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“maier deshell”

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  • The Glatstein Chronicles

    by Jacob Glatstein, Maier Deshell, Norbert Guterman ...
    Edited by Ruth Wisse, translated by Maier Deshell and Norbert Guterman This seminal American work from the Yiddish literary canon, in a restored English edition, offers the luminous narrative of the author's journey home to his Polish birthplace. In 1934, with World War II on the horizon, Jacob Glatstein (1896 –1971) traveled from his home in America to his native Poland to visit his dying mother. ... Read more

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  • The Glatstein Chronicles

    by Jacob Glatstein ...
    Translated by Maier Deshell, Norbert Guterman ...
    Series series New Yiddish Library Series
    In 1934, with World War II on the horizon, writer Jacob Glatstein (1896–1971) traveled from his home in America to his native Poland to visit his dying mother. One of the foremost Yiddish poets of the day, he used his journey as the basis for two highly autobiographical novellas (translated as The Glatstein Chronicles) in which he intertwines childhood memories with observations of growing anti ... Read more

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  • A Tale Of Love And Darkness

    by Amos Oz, Nicholas de Lange ...
    The International Bestselling memoir from award-winning author Amos Oz, "one of Isreal's most prolific writers and respected intellectuals" (The New York Times), about his turbulent upbringing in the city of Jerusalem in the era of the dissolution of Mandatory Palestine and the beginning of the State of Israel.Winner of the National Jewish Book Award"[An] ingenious work that circles around the ... Read more

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  • The Lost Shtetl

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    by Max Gross ...
    A Polish village overlooked by Nazis remains hidden until a troubled local marriage launches them into the twenty-first century in this imaginative debut.Spared by the Holocaust and the Cold War, the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol existed in happy isolation, virtually untouched and unchanged for decades. But when a local couple disappears, the existence of Kreskol soon makes headlines nationwide, ... Read more

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  • Worlds Torn Asunder: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir of Hope and Resilience

    by Dov Beril Edelstein ...
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  • Judas

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    by Ruth Kluger ...
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  • The End of Days

    by Jenny Erpenbeck ...
    Translated by Susan Bernofsky ...
    Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperbackWinner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist. How could it all have gone ... Read more

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