Product Description: In this luminous collection of poems, Abba Kovner records his deep engagement with life during his last days, as he lay dying of cancer in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Kovner, the famed Jewish resistance fighter who led the Vilna ghetto uprising during World War II, was also a beloved master of Hebrew literature, and his work has seldom appeared in English...read more

In two novellas, a Russian Jew flees with his son to Germany in the 1930s after the Cossacks kill his wife, and a little boy struggles to adjust to life in Palestine when he is orphaned (view table of contents)

Translated from the Hebrew, a novel by an Israeli author acclaimed for his psychologically illuminating, diamond-sharp style traces the inner world of a Jewish man devastated by his wife's death and the recent ravages of World War II.

Product Description: Truly eye-opening, Katschen & The Book of joseph makes an amazing American debut for Israeli writer Yoel Hoffmann. Both of these intensely moving novellas display the entirely original poetry of Hoffmann's atomized hypnotic language, which Rosmarie Waldrop has called "utterly enchanting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)