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This intimate narrative takes the reader behind the scenes into the chambers of Prime Ministers Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzchak Rabin, and Menachem Begin on whose personal staffs the author served. Employing time-honored literary devices of scene-setting, impressionistic description, and characterization, he restores to life episodes of war and peace as these amazing individuals, early leaders of Israel, grappled with one another and with th...

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Bruno was that perilous thing, a free spirit, and suffered death for his right to certain concepts. I knew from conversations with Morris that Giordano Bruno was a soul mate, someone with whose life history Morris identified, even though Morris possessed a somewhat less strident temperament than Broads. "Failed priest, " as Morris has Bruno declare in this tale, "fugitive monk, magus with a box of conjuring tricks, boaster, prevaricator, would...

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Haim Nachman Bialik (1873 - 1934) is celebrated as one of the leading figures in modern Jewish literature. Although most famous for his Hebrew poems, Bialik was also a master of short prose. Often expressing a realism and social awareness associated with the Russia of his youth, Bialik's stories showcase his gift for lyricism, symbolism and humor, captured in engaging vignettes of life in the Ukrainian countryside. Random Harvest & Other Novel...

Uri Nissan Gnessin (1879 - 1913), the son of a rabbi, was attracted to the Enlightenment movement and influenced by Russian literature. In 1907 he moved to London, where he assisted Yosef Haim Brenner in the publication of a Hebrew newspaper. He then spent several months in Palestine but returned to Russia, and died in Warsaw at the age of 34. Gnessin is recognized as one of the fathers of modern Hebrew literature. His stream-of-consciousness ...

Robert Friend's translations of 20 Hebrew poets is a representative anthology of 20th Century Hebrew poetry with poems by Haim Nachman Bialik, Yaakov Fichman, Yaakov Steinberg, David Vogel, Uri Tzvi Greenberg, Lea Goldberg, and many others.

When war breaks out in Israeli in 1973, childhood friends Haim and Dov are called up together to serve in a tank battalion. In the chaos of battle, the friends are separated. A month later, on his first leave, Haim returns home alone. Weary and saddened, but sustained by religious faith, he struggles to come to terms with his experiences. One question remains uppermost in Haims mind: What happened to Dov? Reminiscent of the work of S.Y. Agnon,...

Ezra Siman Tov is a simple storyteller who captivates his friends in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem. His professor brother-in-law gives him grudging respect, Torah scholars listen to him surreptitiously, and a famous author bases his work on his tales. But Ezra has a secret that overshadows his family life and refuses to leave him. In this colorful novel, Sabato creates a world in which faith provides a framework and a deep source of c...

Ezra Siman Tov is a simple storyteller who captivates his friends in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem. His professor brother-in-law gives him grudging respect, Torah scholars listen to him surreptitiously, and a famous author bases his work on his tales. But Ezra has a secret that overshadows his family life and refuses to leave him. In this colorful novel, Sabato creates a world in which faith provides a framework and a deep source of c...

This matchless history traces the development of a literature from its European roots into the 1880s, when it had neither a country nor a spoken language, to its flowering on Israeli soil through the 1990s. The product of over 20 years of research, it is unique in its scope, profilingfour generations of writer. Through detailed discussions of themes and styles in specific texts, Shaked conveys the richness of the Hebrew literary tradition. Wit...

To This Day, Nobel prizewinner S.Y. Agnon's last novel (first published in Hebrew in 1952) is also his last to be translated into English. It is a brilliantly accomplished and haunting work. On the surface it is a comically entertaining tale of a young writer - a Galician Jew who has lived in Palestine, returns to Europe on the eve of World War I, and is now stranded in Berlin - who wanders from rented room to rented room in a city with a seve...

Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon is considered the towering figure of modern Hebrew literature. With this collection of stories, reissued in paperback and expanded to include additional Agnon classics, the English-speaking audience has, at long last, access to the rich and brilliantly multifaceted fictional world of one of the greatest writers of the last century. This broad selection of Agnon's fiction introduces the full sweep of the writer's panor...

Hear O Lord is the first Hebrew-English collection of poems from the gifted, young Israeli poet, Eliaz Cohen. Cohen is a leading figure in the contemporary renaissance of religious poetry in Israel. His work confronts primary theological, psychological and political issues of Jewish existence, and expresses an enormous emotional range, from anger and despair over suffering past and present, to sensual love for the Land of Israel, his wife and ...

Sherri Mandell, an American immigrant to Israel, offers this hauntingly beautiful memoir of a year of grief following the horrific murder of her 13-year-old son, Koby, found stoned to death along with a friend by Palestinian terrorists near his Tekoa home in 2001. This profoundly moving prose-poem laces together Jewish tradition, memory, love and faith as the writer-mother recounts her transformation from shock to grief and compassion. Singula...

This volume brings together for the first time all of the ancient Jewish novels and fragments of novels. Written at about the same time as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, but before the period of Rabbinic Judaism, these texts reveal the ambiguities and conflicts encountered by Jews in this period.

Includes a selection of author's shorter fiction, including "One Year", "From A to M", "Impressions of a Journey", "Nerves" (translated by Hillel Halkin) and the "Memories of Brenner", by the Hebrew poet David Shimoni.

A collection of three novellas including: "House of Bondage", "The Maestro of Yerucham", and, "Sand Devil".