By one of Isreal's preeminent authors, For Every Sin is a haunting story of a Holocaust survivor's odyssey across Europe and his struggle to find redemption in the aftermath of his experience.
By one of Isreal's preeminent authors, For Every Sin is a haunting story of a Holocaust survivor's odyssey across Europe and his struggle to find rede...
Fleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenage peasant in Ukraine in the 1880s, is taken in by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. Feeling the warmth of family life for the first time and incorporating the family s customs and rituals into her own Christian observances, Katerina is traumatized when the parents are murdered in separate pogroms and the children are taken away by relatives. She finds work with other Jewish families, all of whom are subjected to relentless persecution by their neighbors. When the beloved child she had with her Jewish lover is murdered, Katerina kills the...
Fleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenage peasant in Ukraine in the 1880s, is taken in by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. Feeling th...
Trudi Berger was literally snatched from the flames of the Holocaust. At the age of fourteen her family was confined to a Lithuanian ghetto. A few years later she and her mother were sent off to the camps, suffering forced labor and the ever-present threat of death. This story of courage, determination, and hope is a powerful and moving memoir and that special bond between a mother and daughter.
Trudi Berger was literally snatched from the flames of the Holocaust. At the age of fourteen her family was confined to a Lithuanian ghetto. A few yea...
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. From this intimate perspective, he forges wise reflections on such subjects as identifying and preserving the writer's voice, the cultural significance of translations and their contents, the research and travel that are part of a translator's everyday life, and the frequent puzzles associated with the...
Punctuated by thoughtful wit, this engaging volume of essays offers Jeffrey M. Green's personal and theoretical ruminations on the profession of tr...
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 local brothel, where one of the prostitutes has agreed to hide him. Mariana is a bitterly unhappy woman who hates what she has done with her life, and night after night Hugo sits in her closet and listens uncomprehendingly as she rages at the Nazi soldiers who come and go. But when she s not mired in self-loathing, Mariana is fiercely protective of the bewildered, painfully polite young boy. And Hugo, in turn, becomes protective of Mariana, trying to...
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 local br...
This book tells the story of an extremely engaging Polish Jew, Shmuel Braw (1906-1992), who lived through the traumatic events that shaped Jewish experiences in the twentieth century. Shmuel bravely reflects upon his experiences as a Holocaust survivor and as a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp in Siberia.
This book tells the story of an extremely engaging Polish Jew, Shmuel Braw (1906-1992), who lived through the traumatic events that shaped Jewish expe...
