Jewish Literature and Drama
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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 >
The Oath
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: May 12, 1986
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0808-5 (0-8052-0808-9)
When a Christian boy disappears in a fictional Eastern European town in the 1920s, the local Jews are quickly accused of ritual murder. There is tension in the air and a pogrom threatens to erupt. Suddenly, an extraordinary man—Moshe the dreamer, a madman and mystic—steps forward and confesses to a crime... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: May 12, 1986
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0808-5 (0-8052-0808-9)
When a Christian boy disappears in a fictional Eastern European town in the 1920s, the local Jews are quickly accused of ritual murder. There is tension in the air and a pogrom threatens to erupt. Suddenly, an extraordinary man—Moshe the dreamer, a madman and mystic—steps forward and confesses to a crime... Read more >
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One Generation After
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: September 13, 1987
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0713-2 (0-8052-0713-9)
Twenty years after he and his family were deported from Sighet to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel returned to his town in search of the watch—a bar mitzvah gift—he had buried in his backyard before they left.
“In an incredibly moving collection of essays, tales, and autobiographical sketches, Wiesel describes the agonizing plight of... Read more >
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: September 13, 1987
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0713-2 (0-8052-0713-9)
Twenty years after he and his family were deported from Sighet to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel returned to his town in search of the watch—a bar mitzvah gift—he had buried in his backyard before they left.
“In an incredibly moving collection of essays, tales, and autobiographical sketches, Wiesel describes the agonizing plight of... Read more >
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Open Heart
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Marion Wiesel
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-96184-6 (0-307-96184-2)
A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of his life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time.
Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his life. Emotions, images, faces and questions flash through his mind... Read more >
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Marion Wiesel
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-96184-6 (0-307-96184-2)
A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of his life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time.
Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his life. Emotions, images, faces and questions flash through his mind... Read more >
The Sonderberg Case
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27220-1 (0-307-27220-6)
From the Nobel laureate and author of the masterly Night: a deeply felt, beautifully written novel of morality, guilt, and innocence.
Despite personal success, Yedidyah—a theater critic in New York City, husband to a stage actress, father to two sons—finds himself increasingly drawn to the past; as he reflects on his life... Read more >
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27220-1 (0-307-27220-6)
From the Nobel laureate and author of the masterly Night: a deeply felt, beautifully written novel of morality, guilt, and innocence.
Despite personal success, Yedidyah—a theater critic in New York City, husband to a stage actress, father to two sons—finds himself increasingly drawn to the past; as he reflects on his life... Read more >
The Testament
A novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 27, 1999
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1115-3 (0-8052-1115-2)
On August 12, 1952, Russia's greatest Jewish writers were secretly executed by Stalin. In this remarkable blend of history and imagination, Paltiel Kossover meets the same fate but, unlike his real-life counterparts, he is permitted to leave a written testament. From a Jewish boyhood in pre-revolutionary Russia, Paltiel traveled down a... Read more >
A novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 27, 1999
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1115-3 (0-8052-1115-2)
On August 12, 1952, Russia's greatest Jewish writers were secretly executed by Stalin. In this remarkable blend of history and imagination, Paltiel Kossover meets the same fate but, unlike his real-life counterparts, he is permitted to leave a written testament. From a Jewish boyhood in pre-revolutionary Russia, Paltiel traveled down a... Read more >
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The Time of the Uprooted
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1177-1 (0-8052-1177-2)
Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the relative safety of Hungary. For him, it will be the beginning of a life of rootlessness, disguise, and longing. Five years later, in desperation, Gamaliel's parents entrust him to a young Christian cabaret singer named Ilonka... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1177-1 (0-8052-1177-2)
Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the relative safety of Hungary. For him, it will be the beginning of a life of rootlessness, disguise, and longing. Five years later, in desperation, Gamaliel's parents entrust him to a young Christian cabaret singer named Ilonka... Read more >
The Time of the Uprooted
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4172-5 (1-4000-4172-4)
From Elie Wiesel, a profoundly moving novel about the healing power of compassion.
Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the relative safety of Hungary. For him, it will be the beginning of a life of rootlessness, disguise, and longing. Five years later, in desperation... Read more >
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4172-5 (1-4000-4172-4)
From Elie Wiesel, a profoundly moving novel about the healing power of compassion.
Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the relative safety of Hungary. For him, it will be the beginning of a life of rootlessness, disguise, and longing. Five years later, in desperation... Read more >
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The Town Beyond the Wall
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: May 16, 1995
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1045-3 (0-8052-1045-8)
Michael, a young man in his thirties and a concentration camp survivor, makes the difficult trip behind the Iron Curtain to Hungary and the town of his birth. He wishes to confront "the face in the window"--the real and symbolic faces of all those who stood by and never interfered when... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: May 16, 1995
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1045-3 (0-8052-1045-8)
Michael, a young man in his thirties and a concentration camp survivor, makes the difficult trip behind the Iron Curtain to Hungary and the town of his birth. He wishes to confront "the face in the window"--the real and symbolic faces of all those who stood by and never interfered when... Read more >
The Trial of God
(as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: November 14, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1053-8 (0-8052-1053-9)
Set in a Ukrainian village in 1649, this haunting play takes place in the aftermath of a pogrom. Only two Jews, Berish the innkeeper and his daughter, Hannah, have survived the brutal Cossack raids. When three itinerant actors arrive in town to perform a Purim play, Berish demands that they stage... Read more >
(as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: November 14, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1053-8 (0-8052-1053-9)
Set in a Ukrainian village in 1649, this haunting play takes place in the aftermath of a pogrom. Only two Jews, Berish the innkeeper and his daughter, Hannah, have survived the brutal Cossack raids. When three itinerant actors arrive in town to perform a Purim play, Berish demands that they stage... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Twilight
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: November 7, 1995
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1058-3 (0-8052-1058-X)
A professor of literature and a Holocaust survivor, Raphael Lipkin, having rebuilt his life since the war, sees it on the verge of coming apart again. He longs to talk to Pedro, the man who rescued him as a fifteen-year-old orphan from postwar Poland and brought him to Paris, becoming his... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: November 7, 1995
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1058-3 (0-8052-1058-X)
A professor of literature and a Holocaust survivor, Raphael Lipkin, having rebuilt his life since the war, sees it on the verge of coming apart again. He longs to talk to Pedro, the man who rescued him as a fifteen-year-old orphan from postwar Poland and brought him to Paris, becoming his... Read more >
An Ambulance Is on the Way
Stories of Men in Trouble
Written by Jonathan Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3123-8 (1-4000-3123-0)
National Jewish Book Award finalist Jonathan Wilson’s uproariously funny stories showcase the neuroses of suburban men as they ruminate, self-medicate, and acclimate to the rhythms of middle age.
From the slacker husband who spends his day running household errands, chatting up the local soccer moms, and drinking most of the wine he... Read more >
Stories of Men in Trouble
Written by Jonathan Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3123-8 (1-4000-3123-0)
National Jewish Book Award finalist Jonathan Wilson’s uproariously funny stories showcase the neuroses of suburban men as they ruminate, self-medicate, and acclimate to the rhythms of middle age.
From the slacker husband who spends his day running household errands, chatting up the local soccer moms, and drinking most of the wine he... Read more >
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A Palestine Affair
Written by Jonathan Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3122-1 (1-4000-3122-2)
In British-occupied Palestine after World War I, Mark Bloomberg, a beleaguered London painter, and Joyce, his American wife, witness the murder of a prominent Orthodox Jew. Joyce, a non-Jew and ardent Zionist, is drawn into an affair with the British investigating officer, while Mark seeks solace in the exotic colors and... Read more >
Written by Jonathan Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3122-1 (1-4000-3122-2)
In British-occupied Palestine after World War I, Mark Bloomberg, a beleaguered London painter, and Joyce, his American wife, witness the murder of a prominent Orthodox Jew. Joyce, a non-Jew and ardent Zionist, is drawn into an affair with the British investigating officer, while Mark seeks solace in the exotic colors and... Read more >
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Confusion
Written by Stefan Zweig
Translated by Anthea Bell
Introduction by George Prochnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-59017-499-9 (1-59017-499-2)
In Stefan Zweig’s Confusion, a venerable privy councilor approaching the end of his career adds a “secret page” to the public record of his accomplishments, confessing the true story of his youthful initiation into the delights and perils of intense scholarship. After a first semester in Berlin more devoted to amorous... Read more >
Written by Stefan Zweig
Translated by Anthea Bell
Introduction by George Prochnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-59017-499-9 (1-59017-499-2)
In Stefan Zweig’s Confusion, a venerable privy councilor approaching the end of his career adds a “secret page” to the public record of his accomplishments, confessing the true story of his youthful initiation into the delights and perils of intense scholarship. After a first semester in Berlin more devoted to amorous... Read more >
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eBook.
