranian forests, his negotiation of several displaced persons' camps, his 1946 arrival in Palestine and his struggle to build a new life on the fragments of his past. 12,500 first printing.

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9780805241785 | Schocken Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The novelist recounts his survival of the Holocaust and his struggle to build a new life on the fragments of his past.

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Product Description: It is spring 1939 in the age of anxiety. In months Europe will be Hitler's. And Badenheim, a resort town vaguely in the orbit of Vienna, is preparing for its summer season. The vacationers arrive as they always have, a sampling of Jewish middle-class life: the impresario Dr...read more

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9780879233426 | David R Godine Pub, November 1, 1980, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In the summer of 1939, prosperous members of the Jewish middle class flock to the resort town of Badenheim, oblivious of the ominous political and military events that will transform them into de facto prisoners in their familiar resort

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9781567923919 | David R Godine Pub, May 1, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: It is spring 1939 in the age of anxiety.
9780815629351 | Syracuse Univ Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $5.95
9780879237998 | Reissue edition (David R Godine Pub, April 1, 1998), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In the summer of 1939, prosperous members of the Jewish middle class flock to the resort town of Badenheim, oblivious to the ominous political and military events that will transform them into de facto prisoners in their familiar resort
9780671435929 | Pocket Books, June 1, 1981, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: In the summer of 1939, prosperous members of the Jewish middle class flock to the resort town of Badenheim, oblivious to the ominous political and military events that will transform them into de facto prisoners in their familiar resort

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Karl, an ambitious young civil servant in turn-of-the-century Austria, plans to convert from Judaism, like most of his friends, in order to remove all obstacles to advancement, but an unexpected political crisis soon brings him face to face with his past and with a love affair that will forever change his life. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. NYT.

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9780805210989 | Schocken Books, December 14, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Karl, an ambitious young civil servant, plans to convert from Judaism, like most of his friends, in order to remove all obstacles to advancement, but an unexpected crisis forces him to reexamine his decision.

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Product Description: Six Israeli Novellas offers work by six of Israel's most important contemporary authors. Included are Aharon Appelfeld's "In the Isles of St. George," in which a fugitive black marketeer - a modern reincarnation of the eternal Wandering Jew - is forced to take refuge on a desolate Italian island, where his past, his Jewishness, and his very sense of identity are resolved...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781567920918 | 1 edition (David R Godine Pub, May 1, 1999), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Six Israeli Novellas offers work by six of Israel's most important contemporary authors.

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Tells the story of a man searching postwar Europe for the Nazi who murdered his parents during the Holocaust

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9780805210996 | Schocken Books, March 1, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Tells the story of a man searching postwar Europe for the Nazi who murdered his parents during the Holocaust

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Karl, an ambitious young civil servant, plans to convert from Judaism, like most of his friends, in order to remove all obstacles to advancement, but an unexpected crisis forces him to reexamine his decision

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9780805241532 | Schocken Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Karl, an ambitious young civil servant, plans to convert from Judaism, like most of his friends, in order to remove all obstacles to advancement, but an unexpected crisis forces him to reexamine his decision

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In a novel about the Holocaust, a hotel called 'The Retreat' teaches its Jewish patrons how to look, talk, and act like Gentiles, but as the Nazi danger marches closer, the opportunities for assimilation and retreat quickly fade

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9780805210965 | Reprint edition (Schocken Books, February 1, 1998), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In a novel about the Holocaust, a hotel called 'The Retreat' teaches its Jewish patrons how to look, talk, and act like Gentiles, but as the Nazi danger marches closer, the opportunities for assimilation and retreat quickly fade
9780704334878 | Texas Bookman, March 1, 1996, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: The year is 1937.
9780140076608 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, March 1, 1985), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A hotel called 'The Retreat' teaches its Jewish patrons how to look, talk, and act like Gentiles

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In Eastern Europe before World War I, a brother and sister caring for a cemetery for Jewish martyrs find that their remote location offers protection from pogroms and plague, yet keeps them isolated from their people and struggling with growing feelings of lust for one another

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9780679406112 | Random House Inc, January 1, 1994, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: In Eastern Europe before World War I, a brother and sister are named caretakers of a remote mountain cemetery of Jewish martyrs, and they struggle with lust, hypocrisy, and God

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9780805210972 | Reprint edition (Schocken Books, February 1, 1998), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In Eastern Europe before World War I, a brother and sister caring for a cemetery for Jewish martyrs find that their remote location offers protection from pogroms and plague, yet keeps them isolated from their people and struggling with growing feelings of lust for one another

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For the first time, the author of eleven internationally acclaimed novels draws upon his own experiences as a Holocaust survivor to tell the story of a man searching postwar Europe for the Nazi who murdered his parents. 20,000 first printing.

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9780805241587 | Schocken Books, February 1, 1998, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Tells the story of a man searching postwar Europe for the Nazi who murdered his parents during the Holocaust

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Theo, a Holocaust survivor, just released from the camps, confronts the shattered world he inherits, meets fellow survivors, and faces his own demons as he walks home across Europe

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9781555843182 | Grove Pr, April 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Theo, a Holocaust survivor, just released from the camps, confronts the shattered world he inherits, meets fellow survivors, and faces his own demons as he walks home across Europe

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9780802134462 | Grove Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $11.00
9780679727583 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 1990), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Theo, a Holocaust survivor, just released from the camps, confronts the shattered world he inherits, meets fellow survivors, and faces his own demons as he walks home alone across Europe

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Product Description: The youngest, least-favored member of an Eastern European Jewish family, Tzili is considered an embarrassment by her parents and older siblings. Her schooling has been a failure, she is simple and meek, and she seems more at home with the animals in the field than with people...read more

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9780525241874 | E P Dutton, March 1, 1983, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A young Jewish girl survives the Holocaust living alone in the forest and among the gentile peasants she fears

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9780805212495 | Schocken Books, June 5, 2012, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The youngest, least-favored member of an Eastern European Jewish family, Tzili is considered an embarrassment by her parents and older siblings.
9780140070583 | Viking Pr, May 1, 1984, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A young Jewish girl survives the Holocaust living alone in the forest and among the gentile peasants she fears

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A young Jewish girl survives the Holocaust living alone in the forest and among the gentile peasants she fears
By Aron Appelfeld and Dalya Bilu (trans)

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9780802134554 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, May 1, 1996), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A young Jewish girl survives the Holocaust living alone in the forest and among the gentile peasants she fears

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Product Description: The secure world of a well-established and apparently perfectly assimilated Jewish writer living in an Austrian town before World War II, disintegrates under the force of political and social realities that daily sanctify the old and endemic Austrian anti-Semitism...read more

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9780879234027 | 1 edition (David R Godine Pub, November 1, 1981), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A Jewish writer under the pressures of pre-World War II Austrian anti-Semitism falls to pieces in a narration provided by his son, who returns to his father's town thirty years later

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9780704301795 | Texas Bookman, March 1, 1996, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: The secure world of a well-established and apparently perfectly assimilated Jewish writer living in an Austrian town before World War II, disintegrates under the force of political and social realities that daily sanctify the old and endemic Austrian anti-Semitism.
9780879237981 | Reissue edition (David R Godine Pub, February 1, 1990), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A young man leaves his home in Jerusalem to revisit Austria, where his family was murdered during the Holocaust
9780671458584 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, December 1, 1982), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A young man leaves his home in Jerusalem to revisit Austria, where his family was murdered during the Holocaust

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Felix Katz travels to the Carpathian Mountains with his wife and ailing daughter in search of a famous healer, but when he discovers that the healer is an old rabbi, his anti-Semitism gradually alienates him from his family

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9780802112231 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1990), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Felix Katz travels to the Carpathian Mountains with his wife and ailing daughter in search of a famous healer, but when he discovers that the healer is an old rabbi, his anti-Semitism gradually alienates him from his family

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9780802133571 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, May 1, 1994), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Felix Katz travels to the Carpathian Mountains with his wife and ailing daughter in search of a famous healer, but when he discovers that the healer is an old rabbi, his anti-Semitism gradually alienates him from his family

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A concentration camp survivor living in modern Israel, Bartfuss struggles to cope with his terrifying recollections of the past, a hopeless marriage, and emotional upheaval and uncertainty

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9781555841522 | Grove Pr, February 1, 1988, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A concentration camp survivor living in modern Israel, Bartfuss struggles to cope with his terrifying recollections of the past, a hopeless marriage, and emotional upheaval and uncertainty

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9780802133588, titled "The Immortal Bartfuss" | Reissue edition (Grove Pr, May 1, 1994), cover price $11.00

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Product Description: Determined to visit her homeland in 1938, a Jewish woman and her son travel into Eastern Europe where their surroundings become more and more foreboding

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9781555042790 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, August 1, 1987), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Determined to visit her homeland in 1938, a Jewish woman and her son travel into Eastern Europe where their surroundings become more and more foreboding

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9780802133595 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, May 1, 1994), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Determined to visit her homeland in 1938, a Jewish woman and her son travel into Eastern Europe where their surroundings become more and more foreboding
9781555043704 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, August 1, 1987), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Determined to visit her homeland in 1938, a Jewish woman and her son travel into Eastern Europe where their surroundings become more and more foreboding

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Product Description: Book by Appelfeld, Aron

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9780880641500 | Fromm Intl, February 1, 1993, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Book by Appelfeld, Aron

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