Confessions of a good Arab: A novel

Kaniuk, Yoram

Halban Publishers

Traces the life of the Jewish commentator, assesses the influence of his writings concerning the Talmud, and discusses the background of eleventh century French Jews

Rashi

History

Chaim Pearl

World

Shadowlight

pierre-mertens

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland: An Anthology

Contemporary Jewish Writing In Britain And Ireland: An Anthology

Sailing from the North African port of Tangier to a small, distant town called Paris are a Jewish merchant, Ben Attar, his two beloved wives and his Arab partner, Abu Lutfi. They have come for a meeting with their third partner the widower, Raphael Abulafia who has been forced to turn his back on their previous trading partnership because of his new wife's distrust of the dual marriage of Ben Attar. The latter turns this annual trading voyage into a personal quest to legitimise his second wife, restore his honour, and, equally important, to show others the richness and humanity in his way of life. 
A.B. Yehoshua has imaginatively recreated a medieval world (from North Africa to Paris, from Spain to Germany) with its merchant trade in great depth and sensuous detail. His evocation of one man's love is lyrical, erotic even.

A Journey to The End of The Millennium

Literature & Fiction

Yehoshua, A.B.

Contemporary

Book. Hard Cover. Fiction. Israel. Short Stories.

The Continuing Silence Of A Poet: The Collected Short Stories of A.B.Yehoshua

With the humor and clearsightedness of one who loved the shtetl, but who worked hard to escape from it, Zagier records the rhythms and texture of everyday life in Botchki, a small town northeast of Warsaw, from the early years of the century until 1927.
The author glories in the details of growing up and explores every irony, every twist of fate, every historical fact, as history rushed past this shtetl, sometimes affecting it, sometimes just passing it by. Life was ruled by religion, and he recounts his growing rebelliousness against God, who gives his life meaning and yet allows so much suffering.
First set down on the eve of World War II, finished fifty years later, and now published for the first time, Botchki is a testament to a vanished world. This important and moving memoir is essential reading for everyone interested in issues of Jewish life, identity, and exile, as seen through the lens of life in an Eastern European shtetl in the early twentieth century.

Botchki

Biographies & Memoirs

Zagier, David

Historical

Set in the southern Persian town of Shiraz in the last years of World War II with the British army in occupation, the novel chronicles the life of Zari, a traditional, anxious, and superstitious woman whose husband, Yusef is an idealistic feudal landlord. A web of political intrigue and hostility is created. In the background, tribal leaders are in open rebellion against the government and British occupation. In the midst of this turbulence Zari carries on normal life within the beautiful courtyard of her house, attempting to keep the family safe from external events. The corruption engendered by occupation is pervasive as Zari's family life is shattered and disaster strikes. An immensely moving story, the novel is a powerful indictment of colonization.

A Persian Requiem

Daneshvar, Simin

Genre Fiction

These journals provide great insight into the mind and art of one of the great 20th century artists. Though born in Poland, he is best known for his paintings of Welsh miners, for it was workers that inspired him, and he painted them with great simplicity, almost as monuments to work, and often with the sun and sky behind them so that they looked like latter-day saints. The journals reveal his artistic heritage, who inspired him, what he saw in painters, what he thought of their technique. This is a fascinating book for anyone interested in art.

Josef Herman: The Journals

Arts & Photography

Herman, Josef

History & Criticism

When Ellis Douek was nine, his mother insisted that he take up  embroidery, in case he became a surgeon when he grew  up. Of course she was right, for he became consultant ENT surgeon at Guy’s Hospital in London. The Douek parents had the unerring quality of belonging in whichever country they livedEgypt, the Sudan, Columbia and, finally, England. Ellis Douek’s memoirs describe the hedonism of life in Egypt, the Suez Crisis which uprooted them, 1950’s Bradford, and Paris. He began his medial training in Paris where he, his sister Claudia, and brother Zaki lived free of adult supervision. His training continued in London during a time of smog, digs, and landladies. Ellis’s days as an army medic provide hilarious accounts of whisky-sodden soldiers, circumcisions, and bureaucratic procedures.

A Middle Eastern Affair

Douek, Ellis

Memoirs

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