These stories, deeply rooted in Jewish life and consciousness, reflect authentic, often funny, images of Jewish people in the modern world. Many literary figures are featured including I.L. Peretz, S.Y. Agnon, Saul Bellow, Isaac Badel and Muriel Spar...
Peter is still a senior intelligence officer in the Cheka, now renamed the NKVD, and had just been awarded the Order of Lenin for his years of successful service. He still believes that the execution of former comrades for their Trotskyist connection...
Coming back was worse, much worse, than Martin Stone had anticipated.
Martin Stone returns to the city from which his family was driven in 1938. He has concealed his destination from his father, and hopes to win some form of restitution for...