JEWISH STUDIES 2009

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Robin Wright f Dreams and Shadows The Future of the Middle East “This is the best of all possible worlds: An old hand guides us through the changes in post-9/11 Middle East, and is able to sort out in a sober, smart way what is really going on.”—Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco. “This volume, full of mesmerizing detail and large truths, sets a new standard for scholarship on the modern Middle East.”—Madeleine Albright. “A thought-provoking and eminently readable look at the current and future generation of leaders.”—The Boston Globe. Penguin • 480 pp. • 978-0-14-311489-5 • $17.00

Sadia Shepard f The Girl from Foreign A Memoir “Elegantly crafted...[Shepard’s] writing is vivid and her meditations on heritage and grief are moving.” —The New Yorker. “A rich tapestry of theology, art, emotions and forgotten lore.”—The Washington Post. Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-311577-9 • $16.00

TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURED TITLES...... 2 YOUNG ADULT...... 16 JEWISH LIVES...... 4 JEWISH RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS...... 17 HISTORY...... 6 ANTHOLOGIES & REFERENCE...... 19 HANNAH ARENDT...... 6 THE COMPLETE IDIOT’S GUIDES...... 20 RICHARD J. EVANS...... 7 PENGUIN SPEAKERS BUREAU...... 20 HOLOCAUST STUDIES...... 8 COLLEGE FACULTY LITERATURE...... 10 INFORMATION SERVICE...... 21 SAUL BELLOW...... 10 ARTHUR MILLER...... 12 SCHOOL & PERSONAL COPIES AMERICAN POETS PROJECT...... 14 ORDER FORM...... 23 PHILIP ROTH...... 15 EXAMINATION COPY ORDER FORM...... 24

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Ronald Florence f Emissary of the Doomed Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust The little-known story of the attempt to save the last intact Jewish popula- tion in Europe—850,000 Hungarians—in the final year of World War II. Viking • 352 pp. • 978-0-670-02072-0 • $26.95 Available January 2010

Sholem Aleichem f Wandering Stars Newly Translated by Aliza Shevrin Foreword by Tony Kushner The first complete translation of the epic love story set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater. “Clearly the invention of a gifted storyteller.”—Los Angeles Times. Viking • 496 pp. • 978-0-670-02052-2 • $29.95

f Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s son Newly Translated by Aliza Shevrin Introduction by Dan Miron For the 150th anniversary of the birth of the “Jewish Mark Twain,” a new translation of his most famous works. Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-310560-2 • $16.00

Amy Dockser Marcus f Jerusalem 1913 The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict The Pulitzer Prize-winner traces the origins of the long-running conflict by showing how the Jerusalem of the World War I era became the city of today. “A richly insightful, highly readable, and acutely felt offering, one that is also critical and even handed....A page-turning, heartbreaking narrative.”— San Francisco Journal. B/w photos, maps. Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-311328-7 • $15.00

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Lewis Black Elizabeth Ehrlich JEWISH LIVES f Me of Little Faith mIRIAM’S KITCHEN In more than two dozen essays that investi- A Memoir gate everything from the differences “An appealing, sensitive account of an between how Christians and Jews celebrate assimilated Jewish woman’s efforts to Mary Antin their holidays, to the politics of faith, to the embrace the religious traditions of her THE PROMISED LAND individual search for transcendence, Black ancestors....Replete with family narratives Edited with an Introduction explores his unique odyssey through reli- and recipes.”—Kirkus. and Notes by Werner Sollors gion and belief. “Black throws humorous Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-026759-4 • $16.00 “In the moving, vividly interesting pages of barbs at televangelism, the Mormon Church National Jewish Book Award her autobiography, Mary Antin has pre- and the Jewish faith in which he was sented the case of the Russian Jew’s Ameri- raised.”—Entertainment Weekly. Ruth Andrew Ellenson, editor can citizenship as it has not been presented Riverhead • 272 pp. • 978-1-59448377-6 • $15.00 THE MODERN JEWISH before.”—The New York Times. Photographs. • Podcast available at www.penguin.com GIRL’S GUIDE TO GUILT Penguin Classics • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-018985-8 • $14.00 Contributors include Daphne Merkin, Rebecca Fern Schumer Chapman Walker, Katie Rophie, Lori Gottlieb, and twenty- Shalom Auslander mOTHERLAND four other women writers. “Strong and mov- f Foreskin’s Lament A Daughter’s Journey to Reclaim the Past ing stories about what it means to be a Jewish A Memoir “An outstanding portrait of the painful post- woman in today’s world.”—Los Angeles Times. Auslander recounts his youth in a strict, war waltz of Germans, their victims, and Plume • 336 pp. • 978-0-452-28748-8 • $15.00 socially isolated Orthodox community in their victims’ victims.”—Kirkus. “A meticu- upstate New York, and his efforts to make a lously detailed account...which Chapman Danny Evans new life apart from it. “A scathing theologi- renders with precise and often moving f RAGE AGAINST THE MESHUGENAH cal rant, a funny, oddly moving coming-of- prose.”—Chicago Tribune Book Review. Why it Takes Balls to Go Nuts age memoir, and an irreverent meditation Penguin • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-028623-6 • $14.00 Traces Evans’ journey through the minefield on family, marriage, and cultural identity.”— of mental illness from a modern Jewish Tom Perrotta. “Funny, fierce, and subver- Laura Shaine Cunningham man’s point-of-view. “Heartbreaking and sively heartfelt.”—The New York Times Book SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS hilarious....[Evans’s] debut memoir is not to Review. “Here is Lily Moore at 10....She shares habita- be missed.”—Jen Lancaster, author of Bitter Riverhead • 320 pp. • 978-1-59448-333-2 • $15.00 tion with a senile old woman and two bach- is the New Black. A New York Times Notable Book; a San elors, one of whom habitually cooks pop- NAL • 352 pp. • 978-0-451-22711-9 • $15.00 Francisco Chronicle Notable Book; a Sophie corn for breakfast wearing a pith helmet....All Brody Award honorable mention indications to the contrary notwithstanding, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Lily is living a blessed life, as depicted in Cun- f Isaiah Berlin My Year Inside Radical Islam ningham’s unromantic, spare, funny, en- A Memoir RUSSIAN THINKERS chanting memoir.”—The Washington Post. Edited by Henry Hardy and Aileen Kelly Raised in liberal Ashland, Oregon, by par- Riverhead • 240 pp. • 978-1-57322-823-7 • $15.00 ents who were Jewish by birth but dismis- Introduction by Aileen Kelly sive of strict dogma, the author converted Glossary by Jason Ferrell Ariel Dorfman to Islam in college. “Gartenstein-Ross has A meditation on the impact that Russia’s hEADING SOUTH, LOOKING NORTH something rare to offer, namely the - per writers and philosophers had on its culture. A Bilingual Journey spective of someone who has ties with each In addition to Tolstoy’s philosophy of his- An elegant rumination on language, exile, of the major monotheistic faiths.”—Los tory, which he addresses in the essay, “The and memory. “Dorfman has written the Angeles Times. Hedgehog and the Fox,” Berlin considers the most universal of stories, a meditation on Tarcher • 304 pp. • 978-1-58542-611-9 • $14.95 social and political circumstances that pro- the fragility and uncertainty of life.”—The duced such men as Herzen, Bakunin, Turge- Boston Globe. nev, and Belinsky, among others. Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-028253-5 • $15.00 Penguin Classics • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-144220-4 • $17.00 Also available: Death and the Maiden 9780140246841 For instructions on requesting permission to photocopy Penguin Group (USA) titles, for coursepacks and for general classroom use go to: www.penguin.com/permissions or call the Copyright Clearance Center at 978-750-8400.

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Emma Goldman Rabbi Alfred J. Kolatch Ilan Stavans f LIVING MY LIFE THE JEWISH BOOK OF WHY ON BORROWED WORDS Edited with an Introduction by Miriam Brody This concise and fascinating guide to Jewish A Memoir of Language This classic memoir of revolution is an life and tradition clearly explains both the In this rich memoir, the linguistic chame- abridged version of Goldman’s two-volume significance and the origin of nearly every leon outlines his remarkable cultural heri- autobiography takes her from her birth- symbol, custom, and practice known to Jew- tage from his birth in politically fragile Mex- place in czarist Russia to the socialist ish culture—from Afikomon to Yarmulkes, ico, through his years as a student activist enclaves of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. and from Passover to Purim. and young Zionist in Israel, to his present Penguin Classics • 672 pp. • 978-0-14-243785-8 • $18.00 Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-219619-9 • $15.00 career as a noted and controversial aca- demic and writer. Eva Hoffman James McBride Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-200094-6 • $16.00 See also: Becoming Americans, p. 20 LOST IN TRANSLATION THE COLOR OF WATER A Life in a New Language A Black Man’s Tribute “Hoffman writes so exquisitely and intelli- to His White Mother Darin Strauss f gently of the experience of learning to McBride’s tribute to his remarkable, eccen- More than It Hurts you speak, think, and live in a new language.... tric, determined mother—and an eloquent “Contemplates the nature of marriage and Read it for its sheer beauty as well as its exploration of what family really means. familial relationships, mental illness, privi- insights.”—Deborah Tannen. “The very “Complex and moving...suffused with issues lege, class, and bigotry, while indicting essence of exile experience in beautifully of race, religion and identity.”—The New American culture as a whole.”—BookMarks human terms against a background of keen York Times Book Review. Magazine. and searching intellect.”—Josef Skvorecky. Riverhead • 320 pp. • 978-1-59448-192-5 • $15.00 Plume • 416 pp. • 978-0-452-29552-0 • $15.00 • Podcast available at www.penguin.com Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-012773-7 • $15.00 Richard Poplak Rebecca Walker f Ja, No, Man Howard Jacobson BLACK, WHITE, AND JEWISH Growing Up White in ROOTS SCHMOOTS Autobiography of a Shifting Self Journeys Among Jews Apartheid Era South Africa “A beautifully written meditation on the cre- The author describes his journey to his ances- As a white, Jewish, suburban child, the ation of a woman’s sense of self. It is about tral home in Lithuania to discover his Jewish author grappled with the many complexi- being black, white, and Jewish, born in the roots—with stops along the way in the ties of living under a racist regime while his throes of the political sixties, coming of age Catskills, Manhattan, Tucson, Los Angeles, own people were considered both oppres- in the conflicted and complex eighties and Eilat, Jerusalem, Tiberias, Haifa, and Sefat. sor and minority. nineties.”—Jane Lazarre. “Walker is a fine Overlook • 500 pp. • 978-0-87951-605-5 • $19.95 Penguin Canada • 344 pp. • 978-0-14-305044-5 • $18.00 writer, with a finely tuned sense of the intri- cacies of the American race labyrinth.”—San Daniel Schorr Julie Klam Francisco Chronicle. f f COME TO THINK OF IT PLEASE EXCUSE MY DAUGHTER Riverhead • 336 pp. • 978-1-57322-907-4 • $15.00 “In a memoir that is often hilarious, some- Commentaries from National Public times poignant, and always endearing, Julie Radio’s Senior News Analyst Peerless commentary on politics and his- Edmund White Klam lets us in on her deepest secrets and f tory from one of the preeminent reporters MARCEL PROUST: A Life invites us to share in her struggles and tri- A Penguin Lives Biography umphs as a daughter, wife, mother, and of our time. Penguin • 416 pp. • 978-0-14-311447-5 • $16.00 “A tale of twentieth-century literature ‘par writer....An exhilarating debut from a major excellence’ that White makes fun, accessible, new writer, one with an almost-magical and insightful.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer. Sadia Shepard knack for finding comedy in the most “White’s biography of Proust is a paragon of f The Girl from Foreign unlikely places.”—Rich Cohen, author of the genre; an engrossing and delightful Sweet and Low. A Memoir See page 2 piece of work.”—Norah Vincent, author of Riverhead • 272 pp. • 978-1-59448-357-8 • $15.00 Self-Made Man. Penguin • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-311498-7 • $14.00 Now you can E-MAIL your desk copy request to Also available: Swann’s Way 978-0-14-243796-4, In the Penguin Group (USA)’s Academic Marketing Shadow of Young Girls in Flower 978-0-14-303907-5, The Guermantes Way 978-0-14-303922-8, Sodom and Department to save time: academic@penguin. Gomorrah 978-0-14-303931-0 com. Or FAX to: 212-366-2933. f denotes new or forthcoming title JEWISH STUDIES 2009 • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 6 HISTORY HISTORY HANNAH ARENDT

Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM OCCIDENTALISM A Report on the Banality of Evil The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies Introduction by Amos Elon “[A] grandly illuminating study of two centu- Arendt’s report on the trial of Nazi leader ries of anti-Western ideas.”—Foreign Affairs. Adolf Eichmann incudes further material “Succinct, elegant, and challenging...help[s] that came to light after the trial, as well as show that the divide between the West and Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the its enemies is an old one.”—The Economist. controversy that arose over her account. “A Penguin • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-303487-2 • $14.00 profound and documented analysis....Bound to stir our minds and trouble our con- Max Dimont sciences.”—Chicago Tribune. JEWS, GOD, AND HISTORY Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-303988-4 • $16.00 Second Edition EICHMANN AND THE HOLOCAUST “Unquestionably the best popular history of Great Ideas Series the Jews written in the English language.”— Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who Los Angeles Times. “Written for laymen by a helped cause the Holocaust, this radical scholarly layman who has a passion for his work on the banality of evil stunned the theme.”—Max Lerner. “The liveliest popular world with its exploration of a regime’s history of the Jewish people that I have ever moral blindness and one man’s insistence read.”—Richard B. Morris, author of The that he be absolved of all guilt because he ON REVOLUTION Forging of the Union. Index, bibliography, was “only following orders.” Introduction by Jonathan Schell chronologies, notes. Penguin • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-303760-6 • $10.95 Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions NAL • 592 pp. • 978-0-451-20701-2 • $15.95 since the American and French examples, Signet Classics • 592 pp. • 978-0-451-52940-4 • $8.95 BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE Arendt predicts the changing relationship Selected by Rabbi David B. Syme as a 100 Eight Exercises in Political Thought between war and revolution and the crucial Essential Books for Jewish Readers Introduction by Jerome Kohn role such movements will play in the future Arendt’s penetrating observations of the of international relations. Stephen Dorril modern world, based on a profound knowl- Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-303990-7 • $16.00 f Blackshirt edge of the past, constitute a major contri- THE PORTABLE HANNAH ARENDT Sir Oswald Mosley & British Fascism bution to political philosophy. In this book Edited by Peter Baehr Through the use of archive material, Dorril’s she describes the perplexing crises which controversial biography uncovers a bizarre modern society faces as a result of the loss Includes generous selections from her mas- set of characters and behind-the-scenes’ of meaning of the traditional key words of terworks: The Origins of Totalitarianism, The colleagues who supported Mosley—the politics: justice, reason, responsibility, vir- Human Condition, and her controversial leading figure of British Fascism. tue, and glory. Eichmann in Jerusalem. Also featured is a Penguin UK • 736 pp. • 978-0-14-025821-9 • $21.00 Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-310481-0 • $16.00 selection of Arendt’s letters to other forma- tive thinkers of the century, including Karl Jaspers and Mary McCarthy. Raphael S. Ezekiel Penguin • 640 pp. • 978-0-14-243756-8 • $18.00 THE RACIST MIND Portraits of American Neo-Nazis and Klansmen “University of Michigan psychology profes- sor Ezekiel offers solid sociological and psy- Niall Ferguson Ronald Florence chological insights into the character of THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD f Emissary of the Doomed contemporary American hate groups and VOL. 1: Money’s Prophets, 1798–1848 Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust their members.”—Publishers Weekly. “The fabulous history of a legendary family... See page 3 Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-023449-7 • $20.00 told with encyclopedic exactitude....A defini- f Lawrence and Aaronsohn tive work.”—Kirkus. T. E. Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn, Penguin • 688 pp. • 978-0-14-024084-9 • $25.00 and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict National Jewish Book Award finalist “A highly readable and thoroughly enjoy- Join Penguin Group (USA) Inc.’s THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD able aperçu into two extraordinary person- College Faculty Information VOL. 2: The World’s Banker, 1849–1999 alities who played a dramatic role in the Service for personal assistance “Like its predecessor, an exhaustively emergence of modern Israel.”—Howard M. in selecting books for college researched, artfully mounted work of histor- Sachar, George Washington University. courses. See the back of the Penguin • 544 pp. • 978-0-14-311382-9 • $18.00 catalog for more information, ical scholarship.”—BusinessWeek. or go to: www.penguin.com/facinfo Penguin • 576 pp. • 978-0-14-028662-5 • $25.00 A New York Times Notable Book

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Flavius Josephus Peter Mansfield Richard J. Evans THE JEWISH WAR A HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST Revised Edition Second Edition Translated by G. A. Williamson Revised by Nicolas Pelham “Evans published the first volume of his tril- ogy in 2003. Five years and some 2,400 Revised with an Introduction, Notes, and “The best overall survey of the politics, Appendices by E. Mary Smallwood printed pages later, The Third Reich at War regional rivalries, and economics of the con- brings it to a triumphant completion. This is Depicts the Jewish rebellion of A.D. 66, sup- temporary Arab world.”—The Washington both a masterful historical narrative and the plying details of first-century Palestine. Post Book World. “A brilliantly deft and well- most comprehensive account of Nazi Ger- Penguin • 512 pp. • 978-0-14-044420-9 • $17.00 informed guide...coherent, dispassionate many, which will rank alongside Ian Ker- THE FALL OF JERUSALEM and remarkably inclusive.”—The Times Edu- shaw’s Hitler as the first port of call for schol- Penguin Epics Series cational Supplement. B/w maps. ars and general readers alike. It is hard to do Led by Titus, the Roman army besieges Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-303433-9 • $16.00 justice to the humanity and scholarly range Jerusalem. of The Third Reich at War.”—The Times Liter- Penguin • 112 pp. • 978-0-14-102636-7 • $8.95 Amy Dockser Marcus ary Supplement. f Jerusalem 1913 Tony Judt The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict See page 3 f The Third Reich at War f REAPPRAISALS The final volume in Evans’s masterly trilogy Reflections on the Forgotten traces the rise and fall of German military Twentieth Century Joachim Neugroschel, editor and translator might, the mobilization of a “people’s com- Drawing provocative connections between THE SHTETL munity” to serve a war of conquest, and Hit- a range of subjects, from Jewish intellectu- A Creative Anthology of ler’s campaign of racial subjugation and als and the challenge of evil in the recent Jewish Life in Eastern Europe genocide. “A masterpiece of historical schol- European past to the interpretation of the “These stories constitute a lively—and arship....the best and most up-to-date syn- Cold War, Judt shows how our history has sometimes tragic—history of a vanished thesis of the huge work carried out on the been sacrificed in the triumph of myth-mak- civilization.”—Chicago Tribune. subject over the past decades.”—The Times ing over understanding. “Perhaps the great- Overlook • 624 pp. • 978-1-58567-947-8 • $16.95 (London). “This is history in the grand style.... est single collection of thinking on the polit- It is difficult to imagine how it could be ical, diplomatic, social, and cultural history Jaroslav Pelikan improved upon, let alone surpassed.”—The of the past century.”—Forbes. WHOSE BIBLE IS IT? Washington Post. Penguin • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-102636-7 • $18.00 A Short History of the Scriptures Penguin Press • 912 pp. • 978-1-59420-206-3 • $40.00 Also available: Postwar 978-0-14-303775-0 “A crisp, remarkably succinct history of the Bible as preserved, interpreted, translated The Coming of the Third Reich and canonized by the various faiths that “The most comprehensive and convincing Jonathan Kirsch believe in it.”—Los Angeles Times. “An engag- work so far on the fall of Weimar and Hitler’s GOD AGAINST THE GODS ing...readable survey of biblical scholarship rise to power.”—Foreign Affairs. 16 pp. b/w The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism that tells a fascinating and complex story.”— photos, maps. “An accessible and engaging study....Tells us The Wall Street Journal. B/w illus. Penguin • 656 pp. • 978-0-14-303469-8 • $18.00 Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-303677-7 • $15.00 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year a great deal about the religious imagination and its ongoing struggle for meaning and Theologos Award for Best Academic Book The Third Reich in Power value.”—Karen Armstrong. B/w illustrations. The second volume in Cambridge historian Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-219633-5 • $17.00 Jacob A. Riis Evans’s trilogy. “A model of clarity and hOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES intelligence....A rich and detailed descrip- Allan Levine Studies Among the tion of just what the Third Reich did in every SCATTERED AMONG THE PEOPLES Tenements of New York compartment of the state and every corner The Jewish Diaspora in Twelve Portraits Introduction by Luc Sante of society....Evans’s magisterial study should “Highly readable....Levine focuses on 12 Jews Penguin Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-043679-2 • $14.00 be on our shelves for a long time to come.”— who, between the years 1492 and 1967, were The Economist. 16 pp. b/w photos, maps. forced into exile....Insightful, informative.”— Penguin • 960 pp. • 978-0-14-303790-3 • $20.00 Publishers Weekly. 33 b/w illustrations. Overlook • 432 pp. • 978-1-58567-606-4 • $19.95

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Dennis Ross and David Makovsky Adam Tooze Tadeusz Borowski f Myths, Illusions, and Peace f The Wages of Destruction THIS WAY FOR THE GAS, Finding a New Direction for The Making and Breaking LADIES AND GENTLEMEN America in the Middle East of the Nazi Economy Translated by Barbara Vedder Two widely respected experts debunk dan- “One of the most important and original Introduction by Jan Kott gerous myths—such as the notion that books to be published about the Third Reich Published in Poland after World War II, Israeli-Palestinian peace is the key to the in the past twenty years. A tour de force.”— Borowski’s collection of concentration camp region—to help chart a more constructive Niall Ferguson, author of The War of the stories show atrocious crimes become a path of American engagement. World. “The leading account of the eco- part of a daily routine. Viking • 320 pp. • 978-0-670-02089-8 • $27.95 nomic history of Nazi Germany in any lan- Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-018624-6 • $14.00 guage, including German.”—Richard J. David K. Shipler Evans, The New York Review of Books. 16 pp. Helen Epstein ARAB AND JEW b/w photo insert. CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land Penguin • 832 pp. • 978-0-14-311320-1 • $20.00 Conversations with Revised Edition An Economist Book of the Year Sons and Daughters of Survivors “A book that finally explains the conflict in “An enormous achievement, heart-wrench- human terms.”—The Christian Science Monitor. ing and unforgettable.”—Chicago Tribune. Penguin • 608 pp. • 978-0-14-200229-2 • $17.00 Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-011284-9 • $18.00 Pulitzer Prize winner HOLOCAUST Jan T. Gross Avi Shlaim STUDIES NEIGHBORS: The Destruction of the WAR AND PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland A Critique of American Policy “An important contribution to the literature “Breathtaking in its scope and historical pre- of human bestiality unleashed by war.” cision, this is a highly recommended vol- Inge Auerbacher —The New York Times Book Review. “A truly ume for both public and academic I AM A STAR pathbreaking book, the work of a master libraries.”—Library Journal. Child of the Holocaust historian.”—Tony Judt, author of Postwar. Penguin • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-024564-6 • $14.00 “The author’s perspective, while chilling, Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-200240-7 • $15.00 pierces the heart with memorable National Book Award finalist Benedict de Spinoza imagery.”—Publishers Weekly. “Deeply mov- ETHICS ing and true.”—Bruno Bettelheim. Jeff Gusky Translated by Edwin Curley Puffin Children’s • 87 pp. • 978-0-14-036401-9 • $5.99 SILENT PLACES Introduction by Stuart Hampshire A collection of photographs from the Spinoza’s greatest work—a fully cohesive Sara Tuvel Bernstein author’s travels through Poland—beyond philosophical system that strives to provide THE SEAMSTRESS the ghettos and concentration camps, into a coherent picture of reality and to compre- A Memoir of Survival remote villages where Jews had lived for hend the meaning of an ethical life. “The Introduction by Edgar M. Bronfman almost 1,000 years before the Holocaust. noblest and most lovable of the great “A striking Holocaust memoir, posthu- Overlook • 180 pp. • 978-1-58567-516-6 • $35.00 philosophers.”—Bertrand Russell. mously published, by a Romanian Jew with Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-043571-9 • $14.00 an unusual story.”—Kirkus. “An engrossing Mark Kurzem history lesson as well as an important f The Mascot Robin Wright archive.”—Faye Kellerman. Unraveling the Mystery of f Dreams and Shadows Berkley • 324 pp. • 978-0-425-16630-7 • $14.95 My Jewish Father’s Nazi Boyhood The Future of the Middle East The author relates the improbable story of See page 2 his father—adopted as a five-year-old Jew- ish boy by a Latvian SS unit, which made him their mascot and toted him from mas- www.penguinspeakersbureau.com Go to us.penguingroup.com/newsletters to sacre to massacre—and his struggle to sur- For all inquiries, including speakers’ fees sign up for the Penguin Classics Newsletter, vive and then come to terms with his past. and availability, email to get all the latest information on new 30 b/w illustrations. [email protected] books for your courses. Plume • 432 pp. • 978-0452-28994-9 • $16.00

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Anonymous f HUMBOLDT’S GIFT THE GREEK ALEXANDER ROMANCE New Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides Translated by Richard Stoneman Penguin Classics • 512 pp. • 978-0-14-310547-3 • $16.00 If the Hebrew tradition saw him as a preacher Pulitzer Prize winner and prophet, to the Persians he was alter- f THE ACTUAL: A Novella nately a true king and an arch-Satan, while New Introduction by Joseph O’Neill in modern Greece he is revered more as a A tragicomic novel about the tenacity of first wise man than as a conqueror. All these dis- love. “A mature distillation of Mr. Bellow’s parate traditions share roots in this classic. work...a gem.”—The New York Times. Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-044560-2 • $14.00 Replaces 978-0-14-027499-8. Penguin Classics • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-310584-8 • $13.00 Pearl Abraham Available December 2009 THE ROMANCE READER THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH “Immensely charming and original...sheds New Introduction by Christopher Hitchens light on two intriguing mysteries: life within “The Adventures of Augie March is the Great an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and American Novel.”—Martin Amis. the bittersweet passage through female Penguin Classics • 608 pp. • 978-0-14-303957-0 • $16.00 adolescence.”—Newsday. “This surreptitious National Book Award winner reader of romance novels breaks the rules of her Hasidic parents with her visits to librar- DANGLING MAN mOSBY’S MEMOIRS ies and growing independence of mind... Introduction by J. M. Coetzee and Other Stories provides a great introduction to the Ortho- Bellow’s first novel. Also includes: “Leaving the Yellow House,” “The dox Jewish culture.”—Booklist. Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-303987-7 • $14.00 Old System,” “Looking for Mr. Green,” “The Gon- Riverhead • 296 pp. • 978-1-57322-548-9 • $16.00 THE DEAN’S DECEMBER zaga Manuscripts,” and “A Father-to-Be.” The dean of a Chicago college is unprepared Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-018945-2 • $15.00 Warren Adler for the violent response to his exposé of city mR. SAMMLER’S PLANET f FUNNY BOYS corruption, and retreats to Bucharest only Introduction by Stanley Crouch The author of The War of the Roses conjures to find more corruption in the communist Bellow received his unprecedented third the New York of his childhood in a dark com- capital. National Book Award for this tale of a Holo- edy of errors about success, the mob, and Penguin Classics • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-018913-1 • $15.00 caust survivor in 1960s New York City. true love. hENDERSON THE RAIN KING Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-243783-4 • $16.00 Overlook • 352 pp. • 978-1-59020-034-6 • $24.95 A middle-aged American millionaire seek- National Book Award winner ing a more rewarding life, descends upon an RAVELSTEIN Sholem Aleichem African tribe in a highly imaginary Africa. “A cause for celebration...Ravelstein is rich, f Wandering Stars “Bellow’s aura of fable is constantly washed See page 3 deep, and unnervingly entertaining.”—The over by humor, impulsive creation, and New York Times Book Review. f Tevye the Dairyman actual, turbulent detail.”—The Nation. Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-100176-0 • $15.00 and Motl the Cantor’s son Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-018942-1 • $15.00 See page 3 SEIZE THE DAY hERZOG Introduction by Cynthia Ozick Maggie Anton Introduction by Philip Roth Penguin Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-243761-2 • $14.00 “Novel writing in the grand style of a f Rashi’s Daughters TO JERUSALEM AND BACK Tolstoy.”—Chicago Tribune. Book 1: Joheved A Personal Account The first book in a trilogy set in 11th-century Penguin Classics • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-243729-2 • $15.00 Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-118075-5 • $13.95 France that imagines the lives of three National Book Award winner THE VICTIM daughters of the great Talmud scholar. hIM WITH HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH Penguin Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-018938-4 • $16.00 “Impressive work...an absorbing, detailed and Other Stories account.”—Jewish Journal. “The five stories honor and augment Bellow’s COLLECTED STORIES Plume • 384 pp. • 978-0-452-28862-1 • $15.00 genius.”—The New York Times Book Review. Introduction by James Wood Preface by Janis Bellow f Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-118023-6 • $16.00 Rashi’s Daughters Bellow’s shorter works are collected for the IT ALL ADDS UP Book 2: Miriam first time in one volume. From the Dim Past to “The reader plunges into the world of medi- Penguin • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-200164-6 • $17.00 eval Ashkenazic tradition, truly becoming a the Uncertain Future student of the great Salomon ben Isaac.”— Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-023365-0 • $17.00 NOVELS 1944–1953 Sylvie Weil, Hunter College, CUNY. mORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK Includes Bellow’s first three novels: Dan- Plume • 496 pp. • 978-0-452-28863-8 • $15.00 Introduction by Martin Amis gling Man, The Victim, and The Adventures of Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-243774-2 • $14.00 Augie March. Library of America • 1,029 pp. • 978-1-931082-38-9 • $35.00

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Isaac Babel Esther David Michal Govrin RED CAVALRY AND OTHER STORIES BOOK OF ESTHER f Snapshots Edited with Notes by Efraim Sicher Loosely based on her own life and family, When Ilana Tsuriel—a brilliant Israeli intel- Translated with an Esther wrote a book that casts a fresh per- lectual and architect, wife of a prominent Introduction by David McDuff spective on the Jewish experience in India as Holocaust scholar, and daughter of a leg- Masterly short fiction from the early Soviet it chronicles the fortunes of a gifted family. endary founding Zionist—dies in a car acci- period, based on the complete, original text Penguin • 416 pp. • 978-0-670-04909-7 • $9.99 dent, it’s up to her estranged husband, Alain, taken from an unexpurgated Russian edi- to piece together the puzzle of the woman tion. “Marvelously subtle, tragic, and often Daniel Deronda he thought he knew from the documents comic.”—The New Republic. GEORGE ELIOT she left behind. “The work of a great Penguin Classics • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-044997-6 • $16.00 Edited with an Introduction novelist...a literary master plan for Israel’s and Notes by Terence Cave multiple generations....[A] brave and com- C. N. Bialik A bold and richly textured picture of British plex work.”—David Shapiro. “Absorbing and SELECTED POEMS society and the Jewish experience within it. affecting.”—The San Francisco Chronicle. Edited and translated by David Aberbach Penguin Classics • 896 pp. • 978-0-14-043427-9 • $11.00 Riverhead • 384 pp. • 978-1-59448-334-9 • $16.00 Translations stand beside the author’s origi- Israel’s AKUM prize for the Book of the Year nal Hebrew. The selection includes an extract E. L. Doctorow from “In the City of Slaughter”—the poem CITY OF GOD Arnon Grunberg f that made Bialik famous when it appeared in “An irresistible masterwork...a magically The Jewish Messiah 1903 as one of a series of “poems of wrath”— imaginative, unpredictable novel that is Translated by Sam Garrett as well as a number of his folk poems which lushly rooted in moral philosophy and his- “Grunberg rejects self-serving existential- have frequently been set to music. tory. And for all that, it is a careening, rollick- ism, confronts real-world torture, genocide, Overlook • 184 pp. • 978-1-58567-627-9 • $17.95 ing delight.”—Baltimore Sun. terrorism, and personal crimes of the heart, Plume • 288 pp. • 978-0-452-28209-4 • $15.00 and he infuses his visceral, wily satire with Geraldine Brooks • Teacher’s guide available at biblical fury.”—Los Angeles Times. f www.penguin.com/academic Penguin • 480 pp. • 978-0-14-311497-0 • $16.00 People of the Book Also available: Billy Bathgate 978-0-452-28002-1, A “complex and moving” (The New Yorker) Ragtime 978-0-452-2790-0 novel that follows the famed Sarajevo Hag- Aleksandar Hemon f gadah—a beautifully illuminated Hebrew Amram Ducovny THE LAZARUS PROJECT manuscript created in fifteenth-century— CONEY A young Eastern European immigrant through centuries of exile and war. “Intelli- “A perfectly realized setting: Coney Island in becomes obsessed with the murder a cen- gent, thoughtful, gracefully written and 1939, a heady mix of immigrants, carnival tury ago of a young Eastern European Jew- original.”—The Washington Post. freaks, and gangsters.”—Booklist. ish immigrant. “A masterful new novel... Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-311500-7 • $15.00 Overlook • 320 pp. • 978-1-58567-199-1 • $15.95 Hemon is as much a writer of the senses as A Library Journal Best Adult Book for Teens; a of the intellect.”—The Washington Post Book New England Book Award Review. “Unpacks 100 years’ worth of Eva Etzioni-Halevy immigrant disillusion, displacement and f The Triumph of Deborah Abraham Cahan desperation.”—Publishers Weekly (starred). The richly imagined tale of Deborah, the THE RISE OF DAVID LEVINSKY Riverhead • 304 pp. • 978-1-59448-375-2 • $16.00 courageous Biblical warrior who saved her Edited with an Introduction National Book Award Finalist people from certain destruction. by Jules Chametzky A New York Times Notable Book Plume • 352 pp. • 978-0-452-28906-2 • $14.00 Also available: Love and Obstacles 978-1-59448-864-1 “The most important of all immigrant Also available: The Song of Hannah 978-0-452-28672-6, novels.”—Carl Van Doren. The Garden of Ruth 978-0-452-28673-3 Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-018687-1 • $17.00

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ALL MY SONS FOCUS Introduction by Christopher Bigsby Written in 1945, Miller’s first novel was one Miller’s first major play, winner of the Drama of the first books to directly confront Ameri- Critics’ Award for Best New Play in 1947, can anti-Semitism. “A strong, sincere book established Miller as a leading voice in the bursting with indignation.”—The New York American theater and introduced themes Times Book Review. that would thread though Miller’s work as a Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-200042-7 • $15.00 whole: the relationships between fathers hOMELY GIRL, A LIFE and sons and the conflict between business and Other Stories and personal ethics. Also includes two early Miller stories— Penguin Classics • 96 pp. • 978-0-14-118546-0 • $12.00 “Fame” and “Fitter’s Night.” “Chekhovian... AFTER THE FALL deserves praising to the top of the highest Penguin Plays • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-048162-4 • $12.00 skyscraper for its humanity, wit, depth.”—A. BROKEN GLASS N. Wilson. Set in New York in the late 1930s, this short Penguin • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-025279-8 • $12.00 play of sexual and political awakening por- INCIDENT AT VICHY trays the toll that social injustice takes on an Penguin Plays • 80 pp. • 978-0-14-048193-8 • $12.00 individual. THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK Penguin Plays • 162 pp. • 978-0-14-024938-5 • $12.00 Introduction by Christopher Bigsby THE CRUCIBLE The forgotten classic that launched Miller’s Introduction by Christopher Bigsby career. “The sound of a new and singular Miller’s classic 1953 drama about the witch dramatic voice swelling with ambition.”— hunts and trial in 17th-century Salem is a Ben Brantley. searing portrait of a community engulfed Penguin Classics • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-243786-5 • $11.00 by hysteria. mR. PETERS’ CONNECTIONS A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Penguin Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-243733-9 • $13.00 Within the confines of his mind, Mr. Peters Penguin Plays • 98 pp. • 978-0-14-048135-8 • $12.00 Penguin Plays • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-048138-9 • $13.00 • Teacher’s guide available at interacts with the living members of his COLLECTED PLAYS 1944–1961 www.penguin.com/academic family, his long-deceased brother and lover, Edited by Tony Kushner Viking Critical Library Series and a black bag lady, who is one of Miller’s On the anniversary of his death, the first vol- Edited by Gerald Weales most original characters. Uncoiling with life- ume in the most complete collection of Penguin • 512 pp. 978-0-14-024772-5 • $20.00 affirming intensity, this is “a work of rare Arthur Miller’s plays ever published. honesty and dignity”(New York Daily News). Includes: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, DEATH OF A SALESMAN Penguin Plays • 64 pp. • 978-0-14-048245-4 • $12.00 Certain Private Conversations The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, The Man in Two Acts and a Requiem THE PRICE Who Had All the Luck, three other plays, as Edited and with an Introduction by Penguin Plays • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-048194-5 • $12.00 well The Misfits, based on the screenplay Christopher Bigsby RESURRECTION BLUES Miller wrote for his wife, Marilyn Monroe. Penguin Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-118097-7 • $13.00 Miller’s last work is a darkly comic satirical “Scene after scene, these are perhaps our Penguin Plays • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-048134-1 • $13.00 allegory that poses the question: What best plays, works of a master.”—Tony • Teacher’s guide available at Kushner. www.penguin.com/academic would happen if Christ were to appear in the world today? “A funny, pertinent and Library of America • 864 pp. • 978-1-931082-91-4 • $35.00 Viking Critical Library Series sharp-toothed satire aimed at the material- Edited by Gerald Weales THE PORTABLE ARTHUR MILLER ist maladies of modern America.”—The Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-024773-2 • $18.00 Revised Edition Guardian (London). Edited by Christopher Bigsby ECHOES DOWN THE CORRIDOR Penguin Plays • 80 pp. • 978-0-14-303548-0 • $11.00 Introduction by Harold Clurman Collected Essays: 1944–2000 THE RIDE DOWN MOUNT MORGAN The masterpieces The Crucible and Death of Edited by Steven R. Centola “Any new play by Arthur Miller is an impor- a Salesman in full, plus complete texts of “A fascinating collection that reminds us tant event in American culture. One as the- four other plays, After the Fall, The American that Miller’s chief concern and great subject atrically bold and intellectually subtle as The Clock, The Last Yankee, and Broken Glass, as has always been the citizen in his world.”— Ride Down Mount Morgan is reason to shout well as excerpts from his memoir, Los Angeles Times. for joy.”—Time. Timebends. Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-200005-2 • $18.00 Penguin Plays • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-048244-7 • $12.00 Penguin Classics • 624 pp. • 978-0-14-243755-1 • $18.00

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Charles T. Powers Yaakov Shabtai IN THE MEMORY OF THE FOREST AMERICAN POETS PAST CONTINUOUS Explores the impact of a murder on a com- Translated by Dalya Bilu munity, and of history and the fate of Jews PROJECT A panorama of the lives of three men, their in Poland during World War II. “Full of unfor- families, their lovers, and their friends in the gettable characters, guilt, passion, racism, from the Library of America quintessentially modern city of Tel Aviv. war, and especially remembrance.”—Chi- Overlook • 389 pp. • 978-1-58567-339-1 • $16.95 cago Tribune. LOUIS ZUKOFSKY: SELECTED POEMS Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-027281-9 • $16.00 William Shakespeare Edited by Charles Bernstein THE MERCHANT OF VENICE 200 pp. • 978-1-931082-95-2 • $20.00 Hans Peter Richter Edited by Stephen Orgel FRIEDRICH EMMA LAZARUS: SELECTED POEMS and A. R. Braunmuller Translated by Edite Kroll Edited by John Hollander Introduction by A. R. Braunmuller This novel of a Jewish boy in Germany dur- 176 pp. • 978-1-931082-77-8 • $20.00 “Here is an elegant and clear text for either ing the 1930s is “superb, sensitive, honest, SAMUEL MENASHE: the study or the rehearsal room, notes and compelling” (The New York Times). NEW AND SELECTED POEMS where you need them and the distinguished Puffin Children’s • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-032205-7 • $5.99 Edited by Christopher Ricks scholarship of the general editors.”—Patrick 200 pp. • 978-1-931082-85-3 • $20.00 Stewart. Bruno Schulz KARL SHAPIRO: SELECTED POEMS Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-071462-3 • $6.00 Signet Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-451-52680-9 • $4.95 f THE STREET OF CROCODILES Edited by John Updike and Other Stories 225 pp. • 978-1-931082-34-1 • $20.00 Foreword by Jonathan Safran Foer Neil Simon Introduction by David Goldfarb For more information and THE COLLECTED PLAYS, Volume 1 Translated by Celina Wieniewska additional titles, please visit: Introduction by the author “A collection of his early stories, magically WWW.AMERICANPOETSPROJECT.ORG. Includes The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Bare- transmogrifies life in a small town.”—Los foot in the Park, Come Blow Your Horn, The Angeles Times. Star Spangled Girl, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-310514-5 • $15.00 Sir Walter Scott and Promises, Promises. f IVANHOE Plume • 672 pp. • 978-0-452-25870-9 • $25.00 Introduction by Jerzy Ficowski New Foreword by Regina Marler THE COLLECTED PLAYS, Volume 2 Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-018625-3 • $14.00 Afterword by Sharon Kay Penman Introduction by the author Set in a romanticized medieval world of Includes Little Me, The Gingerbread Lady, The André Schwarz-Bart sieges, chivalry and adventure where dis- Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, THE LAST OF THE JUST possessed Saxons are pitted against their The Good Doctor, God’s Favorite, California Translated by Stephen Becker Norman overlords. Chronology, bibliogra- Suite, and Chapter Two. Considered by many the single greatest phy and glossary. Plume • 752 pp. • 978-0-452-26358-1 • $26.00 novel of the Holocaust. “Though it is stark Signet Classics • 528 pp. • 978-0-451-53136-0 • $5.95 LOST IN YONKERS tragedy on an epic scale, it is told with subtle Available September 2009 Winner of four Tony Awards, including best and warm understanding for the foibles of play and the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. mankind and for the irony and humor of Edited with an Introduction Plume • 128 pp. • 978-0-452-26883-8 • $12.00 man’s way in this strange world.”—William L. by Graham Tulloch Shirer. Penguin Classics • 544 pp. • 978-0-14-043658-7 • $10.00 BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS Overlook • 374 pp. • 978-1-58567-016-1 • $15.95 Plume • 156 pp. • 978-0-452-27528-7 • $13.00

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