The 48 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in July 2023
Here is the list of the 48 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in July 2023. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
Tagged: 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...
To the Edge of Sorrow by Aharon Appelfeld
From “fiction’s foremost chronicler of the Holocaust” (Philip Roth), here is a haunting novel about an unforgettable group of Jewish partisans fighting the Nazis during World War II. Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and...
2016 Sydney Taylor Book Awards Winners
From the The Association of Jewish Libraries The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Younger Readers: Ketzel, the Cat who Composed by Lesléa Newman with illustrations by Amy June Bates (Candlewick Press) The Sydney...
Jeffrey M. Green considers the challenges—and successes—of Hebrew literature
Recently I had the privilege of translating a novella by S. Y. Agnon, the only Israeli author who has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, for a volume being prepared by Professor Alan Mintz...
Suddenly, Love by Aharon Appelfeld
Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran from Ukraine who landed, almost by accident, in Israel after World War II. A retired investment adviser, he lives alone (his first wife and baby daughter...
