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Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes

by Jonas Kreppel, Mikhl Yashinsky ...

A rabbi's granddaughter missing, feared murdered . . . a Jew wrong-fully accused of espionage . . . a shtetl teenager kidnapped and sold into prostitution in Turkey . . . in a far corner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, crime is rampant and Jews are at their wit's end. Enter super-sleuth Max Spitzkopf, passionate defender of his people. Brave, ingenious, and a master of disguise, Spitzkopf's crime ... Read more

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A rabbi's granddaughter missing, feared murdered . . . a Jew wrong-fully accused of espionage . . . a shtetl teenager kidnapped and sold into prostitution in Turkey . . . in a far corner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, crime is rampant and Jews are at their wit's end. Enter super-sleuth Max Spitzkopf, passionate defender of his people. Brave, ingenious, and a master of disguise, Spitzkopf's crime
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The Mother of Yiddish Theatre

Memoirs of Ester-Rokhl Kaminska

Edited by Mikhl Yashinsky ...

Series series Yiddish Voices
Originally appearing in the Warsaw daily Der Moment (1926-7), this intimate self-portrait by pioneering Yiddish actress Ester-Rokhl Kaminska (1870–1925) appears here for the first time in English. As it moves through her life, we see this towering artist and her art form emerge, observing how Kaminska navigates the perilous move from shtetl to city, stages illegal performances in unlikely venues ... Read more

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Originally appearing in the Warsaw daily Der Moment (1926-7), this intimate self-portrait by pioneering Yiddish actress Ester-Rokhl Kaminska (1870–1925) appears here for the first time in English. As it moves through her life, we see this towering artist and her art form emerge, observing how Kaminska navigates the perilous move from shtetl to city, stages illegal performances in unlikely venues
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In the World of Chaos

Selected Early Works, 1925-1937

by Isaac Bashevis Singer ...

Translated by Daniel Kennedy, Rose Waldman, Rachel Mines, Sarah Ponichtera, David Stromberg, Vera Szabo0, Ri J. Turner1, Paul M. Weichsel2, Mikhl Yashinsky3 ...

A complete picture of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s literary heritage.This volume brings together a rich collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s early work, including 27 short stories, 7 sketches of early fiction, as well as critical essays, childhood memoirs, and interviews.Singer’s early literary career in Warsaw (1925–1935) was crucial in laying the foundations for his later achievements in Jewish and ... Read more

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A complete picture of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s literary heritage.This volume brings together a rich collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s early work, including 27 short stories, 7 sketches of early fiction, as well as critical essays, childhood memoirs, and interviews.Singer’s early literary career in Warsaw (1925–1935) was crucial in laying the foundations for his later achievements in Jewish and
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The Diaries of Franz Kafka

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Translated by Ross Benjamin ...

Series series The Schocken Kafka Library
**A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers.“An invaluable addition to Kafka’s oeuvre.”—The New York Times**An essential new translation of Franz Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies ... Read more

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**A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers.“An invaluable addition to Kafka’s oeuvre.”—The New York Times**An essential new translation of Franz Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies
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Not I

Memoirs of a German Childhood

by Joachim C. Fest ...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, a portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stance.Few writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His biography of Adolf Hitler has reached millions of readers around ... Read more

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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, a portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stance.Few writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His biography of Adolf Hitler has reached millions of readers around
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Walks with Walser

by Carl Seelig ...

Translated by Anne Posten ...

A unique and personal portrait of the beloved, legendary Swiss writer, finally in EnglishAfter a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, ... Read more

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A unique and personal portrait of the beloved, legendary Swiss writer, finally in EnglishAfter a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936,
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Night

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Translated by Marion Wiesel ...

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive ... Read more

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A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive
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The Lady in Gold

The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Bloch-Bauer

by Anne-Marie O'Connor ...

The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it; the notorious artist who painted it; the now vanished turn-of-the-century Vienna that shaped it; and the strange twisted fate that befell it.The Lady in Gold, considered ... Read more

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The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it; the notorious artist who painted it; the now vanished turn-of-the-century Vienna that shaped it; and the strange twisted fate that befell it.The Lady in Gold, considered
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Mother Night

A Novel

by Kurt Vonnegut ...

“Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.”—TimeMother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and ... Read more

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“Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.”—TimeMother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and
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Address Unknown

A Novel

by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor ...

A rediscovered classic and international bestseller that recounts the gripping tale of a friendship destroyed at the hands of Nazi GermanyIn this searing epistolary novel, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor brings vividly to life the insidious spread of Nazism through a series of letters between Max, a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco, and Martin, his friend and former business partner who has returned ... Read more

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A rediscovered classic and international bestseller that recounts the gripping tale of a friendship destroyed at the hands of Nazi GermanyIn this searing epistolary novel, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor brings vividly to life the insidious spread of Nazism through a series of letters between Max, a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco, and Martin, his friend and former business partner who has returned
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The Pale Criminal

Bernie Gunther Thriller 2

by Philip Kerr ...

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'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILDA series of horrific ritual murders leads Bernie Gunther to an occult conspiracy at the very heart of the Nazi Party.Five German schoolgirls are missing. Four have been found dead. But unlike the undesirables who make up the majority of dead and missing people in Hitler's Berlin, these girls were blonde and blue-eyed - the Aryan flower of ... Read more

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'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILDA series of horrific ritual murders leads Bernie Gunther to an occult conspiracy at the very heart of the Nazi Party.Five German schoolgirls are missing. Four have been found dead. But unlike the undesirables who make up the majority of dead and missing people in Hitler's Berlin, these girls were blonde and blue-eyed - the Aryan flower of
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The Year Before the Storm

by Florian Illies ...

Translated by Shaun Whiteside, Jamie Lee Searle ...

**INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: This “absolute gem of a book” offers a month-by-month account of the year before World War I—one of the most exciting times in the 20th century (The Observer).“A sexy, comic and occasionally heartbreaking soap opera” for history buffs interested in 20th-century art, music, and literature (Washington Post).**It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car ... Read more

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**INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: This “absolute gem of a book” offers a month-by-month account of the year before World War I—one of the most exciting times in the 20th century (The Observer).“A sexy, comic and occasionally heartbreaking soap opera” for history buffs interested in 20th-century art, music, and literature (Washington Post).**It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car
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