Langer’s novel will engage readers with his deft and very funny portrayal of a Hasidic Jew who allies with Black Americans in fear of racial prejudice and the hazardous journey of two courageous folks to escape its evil reach.
On a recent trip to the Big Apple, walking down Madison Avenue, I was drawn into Bauman Rare Books flagship gallery. My jaw dropped at the prices of First Editions of literary classics---James Joyce’s Ulysses, offered at $65,000, E. B White’s Charlotte’s Web, at $4,000. Formidable…
Israel Alone is a powerful new work penned by author Bernard-Henri Levy. Often identified as BHL--- the French intellectual, philosopher, journalist, political activist, provocateur, and filmmaker, humanitarian---analyzes Israel’s global isolation in the aftermath of the “Event.” BHL…
Inspired by his mother’s diary—discovered only after her death -- son Aubrey Kagan re-organizes Shulamit Kagan’s “life stories” into a nifty memoir titled A Tourist from Petach Tikva. Motivated by the Zionist movement Kagan’s family fled Russian pogroms to arrive in, then,…
Semi autobiographical, Zarankin’s narrative connects her own life-cycle to birds. She associates the “genetic migration” of birds who fly south, to her own “forced migration” as a child fleeing from Leningrad to be with her mother, to visiting her grandparents in Odessa before…
