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On November 3, 1944, a toddler named Eva, one month shy of her second birthday, was branded prisoner A-26959 in Auschwitz. She fainted in her mother’s arms but survived the tattooing and countless other shocks. Eva Hecht was born on December 19, 1942, in Novaky, Slovakia, a labor camp for Jews. Eva and her parents, Imrich and Agnes, were imprisoned in this camp until their deportation to Auschwitz. A month prior to their arrival there, several...

Novelist, critic, essayist, screenwriter, teacher, traveler, and art aficionado, Nicholas Delbanco has here compiled a mosaic of his life as he glances backwards and forwards from the vantage point of his eightieth year. Each home relocation with its inevitable remodeling becomes a metaphor for the reconstruction of the self over his lifetime. In episodic riffs,  Still Life at Eighty revisits seven houses where Delbanco welcomed a panoply of l...

This is a memoiristic book and a dual portrait, built around intense friendships with two leading public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status?Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner principally in Europe, though also for a time in the US. For audiences at Woody Allen movies Sontag was the prime embodiment of the term ?intellectual, ? whose famous 1965 essay ?Notes on Camp? won her an enormous following. For viewers of French, Ger...

Paul Gruhler opened his first studio in 1962 at the age of 21 - a year later he had a solo show at the DeMena Gallery in lower Manhattan. From the beginning, Gruhler, a self-taught artist, was compelled by what came to be known as geometric abstraction, in which the deliberative arrangement of color, line, texture, and scale, in paintings and collage, evoke from these disparate elements a sense of meditative harmony. For sixty years, he has co...

A smart, hip and provocative book for anyone interested in the rich diversity of Jewish thought on contemporary religious questions.

Lena is a married, chronically infidelitous Berlin-based European writer, devoted only to gratifying her ambitions and hard-driving libido. Nathan is a footloose womanizing American author, unable to produce the big novel for which he's been contracted. When both writers meet in the Alps, they fall into a mad kind of addictive love, turning their affair into a high-stakes reckless game of jealousy, rivaling ambitions, gender conflict, politica...

It is absolutely imperative for this legacy of Elie Wiesel's to continue. It has to, and if it doesn't, it is our loss, and it will be an unfathomable loss." —Sir Ben Kingsley"Wiesel taught us that we must not forget, that there is no greater sin than that of silence and indifference. In doing so he has not just illumined the past, he has illumined the future" —Oprah Winfrey"There was something burning inside of Elie, a flame ignited by injust...

Twelve stories exploring the way of life, culture, customs, and ancestral wisdom of indigenous groups living in Ecuador's Equatorial Amazon.

Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Allen tells nearly five centuries of his family's history through the places they lived.

Will Wootton's personal excursion into the sometimes perilous workings of small colleges is vivified by his evocative and literary writing

An extraordinary compendium of activism and writings about the natural world by Homero Aridjis, Mexico's greatest living writer.

Informs young readers about the Life of monarch butterflies, their habitat and the efforts to save them from extinction

Informs young readers about the Life of monarch butterflies, their habitat and the efforts to save them from extinction

A Jewish seminary drop-out and nascent Mormon engage in a comedic tale of sibling rivalry, angelic messengers, and the after-life.

Mixing fictional and historical characters this haunting story is about Max Baer's life in and out of the boxing ring.

Yad Vashem, Jerusalem’s memorial to the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War II, also recognizes non-Jewish individuals who risked their lives to save the Jews from the Nazi executioners. One of the trees that line the memorial’s “Avenue of the Righteous” was planted to honor Raoul Wallenberg, a Swede. Among the bravest heroes of World War II, he saved about 100, 000 Jews.But when the war ended, Wallenberg did not return hom...

Both a biography and history of Jackie Robinson that reinterprets Brooklyn's place in the Civil Rights Movement.

Part detective story, part historic revisionism, Alan Lelchuk delivers a thinking man's thriller on the fate of Raoul Wallenberg.

A year in Jerusalem questioning American Jews who "return” to Israel and to traditional religion changes Wendy Goldberg's life forever.

This historical novel plunges its fictional characters into the thrilling, dangerous and often absurd world of Miami in the 1970s.