Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Secret Anniversaries of the Heart New and Selected Stories by Lev Raphael by Lev Raphael Secret Anniversaries of the Heart: New and Selected Stories by Lev Raphael by Lev Raphael. Our systems have detected unusual traffic activity from your network. Please complete this reCAPTCHA to demonstrate that it's you making the requests and not a robot. If you are having trouble seeing or completing this challenge, this page may help. If you continue to experience issues, you can contact JSTOR support. Block Reference: #067e2100-cf98-11eb-85de-090cfc0621e8 VID: #(null) IP: 116.202.236.252 Date and time: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 18:15:41 GMT. Secret Anniversaries of the Heart: New and Selected Stories by Lev Raphael by Lev Raphael. January 22, 1999. Lev Raphael is the author of seventeen books published in nearly a dozen languages, including two novels about survivors, Winter Eyes and The German Money , and a collection of Jewish memoirs and essays, Journeys & Arrivals. His most recent collection of stories, Secret Anniversaries of the Heart , was released in 2006, as well as Writing a Jewish Life: Memoirs . Raphael's fiction has been widely anthologized in the U.S. and Britain, most recently in the anthology Criminal Kabbalah , which contains Lev's latest story featuring a child of survivors: " Your Papers, Please ." "Lev Raphael's stories are as thrilling as his thrillers, but for an entirely different set of reasons: the psychological perspicacity, good humor and deep empathy with which he approaches all the secret anniversaries of the heart—his lovely title—that make up his characters' wonderfully flawed humanity." -Jonathan Wilson, author of A Palestine Affair. For more information on Lev Raphael, please visit his website: http://www.levraphael.com. To view Special Collections' holdings of Raphael's work, please click here. To hear Raphael read from his own work, please visit the Vincent Voice Library. May 1, 2018 Update: Lev Raphael is the author of twenty-five books. If you encounter accessibility issues with items on this page, please contact our remediation service. Secret Anniversaries of the Heart. When Lev Raphael published the controversial story collection Dancing on Tisha B'av , he broke new ground in the publishing world. Never before in one book had an American writer dealt with the conflicts between homosexuality and traditional Judaism, linked the chilling mind diseases of antisemitism and homophobia, and borne witness not only to the legacy of Holocaust survivors but the suffering and conflicts of their children. Winner of the prestigious Lambda Literary Award, Raphael opened the door to a new kind of American Jewish fiction. Secret Anniversaries of the Heart unites the best stories from Dancing on Tisha B'av with 12 new stories, including one never before published. Here we encounter tales of antisemitism on the college campus, of self-hatred and body obsession, and of survivor parents whose only response to the Holocaust is to isolate themselves, unconsciously committing a kind of emotional suicide. In a collection that encompasses over 25 years of his award-winning stories, Lev Raphael proves himself a visionary like James Baldwin and shares Anita Brookner's gift for dramatizing the pain of seemingly quiet lives in stories that are both passionate and precise. Genre: Literary Fiction. Lev Raphael. Years ago Nick Hoffman was given a position in the English Department at the State University of Michigan because SUM wanted to hire his partner as writer-in-residence, but now he's been unexpectedly installed by his dean as chairman of that departme. State University of Murder. Still reeling from having escaped a mass shooting on campus, English professor Nick Hoffman finds himself on the receiving end of confessions by one colleague after another. All of them have good reason to hate the new department chair, Dr. Napoleon . Assault with a Deadly Lie. The Vampyre of Gotham. Pride and Prejudice: The Jewess and the Gentile. Get Ready for Pride and Prejudice with Brisket!In this subtle mash-up, Lizzy Bennet's been transformed into an Anglo-Jew with a Jewish mother, some Jewish attitude, and lots to say about Mr. Darcy. And he's got some some serious attitude problems of. Rosedale In Love. Gilded Age New York as You've Never Seen ItIn the glittering world of money-mad 1905 New York City, Jewish financier Simon Rosedale plans to force his way into high society through marriage and has his eye on Lily Bart. One of the most beautiful wome. Hot Rocks. When writing professor Nick Hoffman finds the corpse of a health club's head trainer in the steam room after a workout, he is determined to find the culprit, and he finds there is no shortage of suspects. Secret Anniversaries of the Heart. “The power of Raphael’s stories comes from his passion for telling the truth, however painful.”—Hadassah Magazine“His characters are voices of reason, observers rather than judges. The prose is poetic, the sex scenes sweat with passion.”�. Tropic of Murder. The German Money. "Lev Raphael is a daring writer—one who will not be -restrained by genre, but who tells his story with all the tools at his command. The German Money combines all of Raphael’s estimable talents, delivering an emotional thriller about a totally be. Burning Down the House. As his professional life brims with turmoil and departmental warfare, Nick Hoffman finds his personal life turning chaotic as well when he and Juno Dromgoole, the woman he is powerfully attracted to, become the victims of a malicious harrassment camp. Little Miss Evil. Rage erupts when an academic superstar arrives at the State University of Michigan with all the force of Dorothy's house landing on the Wicked Witch. There's nothing but turmoil now in SUM's troubled English Department, and professor Nick Hoffman on. The Death of a Constant Lover. He'd been warned to avoid trouble: Nick Hoffman's outspoken attitude and reputation for being in the wrong place at the wrong time had placed his career in jeopardy. But what trouble could be caused by eating lunch?It was his partner Stefan's idea th. The Edith Wharton Murders. An academic conference on Edith Wharton is already in trouble due to warring Wharton factions when the murder of lesbian writer Chloe DeVore makes things even more complicated, and gay professor Nick Hoffman must discover who killed her before everyt. Let's Get Criminal. A tale of intrigue in academia involving homosexuals. It begins when a new man arrives at a university and obtains tenure despite lack of qualifications. When he is murdered, suspicion falls on a writer-in-residence on whom the man once did the dirty. Winter Eyes. A haunting and remarkable novel, Winter Eyes is a tale of family secrets, silence, relevation-and the hope for healing and change. A spell-binding achievement, Winter Eyes richly fulfills the promise Booklist saw when it hailed Dancing on Tisha B'av . Secret Anniversaries of the Heart: New and Selected Stories by Lev Raphael by Lev Raphael. Secret Anniversaries of the Heart. New and Selected Stories by Lev Raphael. Twenty five years of stories by the writer who redefined American Jewish identity for an entire generation. "Offering heart felt evocations of Jewish and gay identity, this collection is a bittersweet rendering of a complex culture. Raphael is expert at conveying tension. Conflating graphic sex scenes with Holocaust memories and epiphanies of self-discovery, Raphael writes from a highly distinctive perspective: a compassionate celebrant of souls squeezed by mainstream pressures and fighting for pride. Concerned ultimately with the struggle for love both human and divine, these are searing stories." "Lev Raphael's moving collection of stories speaks eloquently to the richness and variety of his concerns: faith, family, history, sexuality, what it means to be a Jew, what it means to be a man. He is a bold writer with a tender heart." —Elizabeth Benedict, Author of The Practice of Deceit, Almost, and The Joy of Writing Sex. “Lev Raphael's stories are as thrilling as his thrillers, but for an entirely different set of reasons: the psychological perspicacity, good humor and deep empathy with which he approaches all the secret anniversaries of the heart—his lovely title—that make up his characters' wonderfully flawed humanity.” — Jonathan Wilson, Author of An Ambulance is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble and A Palestine Affair. "Lev Raphael takes us into uncharted literary territory where Jewish identity, traumatic history and homosexuality collide and sometimes resolve in surprising ways. His stories, set in college dorms and family living rooms, enlarge and enliven the scope of American fiction." —Helen Epstein, Author of Children of the Holocaust. “The power of Raphael’s stories comes from his passion for telling the truth, however painful.” When Lev Raphael published the controversial story collection Dancing on Tisha B’Av , he broke new ground in the publishing world. Never before in one book had an American writer dealt with the conflicts between homosexuality and traditional Judaism, linked the chilling mind diseases of anti-semitism and homophobia, and also borne witness not only to the legacy of Holocaust survivors but the suffering and conflicts of their children. Winner of the prestigious Lambda Literary Award, Raphael opened the door to a new kind of American Jewish fiction. Secret Anniversaries of the Heart unites the best stories from Dancing on Tisha B’Av with twelve new stories including one never before published. Here we encounter tales of anti-semitism on the college campus, of self-hatred and body obsession, and of survivor parents whose only response to the Holocaust is to isolate themselves, unconsciously committing a kind of emotional suicide. In a collection that encompasses over twenty five years of his award winning stories, Lev Raphael proves himself a visionary like James Baldwin, and shares Anita Brookner's gift for dramatizing the pain of seemingly quiet lives in stories that are both passionate and precise. “His characters are voices of reason, observers rather than judges. The prose is poetic, the sex scenes sweat with passion.” -- The Los Angeles Times. Fiction / Short Stories $15.95 Paperback Original ISBN: 0-9728984-7-6 300 Pages / 6 x 9 January 31, 2006.