Product Description: Basically an account of a trip to Naples and Sicily, this book weaves in information, memories, and personal reflections. The author and his wife are Americans who moved to Israel in 1973. They traveled with another couple, an American born woman and an Israeli man, people they have known for about forty years...read more

Product Description: "Site Report" is the story of an encounter with Israel. Set in 1980-1, it follows Beatrice Fleisher, a divorced American woman of thirty-four during a sabbatical year in Jerusalem with her young daughter. Bea has decided to take a year off from her work as a computer scientist to study Biblical archaeology, but her most important encounters are personal, many with relatives, from kibbutzniks in the Jezreel Valley to orthodox Jews in Bnei-Brak and on to recent immigrants from the Soviet Union...read more

Product Description: Punctuated by thoughtful wit, this engaging volume of essays offers Jeffrey M. Green’s personal and theoretical ruminations on the profession of translation. Green begins many of the essays by relating the specific techniques and problems associated with translating from Hebrew texts...read more

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.

Product Description: The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain is a detailed study of the events surrounding this infamous chapter in Spanish history. Based on hundreds of documents discovered, deciphered, and analysed during decades of intensive archival research, this work focuses on the practical consequences of the expulsion both for those expelled and those remaining behind...read more

Aharon Appelfeld stands among the most prominent Israeli writers and is the most frequently published Israeli writer in the US. His works have received numerous prestigious literary awards in Israel as well as international critical acclaim. Yet there is a paucity of good critical writing about his impressive body of work. Yigal Schwartz's compelling study, based in part on interviews with Appelfeld himself, admirably fills this gap. Schwartz organizes his book around three of Appelfeld's major themes: the recovery of childhood and memory, the creation of place, and the religious stance of the Holocaust writer. He discusses Appelfeld's imaginative reconstruction of his childhood, his fictional world in spatial terms, and the peculiarly Jewish notion of time and fate experienced by the characters in his novels. In addition, Schwartz develops a new perspective not only on Appelfeld's work, but on Holocaust literature per se. He sees Appelfeld as a Holocaust writerwhose underlying concerns go beyond his experiences as a Holocaust survivor to include larger issues of Jewish identity in the modern period. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Savyon Liebrecht’s intense, lyrical, and emotionally complex stories have made her a best-selling writer in her native Israel. Apples From the Desert brings together Liebrecht’s most vivid and affecting work and makes it available in English for the first time...read more

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

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

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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Product Description: The last two decades have seen a resurgence of critical and popular attention to Virginia Woolf's life and work. Such traditional institutions as "The New York Review of Books" now pair her with William Shakespeare in promotional advertisements; her face is used to sell everything from Barnes & Noble books to Bass Ale...read more