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A Stranger on the Planet
Written by Adam Schwartz
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Soho Press
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-61695-053-8 (1-61695-053-6)
In the summer of 1969, twelve-year-old Seth lives with his unstable mother, Ruth, and his brother and sister in a two-bedroom apartment in New Jersey. His father lives with his new wife in a ten-room house and has no interest in Seth and his siblings. Seth is dying to escape from... Read more >
Written by Adam Schwartz
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Soho Press
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-61695-053-8 (1-61695-053-6)
In the summer of 1969, twelve-year-old Seth lives with his unstable mother, Ruth, and his brother and sister in a two-bedroom apartment in New Jersey. His father lives with his new wife in a ten-room house and has no interest in Seth and his siblings. Seth is dying to escape from... Read more >
Transit
Written by Anna Seghers
Afterword by Heinrich Boll
Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo
Introduction by Peter Conrad
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-625-2 (1-59017-625-1)
Anna Seghers’s Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight.
Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German... Read more >
Written by Anna Seghers
Afterword by Heinrich Boll
Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo
Introduction by Peter Conrad
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-625-2 (1-59017-625-1)
Anna Seghers’s Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight.
Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German... Read more >
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The Rabbi's Cat 2
Written by Joann Sfar
Translated by Alexis Siegel
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-42507-3 (0-375-42507-1)
The preeminent work by one of France’s most celebrated young comics artists, The Rabbi’s Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat–a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.
Rich with the colors, textures, and flavors of Algeria’s Jewish community, The Rabbi’s Cat... Read more >
Written by Joann Sfar
Translated by Alexis Siegel
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-42507-3 (0-375-42507-1)
The preeminent work by one of France’s most celebrated young comics artists, The Rabbi’s Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat–a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.
Rich with the colors, textures, and flavors of Algeria’s Jewish community, The Rabbi’s Cat... Read more >
The Rabbi's Cat
Written by Joann Sfar
Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: May 22, 2007
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71464-1 (0-375-71464-2)
The preeminent work by one of France’s most celebrated young comics artists, The Rabbi’s Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat–a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.
In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his... Read more >
Written by Joann Sfar
Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: May 22, 2007
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71464-1 (0-375-71464-2)
The preeminent work by one of France’s most celebrated young comics artists, The Rabbi’s Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat–a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.
In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his... Read more >
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My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner
A Family Memoir
Written by Meir Shalev
Translated by Evan Fallenberg
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4287-4 (0-8052-4287-2)
A lighthearted tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in the village of Meir Shalev’s birth, where his unforgettable Grandma Tonia lived in a constant state of battle with the family’s biggest enemy in their adoptive land: dirt.
Meir Shalev’s grandmother Tonia, who came to Palestine by boat... Read more >
A Family Memoir
Written by Meir Shalev
Translated by Evan Fallenberg
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4287-4 (0-8052-4287-2)
A lighthearted tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in the village of Meir Shalev’s birth, where his unforgettable Grandma Tonia lived in a constant state of battle with the family’s biggest enemy in their adoptive land: dirt.
Meir Shalev’s grandmother Tonia, who came to Palestine by boat... Read more >
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A Pigeon and a Boy
A Novel
Written by Meir Shalev
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1214-3 (0-8052-1214-0)
From the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Meir Shalev comes a mesmerizing novel of two love stories, separated by half a century but connected by one enchanting act of devotion.
During the 1948 War of Independence—a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages—a gifted young pigeon handler is mortally wounded... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Meir Shalev
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1214-3 (0-8052-1214-0)
From the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Meir Shalev comes a mesmerizing novel of two love stories, separated by half a century but connected by one enchanting act of devotion.
During the 1948 War of Independence—a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages—a gifted young pigeon handler is mortally wounded... Read more >
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The Free Thinkers
Two Novellas
Written by Layle Silbert
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: July 10, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-075-7 (1-58322-075-5)
Layle Silbert’s stories trace struggles and joys of lives overlooked. In The Free Thinkers: Two Novellas, she gives these lost lives a new voice, recovering in exacting detail the world of newly arrived Eastern European Jews in turn-of-the-century-America. Silbert’s stories chronicle their arrival in Chicago and New York, and follow them... Read more >
Two Novellas
Written by Layle Silbert
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: July 10, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-075-7 (1-58322-075-5)
Layle Silbert’s stories trace struggles and joys of lives overlooked. In The Free Thinkers: Two Novellas, she gives these lost lives a new voice, recovering in exacting detail the world of newly arrived Eastern European Jews in turn-of-the-century-America. Silbert’s stories chronicle their arrival in Chicago and New York, and follow them... Read more >
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The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction
Written by Ted Solotaroff and Nessa Rapoport
Format: Trade Paperback, 420 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 23, 1996
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1065-1 (0-8052-1065-2)
This anthology brings together some of the best stories written in the last thirty years by and about American Jews. Edited by Ted Solotaroff and Nessa Rapoport. Read more >
Written by Ted Solotaroff and Nessa Rapoport
Format: Trade Paperback, 420 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 23, 1996
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1065-1 (0-8052-1065-2)
This anthology brings together some of the best stories written in the last thirty years by and about American Jews. Edited by Ted Solotaroff and Nessa Rapoport. Read more >
Resurrecting Hebrew
Written by Ilan Stavans
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4231-7 (0-8052-4231-7)
Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns out to be Hebrew, a friend... Read more >
Written by Ilan Stavans
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4231-7 (0-8052-4231-7)
Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns out to be Hebrew, a friend... Read more >
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The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature
Edited by Ilan Stavans
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4228-7 (0-8052-4228-7)
“If in approaching so vast and amorphous a bookshelf one should dare to venture any generalization, it is that the Sephardic cultural sensibility is in a perennial state of fluidity, continually redefining itself. Its purview spans the world. Nothing is foreign to it: as one door closes, another one opens. The... Read more >
Edited by Ilan Stavans
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4228-7 (0-8052-4228-7)
“If in approaching so vast and amorphous a bookshelf one should dare to venture any generalization, it is that the Sephardic cultural sensibility is in a perennial state of fluidity, continually redefining itself. Its purview spans the world. Nothing is foreign to it: as one door closes, another one opens. The... Read more >
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The Alphabet That Changed the World
How Genesis Preserves a Science of Consciousness in Geometry and Gesture
Written by Stan Tenen
Edited by Charles Stein
Format: Trade Paperback, 392 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: July 5, 2011
Price: $44.00
ISBN: 978-1-55643-723-6 (1-55643-723-4)
Rabbinic tradition asserts that every letter of every word of the Torah is a word in itself. Author Stan Tenen demonstrates that each letter is also a hand gesture, and it is at this level that Hebrew forms a natural universal language. All people, including children before they speak and people... Read more >
How Genesis Preserves a Science of Consciousness in Geometry and Gesture
Written by Stan Tenen
Edited by Charles Stein
Format: Trade Paperback, 392 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: July 5, 2011
Price: $44.00
ISBN: 978-1-55643-723-6 (1-55643-723-4)
Rabbinic tradition asserts that every letter of every word of the Torah is a word in itself. Author Stan Tenen demonstrates that each letter is also a hand gesture, and it is at this level that Hebrew forms a natural universal language. All people, including children before they speak and people... Read more >
The Oriental Wife
Written by Evelyn Toynton
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-441-2 (1-59051-441-6)
The Oriental Wife is the story of two assimilated Jewish children from Nuremberg who flee Hitler’s Germany and struggle to put down roots elsewhere. When they meet up again in New York, they fall in love both with each other and with America, believing they have found a permanent refuge. But... Read more >
Written by Evelyn Toynton
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-441-2 (1-59051-441-6)
The Oriental Wife is the story of two assimilated Jewish children from Nuremberg who flee Hitler’s Germany and struggle to put down roots elsewhere. When they meet up again in New York, they fall in love both with each other and with America, believing they have found a permanent refuge. But... Read more >
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Hands of My Father
A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
Written by Myron Uhlberg
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-80688-5 (0-553-80688-2)
By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.
“Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and fall like the... Read more >
A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
Written by Myron Uhlberg
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-80688-5 (0-553-80688-2)
By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.
“Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and fall like the... Read more >
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I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Written by Hana Volavkova
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1015-6 (0-8052-1015-6)
This expanded edition of the classic collection of drawings and poems by children of the Terez'n Concentration Camp was published in conjunction with the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. A total of 15,000 children under the age of 15 passed through Terez'n between the years... Read more >
Written by Hana Volavkova
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1015-6 (0-8052-1015-6)
This expanded edition of the classic collection of drawings and poems by children of the Terez'n Concentration Camp was published in conjunction with the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. A total of 15,000 children under the age of 15 passed through Terez'n between the years... Read more >
Modern English-Yiddish Dictionary
Written by Uriel Weinreich
Format: Trade Paperback, 856 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: December 27, 1987
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0575-6 (0-8052-0575-6)
The standard reference guide, with more than 20,000 entries ranging from colloquial to literary Yiddish, plus: a grammar guide, a pronunciation key, and instructions for usage
Dr. Uriel Weinreich’s Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary has been praised by both scholars and Yiddish writers for its completeness, its remarkable insight into the meanings of... Read more >
Written by Uriel Weinreich
Format: Trade Paperback, 856 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: December 27, 1987
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0575-6 (0-8052-0575-6)
The standard reference guide, with more than 20,000 entries ranging from colloquial to literary Yiddish, plus: a grammar guide, a pronunciation key, and instructions for usage
Dr. Uriel Weinreich’s Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary has been praised by both scholars and Yiddish writers for its completeness, its remarkable insight into the meanings of... Read more >
Yiddish
A Nation of Words
Written by Miriam Weinstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-44730-2 (0-345-44730-1)
Enjoying renewed interest with over 4 million speakers throughout the world today, Yiddish is an important language rich in history and lore. This is the first popular history of the Yiddish language—a language that transcends its function as a medium for communication and offers a window into Jewish culture and heritage... Read more >
A Nation of Words
Written by Miriam Weinstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-44730-2 (0-345-44730-1)
Enjoying renewed interest with over 4 million speakers throughout the world today, Yiddish is an important language rich in history and lore. This is the first popular history of the Yiddish language—a language that transcends its function as a medium for communication and offers a window into Jewish culture and heritage... Read more >
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A Beggar in Jerusalem
A novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: May 27, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1052-1 (0-8052-1052-0)
This haunting novel takes place in the days following the Six-Day War. A Holocaust survivor visits the newly reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall, he encounters the beggars and madmen who congregate there every evening, and who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties... Read more >
A novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: May 27, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1052-1 (0-8052-1052-0)
This haunting novel takes place in the days following the Six-Day War. A Holocaust survivor visits the newly reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall, he encounters the beggars and madmen who congregate there every evening, and who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties... Read more >
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The Fifth Son
A novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 228 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1083-5 (0-8052-1083-0)
Reuven Tamiroff, a Holocaust survivor, has never been able to speak about his past to his son, a young man who yearns to understand his father’s silence. As campuses burn amidst the unrest of the Sixties and his own generation rebels, the son is drawn to his father’s circle of wartime... Read more >
A novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 228 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1083-5 (0-8052-1083-0)
Reuven Tamiroff, a Holocaust survivor, has never been able to speak about his past to his son, a young man who yearns to understand his father’s silence. As campuses burn amidst the unrest of the Sixties and his own generation rebels, the son is drawn to his father’s circle of wartime... Read more >
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The Forgotten
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 31, 1995
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1019-4 (0-8052-1019-9)
Distinguished psychotherapist and survivor Elhanan Rosenbaum is losing his memory to an incurable disease. Never having spoken of the war years before, he resolves to tell his son about his past--the heroism as well as the shame--before it is too late. Elhanan's story compels his son to go to the Romanian... Read more >
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 31, 1995
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1019-4 (0-8052-1019-9)
Distinguished psychotherapist and survivor Elhanan Rosenbaum is losing his memory to an incurable disease. Never having spoken of the war years before, he resolves to tell his son about his past--the heroism as well as the shame--before it is too late. Elhanan's story compels his son to go to the Romanian... Read more >
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From the Kingdom of Memory
Reminiscences
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 31, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1020-0 (0-8052-1020-2)
In this powerful collection of personal essays and speeches by one of the great writers of our generation, Elie Wiesel weaves together reminiscences of his life before the Holocaust, his struggle to find meaning afterward, and the actions he has taken on behalf of others that have defined him as a... Read more >
Reminiscences
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 31, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1020-0 (0-8052-1020-2)
In this powerful collection of personal essays and speeches by one of the great writers of our generation, Elie Wiesel weaves together reminiscences of his life before the Holocaust, his struggle to find meaning afterward, and the actions he has taken on behalf of others that have defined him as a... Read more >
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The Gates of the Forest
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: May 16, 1995
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1044-6 (0-8052-1044-X)
Gregor--a teenage boy, the lone survivor of his family--is hiding from the Germans in the forest. He hides in a cave, where he meets a mysterious stranger who saves his life. He hides in the village, posing as a deaf-mute peasant boy. He hides among the partisans of the Jewish resistance... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: May 16, 1995
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1044-6 (0-8052-1044-X)
Gregor--a teenage boy, the lone survivor of his family--is hiding from the Germans in the forest. He hides in a cave, where he meets a mysterious stranger who saves his life. He hides in the village, posing as a deaf-mute peasant boy. He hides among the partisans of the Jewish resistance... Read more >
Hostage
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59958-2 (0-307-59958-2)
From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in today’s troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It’s 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg—professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband—has been taken hostage: abducted from his home in Brooklyn, blindfolded and tied to... Read more >
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59958-2 (0-307-59958-2)
From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in today’s troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It’s 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg—professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband—has been taken hostage: abducted from his home in Brooklyn, blindfolded and tied to... Read more >
The Judges
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1121-4 (0-8052-1121-7)
From Elie Wiesel, a gripping novel of guilt, innocence, and the perilousness of judging both.
A plane en route from New York to Tel Aviv is forced down by bad weather. A nearby house provides refuge for five of its passengers: Claudia, who has left her husband and found new love; Razziel... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1121-4 (0-8052-1121-7)
From Elie Wiesel, a gripping novel of guilt, innocence, and the perilousness of judging both.
A plane en route from New York to Tel Aviv is forced down by bad weather. A nearby house provides refuge for five of its passengers: Claudia, who has left her husband and found new love; Razziel... Read more >
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A Mad Desire to Dance
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1212-9 (0-8052-1212-4)
Now in paperback, Wiesel’s newest novel “reminds us, with force, that his writing is alive and strong. The master has once again found a startling freshness.”—Le Monde des Livres
A European expatriate living in New York, Doriel suffers from a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a member of... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1212-9 (0-8052-1212-4)
Now in paperback, Wiesel’s newest novel “reminds us, with force, that his writing is alive and strong. The master has once again found a startling freshness.”—Le Monde des Livres
A European expatriate living in New York, Doriel suffers from a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a member of... Read more >
A Mad Desire to Dance
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 17, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26650-7 (0-307-26650-8)
From Elie Wiesel, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of our fiercest moral voices, a provocative and deeply thoughtful new novel about a life shaped by the worst horrors of the twentieth century and one man’s attempt to reclaim happiness.
Doriel, a European expatriate living in New York, suffers... Read more >
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 17, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26650-7 (0-307-26650-8)
From Elie Wiesel, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of our fiercest moral voices, a provocative and deeply thoughtful new novel about a life shaped by the worst horrors of the twentieth century and one man’s attempt to reclaim happiness.
Doriel, a European expatriate living in New York, suffers... Read more >
