<i>Mr. Mani</i> is a deeply affecting six-generation family saga, extending from nineteenth century Greece and Poland to British-occupied Palestine to German-occupied Crete and ultimately to modern Israel. The narrative moves through time and is told in five conversations about the Mani family. It ends in Athens in 1848 with Avraham Mani’s powerful tale about the death of his young son in Jerusalem.　A profoundly human novel, rich in drama, irony, and wit.

Mr. Mani (Harvest in Translation)

Literature & Fiction

A.B. Yehoshua

United States

HarperVia

Mr. Mani: A Novel (Harvest in Translation)

Mariner Books

<p>Secular Humanistic Judaism has existed as an alternative in Jewish life for over 100 years. for most of its history, it was an informal option, with a wide variety of movements: Zionism, Yiddish nationalism and Bundism. They created Jewish schools, reading circles and cultural associations. In recent years, secular and Humanistic Jews have coalesced into an international movement with self-identified communities, national organizations, publications, publicly proclaimed statements of belief, and schools for training leaders of the movment. This anthology can be a basic reader for Secular Humanistic Jews who are seeking the inspirational and ideological roots of their commitment. Secular Jews do not need an alternative Torah. But they do need access to the writings of their teachers and heroes. It can also be a journey of Jewish exploration for Jews who are searching for an effective way to express their Jewish identity but who are not comfortable with the religious alternatives that are presently available. And it can certainly be an interesting opportunity for students of modem Judaism, even those who are religious, to understand an important development in modem Jewish life.</p>

Judaism in a Secular Age

Yehuda Bauer

Theodor Herzl

Yaakov Malkin

Sherwin Wine

sigmund-freud

International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism

The Tunnel

Literary

HarperCollins and Blackstone Publishing

Mr. Mani

Contemporary

Peter Halban Publishers Ltd.

Open Heart

History

World

Halban Publishers

Five conversations between two people reconstruct the history of the dying Mani clan, describing the lives of six generations of its members from their emigration from Greece to Palestine in 1848 to the mid-1980s. 10,000 first printing.

Mr Mani

Halban

The Liberated Bride

World Literature

In the autumn, Molkho's wife dies. His years of loving care have ended and his newfound freedom proves unlike the one he had imagined.  It is uneasy, filled with the erotic fantasies of a man who must fall in love, but whose longing for meaningful relationships is held hostage by the spirit of his wife.  Winter sees him in Berlin in a comic encounter with a legal adviser from his office in Haifa. Spring takes him to the Galilee and an impossible infatuation. Jerusalem in the summer brings another man's wife and an extraordinary request. And the following autumn there is Nina whose yearning for her Russian home brings Molkho back to life.  'In this finely observed and oddly moving comic novel'Yehoshua makes us feel [Molkho's] humanity - and deftly wins him our sympathy.' Kirkus

Five Seasons

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