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  • Global Jewish Plays: Five Works by Jewish Playwrights from around the World

    Extinct; Heartlines; The Kahena Berber Queen; Papa’gina; A People

    by Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker, Hana Vazana Grunwald, L M Feldman, Sarah Gabriella Waisvisz, Mr Philip Ishak Arditti ...
    Translated by Sivan Battat, Jessica Benhamou ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    A unique collection of plays that brings together stories of Jewish life from playwrights around the world.Curated and edited by international theatre collective Global Voices Theatre, these five plays showcase the dazzling multiplicity of Jewish narratives across the globe: the haunting, the challenging, the joyful.From a legendary North African warrior queen to queer French avant-garde artists ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

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  • Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered

    One Woman's Year in the Heart of the Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and Jewish Quarters of Old Jerusalem

    by Sarah Tuttle-Singer ...
    On a night in 1999 when Sarah Tuttle-Singer was barely 18, she was stoned by Palestinian kids just outside one of the gates to the Old City of Jerusalem. In the years that followed, she was terrified to explore the ancient city she so loved.But, sick of living in fear, she has now chosen to live within the Old City's walls, living in each of the four quarters: Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and ... Read more

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  • Mazel Tov

    by J. S. Margot ...
    Translated by Jane Hedley-Prole ...
    A heartwarming, funny and provocative memoir of a woman navigating clashing cultures during her decades-long friendship with an Orthodox Jewish family, new in paperbackWhen 20-year-old student J. S. Margot took a tutoring job in 1987, little did she know it would open up an entire world.In the family's Orthodox Jewish household she would encounter endless rules - 'never come on a Friday, never ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Concealed

    Memoir of a Jewish-Iranian Daughter Caught Between the Chador and America

    by Esther Amini ...
    Esther Amini grew up in Queens, New York, during the free-wheeling 1960s. She also grew up in a Persian-Jewish household, the American- born daughter of parents who had fled Mashhad, Iran. In CONCEALED she tells the story of being caught between these two worlds: the dutiful daughter of tradition-bound parents who hungers for more self-determination than tradition allows.Exploring the roots of her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Rain

    by Edeet Ravel ...
    To six-year-old Dori, everything seems possible. To her family and their Peers—secular, left-leaning North American Jews—the young state of Israel seems to offer the same promise, as the starry-eyed kibbutz movement prepares the ground for their ideals of justice and cooperation to take root and flourish. They settle on Eldar in northern Galilee, determined to create a new utopia, but life on this ... Read more

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  • The Bells of Memory

    A Palestinian Boyhood in Jerusalem

    by Issa J. Boullata ...
    The distinguished Arabic scholar, author, and translator Issa J. Boullata grew up in a Palestinian family in the Jerusalem of the 1930s and 1940s, when Palestine was under the British Mandate. His memoir, The Bells of Memory, is delightful in its reflections on an idyllic youth and detailed in its recollections of family members, classmates and teachers, remembered scents and foods, the pleasures ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Alexandrian Summer

    by Yitzhak Gormezano Goren ...
    "A powerful novel of tensions—sexual, familial, religious, and political . . . Alexandria—sensual and enchanting—shimmers in these pages" (Dalia Sofer, national-bestselling author of The Septembers of Shiraz).Alexandrian Summer is the story of two Jewish families living their frenzied last days in the doomed cosmopolitan social whirl of Alexandria just before fleeing Egypt for Israel in 1951. The ... Read more

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  • Discretion

    Translated by Sarah Ardizzone ...
    by Faiza Guene ...
    Series series Saqi Bookshelf
    Yamina Taleb is approaching her seventieth birthday. These days, she strives for a quiet life, grateful to the country that hosts her and her adored family. The closest she gets to drama is scooping 'revolutionary' bargains in the form of plastic kitchenware gadgets. But Yamina's children feel differently about life in Paris. They don't always fit in, and it hurts. Omar wonders whether it's too ... Read more

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  • Yasmine

    by Eli Amir ...
    "I'm an Arab Jew. I listen to classical music in the morning and Arabic music in the evening." Surprisingly for someone so young, Nuri Imari (whose family we encountered in The Dove Flyer), is appointed advisor on Arab affairs to the Israeli government. With little guidance he is asked by his boss to "set up an office in East Jerusalem, sniff around to see what's happening there, meet their ... Read more

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  • The Flag of Childhood

    Poems From the Middle East

    by Naomi Shihab Nye ...
    A stirring anthology of sixty poems from the Middle East selected by honored anthologist, writer, and editor Naomi Shihab Nye.This beautiful collection of eloquent poems from Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, and elsewhere open windows into the hearts and souls of people we usually meet only on the nightly news. What we see when we look through these windows is the love of family, friends, and for ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Keeping On Keeping On---7---Israel

    Keeping On Keeping On---A Retiree's Travels Abroad 2006-2018---A Personal Travelogue of People, Plac, #7

    by Michael Farquhar ...
    Series Book 7 - Keeping On Keeping On---A Retiree's Travels Abroad 2006-2018---A Personal Travelogue of People, Plac
    In 2004 I compiled a book entitled "I Remember It Well", comprised of letters home, travel essays and extracts from my diaries covering a twenty month period, following the completion of my university studies, from 1965-1967, during which time I hitchhiked, youth-hosteled and worked my way throughout most of Western Europe. I concluded that document by noting that over the intervening years I ... Read more

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  • Manam

    by Rima Elkouri, Phyllis Aronoff, Howard Scott ...
    Translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott.Léa is a teacher. She does not believe in silence and secrecy, and this is what she always tells her pupils. Silence isn’t a large part of the inheritance she received from her Téta, her beloved Armenian grandmother, who has just died at the age of one hundred and seven. Regularly over the years her large Armenian family would gather ... Read more

    $9.57 USD