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the Jews.
Boise, Idaho: Pacific Press Pub. Association, 1992. 159
P-
A novel based on the Babylonian captivity, 598-515 B.C.E., and
centering on the characters o f Belshazzar, Daniel, and Cyrus, King
o f Persia.
R
a p h a e l
, L
e v
.
Winter eyes.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992. 245
p .
The painful and intimate experiences o f a young Jewish man,
Stefan Borowaski, who discovers himself to be the child o f Hol
ocaust survivors and bisexual. These two factors lead to a life o f
deception and isolation and the hope o f healing and change.
R
e i s e n
, A
v r a h a m
.
The heart-stirring sermon and other stories.
Ed. and tr.
from the Yiddish, with an introduction by Curt Leviant. Wood-
stock, NY: Overlook, 1992. 204 p.
First English translation o f twenty-seven o f the popular author’s
stories. Set in small Eastern European shtetls, the tales focus on
people oppressed by poverty while they are sustained by their cul
ture, spiritual values, social justice and sense o f community.
S
h a f r a n
, A
v i
.
Migrant soul; the story of an American ger.
Southfield, MI:
Targum Press, 1992. 272 p.
Abel Gomes, a dark-skinned descendant o f full-blooded Mo
hawk and Narragansett Indians, converts to Judaism. Together
with his assimilated Jewish wife, Ariella, and two daughters, they
find themselves on a spiritual odyssey that ends in the fulfillment
they discover in Orthodoxy.
S
h e r
, A
n t o n y
.
The indoor boy.
New York: Viking, 1992. 277 p.
Leon Lipschitz, a middle-aged Jew from Capetown, settles in
London looking for safety from the three A’s — Apartheid, Anti-
Semitism, and AIDS. Yet, his adventures end in terror on the
South African veldt.
S
h e r m a n
, J
o s e p h
a
.
A sampler of Jewish-American folklore.
Little Rock,
Ark.: August House, 1992. 215 p. (American folklore series)
An exploration o f the folklore that survived the immigration
Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jewish experience and was brought to
America. The anthology reveals the varieties o f Jewish wisdom
and humor through folklore filled with demons, dybbuks and al
legories. Part o f the publisher’s 14-volume American Folklore
Series.
S
in g e r
, I
sa a c
B
a s h e v i s
.
The certificate.
Tr. from the Yiddish
b y
Le
onard Wolf. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992. 227 p.
David Bendiger, an Orthodox rabbi’s son, returns to Warsaw
in the early 1920’s to pursue a career as a writer on Spinoza and
Kabbalah. His plans are disrupted when he becomes romantically
involved with three women in the political climate o f eastern Eu
rope in the interwar period.