Toby Press offers New quality Hebrew Classics Series at affordable prices
The dramatic growth of interest in Hebrew literature over the past decades, has spurred a parallel need for inexpensive English translations of the classics of Modern Hebrew literature. The Toby Hebrew Classics offers well edited, well produced texts, translated and introduced by leading experts. Some will be new editions of works undeservedly out of print; others present texts that were previously unavailable. M.Y. Berdichevsky Miriam & Other Stories (ISBN 1 59264 066 4) PB $14.95 The scion of a Hassidic dynasty, Berdichevsky (1865-1921), rebelled against his family's expectations; instead he moved to Berlin, and soon dazzled its literary circles. By 1900 he had firmly established himself with nine volumes of articles and stories. Some of his major work was written after WWI, notably Miriam, a novella completed shortly before his death. Introduced by Prof. Avner Holtzman, University of Tel Aviv. Y.H. Brenner Breakdown and Bereavement (ISBN 1 59264 067 2) PB $14.95 Yosef Haim Brenner (1881-921) an essayist, critic, translator, novelist and poet, was the most influential literary figure in pre-State Israel, and in effect shifted the center of Hebrew literary activities away from Europe. He had escaped from the Russian army, and lived in London. He immigrated to Palestine in 1909, where Breakdown and Bereavement is set prior to WWI, when the tragic pattern of Arab-Jewish relations was taking shape. Brenner himself was murdered by Arab rioters in a Jaffa in 1921. Translated and with an introduction by renowned writer and translator Hillel Halkin. M.Z. Feierberg Whither? & Other Stories (ISBN 1 59264 068 0) PB $14.95 Feierberg's tragic death from tuberculosis in 1899, when he was only 25, was also a severe blow to nascent Hebrew literature. He had grown up in a traditional shtetl, wrote in Hebrew, and left behind short stories that testify to a literary career as brilliant as it was brief: all his major writing appeared within a space of four years. Translated and with an introduction by Hillel Halkin. FORTHCOMING IN THIS SERIES (Fall 2004): Haim Nachman Bialik Random Harvest & Other Novellas (ISBN 1 59264 094) PB $14.95 Uri Nissan Gnessin Besides & Other Stories (ISBN 1 59264 093) PB $14.95 Stuart Schnee The Toby Press LLC PO Box 8531 New Milford, CT 06776-8531 www.tobypress.com VISIT US AT BOOK EXPO 2004 - BOOTH 4436 Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
