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The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai
University of California Press 2013; US$ 24.95Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved poems, including forty poems from his later work. A new foreword by C.K. Williams, written especially for this edition, addresses... more...
A Poetics of Trauma
Brandeis University Press 2012; US$ 34.99Astute analysis of the work of a great Israeli poet through the lens of psychoanalysis, gender, nationalism, and trauma theory more...
Shelter by the Sea
Contento De Semrik 2012; US$ 3.99Shelter by the Sea is the daring, stirring first novel of author Guy Bental. A Naval commando fighter, recruited to the elite assassination unit of an Israeli intelligence agency, is battling with the demands of his double life: the typical life of every Israeli man with a wife and children, and his life with his new lover in his other identity. Shelter... more...
Sanctuary in the Wilderness
Stanford University Press 2011; US$ 65.00The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution. But the overwhelming majority of Jewish emigrants... more...
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 25.95From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev?s birth. Here we meet Shalev?s amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923 and lived in a constant state of battle with what... more...
Infiltration
Orca Book Publishers 2011; US$ 9.99Bex breaks into locked and abandoned buildings just because he can, but when a new friend's behavior becomes increasingly risky, he has to do the right thing. more...
Mongrels or Marvels
Stanford University Press 2011; US$ 60.00The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917–1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the bourgeois Jewish community in Cairo, Kahanoff grew up in a time of coexistence. She spent the years of World War II in New York City, where she launched her writing career with publications in prominent... more...
To Be a Jew
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 120.00To Be a Jew deals with the question of the meaning and rationale that the writer Joseph Chayim Brenner attributes to Jewish existence. Many of Brenner's readers assumed that Brenner completely negated Jewish existence and sought to form a new way of life completely disconnected from the traditional Jewish existence. In contrast to this perception,... more...
Twilight of a Golden Age
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 43.50Other titles by Leon J. Weinberger: Anthology of Hebrew Poetry in Greece, Anatolia, and the Balkans Early Synagogue Poets in the Balkans Jewish Poets in Crete Jewish Prince in Moslem Spain: Selected Poems of Samuel ibn Nagrela Rabbanite and Karaite Liturgical Poetry in Southeastern Europe Romaniote Penitential Poetry ... more...
The Confessions of Noa Weber
Melville House 2010; US$ 16.95Acclaimed author Noa Weber has a successful ?feminist? life: a strong career, a wonderful daughter she raised alone, and she is a recognized and respected cultural figure. Yet her interior life is bound by her obsessive love for one man?Alek, a Russian émigré and the father of her child, who has drifted in and out of her life. Trying to understand?as... more...









