A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA fevered storyteller and a captive audience revisit the past in both of David Grossman's novellas, trying to make sense of a betrayal that nei
For Shira Klein, Yonatan Luria, and his daughter, Dana, it is winter--winter at work, winter among friends, winter at home, and winter of the heart. Yonatan is a marginal writer, a fifty-year-old wid
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)A unique collection of Hebrew poetry through the agesExtending from the Song of Deborah-written 3,000 years ago-to poems written in Israel by authors born in the 1930s, thi
As cohesive Jewish communal life began to disintegrate in the late nineteenth century, a modern Hebraic secular cultural tradition emerged. This volume presents a selection of influential essays by Ge
In his new novel, the young Arab-Israeli writer Sayed Kashua introduces a disillusioned journalist who returns to his hometown, an Arab village within Israel, hoping to reclaim the simplicity of life
From Israel’s most popular and acclaimed young writer—“Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren’t” (Yann Martel, author of
Things could be going better in Ilan's life. His book on astrophysics is months overdue. One of his female students at the Institute is stalking him. His bumbling colleagues want him to weigh in on th
As each of her employers disappears or is murdered, Katerina, a Gentile domestic servant working in a series of Jewish households in the years before the Holocaust, is repeatedly forced into a life of
Eric Zakim follows the literary and intellectual career of the powerful Zionist slogan "to build and be built" from its conceptual origin in reaction to the Kishinev pogroms of 1903, when it first ser
Translated by Leon J. Weinberger Of all the Hebrew poets of the 'Golden Age' in Spain, Samuel Ibn Nagrela (993-1056 A.D.) remains perhaps the most fascinating personality. A leading statesman in the k
Savyon Liebrecht is known for her hypnotic, emotionally complex stories about friendship, love and family and the subtle impact history and politics have on them. Her new collection focuses on place,
Calling into question prevailing notions about Orientalism, Yaron Peleg shows how the paradoxical mixture of exoticism and familiarity with which Jews related to Palestine at the beginning of the twen
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent
Gates of Bronze is a landmark of Hebrew fiction. In Hazaz's fictional village of Mokry-Kut, portentous currents converge. Gates of Bronze assaults the contradictions of Jewish revolutionary universali
One of Amos Oz's earliest and most famous novels, My Michael created a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and established Oz as a writer of international acclaim. Like all great books, it
A Table for One lifts the veil on the mystery of creativity, with diary entries on the craft of writing. It is set in the cafes of Jerusalem in the 1950s and 1960s, the intimate arena Aharon Appelfeld
The story of a lost dog, and the discovery of first love on the streets of Jerusalem are portrayed here with a gritty realism that is as fresh as it is compelling.When awkward and painfully shy sixte
