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“dvir abramovich”

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  • A Touch of Genius

    Portraits and Literary Masterpieces

    by Dvir Abramovich ...
    "These brilliant writers, through their works, never fail to exert their power in spadefuls, and soar to heights of grace and excellence in confronting the great existential dramas of life."In a collection of passionate, sparkling essays, one of Australia's leading literary critics presents a fresh and exciting ode to Jewish fiction. Rescuing some brilliant texts from the dustbin of oblivion or ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Heart of Amos Oz

    Love, War & Grief

    by Dvir Abramovich ...
    If you're looking for literary theory, jargon, or safe distance, put this book back on the shelf now. The Heart of Amos Oz: Love, War & Grief brings you close to Amos Oz not as a legend, but as a man. A son marked by his mother's death. An Israeli writer who spent a lifetime turning love, loss, and pain into words that millions felt were written for them. You don't need to know one of the world's ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Lost World of Unspoken Horrors

    Aharon Appelfeld's Holocaust Universe

    by Dvir Abramovich ...
    This volume offers a close reading of five novels by Aharon Appelfeld (1932-2018), Israel's most celebrated Shoah author. Fuelled by a desire to introduce this literary giant to foreign language readers, this illuminating collection of essays is a tribute to a prolific writer who, for more than four decades, won international acclaim for his subtle and enigmatic novels, which shimmer with ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New War Against the Jews

    Writing from the Trenches

    by Dvir Abramovich ...
    Let’s face it: a chasm separates the experience of reading an article on a screen or in a newspaper, and giving yourself over to a good book. No matter how well-written an article may be, when you read it online or in newspaper, myriad distractions jostle for attention and jangle your nerves. Settle in to read the same piece in a book and the experience is transformed!In this engagingly reflective ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Israel, Palestine and Peace

    Essays

    by Amos Oz ...
    "Powerful" essays from a founder of the Peace Now movement and advocate for a two-state solution ( Library Journal).The haunting poetry of [Oz's] prose and the stunning logic of his testimony make a potent mixture." — Washington Post Book WorldAmos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience to advocate for a two-state solution. As a founding member of the Peace Now movement, Oz has spent over ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conversations with Elie Wiesel

    by Elie Wiesel, Richard D. Heffner ...
    Conversations with Elie Wiesel is a far-ranging dialogue with the Nobel Peace Prize-winner on the major issues of our time and on life’s timeless questions.In open and lively responses to the probing questions and provocative comments of Richard D. Heffner—American historian, noted public television moderator/producer, and Rutgers University professor—Elie Wiesel covers fascinating and often ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • No Joke

    Making Jewish Humor

    by Ruth R. Wisse ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Suddenly Jewish

    Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots

    by Barbara Kessel ...
    Series series Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life
    One woman learned on the eve of her Roman Catholic wedding. One man as he was studying for the priesthood. Madeleine Albright famously learned from the Washington Post when she was named Secretary of State. "What is it like to find out you are not who you thought you were?" asks Barbara Kessel in this compelling volume, based on interviews with over 160 people who were raised as non-Jews only to ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • One Generation After

    by Elie Wiesel ...
    Twenty years after he and his family were deported from Sighet to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel returned to his town in search of the watch—a bar mitzvah gift—he had buried in his backyard before they left. ... Read more

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  • Stranger in a Strange Land

    Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem

    by George Prochnik ...
    Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem—the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah—Prochnik combines biography and memoir to counter our contemporary political crisis with an original and urgent reimagining of the future of Israel.In Stranger in a Strange Land, Prochnik revisits the life and work of Gershom Scholem, whose once ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • After Such Knowledge

    Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors? And what are the second-generation's responsibilities to its received memories?In this meditation on the long aftermath of atrocity, Eva ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Blessing and the Curse

    The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts.Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch now turns to the story of modern Jewish literature. From the vast emigration of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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