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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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98,70 |
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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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114,45 |
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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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69,22 |
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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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66,33 |
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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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126,34 |
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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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53,84 |
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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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41,41 |
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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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82,87 |
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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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61,97 |
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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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53,69 |
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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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68,00 |
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Music of the Soul
ISBN: 9781470049829 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They were the wonder couple: Sara, a gifted artist and musician, and her fiance, Lionel, a professional violinist with an endearing smile and a thoughtful personality. The fact that Sara was a South African Jew, and Lionel a gentile of German extraction, meant little to either of them. But a chance encounter with a Holocaust survivor and a harrowing trip to Germany to meet Lionel' family leaves Sara changed forever. And so begins a dramatic, action packed story which takes the reader on a breathtaking adventure through three continents, through secrets of the past and hopes for the future....
They were the wonder couple: Sara, a gifted artist and musician, and her fiance, Lionel, a professional violinist with an endearing smile and a though...
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62,18 |
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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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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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70,48 |
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Four Thousand
ISBN: 9781470129866 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who really did 9/11? The Government? The Mossad? In this hilarious first novel, an Arab prince publicly offers $12 million dollars to anyone with proof that 4,000 Jews stayed home from their jobs at the World Trade Center on September 11. Two American Jews, hopelessly trying to save an old, dying New Jersey synagogue, come up with a desperate plan. They will present "proof" that the Jews did 9/11, and collect the Arab prince's money. The way they get this "proof," and the comic chaos that ensues, provide a funny, poignant, and touching look at Jews, Arabs, the hatred that constantly divides...
Who really did 9/11? The Government? The Mossad? In this hilarious first novel, an Arab prince publicly offers $12 million dollars to anyone with proo...
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82,70 |
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All the Hidden Children
ISBN: 9781470173128 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No one knows why John Carter has a number on his arm, obviously from a German Concentration Camp.He himself was never given a satisfactory answer about a tatoo which seems to have been with him all his life. His past - a dark mystery. His present - a confused whirl of emotions and questions. His future - unknown and full of danger. This novel, first published by Targum Press in 1995, takes the reader on an action-packed and suspenseful journey across three continents and five decades as Carter attempts to unravel the secret of his past - and build a future as a Jew.
No one knows why John Carter has a number on his arm, obviously from a German Concentration Camp.He himself was never given a satisfactory answer abou...
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62,18 |
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Stranger to Her People
ISBN: 9781470193546 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jenny Reynolds, a young South African convert to Judaism, was full of eager anticipation as she set out from Johannesburg on the "March of the Living" tour. Over the next few weeks, as part of an organized groups of thousands of holocaust survivors and their families, she would visit the scenes of the German destruction of European Jewry during the Second World War. It promised to be a profound intellectual and emotional experience, an experience that would be burned into her memory for the rest of her life. Her pilgrimage to the scenes of the holocaust does indeed become an experience that...
Jenny Reynolds, a young South African convert to Judaism, was full of eager anticipation as she set out from Johannesburg on the "March of the Living"...
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49,75 |
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Mystery Islands
ISBN: 9781470190781 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Zanger children are on holiday in the small coastal town of Shipston. Shortly after their arrival there is a massive storm. The next morning they find a bottle with a note inside it in a rock pool on the beach. This leads them into an exciting and breath taking adventure where they explore some mysterious islands and rescue a kidnapped prince. This story appeared in serial form over many editions of Concord Magazine, England
The Zanger children are on holiday in the small coastal town of Shipston. Shortly after their arrival there is a massive storm. The next morning they ...
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51,41 |
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Die Juden von Barnow
ISBN: 9783866404342 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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165,61 |
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Miriam, Ever Watchful
ISBN: 9781468186307 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Pharaoh who ruled Egypt about three thousand years ago forced all Hebrew men and boys to work long hours and decreed that all newborn Hebrew boys be drowned. Young Miriam consoles her parents who worry that the baby her mother is pregnant with might be a son by relating her dream that the baby will be a boy who will grow up and lead the Israelites to freedom with her and her brother Aaron beside him. Miriam devises a plan that succeeds in saving her baby brother. She helps take care of him as he grows up in his family's home with involved parents, siblings and other relatives and brings him...
A Pharaoh who ruled Egypt about three thousand years ago forced all Hebrew men and boys to work long hours and decreed that all newborn Hebrew boys be...
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35,24 |
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