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Homesick
ISBN: 9781564785824 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This remarkable, kaleidoscopic novel tells the fragmented stories of a group of women and men brought together by chance in a small neighborhood in the hills of Israel. It is 1995, and Amir, a young man studying psychology in Jerusalem, and his girlfriend Noa, studying photography in Tel Aviv, decide to move in together, choosing a tiny apartment midway between their two cities--a village that was forcibly emptied of its Arab inhabitants in 1948. Although the two students are only looking for a convenient place to spend time together, they find their new home to be no less complex a web of... This remarkable, kaleidoscopic novel tells the fragmented stories of a group of women and men brought together by chance in a small neighborhood in... |
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80,59 zł |
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The Fragile Mistress
ISBN: 9780980178647 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,58 zł |
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The Sacrifice of Tamar
ISBN: 9780312570224 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tamar Finegold is twenty-one years old, the happy, beautiful bride of a rising young Rabbi in one of Brooklyn's insulated, ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. Having married the man of her dreams and taken her place as a wife--and hopefully soon-to-be mother--in her community, Tamar feels as though the world is at her feet. But her secure, predictable existence is brought to an abrupt end when she is raped by an intruder. Fearing the unbearable stigma and threat to her marriage that could result from telling the truth, Tamar makes a fateful decision that changes her life forever. Her... Tamar Finegold is twenty-one years old, the happy, beautiful bride of a rising young Rabbi in one of Brooklyn's insulated, ultra-Orthodox Jewish co... |
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119,03 zł |
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Barney's Version
ISBN: 9780307476883 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, "Barney's Version" is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book of a long and distinguished career.
Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, "Barney's Version" is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feelin...
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80,80 zł |
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Feeding Mrs. Moskowitz and the Caregiver
ISBN: 9780815609780 / Angielski / Miękka / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this pair of moving, gracefully poignant novellas, sisters Pokras and Yariv explore the world of the elderly with deft humor and heart-wrenching detail. Pokras' "Feeding Mrs. Moskowitz" introduces us to the remarkable Golde Moskowitz, an elderly Russian widow living alone with her memories. In Golde's world, 'signs' are everywhere, the dead converse with the living and dreams are real. Natalie Holtzman, a thirty-six year-old graphic artist longing for connection, fills her world with work and with Artie her commitment-wary boyfriend. One sweltering summer morning, Golde decides to do some...
In this pair of moving, gracefully poignant novellas, sisters Pokras and Yariv explore the world of the elderly with deft humor and heart-wrenching de...
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84,84 zł |
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The Tzaddik
ISBN: 9781935271406 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a life journey that transcends time and place, The Tzaddik presents a metaphor for all humanity by illuminating how each of us may combine destiny with personal choice to achieve meaning and purpose. In the year 2000, a unique soul born into a prominent family is endowed with the power to effect vast change in our society. When he flees from the burden of his destiny, he is engaged by three teachers who guide him on a path that forever changes the world. Uniting heaven and earth, combining the spiritual with the physical, Prince enters both business and politics, rising to great...
With a life journey that transcends time and place, The Tzaddik presents a metaphor for all humanity by illuminating how each of us may combine destin...
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95,01 zł |
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Kabbalah of Stone
ISBN: 9780984319602 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Girona, Spain, 1492-Rabbi Raphael Halevi seeks to save his community from the Inquisition. Help comes in the unexpected form of the spirit of the biblical prophet, Huldah, and a Christian scribe who has discovered his hidden Jewish identity. This lyrical and suspenseful novel of Jewish history, magic, and Kabbalah offers a feminist reinterpretation of an intriguing Hebrew prophet.
Girona, Spain, 1492-Rabbi Raphael Halevi seeks to save his community from the Inquisition. Help comes in the unexpected form of the spirit of the bibl...
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95,60 zł |
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The Tzaddik
ISBN: 9781935271413 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a life journey that transcends time and place, The Tzaddik presents a metaphor for all humanity by illuminating how each of us may combine destiny with personal choice to achieve meaning and purpose. In the year 2000, a unique soul born into a prominent family is endowed with the power to effect vast change in our society. When he flees from the burden of his destiny, he is engaged by three teachers who guide him on a path that forever changes the world. Uniting heaven and earth, combining the spiritual with the physical, Prince enters both business and politics, rising to great...
With a life journey that transcends time and place, The Tzaddik presents a metaphor for all humanity by illuminating how each of us may combine destin...
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190,27 zł |
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Grand River and Joy
ISBN: 9780472034291 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A novel that puts the reader right in the heart of the 1967 Detroit race riots
A novel that puts the reader right in the heart of the 1967 Detroit race riots
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79,43 zł |
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A House Divided
ISBN: 9781449976798 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jonathan Geller, an ambitious young academic, is struggling to build a new life for himself in the US. An American born Jew who had immigrated to Israel with his family as a child, Geller fled the Jewish State after a deadly incident that occurred during his service in the Israeli army. Ten years into his self imposed exile, Geller's younger brother is killed in the line of duty, so he reluctantly returns to Israel to attend the funeral. Once back, Geller is forced to confront his broken family and a life and country he thought he had left behind for good. Colored by his own military...
Jonathan Geller, an ambitious young academic, is struggling to build a new life for himself in the US. An American born Jew who had immigrated to Isra...
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66,93 zł |
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Stockhammer
ISBN: 9780984398218 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Horowitz is a prominent defense attorney possessing a special gift called -The Power, - allowing him to exert influence over judges, juries and witnesses. He befriends an elderly woman named Mrs. Stockhammer, who performed astonishing heroics saving thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Now he might have to use -The Power- to exonerate her from vicious accusations. This story takes Horowitz deep into past events of war-torn Europe, getting him involved with Nazi-hunters, the Israeli Mossad, and the FBI in an attempt to determine the absolute truth. Kushel weaves an extraordinary story...
Paul Horowitz is a prominent defense attorney possessing a special gift called -The Power, - allowing him to exert influence over judges, juries and w...
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107,22 zł |
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The Idumean Covenant: A Novel of the Fall of Jerusalem
ISBN: 9781450575966 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a time of religious upheaval and civil war in a country where men of different faiths can never be brothers, three slaves must keep a date with destiny. Death, destruction and the persecution of an entire nation at the hands of the Roman army set the stage for "The Idumean Covenant: A Novel of the Fall of Jerusalem." Abraham's twin grandsons, Jacob and Esau, were bitter enemies. Jacob's descendants, the Judeans become God's chosen people and Esau's descendants, the Idumeans, become the people that God hated and despised.God's prophets tell the Judeans, Isaiah and Ezehiel, to rob and even...
In a time of religious upheaval and civil war in a country where men of different faiths can never be brothers, three slaves must keep a date with des...
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71,22 zł |
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Reuben Sachs - A Sketch: With a Biography by Richard Garnett
ISBN: 9781444698923 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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109,49 zł |
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The Lost Minyan
ISBN: 9780826349736 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1391 and 1492 a substantial number of Spains Jewish community converted to Catholicism, either voluntarily or through physical or psychological coercion. In 1478 Spain established an Inquisition to induce individuals to recant their heretical beliefs and adhere to orthodox Christian practices. To encourage individuals to do so the punishment of sinners was made into a public, exemplary event. The Lost Minyan profiles ten crypto-Jewish families in the throes of coping with the trauma of living between worlds, neither wholly Catholic nor wholly Jewish.
Between 1391 and 1492 a substantial number of Spains Jewish community converted to Catholicism, either voluntarily or through physical or psychologica...
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84,84 zł |
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One Is Not A Lonely Number
ISBN: 9780984162420 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thirteen-year-old Talia Shumacher is the only child of a wealthy orthodox couple, known for their hospitality. As Talia becomes a teenager, her parents' open-door policy begins to irritate her. When Gabrielle Markus, an eccentric twenty-three-year old ballet dancer shows up one day, Talia's life is turned upside down. Convinced that Gabrielle is harboring a secret, Talia and her friends set out to uncover it. Along the way, Talia must deal with the loneliness she feels as an only child living in a religious community that celebrates large families. In discovering Gabrielle's secret, Talia...
Thirteen-year-old Talia Shumacher is the only child of a wealthy orthodox couple, known for their hospitality. As Talia becomes a teenager, her parent...
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70,77 zł |
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Ordinary Jews
ISBN: 9781438435503 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its original publication in 1935, Ordinary Jews has come to be regarded as one of the masterpieces of Yiddish literature. In his portrayal of the lives of ordinary Polish Jews in a small provincial city at the end of the nineteenth century, Yehoshuah Perle offers a glimpse at a way of life that was already changing by the time of the novel's publication and would soon be brutally exterminated in the Holocaust. Through the eyes of the novel's young protagonist, Mendl Shonash, we are introduced to an intricate society of housewives, beggars, tailors, doctors, maidservants, tavern...
Since its original publication in 1935, Ordinary Jews has come to be regarded as one of the masterpieces of Yiddish literature. In his portraya...
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116,14 zł |
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Learning to Say "Satoraljaujhely": finding a place in a Hungarian Jewish family
ISBN: 9781884106095 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of poetry, short stories, memoir, family photographs, and contemporary photographs reflects 200 years of Hungarian Jewish history, from the early 19th century until today. Author Lynn Saul searches for the meaning of her ancestors' lives and tries to find her own place in what she discovers. The men are farmers, merchants, gamblers--and one is the billiards champion of Hungary. The women react to their circumstances and strike out on their own. Historical events in this book include the short-lived 1848 Hungarian revolution, the 1882-83 Tiszaeszlar blood libel trial, the...
This collection of poetry, short stories, memoir, family photographs, and contemporary photographs reflects 200 years of Hungarian Jewish history, fro...
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66,75 zł |
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And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories of a Family
ISBN: 9781439223031 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This sprawling, warm-hearted story spans six continents and one hundred years, from the 1900 Sabbath table of Reizl and Lazar Solomon and their young sons, in Radautz, Bukovina, to a glorious millennial reunion in Paris. "Dawid presents the family history in twenty-four accounts of varying length, rich in personal vignettes though mindful of the overriding historical arc. Here is Hans, a grandson of Reizl and Lazar, 'resident alien' of Tientsin, North China,1939; Berthold, another grandson, on day 555 of his imprisonment in a Communist prison cell, 1950; great-granddaughters Toni and...
"This sprawling, warm-hearted story spans six continents and one hundred years, from the 1900 Sabbath table of Reizl and Lazar Solomon and their young...
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84,79 zł |
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King Solomon's Journey
ISBN: 9781456348175 / Angielski / Miękka / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unaware of the existence of the other, Anthropologist, Antonio Dominguez and Spiritualist, Amanda Messenger have inadvertently lived parallel lives. They have studied the mysteries and history of the ancient people of the earth, the ties that bind past and present, and have sought to understand mankind's deepest meanings, now they have been led onto a path that will take them into the past, present and future. Drawn together by fate, they have uncovered 3,000 year old scrolls, which have lain protected since King Solomon first sent them up the Rio Grande, within the confines of the mysterious...
Unaware of the existence of the other, Anthropologist, Antonio Dominguez and Spiritualist, Amanda Messenger have inadvertently lived parallel lives. T...
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66,93 zł |
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I've Loved You All Of My Life
ISBN: 9781456374297 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I've Loved You All Of My Life is the story of Morry Goldberg, a young Jewish boy, who falls in love with his next door neighbor, Kathy O'Malley. Morry's family is Orthodox Jewish and Kathy's is Irish Catholic. The book follows Morry's and Kathy's lives from childhood through adolescence and the lives of their families during post World War II Columbus, Ohio. Morry and Kathy's love force both families to confront their basic beliefs that are rooted in Europe and early twetieth century America. I've Loved You All Of My Life examines and questions what a "Good Jew," a "Good Catholic" and a "Good...
I've Loved You All Of My Life is the story of Morry Goldberg, a young Jewish boy, who falls in love with his next door neighbor, Kathy O'Malley. Morry...
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53,36 zł |
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