The first novel of the Faces of Terror Trilogy is set around the Siege of Sidney Street and the fermenting anarchism of East London. The novel describes youth seduced by revolution through the characters Peter the Painter and Lydia Alexandrova, a young aristocrat who rebels against her class.
Recalls the author's working-class Jewish childhood in the East End of London. This book describes the overcrowded tenements of Brick Lane and Whitechapel, the smell of pickled herring and onion bread, the rattle of sewing machines and chatter in Yiddish. It also relates stories of his parents, who fled from Russia in 1914.
First published in 1960, THE LOST EUROPEANS is British author Emanuel Litvinoff's story of an inverse pilgrimage: that of a Jewish man to a resurgent, post-war Berlin.
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 Spark.Contents: The Golem ; Bontsha the silent / I.L. Peretz --Hodel / Sholom Aleichem --White Chalah ; Smoke / Lamed Shapiro --The recluse / Abraham Reisen --Friendship ; First kiss / S.Y. Agnon --The story of my dovecot ; The journey / Isaac Babel --A friend of Kafka / Isaac Bashevis Singer --Fanya / Emanuel Litvinoff --Badenheim 1939 / Aharon Appelfeld --The Zulu and the Zeide / Dan Jacobson --The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth --The old system / Saul Bellow --The pagan Rabbi / Cunthis Ozick --Setting the world to rights / Amos Oz --Man in the drawer / Bernard Malamud --The gentile Jewesses / Muriel Spark.