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If Not Now, When?
ISBN: 9780140188936 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "One of the most important and gifted writers of our time" --Italo Calvino In the final days of World War II, a courageous band of Jewish partisans makes its way from Russia to Italy, moving toward the ultimate goal of Palestine. Based on a true story, If Not Now, When? chronicles their adventures as they wage a personal war of revenge against the Nazis: blowing up trains, rescuing the last victims of concentration camps, scoring victories in the face of unspeakable devastation. Primo Levi captures the landscape and the people of Eastern Europe in vivid detail, depicting as...
"One of the most important and gifted writers of our time" --Italo Calvino In the final days of World War II, a courageous band of Jewish p...
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72,58 zł |
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A Late Divorce
ISBN: 9780156494472 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license of family ties will appreciate the merits of A.B. Yehoshua s A Late Divorce. London Review of Books
A powerful story about a family and a country in crisis. The father of three grown children comes back to Israel to get a divorce from his wife of many years; another woman, newly pregnant, awaits him in America. Narrated in turn by each family member husband and wife, sons and daughter, young grandson the drama builds to a crescendo at the traditional family gathering... Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license of family ties will appreciate the me...
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80,44 zł |
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The Lover
ISBN: 9780156539128 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elusive, haunting. New York Times Book Review
A husband s search for his wife s lover, lost amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War, is the heart of this dreamlike novel. Through five different perspectives, Yehoshua explores the realities and consequences of the affair and the search, laying bare deep-rooted tensions within family, between generations, between Jews and Arabs. A] profound study of personal and political trauma. Daily Telegraph "Has the symmetry of an elegantly cut gem. The New Yorker" Elusive, haunting. New York Times Book Review
A husband s search for his wife s lover, lost amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War, is t... |
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80,44 zł |
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A Perfect Peace
ISBN: 9780156716833 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oz s strangest, riskiest, and richest novel. Washington Post Book World
Israel, just before the Six-Day War. On a kibbutz, the country s founders and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. The messianic father exults in accomplishments that had once been only dreams; the son longs to establish an identity apart from his father; the fragile young wife is out of touch with reality; and the gifted and charismatic outsider seethes with emotion. Through the interplay of these brilliantly realized characters, Oz evokes a drama that is chillingly,... Oz s strangest, riskiest, and richest novel. Washington Post Book World
Israel, just before the Six-Day War. On a kibbutz, the country s fo... |
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84,47 zł |
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Two Jews on a Train: Stories from the Old Country and the New
ISBN: 9780226052168 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Two Jews were traveling on a train. . . . " Many Eastern European jokes-and several of the charming and often hilarious conversations in this book-begin this way. From all regions of the world and from all walks of life, the characters are young and full of life and old and ugly; they are rabbis, matchmakers, students, and immigrants. They gossip and speak about everything from the banalities of the world to the unspeakable evils of existence all for a single purpose: to laugh and to celebrate the good luck of being alive.
As Biro recounts these tales, we hear not only his voice and the... "Two Jews were traveling on a train. . . . " Many Eastern European jokes-and several of the charming and often hilarious conversations in this book-be...
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80,48 zł |
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Ladies & Gentleman, the Original Music: Of the Hebrew Alphabet and Weekend in Mustarra
ISBN: 9780299179502 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,53 zł |
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Elijah Visible: Stories
ISBN: 9780312198657 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the publication of Elijah Visible, Thane Rosenbaum emerged as a fresh and important new voice on the American literary scene, a young writer in the great Jewish storytelling tradition of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Isaac Babel. In this haunting debut, Rosenbaum weaves together nine postmodern tales about Adam Posner, a young man determined to climb the American corporate ladder, who finds himself paralyzed by he legacy of the Holocaust. Encumbered by the psychic screams of his deceased parents, Posner embodies the disintegration, as well as the spiritual search, of the modern... With the publication of Elijah Visible, Thane Rosenbaum emerged as a fresh and important new voice on the American literary scene, a young w... |
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76,57 zł |
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Seven Blessings
ISBN: 9780312309169 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The closed, secret world of matchmaking in contemporary Israel provides the titillating pivot for a story of uncommon proportions. In Ruchama King's skillful hands, Seven Blessings maps out the complicated lives of five expatriate women and men whose search for a soul mate, in many ways, mirrors their search for God. At the center of this fascinating novel is Beth, who at age thirty-nine longs to be married but despairs she ever will be. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, he has what she believes to be an insurmountable flaw. Can she overcome her repugnance in order... The closed, secret world of matchmaking in contemporary Israel provides the titillating pivot for a story of uncommon proportions. In Ruchama King'... |
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84,63 zł |
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Kaaterskill Falls
ISBN: 9780385323901 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the lives of three Orthodox Jewish families spending the summer of 1976 in Kaaterskill, a small town in upstate New York, including two refugees from the Holocaust and a rabbi nearing the end of his life.
Explores the lives of three Orthodox Jewish families spending the summer of 1976 in Kaaterskill, a small town in upstate New York, including two refug...
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80,64 zł |
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Paradise Park
ISBN: 9780385334181 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Allegra Goodman has delighted readers with her critically acclaimed collections Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz, and her celebrated first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, which was a national bestseller and a "National Book Award finalist.
Abandoned by her folk-dancing partner, Gary, in a Honolulu hotel room, Sharon realizes she could return to Boston--and her estranged family--or listen to that little voice inside herself. The voice that asks: "How come Gary got to pursue his causes, while all I got to pursue was him?" Thus, with an open heart, a soul on fire, and her meager... Allegra Goodman has delighted readers with her critically acclaimed collections Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz, and her celebrated first nov...
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92,74 zł |
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From a Sealed Room
ISBN: 9780618562411 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this affecting, perceptive novel, Rachel Kadish reflects on the ghosts of the past, the tensions of war, and the difficult bonds of family. When Maya enrolls at Hebrew University in Jerusalem shortly after the Gulf War, she hopes to leave New York and a fraught relationship with her mother behind her. In Israel, she gets to know her older cousin Tami, a housewife whose home has a room sealed against the war's Scud missile attacks. Like Maya, Tami feels distanced from the people closest to her -- her mother, her husband, her only son. But it will ultimately be Maya's visits with Shifra, an...
In this affecting, perceptive novel, Rachel Kadish reflects on the ghosts of the past, the tensions of war, and the difficult bonds of family. When Ma...
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80,44 zł |
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Children at the Gate
ISBN: 9780743211628 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,44 zł |
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Life Lines
ISBN: 9780743228947 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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132,86 zł |
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The Stories of David Bergelson: Yiddish Short Fiction from Russia
ISBN: 9780815604020 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With little of his fiction available in English translation, David Bergelson is revealed in this book to new readers seeking a more complete picture of worldwide Yiddish literature. The collection includes two short stories and a novella, which offer a taste of Bergelson's elegiac prose style.
With little of his fiction available in English translation, David Bergelson is revealed in this book to new readers seeking a more complete picture o...
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68,34 zł |
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Bociany
ISBN: 9780815605768 / Angielski / Twarda / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rosenfarb brings a vanished world to life, following the destinies of characters from the Polish town of Bociany as they grow up, grow old, and leave the shtetl for the city. In the LIBRARY OF MODERN JEWISH LITERATURE series.
Rosenfarb brings a vanished world to life, following the destinies of characters from the Polish town of Bociany as they grow up, grow old, and leave ...
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182,43 zł |
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Of Lodz and Love
ISBN: 9780815605775 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text follows the destinies of characters from the Polish town of Bociany as they grow up, grow old and leave the shtetl for the city. It offers portrayals of Jews and Christians from several walks of life in the shtetl. This is the sequel to Bociany (0-8156-0576-5).
This text follows the destinies of characters from the Polish town of Bociany as they grow up, grow old and leave the shtetl for the city. It offers p...
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80,44 zł |
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Sabbath
ISBN: 9780815605904 / Angielski / Twarda / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in the Polish-Jewish community of Wolbrom in the 1930s, this is an account of how the character Feivel and his family observe the Sabbath. The author describes in detail the religious observance and folkways of this holy day from the order of communal prayer to the preparation of meals.
Set in the Polish-Jewish community of Wolbrom in the 1930s, this is an account of how the character Feivel and his family observe the Sabbath. The aut...
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100,60 zł |
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A Woman Named Solitude
ISBN: 9780815607045 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like his previous book Last of the Just, which traced the Jewish experience of martyrdom, this book recreates through fact and myth people's enslavement, humiliation and survival.
Like his previous book Last of the Just, which traced the Jewish experience of martyrdom, this book recreates through fact and myth people's enslaveme...
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80,44 zł |
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The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn
ISBN: 9780815608929 / Angielski / Miękka / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn", Merrill Joan Gerber, so often applauded for her pure and natural prose, illuminates the sorrows and triumphs of three generations of sisters from an American Jewish family. Rachel and Rose, who come to America from Poland, discover their fates in New York's Lower East Side, where "the streets are paved with gold." Rachel's daughters, Ava, Musetta, and Gilda, live the passionate drama of their family's destiny while the world fights two wars. In war and peace the men they love, their husbands and sons, bring them both ecstasy and bitter grief. Musetta's...
In "The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn", Merrill Joan Gerber, so often applauded for her pure and natural prose, illuminates the sorrows and triumphs of ...
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100,60 zł |
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Arrogant Beggar
ISBN: 9780822317494 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The target of intense critical comment when it was first published in 1927, "Arrogant Beggar'"s scathing attack on charity-run boardinghouses remains one of Anzia Yezierska's most devastating works of social criticism. The novel follows the fortunes of its young Jewish narrator, Adele Lindner, as she leaves the impoverished conditions of New York's Lower East Side and tries to rise in the world. Portraying Adele's experiences at the Hellman Home for Working Girls, the first half of the novel exposes the "sickening farce" of institutionalized charity while portraying the class tensions that...
The target of intense critical comment when it was first published in 1927, "Arrogant Beggar'"s scathing attack on charity-run boardinghouses remains ...
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101,89 zł |
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