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  • The Family Carnovsky

    by Singer, I.J. ...
    As one of the most well-known Yiddish writers of the twentieth century, Israel Joshua Singer produced an impressive opus - presented in three volumes in Collected Works - in which he tackles religious, social, and political challenges facing the Jewish people. Unabashedly critical, he does not offer substitutes for what he views as failed ideologies, instead seeing the writer's role in the honest ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Brothers Ashkenazi

    by Singer, I.J. ...
    In the Polish city of Lodz, the twin brothers Ashkenazi grow up with contrasting characters. Max, depicted as sickly and cunning, is driven by ambition and greed to be more successful than his brother, whereas Yakub, robust and a dolt in school, is drawn to easy living and decadence. Historically and geographically expansive, the novel begins after the Napoleonic Wars and ends after World War I, ... Read more

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  • New-Russia

    Images from a Journey

    by Singer, I.J. ...
    It was the autumn of 1926 when Israel Joshua Singer, at the invitation of the editor of the New York Yiddish daily Forverts, traveled to the Soviet Union for a reportage that would take him several months. “These images and impressions are written in a moment, as is always the case with travelers,” he would comment on his work, which nevertheless constitutes an exceptional, and in many ways unique ... Read more

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  • The Lost

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  • Berlin Alexanderplatz

    by Alfred Doblin ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    The inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic film and that The Guardian named one of the "Top 100 Books of All Time," Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most important works of the Weimar Republic and twentieth century literature.Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century, gruesome, farcical ... Read more

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  • Away from the Dead

    by David Bergen ...
    Longlisted, Scotiabank Giller PrizeViolence is the domain of both the rich and poor. Or so it seems in early 20th-century Ukraine during the tumult of the Russian Revolution.As anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the White Army all come and go, each claiming freedom and justice, David Bergen embeds his readers into the lives of characters connected through love, family, and loyalty. Lehn, a bookseller ... Read more

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  • The Broken House

    Growing up Under Hitler – The Lost Masterpiece

    by Horst Krüger ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
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  • The Kaminsky Cure

    by Christopher New ...
    “Well, here I am at five and three quarters. It’s Christmas 1939 in a little Austrian village in Hitler’s Third Reich and I’m just beginning to notice things. Like what my brothers and sisters are about and why my parents are often crying and my father usually shouting when he isn’t crying. I think it has something to do with the war we’re fighting, which according to the wireless is due to The ... Read more

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  • Bau: Artist at War

    by Joseph Bau, Inbar Lavi ...
    Translated by Shlomo "Sam" Yurman ...
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMILE HIRSCHA classic memoir that is both an inspiring true love story and a historical espionage thriller, Bau: Artist at War comes at a critical moment when the last survivors of the German concentration camps are dying and the Holocaust is slipping from memory. Includes a foreword by Clila Bau-Cohen and Hadasa Bau and an introduction by Sean McNamara, ... Read more

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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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  • After Midnight

    by Irmgard Keun, Geoff Wilkes ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
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    Sanna and her ravishing friend Gerti would rather speak of love than politics, but in 1930s Frankfurt, politics cannot be escaped--even in the lady's bathroom. Crossing town one evening to meet up with Gerti's Jewish lover, a blockade cuts off the girls' path--it is the Fürher in a motorcade procession, and the crowd goes mad striving to catch a glimpse of Hitler's raised "empty hand." Then the ... Read more

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