Short Shorts is a delightful anthology of miniature masterpieces. Here are thirty-eight brief, brilliant flashes of fiction, both classic and contemporary. Each work is superb, intense, and speaks to the human condition in a profound, often provocative wa
Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming and poignant account of life in turn-of-the-century Russia. Through the workaday world of a rural dairyman, his grit, wit, and heart, his d
In a Russian shtetl at the end of the 19th century, Reisel, a poor girl, and Leibel, a rich boy, run away with a traveling theater company. The young lovers are quickly parted. Reisel goes on to become a famous concert star; Leibel, a theatrical sensation
Tewje è una delle figure più note e più vive della letteratura ebraica. Vende latte e latticini di casa in casa, in un distretto russo di fine secolo, ed intrattiene con i suoi clienti un rapporto fatto di riflessioni sagge, di storpiate citazioni bibl
The absorbing first novel by one of Israel's most important and acclaimed contemporary writers focuses on four idealistic early settlers of the modern state of Israel.Set in a small rural village prior to the creation of the State of Israel, this funny an
"The path to freedom from self-destructive qualms ran over the corpses of those nobler than you," Roman Frister writes in his bone-chilling autobiography. Moving between his childhood in Silesia, adolescence in Nazi concentration camps, postwar career as
A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily accuses
