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Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories

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Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Fania & Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies (2018)Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub (the translators) on encountering Blume Lempel’s stories wrote: "When we began reading and translating, we didn’t know we were going to find a mother drawn into an incestuous relationship with her blind son. We didn’t know we’d meet a young woman lying ... Read more

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Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Fania & Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies (2018)Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub (the translators) on encountering Blume Lempel’s stories wrote: "When we began reading and translating, we didn’t know we were going to find a mother drawn into an incestuous relationship with her blind son. We didn’t know we’d meet a young woman lying
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The Sweetness

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by Sande Boritz Berger ...

A Foreward Reviews Indie Fab 2014 Finalist for Book of the YearA. L. A. Sophie Brody Award 2014 nomineeEarly in The Sweetness, an inquisitive young girl asks her grandmother why she is carrying nothing but a jug of sliced lemons and water when they are forced by the Germans to evacuate their ghetto. "Something sour to remind me of the sweetness," she tells her, setting the theme for what they must ... Read more

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A Foreward Reviews Indie Fab 2014 Finalist for Book of the YearA. L. A. Sophie Brody Award 2014 nomineeEarly in The Sweetness, an inquisitive young girl asks her grandmother why she is carrying nothing but a jug of sliced lemons and water when they are forced by the Germans to evacuate their ghetto. "Something sour to remind me of the sweetness," she tells her, setting the theme for what they must
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Yiddish for Pirates

by Gary Barwin ...

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Literature, a hilarious, swashbuckling yet powerful tale of pirates, buried treasure and a search for the Fountain of Youth, told in the ribald, philosophical voice of a 500-year-old Jewish parrot.Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy ... Read more

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Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Literature, a hilarious, swashbuckling yet powerful tale of pirates, buried treasure and a search for the Fountain of Youth, told in the ribald, philosophical voice of a 500-year-old Jewish parrot.Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy
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The Emperor of Lies

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Winner of the August Prize, Sweden's most important literary awardA Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleTo be published in more than twenty-five languagesA major international literary event"This is real literature. A great work of fiction." —Per Svensson, Dagens NyheterIn February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto, in the Polish city of ... Read more

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Winner of the August Prize, Sweden's most important literary awardA Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleTo be published in more than twenty-five languagesA major international literary event"This is real literature. A great work of fiction." —Per Svensson, Dagens NyheterIn February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto, in the Polish city of
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And After the Fire

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by Lauren Belfer ...

This literary thriller "explores the vexing question of whether art can be simultaneously beautiful and hateful . . . dazzle[s] while delving into dark places ( NPR's Fresh Air).At the end of World War II, American soldier Henry Sachs takes a souvenir, an old music manuscript, from a deserted mansion in Germany and mistakenly kills the girl who tries to stop him.In America in 2010, Henry's niece, ... Read more

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This literary thriller "explores the vexing question of whether art can be simultaneously beautiful and hateful . . . dazzle[s] while delving into dark places ( NPR's Fresh Air).At the end of World War II, American soldier Henry Sachs takes a souvenir, an old music manuscript, from a deserted mansion in Germany and mistakenly kills the girl who tries to stop him.In America in 2010, Henry's niece,
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The Bridal Chair

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"In prose as painterly and evocative as Chagall's own dazzling brushstrokes, Gloria Goldreich finely evokes one of the most significant masters of modern art through the discerning eyes of [his] loyally protective daughter."—Cynthia Ozick, award-winning author of Foreign BodiesAn exquisite, haunting exploration of the complex mind of Marc Chagall, and the artist's famous chair, through the eyes of ... Read more

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"In prose as painterly and evocative as Chagall's own dazzling brushstrokes, Gloria Goldreich finely evokes one of the most significant masters of modern art through the discerning eyes of [his] loyally protective daughter."—Cynthia Ozick, award-winning author of Foreign BodiesAn exquisite, haunting exploration of the complex mind of Marc Chagall, and the artist's famous chair, through the eyes of
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Chains of Sand

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As war looms, a Londoner decides to move to Israel, as an Israeli at the same time yearns to leave: "Moving, absorbing…a great read."— The TimesIn the heat of an Israeli summer, amid fresh attempts to restart peace talks with the Palestinians, Udi struggles to fill a UK immigration form. At twenty-six, Udi is a veteran of the Israel Defense Forces and has killed five men. He wants a new life, in a ... Read more

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As war looms, a Londoner decides to move to Israel, as an Israeli at the same time yearns to leave: "Moving, absorbing…a great read."— The TimesIn the heat of an Israeli summer, amid fresh attempts to restart peace talks with the Palestinians, Udi struggles to fill a UK immigration form. At twenty-six, Udi is a veteran of the Israel Defense Forces and has killed five men. He wants a new life, in a
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Monday the Rabbi Took Off

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Series Book 4 - The Rabbi Small Mysteries
A bomb plot draws Rabbi Small into international intrigue while he's vacationing in the Holy Land in this New York Times –bestselling novel.Edgar Award–Winning AuthorDavid Small has spent six years as the rabbi of Barnard's Crossing, Massachusetts, and every year his job has been in crisis. In desperate need of time away, he embarks on a three-month trip to Israel. He expects a relaxing, soul ... Read more

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A bomb plot draws Rabbi Small into international intrigue while he's vacationing in the Holy Land in this New York Times –bestselling novel.Edgar Award–Winning AuthorDavid Small has spent six years as the rabbi of Barnard's Crossing, Massachusetts, and every year his job has been in crisis. In desperate need of time away, he embarks on a three-month trip to Israel. He expects a relaxing, soul
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Septimania

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This picaresque romance is "intellectually fascinating and emotionally powerful . . . a poignant meditation on youth, love, myth, history, and quantum theory." ( Chicago Review of Books)On a spring afternoon in 1978 in the loft of a church outside Cambridge, England, an organ tuner named Malory loses his virginity to a dyslexic math genius named Louiza. When Louiza disappears, Malory follows her ... Read more

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This picaresque romance is "intellectually fascinating and emotionally powerful . . . a poignant meditation on youth, love, myth, history, and quantum theory." ( Chicago Review of Books)On a spring afternoon in 1978 in the loft of a church outside Cambridge, England, an organ tuner named Malory loses his virginity to a dyslexic math genius named Louiza. When Louiza disappears, Malory follows her
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Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories

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Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate, irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the writings of Sholem Aleichem and in acclaimed and award-winning theatrical and film adaptations.And no Yiddish writer was more beloved than Tevye’s creator, Sholem Rabinovich (1859–1916), the “Jewish Mark Twain,” who ... Read more

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Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate, irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the writings of Sholem Aleichem and in acclaimed and award-winning theatrical and film adaptations.And no Yiddish writer was more beloved than Tevye’s creator, Sholem Rabinovich (1859–1916), the “Jewish Mark Twain,” who
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The Château

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by Paul Goldberg ...

***"We have proverb in Florida...You know why it's good to be on beach?"Bill smiles, but says nothing. He wants the guy to keep talking."Because on beach you are surrounded by idiots on only three sides.""And on the remaining side you have what?" asks Bill."Sharks..."*Paul Goldberg, the acclaimed author of The Yid, takes us behind the scenes of a Florida condo board election, delivering a wild ... Read more

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***"We have proverb in Florida...You know why it's good to be on beach?"Bill smiles, but says nothing. He wants the guy to keep talking."Because on beach you are surrounded by idiots on only three sides.""And on the remaining side you have what?" asks Bill."Sharks..."*Paul Goldberg, the acclaimed author of The Yid, takes us behind the scenes of a Florida condo board election, delivering a wild
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Café Nevo

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Café Nevo is a Tel Aviv gathering place for artists, politicians, lovers, and Bohemians—Arabs and Jews, young and old, conservative and radical. Nevo is presided over by Emmanual Sternholz, the waiter whose unblinking gaze takes in the tangled web of destinies and desires spun out around him. In this comic, tragic, and compelling mosaic of intertwined lives, Barbara Rogan has created a dazzling ... Read more

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Café Nevo is a Tel Aviv gathering place for artists, politicians, lovers, and Bohemians—Arabs and Jews, young and old, conservative and radical. Nevo is presided over by Emmanual Sternholz, the waiter whose unblinking gaze takes in the tangled web of destinies and desires spun out around him. In this comic, tragic, and compelling mosaic of intertwined lives, Barbara Rogan has created a dazzling
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