The Toby Press: Books - Jewish and Israeli

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*Ancient Jewish Novels* In the Greco-Roman period there arose among the Jews a new form for retelling Bible stories and for composing new religious stories—the novel. Written around the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls and New Testament, these worldly texts reveal the ambiguities and conflicts encountered by Jews of that period... Paperback, ISBN 978 1 59264 195 6, C.320 pages, US$14.95 Publication date: September 2007 More Info...
A Book That Was Lost: Thirty-Five Stories: Expanded Edition, by S. Y. Agnon Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966, S.Y. Agnon is considered the towering genius of modern Hebrew literature for his hard-edged modernism and soft-hued imagery. With this collection of stories, reissued in paperback and expanded to include 11 more Agnon classics, the English-speaking audience has, at long last, access to the rich and brilliantly multifaceted fictional world of one of the great writers of this century. These stories span the lifetime of a quintessential wandering Jew-born in Buczacz, Poland, living in Germany, and finally settling in Jerusalem - and they bring to life the full gamut of the modern Jewish experience in fiction... Publication date: September 2008 More Info...
To This Day by S.Y. Agnon To This Day, Nobel prizewinner S.Y. Agnon’s last novel (first published in Hebrew in 1952), is also his last to be translated into English. It is a brilliantly accomplished and haunting work. On the surface it is a comically entertaining tale of a young writer—a Galician Jew who has lived in Palestine, returns to Europe on the eve of World War I, and is now stranded in Berlin— who wanders from rented room to rented room in a city with a severe wartime housing shortage. On a deeper level it is a profound commentary on exile, Zionism, divine providence, human egoism, and other typically Agnonian concerns. Publication date: April 2008 More Info...
A Table for One: Under the Light of Jerusalem by Aharon Appelfeld A Table For One is an interchange between one artist and another, father and son, about their city, Jerusalem. It brings together an unknown side of Aharon Appelfeld's writing, with the subtle, haunting paintings of his son, Meir Appelfeld, who studied fine art at the Royal Academy of Art, London, and exhibits widely. In this treasure of a book, Appelfeld reveals the centrality of Jerusalem in his life and work. However, his "city of light" proved far more than a shelter and the place where he came of age and spent his adult life: it became his inspiration - the quarry of his imagination... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-110-5, Pages: c.250, 11¼"x10½" US$19.95 Publication date: April 2005 More Info...
Tales of Grabowski by John Auerbach Tales of Grabowski comprises two novellas, Transformations, and Escape, together with several short stories, all of which tell the story of David Gordon, a young Jew from Warsaw, who transforms himself into Wladyslaw Grabowski, a Polish stoker in the German merchant marine. Auerbach skillfully balances the internal tensions between Gordon’s desire to fight for revenge and Grabowski’s desperate need for survival... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-80-X Pages: 309 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
The Owl & Other Stories by John Auerbach This is the first collection of the stories of John Auerbach to appear in English, the language in which they were written. Many were originally published in magazines, including Commentary, The Boston Globe Magazine and others. They draw upon the themes running through Auerbach's life: his years at sea, on a kibbutz in Israel, as an alienated man in America, his own and others' survival of the war and Holocaust. 'The Owl' was winner of the PEN/UNESCO award of 1993 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-79-6 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
Miriam and Other Stories by M.Y. Berdichevsky Micha Josef Berdichevsky was the descendant of a line of Chassidic rabbis. In 1886 he began studying at the Volozhin Yeshiva. It was there that he began his literary career, infuriating his teachers. In 1892 he moved to Berlin, where he combined both Jewish and secular studies. Opposed to both Ahad Ha-Am and Herzl, and encouraged by his friends and other Hebrew writers there, by 1900 Berdichevsky had firmly established himself with the publication of nine volumes of articles and stories. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-066-4 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 Publication date: May 2004 More Info...
Three Musketeers by Marcelo Birmajer Elias Traum, a former Argentinean currently residing in Israel, returns to Buenos Aires after twenty years of absence to mourn his two friends- two fellow Jews who together with him once comprised "the three musketeers." These young men signed their own death sentences when they joined the Montoneros, the left-wing Peronist guerrilla group, back in the bad days of the Dirty Wars in the 1970s and 80s. Javier Mosan is an unmotivated Jewish journalist who writes for a popular daily newspaper in Argentina. When he is sent to interview Traum, he believes it will be just another routine job... Publication date: October 2008 More Info...
Breakdown and Bereavement by Y.H. Brenner Yosef Haim Brenner published his first story in 1900. He immigrated to Palestine in 1909, and was killed by Arab rioters in 1921. Essayist, critic, commentator, translator, novelist and poet, Brenner was the most prominent literary figure in Pre-State Israel in his day, and in effect shifted the center of Hebrew literary activities away from Europe. Breakdown and Bereavement is set in a Jewish settlement in Palestine in the years before World War I. The hero, Hefetz, is typical Brenner, a wanderer in search of a spiritual homeland. ISBN 1 59264 067 2, paperback, $14.95 Publication date: May 2004 More info...
Out of the Depths & Other Stories by Y.H. Brenner Brenner was the most prominent literary figure in pre-State Israel in his day, and shifted the center of Hebrew literary activities away from Europe. This volume includes a large selection of Brenner’s shorter fiction, including Out of the Depths, One Year, From A to M, Impressions of a Journey, Nerves (translated by Hillel Halkin) and the fascinating Memories of Brenner, by the Hebrew poet David Shimoni. Paperback, ISBN 978 1 59264 135 2, C.500 pages, US$14.95, UK£9.99 CAN$19.95 Publication date: February 2008 More Info...
Wrestling with Angels: New and Collected Stories by John J. Clayton “Clayton sees his reluctant Jewish prophets as wildly lucid, drunk on spirituality in a secular world…. Writing with compassion, simplicity and power, Clayton adjusts their visions just enough so they can find the way home.” ISBN 978 1 59264 202 1, hardcover, US $27.95 UK £16.99 CANADA $34.95 Publication date: September 2007 More Info...
Adiel by Shlomo DuNour Adiel is a re-telling of the Old Testament story of the Bible, from the Creation of Adam and Eve through the ten generations, culminating with Noah and the Flood. It is told through the observations of Adiel, an angel, appointed by God and the archangel Michael, whose responsibility it is to record the events of Man, a sort of protective angel of history. Winner of the 1999 JERUSALEM PRIZE FOR LITERATURE Selected for the BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PROGRAM Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-32-X Pages: 304 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 24.95 More Info...
If You Awaken Love by Emuna Elon After Yair Berman left her and shattered all her dreams, the devastated Shlomtzion Drore escaped as far as possible from him and her intensely religious life in Jerusalem, becoming an interior designer in secular Tel-Aviv. 21 years later, her daughter has become engaged to his son, and Shlomtzion is forced to confront her former love and the mistakes of her life... Paperback: ISBN 10: 1-59264-145-8 ISBN 13: 978-1-59264-145-1 Pages: c.250 US$14.95 UK£9.99 CANADA $19.95 Publication date: May 2007 More Info...
Whither? and Other Stories by M.Z. Feierberg "Whither captures the quandary of young men like Isaac Bashevis Singer, riven by conflicting emotions and wrenched between the choices of rejecting a world of rigid traditionalism or embracing the new secular Yiddish culture with its lack of a meaningful spiritual compass." - Seth Wolitz. Feierberg was only 25 when he died of a long illness. His first story was published when he was 22, and Whither? was published just prior to his death in 1899. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-068-0 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 Publication date: May 2004 More Info...
Found in Translation: 20 Hebrew Poets - A Bilingual Edition Translated by Robert Friend The American-born Robert Friend, who died in Jerusalem in 1998, was a distinguished poet and translator. The present volume contains Friend’s versions of twenty Hebrew poets including Bialik, Rachel, and Uri Zvi Greenberg. Robert Friend’s close friend, the poet and translator Gabriel Levin, has edited the late poet’s uncollected translations into a collection Friend himself could not have bettered. Not only reflecting Friend’s taste and skills, the collection has a kind of serendipitous coherence as a representative anthology of twentieth century Hebrew poetry. Paperback: ISBN: 1592641741 Pages: c.250 US$14.95 UK£9.99 Publication date: October 2006 More Info...
Overcoming Infertility by Richard V. Grazi In the twelve years since Dr. Grazi's first collection appeared, Be Fruitful And Multiply: Fertility Therapy and the Jewish Tradition, there have been huge advances both in medical techniques and an evolving Halacha. Overcoming Infertility accounts for these advances, and will become an indispensable reference for observant Jewish couples who require fertility therapy, rabbis, and educators. While innovative technologies bring many new and difficult questions, advances in the field of infertility have brought happiness to infertile couples around the world. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-106-7, Pages: c.300, 8ľ"x5ľ" US$29.95 Publication date: June 2005 More Info...
Our Holocaust by Amir Gutfreund Amir and Effi collected relatives. With Holocaust survivors for parents and few other 'real' relatives alive, relationships operated under a "Law of Compression" in which tenuous connections turned friends into uncles, cousins and grandparents. Life was framed by Grandpa Lolek, the parsimonious and eccentric old rogue who put his tea bags through Selektion, and Grandpa Yosef, the neighborhood saint, who knew everything about everything, but refused to talk of his own past... Hardcover: ISBN: 1592641393 Pages: c.250 US$24.95 UK£14.99 Publication date: March 2006 More Info...
The World a Moment Later by Amir Gutfreund The World a Moment Later is the shadow book of the official Zionist lexicon. It is the book of those who were forgotten by the national narrative of Israel, collected here to be remembered. Journalist Leon Abramowitz never intended to immigrate to Palestine. Yet in 1922, four years after he was sent there from Europe to report on the lives of the pioneers, he discovers that the editor who dispatched him has run off with half of the paper's money, leaving Leon forgotten in The Promised Wilderness... Publication date: November 2008 More Info...
The Book of Abraham by Marek Halter A family saga with a difference, The Book of Abraham opens on the backdrop of a burning Jerusalem in 70 AD as Abraham the Temple scribe flees the destruction of his home. Two thousand years and a hundred generations later, another Abraham perishes, immolated in the fires of the Warsaw Ghetto. But the chain that links these two Abrahams is that of one family--the author's own. Over Five Million copies sold worldwide! Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-039-7 Pages: c.600 8˝"x5˝" US$14.95 More Info...
The Messiah by Marek Halter After the success of his bestselling The Book of Abraham, The Wind of the Khazars and The Canaan Trilogy (Sarah, Zipporah and Lilah), Marek Halter returns with a remarkable tale—based in truth—of the little-known crusade by a 16th-century Jew to marshal support for a Jewish state, four centuries before the creation of modern-day Israel. David Reubeni is a Jewish prince from the lost kingdom of Chabor. Arriving in Venice, he begins spreading his own gospel of the return of the Jews to a homeland in Palestine. Reubeni scours the European courts for support, ultimately pleading his cause to Pope Clement VII... Publication date: April 2008 More Info...
The Wind of the Khazars by Marek Halter The story of the Khazars comes to vivid, unforgettable life in Marek Halter's rich tapestry, which unravels when writer Marc Sofer is invited to speak at a conference where he is given an ancient Khazarian coin by a stranger. Intrigued, Sofer is drawn into investigating the enigma of the Khazars. Why did these Steppe warriors decide to become Jews? And then why, Why after centuries of power and prosperity, were they effaced from history? What is the connection between this ancient people, and the terrorist group calling themselves the New Khazars? Paperback: ISBN: 159264158X Pages: c.326 US$14.95 UK£9.99 Publication date: January 2006 More Info...
Gates of Bronze by Haim Hazaz Paris in 1923" writes Robert Alter in the introduction, "hardly seems a likely place for the gestation of a novel written in Hebrew that would offer a searching panoramic vision of the shtetl's disintegration in the historical maelstrom of the Russian Revolution." Gates of Bronze is a prize-winning landmark of Hebrew fiction. In Hazaz's fictional village of Mokry-Kut, a dot on the vast landscape of Russia, the most portentous currents converge. It is a place where ideologies clash; where a way of life is painfully disintegrating... Paperback, ISBN: 1-59264-134-2 US$14.95 UK£9.99, Publication Date: October 2005 More Info...
The Sermon and Other Stories by Haim Hazaz This is a representative volume of stories by Hazaz, spanning his career and interests, from Shtetl life, to the spiritual life of the Yemenite community and his understanding of Zionism and Jewish history. The collection features an outstanding introduction by Professor Dan Miron of Columbia University. "No section of Hebrew literature has given such powerful, intelligent expression to the experience of beforehand, of almost, of wavering on the threshold, of movement between being and nothingness, as the wide-ranging work of Hazaz." Paperback, ISBN: 1-59264-121-0 US$14.95 UK£9.99, Publication Date: October 2005 More Info...
The Chimney Tree by Helaine Helmreich The eldest daughter of the Rabbi of Dubnitz had always been a little different. Not satisfied with the mundane expectations of her friends, she refuses the suitors she is offered by her family. Yet Miriam's daring draws her down forbidden paths... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-031-1 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 More Info...
The Forwarding Agent by Austen Kark Written by the former head of the BBC World Service, we meet Ben, an ex-marine newly set up in the forwarding business - forwarding people, not packages. An accidental bystander at a terrorist attack, he and his family are hunted at home in Cyprus and throughout the Middle East. Austen Kark was a master storyteller, and no one knew the beauty and tensions of the region better. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-02-8 Pages: 224 8ľ"x6ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
Closing the Sea by Yehudit Katzir Dreams, memories, cinematic reality and a fertile imagination all feature in Yehudit Katzir’s four novellas that comprise this volume. Paperback: ISBN: 1592641571 Pages: c.160 US$12.95 UK£7.99 Publication date: March 2006 More Info...
The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories by Etgar Keret Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Keret’s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. Hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain — from a father’s first lesson to his boy to a standoff between soldiers caught in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much happens. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-105-9, Pages: c.200, US$12.95 Publication date: January 2005 More Info...
Jetlag by Etgar Keret & Actus Comics A drab traveling salesman who falls in love with a Romanian circus aerialist; a young woman who lives next to the entrance to Hell.... Five graphic novellas based on short stories by Etgar Keret. Hardcover: ISBN: 1592641555 Pages: c.90 US$12.95 UK£7.99 Publication date: February 2006 More Info...
Lunar Eclipse by Alona Kimchi Kimchi's characters talk about themselves in an idiomatic, uninhibited language, sometimes coarse, sometimes violent. The rough force of these stories and their protagonists assign the author a very distinctive place in Israeli literature today. Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-29-X Pages: 288 8˝"x6˝" US$ 15.95 More Info...
Breznitz by Haim Lapid A lovesick, introspective detective investigates the murder of an unidentified corpse found in the woods near Jerusalem. An Arab suspect is captured and confesses, but Breznitz is not convinced he's the killer... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-15-X Pages: 244 8˝"x6˝" US$ 15.95 More Info...
The Crime of Writing by Haim Lapid This is an intelligent, sensitive and tense novel about the intimate triangle of man, woman and child, exploring sexual identity and the relationship between life and literature. A young woman meets an elderly Englishman, George Brown, while she is visiting London. After his death, she receives his written confession. Her husband, a novelist, decides to publish it... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-62-1 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95 More Info...
Avishag by Yael Lotan Lotan’s meticulously researched novel wears its mantle of scholarship lightly as it breathes life into a fascinating period of the bible—the reigns of David and Solomon in Jerusalem, some three thousand years ago... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-55-9 Pages: 236 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
*Maggid: A Journal of Jewish Literature* Maggid is an annual publication showcasing the best new Jewish writing, in all genres, from around the world. Jewish Lives: Memoirs and More is the theme of Maggid 2, bringing together fresh writing by new and established Jewish writers from around the world, illustrating the range and variety of Jewish lives from North and South America, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Tova Mirvis, Tamar Yellin, Linda Zisquit and Allen Hoff man are among the contributors. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-131-8 8˝"x5˝" US$ 9.95 UK£ 7.99 Publication date: November 2005 More Info...
The Blessing of a Broken Heart by Sherri Mandell Koby Mandell was 13 years old on May 8, 2001, when he and his friend Yosef were brutally stoned to death in a cave in the heart of the Judean desert. The extremity of hate in this act of terror shocked the world. How does a family pick up and carry on, how can they deal with the loss of a child through such horror? Koby's mother Sherri has written an absorbing, deeply painful and yet strangely beautiful account... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-029-X Pages: 235 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 More Info...
Foiglman by Aharon Megged Zvi Arbel is an Israeli historian whose chosen field is Jewish history. His work is read by the Yiddish poet Foiglman, a Holocaust survivor who sends Arbel a volume of his own poetry. The relationship that springs up between the two men is one of ambivalence and fascination; the reserved Israeli historian alternatingly sympathetic and suspicious, affectionate and resentful, towards the enthusiastic but tormented poet. Arbel embarks on an effort to get Foiglman's poetry translated into Hebrew, but as Foiglman begins to monopolize more and more of his time, the relationship drives a wedge between Arbel and his wife that leads to tragedy. Winner of the French WIZO Prize Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-032-X Pages: 250 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump by Aharon Megged A merciless literary critic may seem like a demonic figure to a writer anxiously awaiting the ultimate critical review of his work. Such is the plight of Kalman Keren, a writer who lives in an apartment building in Tel Aviv. When Keren notices Professor Shatz coming up the stairs of his building he almost goes into shock. Shatz is the hated literary critic who is every writer’s nightmare, and now he and his wife have moved into the apartment above Keren’s! Paperback: ISBN 978 1 59264 196 3 Pages: c.250 US$14.95 UK£9.99 CANADA $19.95 Publication date: November 2007 More Info...
The Living on the Dead by Aharon Megged The Living on the Dead is the history of a book that has not been written. Its central theme is the debt of the living to the dead, and in particular the effects on the heirs of Israel of their new and dearly bought nationality. Jonas is a writer, on trial for breach of contract. Commissioned to write the biography of a national hero, Davidov, he has after eighteen months and thousands of pounds of payment produced not a word. Despite the mountains of research and testimonies, he is oppressed and even rebuked by his subject's sanctity... even when he perceives that the idol's feet are of clay. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-113-4 Pages: 250 8ľ"x5ľ" US$14.95 UK£9/99 Publication date: October 2005 More Info...
Mandrakes from the Holy Land by Aharon Megged In 1906 a young Englishwoman, a painter named Beatrice Campbell-Bennett, arrives in Palestine, intending to study and paint the flowers that are mentioned in the Old Testament. She is particularly interested in the mandrake, with which Leah bought a night of love with Jacob. Traveling with an Arab companion around the country, still under Ottoman rule, the Christian tourist becomes acquainted with everyday life in the Holy Land during the Jewish immigration wave known as the 'Second Aliyah.' Combining fact and fiction in the form of diary entries and letters, the novel reveals the heroine's complex and unstable personality... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-057-5 Pages: 220 8ľ"x5ľ" US$22.95 £14.99 Publication date: October 2005 More Info...
*Modern Hebrew Literature* For over 40 years, Modern Hebrew Literature has helped English speakers keep abreast of Israel's hyper-active literary scene. Now published by The Toby Press and edited by the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, each issue will include translations of excerpts from forthcoming new novels and short stories, articles on a variety of literary topics, interviews with authors, and a selection of poetry and reviews of books recently published in Hebrew. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-132-6 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95 UK £9.99 Publication date: October 2005 More Info...
Sand Devil by Michael B. Oren “The desert is an unremitting presence, imprisoning the main characters, but also providing a means for their redemption. The book is inhabited by people living on the margins of society who must find a way to recast their lives…" Hardcover: ISBN 978 1 59264 212 0 Pages: c.28 US$14.95 UK£9.99 CAN$19.95 Publication date: September 2007 More Info...
Soumchi by Amos Oz Soumchi is eleven years old, and growing up in British-occupied Jerusalem, just after World War II. His universe is enriched immeasurably when he is given a bicycle, but before he fulfills his dreams of riding into the desert and exploring Africa, he shows his new prize to a friend. Persuaded to swap his bicycle for a new train set, Soumchi's series of misadventures begin... Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-038-9 Pages: 72 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 More Info...
Unto Death by Amos Oz Unto Death comprises two novellas by one of Israel’s most gifted writers. In Crusade and Late Love Oz explores the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews live, die, or degenerate into insanity. Considered to be some of Oz’s finest writing, Unto Death has appeared in America, England, France, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Holland, Russia, and Poland. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-037-0 Pages: 150 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95 More Info...
Chains Around the Grass by Naomi Ragen Set in the 1950’s in New York City, Chains Around the Grass is a portrait of a Jewish-American family that glows with affection, tenderness, and courage when tragedy changes the lives of all who are left behind. A passionately personal and heartfelt book, based heavily on autobiographical material, this is the book Ms. Ragen says that she became an author to write. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-53-2 Pages: 256 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 26.95 Large Type Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-72-9 Pages: 394 9Ľ"x6Ľ" US$ 24.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-82-6, Pages: 164, 8˝"x5˝" US$12.95 More Info...
Jephte's Daughter by Naomi Ragen Abraham Ha-Levi is a wealthy American businessman and the last male survivor of an important Orthodox Jewish family. He decides it’s time he finally honored his religious and cultural inheritance and so forces his 18-year old daughter—the beautiful and intelligent Batsheva—into an arranged marriage... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-50-8 Pages: 445 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 More Info...
Sotah by Naomi Ragen Set against the backdrop of Jerusalem’s ancient rituals, Sotah is a contemporary story of sacred and profane love, and a young woman’s struggle to reconcile tradition with freedom. Ninety-three weeks on the best-seller list. Large Type Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-73-7 Pages: 754 9Ľ"x6Ľ" US$ 24.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-51-6 Pages: 492 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 More Info...
The Sacrifice of Tamar by Naomi Ragen Tamar Finegold is a happy young bride in one of Brooklyn’s insulated ultra-Orthodox enclaves. But this staid, predictable life is violently altered when Tamar is raped by an intruder as she baby-sits for her nephew. Humiliated and confused, she refuses to risk the unbearable stigma of discovery, but in her attempt to hide her shame, she is sent plummeting into a moral crisis... Large Type Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-74-5 Pages: 674 9Ľ"x6Ľ" US$ 24.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-52-4 Pages: 445 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 More Info...
Women's Minyan by Naomi Ragen Her many fans will welcome the publication of Naomi Ragen's first play, which premiered in July 2002 at Habima National Theater in Tel Aviv. It is based on a true story: a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) woman, wife of a rabbi, mother of 12, leaves her home and stays with a friend. The community's "modesty squad" tries in vain to force her to go back... Paperback: ISBN: 1592641563 Pages: c.120 Illustrated with photos of the original production US$12.95 UK£7.99 Publication date: April 2006 More Info...
Rogov's Guide to Israeli Wines 2009 by Daniel Rogov Rogov's Guide to Israeli Wines is the definitive annual guide to this fast growing region of world class wines. Now in its fifth year, the 2009 edition contains a detailed map of Israel's wine regions; coverage of over 175 wineries; a tasting chart for your own ratings; contact details of all wineries; and almost 1,800 wines tasted, rated and fully described. The guide indicates which of Israel's wines are kosher, provides information on what makes a wine kosher and discusses whether there is a contradiction between good wine and kosher wine... Publication date: November 2008 More Info...
Adjusting Sights by Haim Sabato When war breaks out in 1973, childhood friends Haim and Dov are called up together to serve in their tank battalion, but in the chaos of battle the friends are separated. A month later, Haim returns alone, on his first leave home... Winner of the SAPIR PRIZE, ISRAEL Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-70-2 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
Aleppo Tales by Haim Sabato The Jewish community of Aleppo in Syria, the biblical Aram Soba is one of the world's most ancient, guardian of the famous Keter Torah scroll, and boasting a synagogue dating back to the Second Temple. In this collection of three tales, the central novella, The Wheel Turns Full Circle, is a rare gem. Sabato interlaces the history of one family with the social and political turmoil spanning over a century... Paperback: ISBN: 1592641261 US$14.95 UK£9.99 Publication date: January 2006 More Info...
The Dawning of the Day by Haim Sabato A humble man and a religious man, who worked as a presser in a laundry, Ezra Siman Tov was also a teller of stories, stories that enthralled and captivated his friends in their old Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem. His brother-in-law, Dr. Tawil, gave him a grudging respect, the Torah scholars listened surreptitiously and the Great Writer—SY Agnon?—took his stories and gave them form. But along with his stories, Ezra also had a shame and a secret, which overshadowed his family. And his secret suffering never left him quite free... Hardback: ISBN: 1592641407 Pages: c.200 US$22.95 UK£12.99 Publication date: October 2006 More Info...
Early Bright by Ami Silber Louis will sell you your dreams-he'll ply you with promises while he charms you out of your money, but promises are all you'll get. Those dreams will never come true. From the black jazz clubs on Central Avenue in Watts, to the tidy homes of the war widows he cons, Louis Greenberg lives life on the outside. No matter how charming and passionate he is, an outsider he will always be. He is white, a Jew, and that never goes away... Publication date: October 2008 More Info...
An Eye for an Eye by Joseph Telushkin Ron Martin strangles his girlfriend when she tries to break up with him; convinced by the blackening of the girl's reputation, a jury lets him off with the lightest sentence permitted by law. Outraged, the girl's father, Gerald Braun, explodes, and kills the boy. While many condemn the man for his act of vengeance, his rabbi Daniel Winter does not, defending his actions in court and appealing that he be released on bail... Paperback: ISBN: 1592641091 Pages: c.192 US$9.95 UK£6.99 Publication date: February 2006 More Info...
The Unorthodox Murder of Rabbi Wahl by Joseph Telushkin Murder isn’t unusual in LA. But when feminist Rabbi Myrna Wahl is found dead after appearing on a controversial radio talk show, together with a radical nun and female minister, radio host Rabbi Daniel Winter finds himself the prime suspect. He’ll only survive if he can develop the secular talent for detection — all the harder since he seems to be falling in love with the lady cop assigned to the case! Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-107-5, Pages: c.200, US$9.95 Publication date: February 2005 More Info...
The Final Analysis of Dr Stark by Joseph Telushkin The Psychiatrist Noah Stark had a roster of patients that read like a Who's Who of LA's most powerful and respected citizens. Not at all the sort of people who seemed likely to smash their shrink's head to a pulp in a mad frenzy. But one of them did. Rabbi Daniel Winter is used to looking after the souls of those in his congregation - not discovering their dead bodies... Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-108-3 Pages: 200 8ľ"x5ľ" US$9.95 UK£6.99 Publication date: September 2005 More Info...
Married Life by David Vogel Written in Hebrew and published in Palestine in 1929, this is the only novel by Vogel, a poet who is presumed to have died at Auschwitz in 1944. Set in Vienna in the 1920s, the novel is a portrait of the disastrous marriage of one Rudolph Gurdweill, a poor Jewish intellectual, to a sadistic and anti-Semitic baroness. Her unfaithfulness and cruelty to the well-meaning but helpless and masochistic writer clearly represents the relationship between Vienna and its Jews... Paperback, ISBN 10: 1-59264-179-2 ISBN 13: 978-1-59264-179-6 C.300 pages, US$14.95 Publication date: May 2007 More Info...
The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin Shulamit, a biblical scholar from England, returns to her grandparents’ home in Jerusalem for a visit, after an absence of many years. Almost immediately she becomes embroiled in a family feud over possession of the so-called Shepher Codex, a mysterious and valuable manuscript which has been discovered in the attic. In tracing the origins of the Codex she uncovers the history of the Shepher family itself: of her great-grandfather, who traveled to Babylon in search of the ten lost tribes; of her grandfather, a dreamer whose Zionist ideals brought him into confl ict with his religion; of her parents, and their tormented love affair; and of her own orphaned and unhappy past. At the same time, she struggles to find answers to pressing questions: what is the significance of the Codex and where does it come from? Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-085-0, Pages: c.550, 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 Publication date: April 2005 More Info...
Kafka in Bronteland and Other Stories by Tamar Yellin Thirteen stories by the author of the critically acclaimed The Genizah at the House of Shepher address universal themes of yearning and displacement, love, loss and the struggle to belong... Paperback: ISBN: 1592641539 Pages: c.250 US$14.95 UK£9.99 Publication date: February 2006 More Info...
Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes by Tamar Yellin Taking its imagery from the legend of the ten tribes of Israel exiled by the Assyrians and lost to the pages of history beyond the River Sambatyon, Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes follows the life-journey of a wandering narrator who encounters a series of displaced persons: the uncle whose endless travels seem romantic but are in fact a camouflage for a life of failure and malaise; the professor whose mastery of many languages can never assuage the anguish of his lost mother tongue; the girl student who may literally be invisible... Publication date: May 2008 More Info...
Midnight Convoy & Other Stories by S. Yizhar “There is some of Yizhar in every writer who has come after him,” says Amos Oz. Throughout Yizhar’s work there is a strong moral sense, an expression of his generation’s ambivalence towards its pioneering heritage. Known for his powerful lyricism and reverence for nature, Yizhar’s sensory impressions and descriptions of Israel’s landscape are unmatched. This is the only available collection of Yizhar’s shorter fiction. Paperback, ISBN 10: 1-59264-183-0 ISBN 13: 978-1-59264-183-3 C.500 pages, US$14.95, UK£9.99 CAN$19.95 Publication date: May 2007 More Info...
Preliminaries by S. Yizhar After a silence of almost 30 years since his Stories of a Plain, Yizhar reasserted his position as the greatest living master of Hebrew prose with Preliminaries. Strongly autobiographical, Preliminaries progresses frame by frame, showing a boy growing up in a Jewish farming community in Palestine and in the young city of Tel Aviv between the years 1917 and 1930... Hardback: ISBN 10: 1-59264-190-3 ISBN 13: 978-1-59264-190-1 Pages: c.500 US$24.95 UK£14.99 CANADA $33.95 Publication date: May 2007 More Info...
Brothers by Chayym Zeldis A riveting, monumental novel about the life of the brother of Jesus Christ—hypnotic in its power and imagery, awesome in its conception and dramatic invention. Brothers is the story of one of the most evil yet fascinating characters in modern fiction—a man whose lust for power knows no bounds, and it is about the force for betrayal—the Judas—in every person... Paperback: ISBN: 1592641679 US$14.95 UK£9.99 Publication date: September 2006 More Info...