Marek Halter, Author , trans. from the French by Howard Curtis. Crown $24 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4000-5272-1
Yet another entry in the burgeoning subgenre of fictional portraits of biblical women (see, for example, Rebecca Kohn's retelling of the story of Queen Esther in The Gilded Chamber
, Forecasts, Mar. 15), Halter's novel (the first in a...
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Marek Halter, Author , trans. from the French by Howard Curtis. Crown $23 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4000-5279-0
In his enjoyable but uneven second installment in the Canaan trilogy (Sarah
), Halter takes his cue from the biblical story of Moses to imagine the life of Moses's little-known wife. In Midian, the pride of High Priest Jethro is his lovely and...
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Marek Halter, Author . Crown $24 (258p) ISBN 978-1-4000-5281-3
In his final installment of the Canaan Trilogy (Sarah
; Zipporah
), Halter ambitiously tackles portions of the complicated biblical book of Ezra, which centers on the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple and calls Israel to ethnic and religious purity.
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Marek Halter, Rizzoli, $49.95 (224p) ISBN 978-2-08-030155-0
Storytelling saved Halter's life. In this in-depth chronicle of the origins of Jewish faith and history the author begins with a personal anecdote about fleeing the Warsaw ghetto with his father and mother, who was pregnant at the time. She gave...
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Marek Halter, Author, Michael Bernard, Translator Open Court Publishing Company $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8126-9364-5
Halter (The Memory of Abraham) is a Holocaust survivor, born in Warsaw, who escaped with his family to France during the war. In this uplifting but unevenly translated memoir, he describes his search for those he calls the ""just,"" people who...
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Marek Halter, Author, Lauren Yoder, Translator . Toby $24.95 (487p) ISBN 978-1-59264-216-8
In 1524, David Reubeni—a real-life prince and military envoy of a lost Jewish kingdom—traveled to Venice aiming to establish a Judeo-Christian alliance that would seize Jerusalem from Ottoman control. In Halter's remarkable...
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Marek Halter, Author, Lowell Bair, Translator Arcade Publishing $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55970-001-6
A small child when he and his parents were rescued from the Warsaw ghetto by a Polish printer, Halter, author of The Book of Abraham , became a highly regarded Paris-based artist. This vivid autobiography, describing his experiences as an exiled Jew
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