A memoir of Rachel Margolis, the sole survivor of her family, who escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the resistance movement, the FPO (United Partisan Organization), and joined the Soviet partisans in the forests of Lithuania to sabotage the Nazis.
Provides a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov... Læs mere
Provides a collection of the major statements by Russian poet Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) about poetry, inspiration, the creative... Læs mere
Shows that in its generative theology, Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age invoked the perpetual presence of God overseeing all that Israelites said... Læs mere
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is the only Russian poet who has been taken seriously by Russian leaders. He is the most important poet Russia has... Læs mere
Focusing on the concepts of time and the life cycle, this collection of articles examines Jewish life in the Talmudic period... Læs mere
Lev Tolstoy has held the attention of mankind for well over a century. This title investigates some of the numerous puzzles and paradoxes in the Tolstoyan heritage, engaging both... Læs mere
The chapters in this volume examine a few facets inthe drama of how the survivors of the Holocaust contended with life after thedarkest night in Jewish history.
An amalgam of personal reminiscences of a bright young man with later observations of a mature scholar bring to life the mighty pulsation of Jewish life in Poland... Læs mere
Celebrates the literary oeuvres of David Shrayer-Petrov - poet, fiction writer,... Læs mere