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David Paul

A Sentimental Journey:Memoirs 1917-1922 [Buy Direct]

by Dieter Bohlen and Katja Kessler

Deborah [Buy Direct]

by Esther Kreitman
Translated by Maurice Carr

Perhaps the greatest literary family ever, the Singers of Bilgoray Poland, counting Nobel-winner Isaac Bashevis, (more...)

Once Upon a Time in Lithuania [Buy Direct]

by Naomi Alexander

A lot of illustrated books are just a pastiche of recycled stock images with some quickly-jotted truisms and factoids mashed up to make the ‘accompanying copy’. Usually they quickly and deservedly reach their natural home on the tables of the remaindered book shop. (more...)

Gaza Blues And Other Stories [Buy Direct]

by Etgar Keret and Samir el-Youssef

Two writers, Israeli Etgar Keret and Palestinian Samir el-Youssef, have engaged in a challenging and provocative artistic collaboration, producing a book of short stories and a novella exploring different aspects of a fraught and complex situation. Their bleak, hip, (more...)

The House of Jacob [Buy Direct]

by Sylvie Courtine-Denamy
Translated by William Sayers

Touching and beautifully written book where the author, a French academic, traces her family history of exile back to the Spanish expulsion of 1492. The family's journey leads her to Salonika, Istanbul, Paris, America and Israel and to Auschwitz. But through all that time the Sephardic culture, (more...)

Blitz and other stories (1950) [Buy Direct]

by Esther Kreitman
Translated by Dorothee Van Tendeloo
Original title: Yikhes

One family, the rather amazing Singers of Bilgoray, (Poland), produced three writers; the Nobel-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer, his older brother Israel Joshua Singer, (more...)

Bland Ambition and Other Poems [Buy Direct]

by Michael Pierce

“These days my ambition / Extends to being at peace,” explains Michael Pierce in the title poem. He draws on his Jewish roots, friendships, love of nature and the ups and downs of love to produce poetry that is tender, witty and stylish. (more...)

The Message: Poems to Read the World [Buy Direct]

by Jay Ramsay and Karen Eberhardt Shelton

Where do poets stand when faced with terrible events like September 11? Can they speak up for humanity? United by a passionate belief that poetry cannot be neutral American poet Karen Eberhardt Shelton and British (more...)

Book with No Back Cover [Buy Direct]

by Richard Burns

Two beginnings and a middle but no end Following the I Ching and the Kabbalah, Richard Burns' new poems focus on nature and light, love and justice, grief and celebration. Burns does not flinch from confronting (more...)

Cutting Pomegranates [Buy Direct]

by Miriam Halahmy

Miriam Halahmy is without compare when it comes to creating vignettes of her world - her family life, friends, work and travels - finely textured emotional and physical landscapes. Drawing on her Jewish roots, she brings a generous hea (more...)