Nava Semel, Author, Seymour Simckes, Translator Viking Children's Books $12.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-83105-0
Although more than 10 years have passed since the end of World War II, the Holocaust has left its mark on all the adults in Gershona's world; everyone, even her new friend Nimrod, has a sad and secret past. A life spent skirting the miseries of...
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Nava Semel, Author, Rebecca Davis, Editor, Hillel Halkin, Translator Simon & Schuster $14 (119p) ISBN 978-0-689-80161-7
The Israeli author of Becoming Gershona weaves dreamlike images and innocent profundity into a coming-of-age tale of great power. In a remote part of Israel, Hadara, the 12-year-old daughter of the ``one and only dead mother in the village,''...
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Nava Semel, trans. from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen. Mandel Vilar, $16.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-942134-19-0
Award-winning Israeli author Semel’s novel explores an intriguing what-if scenario based on historical fact. In 1825, Jewish-American Mordecai Manuel Noah purchased Grand Island, near Niagara Falls, from Native Americans, planning to create a place...
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