1. The Bridal Canopy
by S.Y. Agnon (Athor), Lask, I.M., (Translator) (Hardcover - 1967) $5.00
The Bridal Canopy is the story of a poor but devout Galician Jew, Reb Yudel, who wanders the countryside with his companion, Nuta, during the early 19th century in search of bridegrooms for his three daughters. At the heart of this work are the stories - and the stories within the stories - that the two travelers share on their journey.
2. Writing the Book of Esther (French Expressions) (Hardcover) $5.00
by Henri Raczymow (Author), Dori Katz (Translator)
French writer Raczymows powerful and haunting novel ponders the worlds inaction in the face of the impending Holocaust, as well as the scarring effects of the Nazi genocide on the younger generation of Jews whose parents survived it. Esther Litvak, born in Nazi-occupied France to Polish-Jewish refugees, escapes the worst horrors of the war but commits suicide in 1975, at the age of 32, after a life of deepening obsession with the Holocaust. Named after her maternal aunt, who was deported to a death camp, Esther at age 14 dresses like a concentration camp inmate and shaves her head. Later, she fantasizes that she was an armed resister in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Writing after her death, her brother Mathieu, a French civil servant, ponders the reasons for her suicide-a tragedy that he, consumed by shame and guilt, has previously blocked from his awareness. The first half of the book consists of Mathieus fragmentary, unfinished novel, which creates a fictive-and extraordinarily graphic and convincing-life for Esther inside the doomed Warsaw Ghetto. The second half mingles the first-person narratives of Esthers father, a Resistance fighter; of her husband, whose parents died in Auschwitz; and of her uncle, a survivor of Birkenau. Throughout the book-his first to be translated into English-Raczymow forcefully confronts the dangers of historical amnesia and personal indifference.
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