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Sisters Weiss
ISBN: 9780312570200 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox Jewish family, never dreaming of defying their parents or their community's unbending and intrusive demands. Then, a chance meeting with a young French immigrant turns Rose's world upside down, its once bearable strictures suddenly tightening like a noose around her neck. Defiantly, she begins to live a secret life that shocks her family when it is discovered. Out of guilt and an overwhelming desire to be reconciled with those she loves, she finally bows to her parents' demands that she agree to... In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox Jewish family, never dreaming of defying their paren... |
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Choosing Life: Stories from the Post-Holocaust Generations: Choosing Life: Stories from the Post-Holocaust Generations
ISBN: 9781495238048 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Choosing Life: Stories from the Post-Holocaust Generations is a collection that includes nostalgic pieces told by a young Jewish man, along with his experiences growing up in Brooklyn, NY, to stories taking place during and soon after the Holocaust and World War II.
Choosing Life: Stories from the Post-Holocaust Generations is a collection that includes nostalgic pieces told by a young Jewish man, along with his e...
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Nazi Atrocities and the Twenty First Century: Fiction
ISBN: 9781495975332 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Max, a small teen from Berlin is crippled by beatings and Eva is a child from Romania when their eyes meet handing out towels in a death camp. After the war they leave others to be together in America. With the new millennium their daughter Rachel waits on death row and their son who has a family only loves his guns. Max and Eva's oldest died in heavy fighting his first day in Viet Nam. And Garth who lived because he let Aaron die raises a family in secret finding peace after war with Mary, once called Rachel.
Max, a small teen from Berlin is crippled by beatings and Eva is a child from Romania when their eyes meet handing out towels in a death camp. After t...
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Terra Incognita
ISBN: 9781495995316 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Terra Incognita. For the medieval Catalan navigators the term meant an uncharted territory that inspired either fear or the thrill of adventure. But for the characters of this new novel by award-winning author Libi Astaire, "terra incognita" is a place inside the soul. It is a place drifting in the dreamy waters of an almost forgotten past; a place that is about to collide with an anxious, uncertain future. The story revolves around the Bonet family, who live in a tiny Catalan village called Sant Joan Januz. Vidal Bonet is a young businessman determined to revive his dying village by building...
Terra Incognita. For the medieval Catalan navigators the term meant an uncharted territory that inspired either fear or the thrill of adventure. But f...
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Jewish Days
ISBN: 9781496005168 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our protagonist is Artie Shamash. The story explores his conflicted persona. How did that persona, his role identity develop? What is the mechanism involved that shapes each of us? The novel seeks to understand by through Artie Shamash's life. On its face, the book's a study of a man born into a world of secular Judaism and its assimilationist trend in America; we see the stress this creates. On another level, the theme is more universal, how each of our identities, our roles such as Christian, Jew, Muslim, American, Russian, German, etc., are nurtured. The novel spins counter-clockwise. It...
Our protagonist is Artie Shamash. The story explores his conflicted persona. How did that persona, his role identity develop? What is the mechanism in...
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The Other Side: A collection of short stories
ISBN: 9781495431036 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Other Side is a collection of short stories concerning the spiritual condition of the Jewish People. These eleven stories mirror a time when the travails of life were easier to understand. Evoking memories of the recent past, The Other Side explores how Jewish life struggles beneath the invisible weight of an inexorable obligation and an inscrutable destiny coupled with a comic scenario. This necklace of stories ties together through a common thread pervading every Jewish experience. From Russia to America, from a cowboy to flower child, from a fat man to a righteous man, upon the sea or...
The Other Side is a collection of short stories concerning the spiritual condition of the Jewish People. These eleven stories mirror a time when the t...
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An Unusual Encounter
ISBN: 9780615638041 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in-depth look into the abyss of tragedy and the peaks of triumph as Daryl Wincoat, troubled survivor of Vietnam and novice journalist, encounters Rabbi Asher, troubled survivor of Holocaust. Assigned by his editor to write a newspaper article about the Jewish religion, Daryl is introduced to the Jewish faith by Rabbi Asher in a manner much deeper and much more profound than could have been anticipated; a situation that brings to light their mutual sufferings.
An in-depth look into the abyss of tragedy and the peaks of triumph as Daryl Wincoat, troubled survivor of Vietnam and novice journalist, encounters R...
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Dissonance
ISBN: 9781939650115 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Anna Kramer, a Los Alamos piano teacher, inherits the journals and scores of composer Hana Weissova, she is mystified by this bequest from a woman she does not know. Hana s music, however, soon begins to uncover forgotten emotions, while her journals, which begin in 1945 after she is released from a concentration camp, slowly reveal decades-old secrets that Anna and her family have kept buried. "Dissonance" is a quiet and dramatic novel that offers great emotional urgency and wisdom. It is bold in its scale, placing readers at different eras in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt...
When Anna Kramer, a Los Alamos piano teacher, inherits the journals and scores of composer Hana Weissova, she is mystified by this bequest from a woma...
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Don't Ask Me If I Love
ISBN: 9781590773680 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Don t Ask Me If I Love is the story of a young man who hates war, but serves faithfully in his country s army. He loves his parents, but can no longer care about the things that are important to them. He is a citizen of a religious state, but questions many of its precepts. In need of someone to give meaning to his life he falls in love with an American girl. He is Assaf Ryke one of the new Israelis of the 1960s. Moving from a discotheque in Jerusalem to the beach at Caesarea, from a shabby flat in Tel Aviv to an apartment in London, Don t Ask Me If I Love is a novel of love and alienation in...
Don t Ask Me If I Love is the story of a young man who hates war, but serves faithfully in his country s army. He loves his parents, but can no longer...
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The Sweetness
ISBN: 9781631529078 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A Foreward Reviews Indie Fab 2014 Finalist for Book of the Year "
"A. L. A. Sophie Brody Award 2014 nominee" Early in "The Sweetness," an inquisitive young girl asks her grandmother why she is carrying nothing but a jug of sliced lemons and water when they are forced by the Germans to evacuate their ghetto. "Something sour to remind me of the sweetness," she tells her, setting the theme for what they must remember to survive. Set during World War II, the novel is the parallel tale of two Jewish girls, cousins, living on separate continents, whose strikingly different lives... "A Foreward Reviews Indie Fab 2014 Finalist for Book of the Year "
"A. L. A. Sophie Brody Award 2014 nominee" Early in "The Sweetness," an i... |
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Sholem Aleichem: Five Short Stories
ISBN: 9781497396623 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) was a Yiddish novelist and playwright who wrote humorous tales about common Russian Jews who lived in small towns. His stories, especially "Tevye's Daughters," formed the basis for the musical "Fiddler on the Roof." This collection contains five humorous stories: The Clock Fishel the Teacher An Easy Fast The Passover Guest Gymnasiye
Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) was a Yiddish novelist and playwright who wrote humorous tales about common Russian Jews who lived in small towns. His sto...
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Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers
ISBN: 9780979815614 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers is the first English translation of eleven autobiographical short stories by the 19th century Eastern European Yiddish writer, Jacob Dinezon (1852-1919). A beloved and successful Jewish novelist who championed Yiddish as a literary language, Dinezon befriended and mentored almost every major literary figure of his day, including the three classic writers of modern Yiddish literature, Sholem Abramovitsh (Mendele Moykher Sforim), Sholem Aleichem, and Isaac Leybush Peretz. Though Dinezon's place in the development of Yiddish literature has been...
Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers is the first English translation of eleven autobiographical short stories by the 19th century Eastern ...
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Season of Faith
ISBN: 9781470078027 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of Josh and Rocky, two young teens from entirely different worlds, who collide in the heat of a New York summer. A naive boy from California, Josh comes to New York to visit his Uncle Jake, a sentimental elder whose eccentricities are only exceeded by his warmth and passion for life. Rocky is the beautiful daughter of a rabbi from Brooklyn, whose one dying wish is to understand what it means to be a complete woman before she runs out of time. With seemingly little in common, the two young friends quickly find that they are incomplete without each other and that the span of a...
This is the story of Josh and Rocky, two young teens from entirely different worlds, who collide in the heat of a New York summer. A naive boy from Ca...
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An Unorthodox Romance
ISBN: 9780983592181 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marnie Holland had been an academic prodigy, gone to college in her home town, Santa Barbara at 15. At 19 she discovered her Jewish background, completely changed course and began to study Judaism seriously, To continue her studies she went to Israel where she made a disastrous marriage to a somewhat older orthodox man older with two children. The marriage lasted barely three years. Forcibly separated from her stepchildren she left her husband, and, with the help of her parents ended it, but only after an official 'Jewish" divorce, a get, cost her father a great deal of money. No one in her...
Marnie Holland had been an academic prodigy, gone to college in her home town, Santa Barbara at 15. At 19 she discovered her Jewish background, comple...
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Debt of Tamar
ISBN: 9781250065681 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A USA TODAY Best seller Bestselling author Nicole Dweck brings to life one of history's greatest yet overlooked stories of love and resilience. In 2002, thirty-two-year-old Selim Osman, the last descendant of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, flees Istanbul for New York. In a twist of fate, he meets Hannah, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and an artist striving to understand the father she barely knows. Unaware that the connection they share goes back centuries, the two feel an immediate pull to one another. But as their story intertwines with that of... A USA TODAY Best seller Bestselling author Nicole Dweck brings to life one of history's greatest yet overlooked stories of love and r... |
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Famous All Over Town
ISBN: 9781611174397 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Novelist Walker Percy once said that the only remaining unexplored territory in southern literature was the Jewish southerner. Famous all over Town, the first novel from southern storyteller Bernie Schein, stakes a claim on Percy s unexplored terrain with a comically candid multigenerational account of two Jews, a lowcountry native and a northern transplant, at the epicenter of momentous events in the sleepy southern coastal hamlet of Somerset, a fictitious stand-in for Schein s native Beaufort, South Carolina.
Schein s diverse and memorable cast includes southern Jewish lawyer Murray... Novelist Walker Percy once said that the only remaining unexplored territory in southern literature was the Jewish southerner. Famous all over Town, t...
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Alter
ISBN: 9781456575786 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Belonging: two novels
ISBN: 9780936315386 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume comprises two short semi-autobiographical novels published respectively in 2005 and 2009 to considerable acclaim, as indicated in the comments below. The text is the same as in those original publications, with the exception that the Epilogue which was originally appended to 'Berlin Mosaic' now appears at the end of the volume as a whole. The present cover incorporates elements from the covers of those two original publications, based on artwork by the author's daughter Judith. 'Berlin Mosaic' paints its scenes with quick, expert strokes, moving relentlessly towards the central...
This volume comprises two short semi-autobiographical novels published respectively in 2005 and 2009 to considerable acclaim, as indicated in the comm...
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Domino Children
ISBN: 9780992351342 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the war torn Europe of 1940, people see the Jews; their shops, smashed and looted, their homes, overrun, their synagogues, vandalized. But who sees the children? No one. Because they're hiding. Five young people, with backgrounds from all around the continent find each other. Despite the odds, their stories weave, combine and fall together like dominos. This is the story of the Domino Children.
In the war torn Europe of 1940, people see the Jews; their shops, smashed and looted, their homes, overrun, their synagogues, vandalized. But who sees...
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David's Lionfaced Men
ISBN: 9781493524655 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. David's Lionfaced Men When asked to translate the ancient Hebrew scrolls that had been recently discovered near Jordan, Randy Keller agreed. The opportunity to decode the most important find since the Dead Sea Scrolls was a once in a lifetime prospect. He knew little about the mysterious men for whom he had agreed to work but the offer was one he could not refuse. The information in the scrolls could lead to the location of the treasure of King David however it was the story of a small group of warriors, the Chosen of the Lionfaced men, that most intrigued Randy. Ezer and the Chosen were on a...
David's Lionfaced Men When asked to translate the ancient Hebrew scrolls that had been recently discovered near Jordan, Randy Keller agreed. The oppor...
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