In the Polish city of Lodz, the brothers Ashkenazi grew up very differently in talent
and in temperament. Max, the firstborn, is fiercely intelligent and conniving, determined to succeed financially by any means necessary. Slower-witted Jacob is strong, handsome, and ...
The ruthlessly engrossing and beautifully rendered story of the Brodskys, a family of artists who
realize, too late, one elemental truth: Creation’s necessary consequence is destruction.Each member of the mercurial clan in Adam Mansbach’s bold new novel faces the impossible ...
“A grand, sweeping panorama . . . richly written, finely detailed . . . vivid
and memorable.”—Daily News (New York)Yearning for a better life, Anna Friedman fled Poland for New York at the turn of the century. Finding work as ...
Italy's declaration of war on Britain in June 1940 had devastating consequences for Italian immigrant
families living in Scotland signalling their traumatic construction as the 'enemy other'. Through an analysis of personal testimonies and previously unpublished archival material, this book ...
America's post–World War II prosperity created a boom in higher education, expanding the number of
university-educated readers and making a new literary politics possible. Writers began to direct their work toward the growing professional class, and the American public in ...
A family is torn apart by fierce belief and private longing in this unprecedented journey
deep inside the most insular Hasidic sect, the Satmar.In 1939, five-year-old Josef witnesses the murder of his family by the Romanian Iron Guard. He is ...
When his father dies, it falls to Larry—the secular son in a family of Orthodox
Brooklyn Jews—to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. But to the horror and dismay of his sister, ...
Mr. Mani is a deeply affecting six-generation family saga, extending from nineteenth century Greece and
Poland to British-occupied Palestine to German-occupied Crete and ultimately to modern Israel. The narrative moves through time and is told in five conversations about the ...
