Hand in Hand: Jewish and Indigenous People Working Together by Anne Sarzin
30.00 AUD
Category: Judaica
Hand in Hand: Jewish and Indigenous people working together is an inspiring account of a journey of care and understanding being undertaken by two very significant Australian communities - the Australian Jewish community on the one hand, and on the other, Australia's Indigenous Community - The First Aus ...Show more
France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History by Michael Burns
24.00 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture
This work provides a brief documentary history of the Dreyfus affair, the infamous episode in which a French Jewish army officer, Alfred Dreyfus, was unjustly convicted of treason in 1894 and 1899 and then acquitted and exonerated in 1906. The narrative is interspersed with approximately 65 brief docume ...Show more
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
22.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Reading Level: very good
'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...'Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friend ...Show more
Sleeping On A Wire : Conversations with Palestinians in Israel by David Grossman
19.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
Israel: Jewish state and national homeland to Jews the world over. But a fifth of its population is Arab, a people who feel themselves to be an inseparable part of the Arab nation, most of which is still technically at war with the State of Israel. In the summer of 1991 David Grossman set out on a journ ...Show more
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
15.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
In 1940s Brooklyn, two boys who have grown up within a few blocks of each other, but in entirely different worlds, meet for the first time in a bizarre encounter -- a baseball game between two Jewish parochial schools that turns into a holy war. With dramatic force and simplicity that seizes the heart, ...Show more
The Women My Father Knew - A Novel by Savyon Liebrecht
22.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
After his successful first novel, Meir suffers writer s block. Then his father, poet and charmer of women, who supposedly died decades earlier, contacts him and they arrange to meet. Fragmented, troubling memories of a forgotten childhood time spent alone with his father rise to Meir s consciousness. Sw ...Show more
The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner
24.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature"A remarkable work . . . [that] documents a triumph of the human spirit over tremendous adversity."--"Harper's""This elegantly-written tribute makes as beautiful a use of the darkness and light of one man's life as a Halsman photograph of a pretty young woman."--"GQ" ...Show more
Dancing with the Hurricane : A novel by Leon Silver
27.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
In the tradition of The Reader comes a powerful coming-of-age novel set in post-World War II Europe, Israel and Australia. At the hospital bed of his comatose uncle, Laibel Goldenstein recounts their family's extraordinary journey from war-torn Europe to the fledgling state of Israel and then on to ...Show more
Beginnings: Reflections on the Bible's Intriguing Firsts by Meir Shalev
49.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
The bestselling and prize-winning Israeli author Meir Shalev describes the many "firsts" of the Bible - the first love and the first death, to the first laugh and the first dream - providing a fresh, secular and surprising look at the stories we think we know. The first kiss in the Bible is not a kiss o ...Show more
Nemesis by Philip Roth
35.00 AUD
Category: Judaica
Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives. Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed ...Show more
Alva's Boy by COLLINS Alan
29.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
This book is a frank, confronting yet surprisingly funny memoir based on the life experiences and recollections of a Jewish childhood over a time span from 1928 to the mid-forties. In some telling, names of people, places and dates have been changed. Mercifully, those named who are or were of a repellen ...Show more
A Model World by Michael Chabon
24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
In this compelling collection of short stories, bestselling author Michael Chabon explores adolescent desire, love, friendship and fatherhood -- moving across this powerful emotional ground with subtlety and incisiveness. Written with wryness, whimsy, and intellectual depth, this is a collection of ele ...Show more