Rockinghorse

Kaniuk, Yoram

Literature & Fiction

Harper&Row

Text: English, Hebrew (translation)

The story of Aunt Shlomzion the great

Part Jewish and part Arab, Yosef Rosenzweig/Shehara is torn by the conflict between two peoples, and he comes to realize now much political events shape one's life, regardless of private aspirations

Confessions of a Good Arab

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

His daughter

His Daughter

Commander of the Exodus

Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most inventive, brilliant novelists in the Western world," Yoram Kaniuk turns his hand to nonfiction to bring us his most important work yet. It is the story of Yossi Harel, a modern-day Moses who defied the blockade of the British Mandate to deliver more than 24,000 displaced Holocaust survivors to Palestine, while the rest of the world--including the United States--closed its doors. Kaniuk pays homage to the young Israeli who was motivated not by politics or personal glory, but by the pleading eyes of the orphaned children languishing on the shores of Europe. Commander of the Exodus is both an unforgettable tribute to the heroism of the dispossessed, and a rich evocation of the vision and daring of a man who took it upon himself to reverse the course of history.

Blackstone Pub

Business & Money

Blackstone Audiobooks

Commander of the Exodus Lib/E

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Blackstone Publishing

The Israeli novelist chronicles the true story of the commander of the Exodus, a ship that ran the British blockade between 1946 and 1948 to deliver 24,000 displaced European Jews to Palestine.

Grove Pr

Innovative novelist Yoram Kaniuk takes us from the scorched earth of mid-century Europe, to the arid plains of the Holy Land, to the urban bustle of the American Diaspora, compressing the rise and fall of the Jews into the enigmatic character of one Ebenezer Schneerson. Following the ravages of World War II, Ebenezer finds that although he has no recollection of his family or childhood, he can, at will, recite Einstein’s theory of relativity, the entire canon of Yiddish poetry, and the genealogical histories of any number of extinguished shtetls; he has somehow become the final repository for all of Jewish culture. Samuel Lipker, a fellow survivor and crass opportunist, makes money off of Ebenezer’s macabre talents, trotting him around Europe to regale spooked cabaret audiences with his uncanny memory. Appearing in English for the first time, The Last Jew is an ingenious tapestry alive with narrative acrobatics and stylistic audacity. Alternately tragic, absurd, heartbreaking, and bitter not unlike the Bible itself it is a profound exploration of Jewish identity and the multitude of disparate, often contradictory shapes it has taken in the last century.

The Last Jew: A Novel

GROVE PRESS

The crowning achievement of one of Israel's literary masters, Adam Resurrected remains one of the most powerful works of Holocaust fiction ever written. A former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths, Adam Stein is now the ringleader at an asylum in the Negev desert populated solely by Holocaust survivors. Alternately more brilliant than the doctors and more insane than any of the patients, Adam struggles wildly to make sense of a world in which the line between sanity and madness has been irreversibly blurred. With the biting irony of Catch-22, the intellectual vigor of Saul Bellow, and the pathos and humanity that are Kaniuk's hallmarks, Adam Resurrected offers a vision of a modern hell that devastates even as it inches toward redemption.

Adam Resurrected: A Novel

Literary

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