A love story with a comic flair. The novel explores the phenomena of fame and hero-worship, as well as the relationship between life and art.

The Yemenite Girl : A Novel

Curt Leviant

Avon Publishers

A Novel of Klass

A tragicomic novel with two endings! The self proclaimed "Yiddish painter" Ayzik Klass, who lived through the Holocaust, gets his first New York gallery show, but his wife Griselda seems intent on ruining it.

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

Livingston

In Venice, the narrator meets two women, one a devout and sensual Parisian, the other, an enigmatic beauty, who is mute but can hear. At the wedding--whoever bride may be--a 17th century rabbi will preside. For in this true fiction, characters cross time lines. Fiction. Jewish Studies.

Me, Mo, Mu, & Mod

Contemporary

Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama

While in the archives room of the Siena Municipal Public Library, I noticed a cardboard box labeled "Lorenzini?" Since Lorenzini wrote Pinocchio under the pen-name Collodi, I opened the box and was astounded to see a handwritten manuscript titled: Tinocchia, the Adventures of a Jewish Puppetta. I photographed the pages, and soon enough translated the story into English. Tinocchia, the story's narrator, is created by her carpenter father, Yossi, who named her after the Hebrew word for "baby," tinok, and as a nod to his fellow woodworker, Geppetto, the creator of Pinocchio. While riding on her magic cart, Tinnochia bumps into a puppetto who introduces himself as Nipocchio. Naturally, the puppetto's nose grows . . . Pinocchio and Tinocchia share adventures: Tinocchia becomes involved with Samael, the Dark Angel; Pinocchio and Tinocchia encounter pirates on a sailboat which gets overturned in a storm. One day Pinnochio visits as a real boy and offers Tinocchia a magic salve. She scolds him that he has no right to take the salve. In any case, she does not want mortality; she wants to live. Pinocchio turns back into a puppetto to be with her. And, like in a true fairy tale, they live happily after--presumably. In the Afterword, I describe a dinner at the Venice Jewish Old Age Home, where I tell a bit about Tinocchia, whereupon the oldest resident, a ninety-nine-year-old woman, makes a surprising declaration, which brings the story of the manuscript full circle.

Tinocchia: The Adventures of a Jewish Puppetta

Livingston Press

Diario di un'adultera

Guanda

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