Tells the stories of a milkman and his daughters and a salesman's encounters with fellow Jews while riding the train

Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Hillel, Halkin

Alekhem, Sholem

Short Stories & Anthologies

Schocken

Letters to an American Jewish Friend: A Zionist's Polemic

World Literature

Jewish Publication Society

Across the Sabbath River: In Search of the Lost Tribe of Israel

History

Asia

This collection of brilliant and never-before-published essays by six of the most perceptive observers of Jewish and American life gives fresh insight into the personal, political, and religious character of one of Israel's most remarkable and controversial figures. Menachem Begin's Zionist Legacy explains Begin's unabashed and unapologetic commitment to his people before any others, the misunderstood relationship between Begin and his mentor Ze'ev Jabotinsky, why Begin was detested by his rival David Ben-Gurion, and the true role of Jimmy Carter in the process leading up to the Camp David Accords, and more.

Begin's Zionist Legacy

Biographies & Memoirs

Douglas J. Feith

Ruth Wisse

Michael Doran

Daniel Gordis and Meir Soloveichik

Leaders & Notable People

Toby Press

A short but inspiring and moving novel, a love story with three principal characters, elegaic and melancholic and yet celebratory and joyful also, this is, at bottom, an ode to a woman. Its tenor is sentimental yet wise, combining rational intelligence with a deeper emotional instinct. As such it has something of the robust yet vulnerable wisdom of one of Saul Bellow's later novellas. Its narrator is a man in his mid-forties, a scholar of ancient philosophy known to us by his nickname of Hoo, whose wife Mellie has left him for reasons that only become clear in the course of the novel. Hoo and Mellie have known each other since going to high school together in New York in the 1950s - or perhaps, as Hoo sometimes feels, for much longer than that. Only at the novel's end are we told where he is as he is writing it. Until then we know only that he is surrounded by his books, out of which, when he opens them, fall notes from Mellie that he has stuck in them: messages, reminders, lists of groceries to buy and errands to run, birthday cards, declarations of love, all bringing back memories of their years together and driving the narrative forward. Yet Melisande is not just a narrative. It is an extended reflection on love itself; on the nature of the soul; on reality and dream; on how the choices we make when we are young pursue us for the rest of our lives. Its words fall quietly, one by one, like raindrops on water. The ripples they make spread and spread...

Melisande!: What Are Dreams?

Granta Books

Hillel Halkin has chosen 70 of Shmuel Hanagid's more interesting poems to reprint and translate. Born a thousand years ago, poet, rabbi, Talmudic scholar, statesman, general, general, and bon-vivant, Shmuel Hanagid was the first major medieval Hebrew poets. He wrote on religious, as well as once-forbidden secular topics. Often autobiographical, Shmuel Hanagid's poems address subjects such as God, nature, friendship, love (of both sexes), wine, war, death, and the pains of growing old.

Grand Things to Write a Poem on: A Verse Autobiography of Shmuel Hanagid (English, Hebrew and Hebrew Edition)

Gefen Books

This passionate polemic addresses itself to the ultimate questions of Jewish destiny and proclaims the primacy of Israel as the locus of the Jewish future. Hillel Halkin is an American-born Jew who has cast his personal and historical lot with Israel. Corresponding with an imaginary “American Jewish friend” who upholds the possibility of a viable Jewish life outside Israel, Halkin forcefully argues his case: Jewish history and Israeli history are two lines in the process of converging; and any Jew who chooses, in the absence of extenuating circumstances, not to live in Israel is removing himself to the peripheries of the struggle for Jewish survival and away from the center of Jewish destiny.

Letters to an American Jewish Friend: a Zionist's Polemic

Gefen Publishing House

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