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Panorama: A NovelH.G. AdlerOnly recently available for the first time in English, Panorama is the newly rediscovered first novel of H. G. Adler, a modernist master whose work has been compared to that of Kafka, Joyce, and Solzhenitsyn. A brilliant epic told in ten … more |
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The Girls of Room 28: Friend...Hannelore BrennerFrom 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and g… more |
The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt |
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A Garden of Eden in HellMelissa Muller, Reinhard PiechockiAlice Herz-Sommer was born in 1903 in Prague, the Prague of the Hapsburgs and of Franz Kafka, a family friend. Musically very gifted, by her mid-teens Alice was one of the best-known pianists in Prague. But as the Nazis swept across Europe … more |
A Garden of Eden in Hell |
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The Journey: A Novel (Modern...H.G. AdlerHere is “a rich and lyrical masterpiece”–notes Peter Constantine–the first translation of a lost treasure by acclaimed author H. G. Adler, a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Written in 1950, after Adler’s emigration to England, The… more |
The Journey: A Novel (Modern Library Classics) |
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The Life-SentenceStefan G. Meyer
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It’s been said that a man is not actually born when he comes out of the female body, since he doesn’t know yet that he is born. He is actually born when he first obtains the knowledge of his birth. So it is when a revelation of great magnit… more |
The Life-Sentence |
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Prague Spring (A Simon Wolfe...David Del Bourgo
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The murder of a United States congressman’s son sends Inspector Simon Wolfe of the San Francisco Police Department on a pursuit in which he is blackmailed with his past as an Israeli assassin. When Inspector Wolfe falls in love with the dea… more |
Prague Spring (A Simon Wolfe Mystery) |
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Walk ForwardRosa Raskin
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Hidden secrets are discovered by a member of the second generation in her fifty year search for her sister, Eugenia, lost in the Holocaust. Jewish family members are caught in a hellish spider’s web as the “last 500.” As pawns in the chess … more |
Walk Forward |
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Landscapes of the Metropolis...Otto Dov KulkaOtto Dov Kulka’s Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death, translated by Ralph Mandel, is a memoir of astounding literary and emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the Holocaust and a childhood spent in Auschwitz… more |
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination |
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