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1) Blessings
Author
Language
English
Description
At 36, Jennie Rakowsky's dreams were coming true. She was about to marry a wonderful man, her career as a lawyer was skyrocketing, and she had never been more beautiful, but then the secret she had hidden for 19 years threatened to shatter it all.
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A septuagenarian Red Army veteran from the Ukraine living in Israel impresses his devoted younger caretaker, Irena, with intellectual writings that offer him no relief from his communist past.
"Aharon Appelfeld is one of the subtlest, most unorthodox, and most exactingly perceptive novelists to make the memory of the Holocaust his abiding project." --Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker A lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker transform...
Author
Publisher
Leapfrog Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of twenty five short stories about the children of Holocaust survivors and the conflicts between homosexuality and traditional Judaism"--Provided by publisher.
"“The power of Raphael’s stories comes from his passion for telling the truth, however painful.”٬٢٠١٤؛Hadassah Magazine “His characters are voices of reason, observers rather than judges. The prose is poetic, the sex scenes sweat with passion.”٬٢٠١٤؛Los...
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