The mothers of some of the most illustrious Jewish men in recent history?Albert Einstein, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Woody Allen, the Marx Brothers?are chatting in heaven. The subject: their respec
This is the story of an independent woman who is a model for our time?photographer Toby Molenaar. It begins in Holland during World War II, when her country is decimated by the occupying German army a
Jurek Becker was one of the giants of postwar German literature. The novel for which he is best-known, Jacob the Liar, won wide acclaim, was awarded the Heinrich-Mann and Charles Veillon Prizes, and w
"A stylish, atmospheric mystery with a startling twist . . . satisfies like Simenon and surprises like Ruth Rendell. I can't give it any higher praise."--NPRManfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkwar
“Only a monster can allow himself the luxury of seeing things as they are,” writes E. M. Cioran, the Romanian-born philosopher who has rightly been compared to Samuel Beckett.In History and Utopia, Ci
