Howard Jacobson0.0 Oliver Walzer is a natural at ping-pong. He can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, his game improves. Unabashedly autobiographical, this is Howard Jacobson's masterpiece.
Nathan Englander0.0 One of the most stunning literary debuts of our time, these energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories introduce an astonishing new talent.
In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man gets a special dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute. "The Wig" takes an aging wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful. In "The Tumblers," Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for the death camps and, in a deft, imaginative twist, turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm's way.
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a work of startling authority and imagination--a book that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad. It hearalds the arrival of a remarkable new storyteller.
Елена Лаппин0.0 In the stories that comprise Foreign Brides, women (and men) cope with marriage across cultures in London, New York, and a constellation of European and Israeli cities. Transplanted from one country to another, women like Israeli Nora, Russian Vera, and German Paula settle into lives of persistently unfamiliar if not utterly strange routines, lives that are stirred up from time to time with a very crooked stick. With perfect pitch and a poker face, Lappin has composed these insidiously funny tales about love and survival in an international no-man's land of marriage.
Бернис Рубенс3.5 Bernice Rubens is one of England's elder stateswomen of literature, and I,Dreyfus upholds her reputation for producing stately and polished fiction with a serious moral intent. For Rubens, the anti-semitism which rocked France at the turn of the last century has not gone away. This time it crops up in 1990s England. Sir Alfred Dreyfus is the headmaster of a Church of England school. His only sin has been one of omission--he has concealed his Jewish origins to further his career. However, the novel opens with Sir Alfred imprisoned for a crime far more heinous. Literary agent and fellow Jew Sam Temple (names are emblematic for Rubens, and Temple does indeed prove to be an emotional haven for Dreyfus) visits the prisoner in his cell and persuades him to write a memoir of his downfall. The resulting narrative reveals a man coming to terms with his religious identity, and reclaiming his family's past. It is a deeply felt account of spiritual renewal, and should be read as an expertly crafted parable. Fans of psychological realism may balk at the evil anti-Semites she pits against her hero, but will rally at the sly humour of her ending. --Lilian Pizzichini
Владислав Шпильман4.6 Книга выдающегося польского пианиста и композитора Владислава Шпильмана рассказывает о тяжёлых испытаниях, выпавших на его долю в годы Второй мировой войны в Варшавском гетто. Он не просто пытался выжить, но по мере сил участвовал в сопротивлении врагу, пришедшему на родную землю. Однако впоследствии именно помощь немецкого офицера позволила ему спастись. Отрывки из дневников того самого офицера, Вильма Хозенфельда, также включены в издание и служат важным дополнением к тому, о чем пишет Шпильман. Книга послужила основой знаменитому фильму, поставленному Романом Полански.
Лайза Аппиньянези0.0 Lisa Appignanesi was born Elsbieta Borenztejn in Poland. Unlike other holocaust memoirs. Hers is the story of how the nucleus of a family survived outside the camps. Beyond the ghetto and eventually made it to the new world . where Lisa's mother found that her years of masquerading as an Aryan stood her in great stead in anti-semitic post-war Catholic Quebec. As her mother's memory fails. Lisa finds her self trying to unravel the truth about her family. searching not only for signs of her mother's lost other - a Jewish Schindler character. making money and saving Jews in Warsaw - but also for the truth about how her parents managed to survive. and for her own birth certificate. It's above all the compelling story of one woman's determination not to go under. and the story of her father. who learned to make himself invisible a...
Дэвид Виталь0.0 In the twentieth century, the world saw both the greatest triumph of Jewish history--the birth of the nation of Israel, and its greatest tragedy--the state-sponsored genocide of the Holocaust. A People Apart is the first study to examine the role played by the Jews themselves, across the whole of Europe, during the century and a half leading up to these momentous events. David Vital explores the Jews' troubled relationship with Europe, documenting the struggles of this 'nation without a territory' to establish a place for itself within an increasingly polarized and nationalist continent. This powerful new analysis represents a watershed in our understanding of the history of the Jews in Europe, and as a result, in the whole history of the continent.
