When Jonas' exasperated publisher sues him for failing to produce the book he has been amply paid to write over the course of a year and a half, much more than Jonas' integrity or writing skills are at stake.Working on the biography of Abrasha Davidov, pioneer and national hero, not only brings Jonas into contact with scores of people eager to unburden their own memories of this living legend, but also forces him to confront his own limitations. He comes to loathe the paragon of virtue he is supposed to be eulogizing. After all, didn't Davidov spend his days building roads in the searing heat, defending settlements against marauding Arabs...while he, Jonas, seems unable to shake his own sloth. Between one hangover and the next, the situation worsens...but did Davidov-the-idol actually have feet of clay?

The living on the dead; (Unesco collection of representative works: Israel series)

Megged, Aharon

Literature & Fiction

CAPE.

Living on the dead (UNESCO collection of representative works: Israel series)

McCall Publishing Company

Fundamentally a documentary, Selvino's Children describes the story of the rehabilitation of 800 Jewish children, Holocaust survivors, in the first few years after the Second Word War in a small town near Milano-Selvino. There, Jewish-Palestinian soldiers, with the help of committed and well-wishing Italians, built an educational establishment that rehabilitated these children and prepared them for life in Israel. The book gives a very interesting account of the children's elaborate journey before, during and after Selvino.

The Story of the Selvino Children: Journey to the Promised Land (Library of Holocaust Testimonies (Hardcover))

History

Military

Vallentine, Mitchell

The Story of the Selvino Children: Journey to the Promised Land

Zvi Arbel is an Israeli historian whose field is Jewish history. His chosen topic of research is the Petliura massacres of Ukrainian Jews in 1918-1920. Arbel's work is read by the poet Shmuel Foiglman, a Holocaust survivor who sends Arbel a volume of his own poetry in Yiddish. The relationship that develops between the two men is one of ambivalence and fascination; the reserved Israeli historian is alternatively affectionate and resentful towards the enthusiastic but tormented poet. Despite his ambivalence, Arbel is manipulated into helping Foiglman. He embarks on an effort to get Foiglman's poetry translated into Hebrew, and as Foiglman begins to monopolize more and more of his time and resources, Arbel ignores all the warning signs of the effect this is having on his marriage; his wife Nora cannot be dissuaded from her feelings of revulsion towards Foiglman. As the poet unintentionally drives a wedge between them, Arbel and Nora's long and contented marriage goes sour, and in Megged's blend of past and present, lust and nostalgia - tragedy becomes the only way out.

Foiglman

Weinberger-Rotman, Marganit

Genre Fiction

Toby Pr

An early twentieth-century Englishwoman, Beatrice Campbell-Bennet travels to Palestine with an Arab companion to study and paint the mandrake flower, mentioned in the Old Testament, but she learns more about everyday life in the Holy Land during the Jewish immigration wave known as the "Second Aliyah."

Mandrakes from the Holy Land

When Jonas' exasperated publisher sues him for failing to produce the book he has been amply paid to write over the course of a year and a half, much more than Jonas' integrity or writing skills are at stake. Working on the biography of Abrasha Davidov, pioneer and national hero, not only brings Jonas into contact with scores of people eager to unburden their own memories of this living legend, but also forces him to confront his own limitations. He comes to loathe the paragon of virtue he is supposed to be eulogizing. After all, didn't Davidov spend his days building roads in the searing heat, defending settlements against marauding Arabs...while he, Jonas, seems unable to shake his own sloth. Between one hangover and the next, the situation worsens...but did Davidov-the-idol actually have feet of clay?

The Living on the Dead

Literary

Metropolis

Dudaʼim min ha-arets ha-ḳedoshah (Sifriyah la-ʻam) (Hebrew Edition)

ʻAm ʻoved

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