Time and Time Again: Autobiographies

JACOBSON, Dan

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Confessions of Josef Baisz

History

Americas

Harper&Row

<p>Scholarly inquiry into the biblical covenant between Israel and the Hebrew God.</p>

The Story of the Stories

Contemporary

<p>Examines the Bible as a historical and religious drama and theorizes that the Biblical characters, events, and moralizations are products of the fears and longings of its authors</p>

The Story of the Stories: The Chosen People and Its God

Harpercollins

As events switch between London and Switzerland, Jacobson introduces us to a host of vivid and extraordinary characters. Most notable amongst these is London-born Timothy Fogel, a child with the wilful belief that he has been endowed with special powers. As events unfold it becomes apparent that this belief has cataclysmic implications for all involved. The Wonder-worker is a remarkable and evocative novel about obsession, passion and the extraordinary power of the human imagination.

The Wonder-worker

Penguin??Books

She was a princess, daughter of perhaps the most hated king in Europe. He was just a lowly hussar. Their love affair in turn-of-the-century Vienna was to scandalize a continent. The story of Princess Louise of Belgium and Geza Mattachich, stepson of a minor Croatian count, began with no more than an exchanged glance in a park. Yet the princess and her soldier, divided by wealth and status, pursued their devotion to one another through scandal, ruin, madness and imprisonment. Dan Jacobson's brilliant imagining of this forgotten episode of the Hapsburg court brings to life one of the century's great love stories.

All For Love

Penguin Uk

First published in the 1950s, these stories are set in South Africa and concern the black-white confrontation there, describing the society from an artistic rather than a journalistic view-point. The central characters are seemingly ordinary people who become involved in incidents which they fail understand, but yet recognize the parts they must play. Both stories dramatize confrontation - between husband and wife, the boss and his boy and between black and white. The author was born in Johannesburg and grew up in Kimberley, South Africa. He has lived in London since the mid-1950s but has revisited South Africa several times.

Trap and a Dance in the Sun

Short Stories & Anthologies

Oxford Univ Pr (T)

Adult Pleasures: Essays on Writers and Readers

History & Criticism

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

The Electronic Elephant

This travel book combines autobiography, travel, history, politics and philosophy. The Great North Road skirts the northwest border of South Africa, running through Northern Cape Province, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia. The author of this book travelled the length of this historically and symbolically important route to explore the history of colonization.

Travel

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

In 1919 Heshel Melamed, a rabbi in the small provincial Lithuanian town of Varniai, presented his wife and their nine children with his greatest and most unexpected gift: at the age of fifty-three he died, suddenly, of a heart attack. Heshel's widow, children and grandchildren were thus set free to establish themselves safely seven thousand miles away in South Africa. As a result, they were spared the Nazi invasion and the tidal wave of killing that was to engulf virtually the entire Jewish population of Lithuania twenty years later.  Prompted by a few of his grandfather's possessions that had come down to him across the decades - a pair of spectacles, an address book, a single photograph - Dan Jacobson tells the story of Heshel and his descendants.   Everywhere he encounters puzzles, ambiguities and fateful turning-points in the history of nations and individual characters alike.  Why, in the course of a short life, did Heshel change his identity not one, but twice? What manner of violent death eventually came to the aunts, uncles and cousins left behind in Lithuania? What kind of lives opened up before those members of the family who had settled in South Africa? In dealing with those questions, Jacobson also raises the most puzzling question of all: the nature of the physical and moral inheritance bequeathed by the past to each of us.

Heshel's Kingdom

Biographies & Memoirs

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