Aharon: 59 books

"La memoria custodisce ciò che sceglie di custodire. Come il sogno, anche la memoria cerca di attribuire agli eventi un qualche significato." Aharon Appelfeld in questo libro autobiografico accetta infine il confronto con la propria memoria. Impresa dolorosa che scortica l'anima perché...

«Un miracolo letterario vivente.» la Repubblica «La voce di Aharon Appelfeld è la più accorata della letteratura israeliana.» Lire È finita la guerra e Theo, giovane ebreo sopravvissuto a un campo di concentramento tedesco, vuole rientrare nel suo paese, in Austria. La strada...

A poignant, heartbreaking new work by “one of the best novelists alive” (Irving Howe)—the story of a lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker who transform each other’s lives in ways they could never have imagined.   Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran from Ukraine...

The haunting story of a Jewish family in Eastern Europe in the 1930s that prefigures the fate of the Jews during World War II. At the center is nine-year-old Paul Rosenfeld, the beloved only child of divorced parents, through whose eyes we view a dissolving, increasingly chaotic world. Initially,...

Fleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenage peasant in Ukraine in the 1880s, is taken in by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. Feeling the warmth of family life for the first time and incorporating the family’s customs and rituals into her own Christian observances, Katerina is traumatized...

Intended as a reference tool for college students, this book examines the origins of and controversies associated with birth control in the United States. • Contains 20 primary document excerpts divided into 8 thematic categories, including early birth-control manuals, essays by Margaret...

We have been living and working in the information society for decades, yet still we struggle to understand and keep up in the face of its constant flux and vast scope. In this unique interdisciplinary text, three scholars at the forefront of this dynamic field provide a clear conceptual framework...

***NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER (2012)*** From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer (“One of the best novelists alive” —Irving Howe): a Jewish woman marries a gentile laborer in turn-of-the-century Austria, with disastrous results.   A high school honor student bound...

Our story opens in an Austrian city, two generations before the Holocaust, where almost all of the Jews have converted to Christianity. Today the church bells are pealing for Karl, an ambitious young civil servant whose conversion will clear his path to a coveted high government post. Karl's future...

In turn of the century Eastern Europe, a brother and sister have been chosen to guard an ancient cemetery of Jewish martyrs situated on an isolated mountain. The endless snows protect them from the pogroms and plagues that rage in the world below, but that same protective blanket cuts them off from...

The year is 1937. On a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna stands a hotel called The Retreat. Founded by a man who is determined to cleanse himself and his guests of all "Jewish traits," it is a resort of assimilation, with daily activities that include lessons in how to look, talk,...

Taxonomy of Prokaryotes, edited by two leading experts in the field, presents the most appropriate up-to-date experimental approaches in the detail required for modern microbiological research. Focusing on the methods most useful for the microbiologist interested in this specialty, this volume will...

*HONOR 2016 - Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book WINNER 2016 - Sydney Taylor Book Award, Association of Jewish Libraries FINALIST 2016 - National Jewish Book Awards Adam and Thomas* is the story of two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive World War II by banding together in the forest. They...

This book introduces the Internet through a systematic geographical interpretation, thus shedding light on the Internet as a spatial entity. The book’s approach is to extend basic concepts developed for terrestrial geography to cyberspace, most notably those relating to space, structure, place,...