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Stones
ISBN: 9781601823007 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. STONES is a novel simultaneously serious and comic. It takes place in one day as its protagonist, Jack Berke, accompanies his aged mother Rachel to visit the family graves in Brooklyn, Queens, and further out on Long Island. As Jack negotiates the congested expressways from cemetery to cemetery, he contemplates the tombstones, the lives of family members who lie under them, the stones that, according to Jewish custom, he places on those tombstones, and the stone that has for a lifetime resided in his own heart.
STONES is a novel simultaneously serious and comic. It takes place in one day as its protagonist, Jack Berke, accompanies his aged mother Rachel to vi...
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56,98 |
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Haskala I
ISBN: 9781480231269 / Angielski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Len Harris, the new editor of a Baltimore-based ethnic publication, Haskala, the genesis of which is pre-WW II, struggles with an identity crisis as does his journal. The publisher, Bernie Price, son of the late founder, Sidney Price, is determined to dismiss Haskala's ethnic slant and turn largely secular, a move to increase the ad base and readership. Meanwhile, Harris views his job as a pulpit of sorts and refuses to accept his publisher's diminished editorial position on spirituality. A war for space is on. Harris, struggling to view the world through the eyes of a Jewish journalist,...
Len Harris, the new editor of a Baltimore-based ethnic publication, Haskala, the genesis of which is pre-WW II, struggles with an identity crisis as d...
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80,00 |
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A Memory of War
ISBN: 9780393347685 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psychologist Alexander Lescziak savors a life of quiet sophistication on Manhattan's Upper West Side, turning a blind eye to the past of his Polish emigre parents. Then a new patient declares that he is the doctor's half-brother, the product of a union between Lescziak's Jewish mother and a German prisoner of war. The confrontation jolts Lescziak out of his complacency: suddenly, his failing marriage, his wife's infatuation with his best friend, and the disappearance of his young lover and suicidal patient, Nella, close in on him. Lescziak escapes into the recesses of his imagination, where...
Psychologist Alexander Lescziak savors a life of quiet sophistication on Manhattan's Upper West Side, turning a blind eye to the past of his Polish em...
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95,10 |
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Crumbs
ISBN: 9781482785005 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mark Strauss, an elderly Jewish artist, and Maria Martell, a young historian of German descent, make an unlikely pair. United by their interest in history, Marek and maria constitute a force for good midst the cauldron of hatred and blood concocted by Hitler and Stalin. Maria's German great-uncle and Marek's Ukrainian half-brother are dripping with that blood, having served the gods of hatred during World War II. As Marek and Maria seek to unearth truths about their relatives, their quest leads to romance, self-discovery, and revelations about the human capacity to love.
Mark Strauss, an elderly Jewish artist, and Maria Martell, a young historian of German descent, make an unlikely pair. United by their interest in his...
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60,03 |
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All Russians Love Birch Trees
ISBN: 9781590515846 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An award-winning debut novel about a quirky immigrant s journey through a multicultural, post-nationalist landscape
Set in Frankfurt, All Russians Love Birch Trees follows a young immigrant named Masha. Fluent in five languages and able to get by in several others, Masha lives with her boyfriend, Elias. Her best friends are Muslims struggling to obtain residence permits, and her parents rarely leave the house except to compare gas prices. Masha has nearly completed her studies to become an interpreter, when suddenly Elias is hospitalized after a serious soccer... An award-winning debut novel about a quirky immigrant s journey through a multicultural, post-nationalist landscape
Set in Fran... |
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60,80 |
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Pioneers: A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s
ISBN: 9780253012098 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. S. A. An-sky's novel dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young people in late Tsarist Russia as they strive to throw off their traditional religious upbringing to adopt a secular and modern identity. The action unfolds in the town of M. in the Pale of Settlement, where an engaging cast of characters wrestles with cultural and social issues. Their exploits culminate in helping a young Jewish woman evade an arranged marriage and a young Russian woman leave home so she can pursue her studies at a European university. This startling novel reveals the tensions and triumphs of coming of age in a... S. A. An-sky's novel dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young people in late Tsarist Russia as they strive to throw off their traditional religious ... |
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242,39 |
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Pioneers: A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s
ISBN: 9780253012128 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. S. A. An-sky's novel dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young people in late Tsarist Russia as they strive to throw off their traditional religious upbringing to adopt a secular and modern identity. The action unfolds in the town of M. in the Pale of Settlement, where an engaging cast of characters wrestles with cultural and social issues. Their exploits culminate in helping a young Jewish woman evade an arranged marriage and a young Russian woman leave home so she can pursue her studies at a European university. This startling novel reveals the tensions and triumphs of coming of age in a... S. A. An-sky's novel dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young people in late Tsarist Russia as they strive to throw off their traditional religious ... |
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76,49 |
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Like a Bride and Like a Mother
ISBN: 9780826323644 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These two autobiographical novels lay bare the life journey of a Mexican Jewish woman reconciling herself with a Sephardic background, her parent's dictates, and her husband's and family's expectations. The only constant in her life is a need to find her own way, and the story of how she does so is intensely personal and yet universal in its humanness. This quest begins in Oshinica's childhood: at about age ten she's taken from the public school in Mexico City and placed in a Jewish one. There she begins to understand what it means to be Jewish. Though somewhat indifferent to Hebrew lessons,...
These two autobiographical novels lay bare the life journey of a Mexican Jewish woman reconciling herself with a Sephardic background, her parent's di...
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116,30 |
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The Fruit of Her Hands: The Story of Shira of Ashkenaz
ISBN: 9781476754635 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the life of the author's thirteenth-century ancestor, Meir ben Baruch of Rothenberg, a renowed Jewish scholar of medieval Europe, this is the richly dramatic fictional story of Rabbi Meir's wife, Shira, a devout but rebellious woman who preserves her religious traditions as she and her family witness the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. Raised by her widowed rabbi father and a Christian nursemaid in Normandy, Shira is a free-spirited, inquisitive girl whose love of learning shocks the community. When Shira's father is arrested by the local baron intent on enforcing the Catholic... Based on the life of the author's thirteenth-century ancestor, Meir ben Baruch of Rothenberg, a renowed Jewish scholar of medieval Europe, this is ... |
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102,87 |
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After Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine
ISBN: 9781481907132 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. AFTER ANATEVKA follows Sholom Aleichem's timeless character, Tevye the milkman, as he moves his family from Russia to Palestine. Tevye, the wisecracking, Bible-quoting man of God, tells the story of his family's new life against the backdrop of the conflict between Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land prior to the establishment of the State of Israel. In AFTER ANATEVKA, Tevye decides to take his wife and three youngest daughters (the three eldest remain in Russia with their husbands) to live on a kibbutz where he must adjust to a secular lifestyle and struggle with the tension between the... AFTER ANATEVKA follows Sholom Aleichem's timeless character, Tevye the milkman, as he moves his family from Russia to Palestine. Tevye, the wisecra... |
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55,99 |
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The Kingston Castle
ISBN: 9781475001792 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the Rosenbergs decide to vacation in Kingston, it is to get away from the bustle of city life. Little do they know that the town and its famous castle hold in store the adventure of a lifetime. The Rosenberg kids become fast friends with the Sandler family. The Sandlers are Orthodox Jews and the Rosenbergs begin to discover a world about which they know very little. Meanwhile the children become involved in a terrifying mystery. This is the Second Edition of the Kingston Castle, the first being published in 1991 by Hachai Distributions, New York, under the pen name Ruth Abrahamson
When the Rosenbergs decide to vacation in Kingston, it is to get away from the bustle of city life. Little do they know that the town and its famous c...
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49,62 |
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Woman of Valor
ISBN: 9789652296405 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. She was determined to be the best wife, mother, and professional; something had to give For weeks Woman of Valor topped Israel s best-seller lists, conquering hearts. In trenchant and colorful prose, Lihi Lapid tells a true-life story of women (and men) struggling to live up to expectations (most of all their own): a story about shattered dreams, and about finding the strength to gather up the pieces and learn to smile again. Woman of Valor is a must-read for every mother. Lihi Lapid s best-selling novel starts where most love stories leave off: at the beginning of real life. Woman of Valor...
She was determined to be the best wife, mother, and professional; something had to give For weeks Woman of Valor topped Israel s best-seller lists, co...
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65,65 |
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A Life Less Lived
ISBN: 9781482761047 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Borskys are a Jewish family living in the world of an immigrant Chicago neighborhood in the 1940's. As the parents deal with all the problems of life in a new and strange culture, circumstances send the family into a tailspin. Life will never be the same for them again, as the novel follows the twists and turns that their lives take, set against the turbulent times of postwar America. All the while, Evelyn faces her growing up years, as the novel unflinchingly takes her from childhood to young womanhood, from high school to young marriage and beyond.
The Borskys are a Jewish family living in the world of an immigrant Chicago neighborhood in the 1940's. As the parents deal with all the problems of l...
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63,23 |
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The Keeper Of Secrets: A Novel
ISBN: 9780062240309 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beautiful and mysterious, The Keeper of Secrets by Julie Thomas follows a priceless violin across generations--from WWII to Stalinist Russia to the gilded international concert halls of today--and reveals the loss, love, and secrets of the families who owned it. Beautiful and mysterious, The Keeper of Secrets by Julie Thomas follows a priceless violin across generations--from WWII to Stalinist Russ... |
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72,38 |
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Kalooki Nights
ISBN: 9780099501367 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one is much interested. He is drawn into the Holocaust obsessions from which he realises there can be, and should be, no release. This book is a comedy of cataclysm.
Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, and draws cartoon histories of Jewi...
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96,90 |
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The Elected Member
ISBN: 9780349130224 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple of his parents' eyes... until at forty-one he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia.
For Norman, his committal to a mental hospital represents the ultimate act of betrayal. For Rbbi Zweck, Norman's father, his son's deterioration is a bitter reminder of his own guilt and failure. Only Bella, the unmarried sister, still in her childhood white ankle socks, can reach across the abyss of pain to bring father... Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple of his parents' eyes....
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50,40 |
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Last Train from Liguria
ISBN: 9781843549888 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A sweeping tale of consequences spanning the 1930s to the 1990s, movingbetween fascist Italy and modern IrelandIn 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the family s summer home, Bella's reserve softens as she comes to love her young charge, and find friendship with Maestro Edward, his enigmatic music teacher. But as the decade draws to an end and fascism tightens its grip on Europe, the fact that Alec is Jewish places his life in grave danger. Bella and Edward take the boy...
A sweeping tale of consequences spanning the 1930s to the 1990s, movingbetween fascist Italy and modern IrelandIn 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet ...
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45,36 |
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When Fishes Love Doves
ISBN: 9781482553369 / Angielski / Miękka / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Fishes Love Doves is a dramatic, fictional love story with a special appeal for those in the Jewish community who attempted to bridge two worlds when they moved from large cities to suburbs in the 1960s. At this heady time in American history, traditional values were undergoing a dramatic, major paradigm shift. The marriage of two cultures is difficult, and Adina Greenfeld struggles to find out if, hard as she tries, it will ever be possible to live in a different way than her deep-rooted, traditional culture. This lesson will strike a chord for readers from many backgrounds, although it...
When Fishes Love Doves is a dramatic, fictional love story with a special appeal for those in the Jewish community who attempted to bridge two worlds ...
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80,00 |
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Many Seconds Into the Future: Ten Stories
ISBN: 9780896728592 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Moving stories of Jewish sensibility"
The stories in John J. Clayton's newest collection are luminous, expressing a struggle to see growth and meaning in life as much as possible. Nearly all focus on family, and the characters, most of them Jewish, grapple with questions of living, dying, loving, and worshipping. Clayton has published several novels, including "Mitzvah Man "(TTUP, 2011), but he is best known for his critically-acclaimed short fiction, which has been included in "O. Henry Prize Stories," "Best American Short Stories," and Pushcart Prize anthologies." "His collection... "Moving stories of Jewish sensibility"
The stories in John J. Clayton's newest collection are luminous, expressing a struggle to see growth and m... |
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95,10 |
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Retrospective
ISBN: 9780544157989 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger The greatest Hebrew novelist. Jewish Review of Books An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When Yair Moses arrives, a painting over his bed triggers a distant memory from one of his early films: a scene that caused a rift with his brilliant but difficult screenwriter. Upon his return to Israel, Moses decides to travel to the south to look for his elusive former partner and propose... A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger The greatest Hebrew novelist. Jewis... |
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76,19 |
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