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Poland, A Green Land by Aharon Appelfeld

Poland, A Green Land by Aharon Appelfeld

Translator: Stu­art Schoff­man A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents’ Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy—and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine’s practical...

The Red Balcony by Jonathan Wilson

The Red Balcony by Jonathan Wilson

It’s 1933, and Ivor Castle, Oxford-educated and Jewish, arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel in the trial of the two men accused of murdering Haim Arlosoroff,...

The Slaughterman's Daughter by Yaniv Iczkovits

The Slaughterman’s Daughter by Yaniv Iczkovits

An irresistible, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late-nineteenth-century Russia, The Slaughterman’s Daughter is filled with “boundless imagination and a vibrant style” (David Grossman), as well as enough intrigue and misadventure to stupefy the Coen...