Nava Semel: 4 books

This novel is inspired by a true historical event. Before Theodore Herzl there was Mordecai Manuel Noah, an American journalist, diplomat, playwright, and visionary. In September 1825 he bought Grand Island, downriver from Niagara Falls, from the local Native Americans as a place of refuge for the Jewish...

Seen through the eyes of an illiterate twelve-year-old boy, Nava Semel's moving, at times lyrical fiction explores life in the Palestine of the 1930s - a world where a young Jew is prepared to undertake multiple marriages to threatened East European women for patriotic reasons alone; where a boy's...

1999 bemüht sich eine israelische Schülerin, Hausaufgaben zu machen. Sie soll ihre Großmutter über deren Kriegserlebnisse in Polen befragen und darüber einen Aufsatz schreiben. Die Großmutter nimmt Zuflucht zu einer Legende: Die Ratte wünschte sich vom Schöpfer die Gabe des Lachens. Er gab...

On the last day of 1999, a survivor grandmother in Tel Aviv shares with her granddaughter her tragic life story as a child hidden in a pit, with only a rat for company. The granddaughter tells the legend of ''Girl and Rat'' to her teacher; in 2009 those who heard it through her classmates establish an...