Product Description: For Anthony Rudolf, reading is a profoundly serious and intense activity, as well as a major source of pleasure and solace. At the same time, it is always interrupted by day jobs, friendships, politics and, paradoxically, by the act of writing...read more

Product Description: Presenting a collection of poems that represent the author’s previous concerns, this compilation combines an interest in autobiography, a return to the medium of poetry, a fascination with documentary techniques, and a new exploration of fictional possibilities...read more

Product Description: This is the first book-length study to survey the phenomenon of twentieth-century Anglo-Jewish poetry. It proceeds by reading established Anglo-Jewish poets against the grain of conventional thinking about English verse. For example, rather than understanding Isaac Rosenberg and Siegfried Sassoon as simply First World War poets, it approaches them as minority Anglo-Jewish poets as well...read more

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Product Description: In a letter to Jacobs, the novelist Dan Jacobson refers to "your northern Anglo-Scottish pragmatical self coming down hard on your more emotional Jewish self". Emanating from the poet's explicit Judaeo-Scottish matrix are many fine English lyrics, poised and vulnerable, deeply felt and highly intelligent, locally grounded - Glasgow, London, Jerusalem, Madrid - and universally accessible...read more

Product Description: Cultural Writing. Appearing in a revised edition ten years after its first publication, Anthony Rudolf's ENGRAVED IN FLESH remains the first book in any language on the work and life of Piotr Rawicz, the author of one "wantonly brilliant novel," in the phrase of Irving Howe...read more

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Product Description: Cultural Writing. I'M NOT EVEN A GROWN-UP: THE DIARY OF JERZY FELIKS URMAN is edited and translated by Anthony Rudolf, whose second cousin Jerzy committed suicide in West Ukraine in 1943. The editor's introduction and notes attempt to portray the cataclysmic background and foreground to the dramatic and hopeless situation Jerzy found himself in...read more