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  In Winter

  Yosef Haim Brenner

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  Yosef Haim Brenner (1881-1921) was a Ukrainian-born Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. Born to a poor family, Brenner grew up in grinding poverty. Brenner immigrated to Palestine (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in 1909. He worked as a farmer, eager to put his Zionist ideology into practice. Later he devoted himself to literature and teaching at the Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. He was murdered in southern Tel Aviv in May 1921 in the course of the anti-Jewish Arab riots known as the “massacres of 1921?. Brenner published his second book, "In winter", in 1904. It is a collection of 4 stories about hardships of simple poor Jews living in small towns in Eastern Europe, at the time of anti-Jewish massacres in Russia at the turn of the 20s century. (summary by Wikipedia and Omri Lernau)

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  שכול וכשלון (Breakdown and...

  Yosef Haim Brenner

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  Breakdown and Bereavement, first published in 1920, is the story of a young Jewish immigrant in Palestine in the early 20th century. Like many of Yosef Haim Brenner's protagonists, Hefetz finds that pioneer life under Ottoman rule is a difficult and depressing path to a Zionist homeland. Brenner, himself a Russian-born immigrant to Palestine, was one of the first and most important authors of modern Hebrew literature. He was killed during the Jaffa riots of 1921. (Summary by LA Walden)

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  Fishke the Lame (The Book of...

  Mendele Mocher Sforim

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  Mendele Mocher Sforim (Literary name for Shalom Jacob Abramovitsch) (1835 - 1917, b. Kapulye, Belorussia), one of the first modern Jewish writers, wrote in both Hebrew and Yiddish throughout his career. In his work he described with sharp satirical criticism the traditional life in small Jewish towns, as well as tendencies for assimilation of learned Jews at the time. He was regarded as the "grandfather of Yiddish literature," but the Hebraic-Zionist atmosphere in Odessa influenced him, and in 1886 he turned to writing Hebrew fiction.The Book of Beggars, or Fishke the Lame, was one of the first romances written in Hebrew in Eastern Europe. It was published in Yiddish in 1869 and later translated into Hebrew by the author. Mendeli used a satirical style mixed with tears and compassion to describe Jews of the lowest classes in small poor communities in Eastern Europe of the second half of the 19th century, organized to look for food and charity. This was the background for an entangled story of theft, rape and sentimental love, with an emphasis on suffering and hardships of women.  (Summary by Omri Lernau)

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  על קצות האצבעות

  A. C. Meyer

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  רומן שיגרום לכם לצחוק, לבכות, להתאהב ולהאמין שאהבה אמיתית מנצחת את הכול, במיוחד את הרוע.המעבר מנעורים לבגרות הוא אבן דרך בחייהם של כל צעיר וצעירה, וזה לא שונה עבור אמנדה סאמרס – נערה ביישנית, חסרת ניסיון, ומלאה בחששות ובחוסר ביטחון לגבי הזהות שלה והעבר שלה. כמו רוב הצעירים והצעירות בשלב הזה, הרגשות שלה מאד אינטנסיביים והראש שלה מוצף בספקות, חששות וחלומות.בספר ”על קצות האצבעות”, נלווה את מסע הגדילה של מנדי: הלימודים באוניברסיטה, האהבה הראשונה, החברויות, והמהפך מנערה לאישה.זה היה אמור להיות הרגע המדהים ביותר בחייה... היא רק לא דמיינה שהוא יהיה מלווה בבריונות פיזית ונפשית.המחברת של סדרות הספרים ”אחרי החושך” (After dark) ו”הבחורות” (As garotas) מגישה לכם כעת רומן שיגרום לכם לצחוק, לבכות, להתאהב ולהאמין שאהבה אמיתית מנצחת את הכול, במיוחד את הרוע.

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