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Once Upon a Shtetl
ISBN: 9781456421168 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This spirited novel paints the colorful characters in my Jewish generational family in the shtetl, Skalat, Austria, in Galicia from the 1890s and on. This is their story. It reveals their daily fight to handle poverty, fears, their private neuroses and anti-Semitism which pervades their days. Ever battling to eke out a living, they still fall romantically and lustily in love, marry, and have children. Their early innocence is touching and human. Some remain stalwart defending their religious beliefs, while others grow intellectually, attending secret meetings in the woods, joining a new...
This spirited novel paints the colorful characters in my Jewish generational family in the shtetl, Skalat, Austria, in Galicia from the 1890s and on. ...
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72,98 zł |
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Summer of '63
ISBN: 9781453678718 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 1963 was a pivotal year in American political and cultural history. In his engaging novel, author Rodger Aidman takes the reader back in time through the eyes of Bar Mitzvah boy Rod Noodleman. Only thirteen, Rod travels by himself aboard a Greyhound bus from his home in Miami to visit his cousins in Texas. Aboard the bus Rod sits between two pretty southern belles from Greenwood, Mississippi. Although they don't see eye to eye about integration and which is the true religion, Judaism or Christianity, a little romance does ensue. Tex Conaway the Jewish cowboy and boyhood friend of Lyndon...
1963 was a pivotal year in American political and cultural history. In his engaging novel, author Rodger Aidman takes the reader back in time through ...
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45,71 zł |
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The Masada Complex
ISBN: 9781450544108 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Could a major scandal cause the United States to terminate its support for Israel? The Masada Complex, a contemporary thriller set in Arizona, Washington, and Israel, gives us a chilling portrayal of exactly such a scenario. The novel's unforgettable hero is Masada El-Tal, a beautiful Israeli expatriate who grew up on a kibbutz by the Dead Sea and served in an IDF elite unit. But her charmed life was struck by disaster 25 years, and left Israel for Arizona, where has built a new life, earning a reputation as a prizewinning investigative reporter. But her latest story causes the suicide of a...
Could a major scandal cause the United States to terminate its support for Israel? The Masada Complex, a contemporary thriller set in Arizona, Washing...
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82,36 zł |
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Toxic Distortions
ISBN: 9781456336684 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WINNER OF THE 2012 USA BEST BOOK AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION IN THE E-BOOK CATEGORY BRONZE MEDAL WINNER IN THE 2013 GLOBAL E-BOOK AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION "A stylishly written and cunningly plotted Holocaust revenge thriller. Set in the 1960s, its disturbing narrative of retribution moves to a tense and shattering conclusion. Combines the time-frame of a Tarantino movie with the pace and detail of an early Freddie Forsyth novel." ROGER KATZ "Disturbing and intriguing. Packed with plot twists and incident. A rite of passage novel which is also a revenge thriller. A literary novel which is...
WINNER OF THE 2012 USA BEST BOOK AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION IN THE E-BOOK CATEGORY BRONZE MEDAL WINNER IN THE 2013 GLOBAL E-BOOK AWARD FOR HISTORICA...
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43,47 zł |
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Rahel, like Rachel from the Bible
ISBN: 9781460906347 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rachel Stern is sixteen years old and already an accomplished painter; art school awaits and she's doing everything she can to improve her portfolio before the academy's application deadline. When an old family friend unexpectedly invites her to spend her summer on a kibbutz in Israel, Rachel can't imagine a better opportunity for creative adventure. Spending the summer with the Bason family on Kibbutz Givat HaShoftim, near the Mediterranean coast, proves to be very different from what she expected. Before returning to America, Rachel comes to love Israel and kibbutz life, and through her...
Rachel Stern is sixteen years old and already an accomplished painter; art school awaits and she's doing everything she can to improve her portfolio b...
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59,43 zł |
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Panorama
ISBN: 9780812980608 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Only recently available for the first time in English, Panorama is the newly rediscovered first novel of H. G. Adler, a modernist master whose work has been compared to that of Kafka, Joyce, and Solzhenitsyn. A brilliant epic told in ten distinct vignettes, Panorama is a portrait of a place and people soon to be destroyed, as seen through the eyes of the young Josef Kramer. It moves from the pastoral World War I era Bohemia of Josef s youth, to a German boarding school full of creeping prejudice, through an infamous extermination camp, and finally to Josef s self-imposed... Only recently available for the first time in English, Panorama is the newly rediscovered first novel of H. G. Adler, a modernist master who... |
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108,94 zł |
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Lisa's Boy
ISBN: 9780393341591 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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117,43 zł |
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In a Hotel Garden
ISBN: 9780856359989 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This novel by the French writer Gabriel Josipovici is an exploration into the power of memory and imagination, also raising the question of how far it is possible for non-Jews to understand Jews. Josipovici's other works include "Text and Voice" and "Steps: selected fiction and drama".
This novel by the French writer Gabriel Josipovici is an exploration into the power of memory and imagination, also raising the question of how far it...
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70,84 zł |
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Pen Pals - What It Means to Be Jewish in Israel and America
ISBN: 9781608625130 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,96 zł |
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Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning
ISBN: 9780984804801 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Exceptional, vibrant anthology"
--Jewish Book World Finalist, National Jewish Book Awards Sixty inspiring and provocative adult-level mitzvah stories crafted by leading Jewish storytellers, rabbis and authors from across the full spectrum of Jewish life. These juried, newly-minted tales reveal how each mitzvah, when carried out with understanding and creativity, becomes a rich source of spirituality and meaning. For reading and retelling across the generations. Contributing authors: Yossi Alfi, Noa Baum, Joel Ben Izzy, Yisroel Bernath, Renee Brachfeld, Rosyln... "Exceptional, vibrant anthology"
--Jewish Book World Finalist, National Jewish Book Awards Sixty inspiring and provocative adult-level m... |
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91,47 zł |
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The Silent Witness
ISBN: 9780615495538 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Books have souls. . . The siddur seemed like nothing more than a dying bequest, an impulse of the moment. Certainly Shammai deserved it, after all the hours he'd spent helping Mr. Enstein, all the times he'd listened patiently to the old man's complaints and criticisms. So when his daughter, the only one present when Mr. Enstein suffered his heart attack, was told to give the siddur to her father, Shammai accepted it as a reasonable token of appreciation. It was simply the shock, Shammai had thought, that had urged Mr. Enstein to at last express his gratitude. Books have souls. . . Mr....
Books have souls. . . The siddur seemed like nothing more than a dying bequest, an impulse of the moment. Certainly Shammai deserved it, after all the...
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73,21 zł |
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The Open Cage
ISBN: 9780892553969 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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139,44 zł |
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Interview with a Jewish Vampire
ISBN: 9780971096813 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last thing zaftig middle-aged journalist, Rhoda Ginsburg, expects when she signs up for JDate is to fall for a vampire. But when she meets drop-dead gorgeous Sheldon, a Hasidic vampire, she falls hard. She rationalizes that he may not be alive, but at least he's Jewish. Desperate to save the life of her terminally ill mother, Rhoda comes up with the crackpot idea of getting Sheldon to turn her and her little old Jewish lady friends into vampires. Who knew that they would "go rogue" and start preying on the young? Erica Manfred's wry humor is the perfect match for the sexy-vampire... The last thing zaftig middle-aged journalist, Rhoda Ginsburg, expects when she signs up for JDate is to fall for a vampire. But when she meets drop... |
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59,43 zł |
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Beginners' Minyan: A Collection of Short Stories
ISBN: 9780983759300 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Beginners' Minyan" explores what it means to be a Jew in ten short stories. In this witty and provocative collection, author S. Mark Gadol introduces an array of characters so fresh, yet familiar, you'll find yourself revisiting what you think you know about yourself and the people around you.
A young woman takes revenge on her manipulative mother by going for her spiritual jugular... A Florida retiree struggles with gray-haired cliques and bullies... A young lawyer tries to take back an epithet... A man with a divine gift and his son set out on a world-wide quest to bring together the... "Beginners' Minyan" explores what it means to be a Jew in ten short stories. In this witty and provocative collection, author S. Mark Gadol introduces...
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45,71 zł |
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Soulville
ISBN: 9781456321864 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The night "Battling" Moish Moskowitz beat "Midget" Rosenberg at the old Ice Palace on Market Street, Moish viewed success as a simple equation; you didn't have to be smart or good looking, you just needed to know how to make people laugh or how to fight. That was in 1933. Forty-one years later life had gotten complicated. The reign of Jewish champions was over. Moish still spent every day in the gym training a group of fighters including Tyrone Braxton. There's a line between Blacks and Jews that is seldom successfully juggled and never crossed. For Moish, it was like that line didn't exist....
The night "Battling" Moish Moskowitz beat "Midget" Rosenberg at the old Ice Palace on Market Street, Moish viewed success as a simple equation; you di...
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68,40 zł |
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Matriarchs: A Little Book Of Heresies
ISBN: 9788799447565 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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54,90 zł |
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Between Heaven and Earth
ISBN: 9789652295163 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over one hundred years ago, one woman decided to change her life... When Zara Rubens is suddenly widowed, she decides to take control of her life and visit Palestine. Zara creates a new life for herself in nineteenth-century Jerusalem. She becomes acquainted with such legendary figures as British Consul James Finn and his fascinating wife Elizabeth, Reverend Conrad Schick, and the renowned painter William Holman-Hunt. As a writer for the nascent New York Times, Zara becomes embroiled in a precarious situation at the Russian Compound with surprising discoveries.Over a century later, New York...
Over one hundred years ago, one woman decided to change her life... When Zara Rubens is suddenly widowed, she decides to take control of her life and ...
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59,25 zł |
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Of Guns, Revenge and Hope
ISBN: 9789652295330 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of Benny the son of David Levi, the central figure of Of Guns and Mules and the five-year period he spent serving with the British army in World War II. Volunteering in the summer of 1940, Benny becomes a driver in a Jewish-Palestinian unit and sees active service in Egypt and North Africa. After taking part in the defeat of Rommel s Afrika Corps, he is sent to Italy via Malta. There he undergoes combat training and, as a fighter in the newly formed Jewish Brigade, participates in the Allies final push against the Nazis. He also takes part in the unofficial revenge squads...
This is the story of Benny the son of David Levi, the central figure of Of Guns and Mules and the five-year period he spent serving with the British a...
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75,05 zł |
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The Selby Printout
ISBN: 9781470125295 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A few numbers keyed into a computer by trembling hands - and a man's career, his reputation, and his very life are in peril, in a high-stakes game of computer fraud. The prime suspect? Michael Berman, a ba'al teshuvah still grappling with his own questions of where he belongs in the Jewish world. Someone has broken into a bank's computer network and made off with huge sums of money. All eyes turn accusingly towards Michael, the last employee to have worked on the account. As Michael tries to clear his name, he finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue and danger. So many questions: Whose...
A few numbers keyed into a computer by trembling hands - and a man's career, his reputation, and his very life are in peril, in a high-stakes game of ...
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77,78 zł |
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Yesterday's Child
ISBN: 9781470072506 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Yesterday's Child is the gripping and unusual tale of a courageous young man who, as a young boy, suffers the tragic loss of his mother. He then goes to live with his father and step mother in Cape Town. When he reaches adulthood his seemingly brilliant and joyful future is suddenly shattered by startling revelations about his past. He embarks on a voyage into the past, a voyage whose outcome will determine the very essence of his present and his future. First published by CIS in 1992 and then reprinted in 2002, Yesterday's child became a best seller in the Jewish world. It is now being...
Yesterday's Child is the gripping and unusual tale of a courageous young man who, as a young boy, suffers the tragic loss of his mother. He then goes ...
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68,63 zł |
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