Joshua Cohen

Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but not an historian of the Jews - is coopted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics - 'An Account of A Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family' that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.

The Netanyahus

Hired by a dying tech company tycoon to ghostwrite his memoirs, failed novelist Josh Cohen learns the history of the man's profoundly influential company before being initiated into the high-stakes truth behind the autobiography project. Illustrations.

Book of Numbers

High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new student joins the football team and forms an unlikely friendship with Danny.

Leverage

The year is 2015, and 21-year-olds Yoav and Uri have just completed their compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces. In keeping with national tradition, they take a year off for rest, recovery, and travel. They come to New York City and begin working for Yoav's distant cousin, David King-a proud American patriot, Republican, and Jew, and the recently divorced proprietor of King's Moving Inc., a heavyweight in the Tri-State area's moving and storage industries. Yoav and Urinow must struggle to become reacquainted with civilian life, but it's not easy to move beyond their traumatic pasts when their days are spent kicking down doors, working as eviction-movers in the ungentrified corners of the Bronx, Brooklyn,and Queens, throwing out delinquent tenants and seizing their possessions. And what starts off as a profitable if eerily familiar job-'an Occupation'-quickly turns violent, when they encounter one homeowner seeking revenge.

Moving Kings

Dispatches from a Land of Distraction

ATTENTION

One of the great comic epics of our time: the Last Jewish Novel about the Last Jew in the World. On Christmas Eve 1999, all the Jews in the world die in a strange, millennial plague, with the exception of the firstborn males, who are soon adopted by a cabal of powerful people in the American government. By the following Passover, however, only one is still alive: Benjamin Israelien; a kindly, innocent, ignorant man-child. As he finds himself transformed into an international superstar, Jewishness becomes all the rage: matzo-ball soup is in every bowl, sidelocks are hip; and the only truly Jewish Jew left is increasingly stigmatized for not being religious. Since his very existence exposes the illegitimacy of the newly converted, Israelien becomes the object of a worldwide hunt . . . Meanwhile, in the not-too-distant future of our own, “real” world, another last Jew—the last living Holocaust survivor—sits alone in a snowbound Manhattan, providing a final melancholy witness to his experiences in the form of the punch lines to half-remembered jokes.

Witz (American Literature Series)

Il libro dei numeri

Fiction. Illustrated by Michael Hafftka. Being the True Account of a Jewish Boy Jonathan Schwarzstein of Tchernichovsky Street, Jerusalem and his Post-Mortem Adventures in & Reflections on the Muslim Heaven: as Said to Me and Said through Meby an Angel of the One True God Revealed to Me at Night as if in a Dream. "Joshua Cohen has created a visionary novel that is terrifying and heartbreaking and humbling in its luminous brilliance. In my view, it firmly places the author on the same level as Kafka"--Michael Disend.

A Heaven of Others

wspomnienie przelotnego, a w ogólnym rozrachunku zupełnie nieistotnego zdarzenia w historii bardzo sławnej familii : powieść

Rodzina Netanjahu

This book isn't really about bunnies. (Although it certainly doesn't exclude them.) It's about fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, grandmas, grandpas, pets and everything else on the planet that eventually dies. Bunnies happen to be cute to look at and are easier to draw than trying to draw everything on the planet. You can substitute whatever person or animal is appropriate in place of the word "bunny", if you prefer. This book won't make losing your bunny any easier. Losing any bunny can be one of the most difficult things that happens in a life. Hopefully, however, this book might make it easier to talk about difficult things when your bunny does die. Sometimes, talking about these difficult things can help to better understand grief and keep moving forward. A Book About Losing Your Bunny was reviewed and given high praise by child bereavement counselors for its ability to address key concepts that many children struggle with during a loss. It focuses on reinforcing positive aspects of the relationship and dispelling common myths/fears. It avoids any talk of the physical process of death as well as avoiding any religious discussion.

Helping Children of All Ages to Talk, Ask Questions, and Better Understand Loss

A Book About Losing Your Bunny

Quattro nuovi messaggi

John O'Brien

Featuring essays and tributes by Jonathan Lethem, Marjorie Perloff,and Gerald Howard among others, this issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction focuses on the life and work of Gilbert Sorrentino, with a special focus on his most popular novel, the endlessly fascinating, frustrating, and hilarious Mulligan Stew.

The Failure Issue

How we can look beyond the tyranny of market logic in our public lives to reimagine the fundamentals of democracy. Bringing together thirty-two world-class economists, Economics After Neoliberalism offers a powerful case for a new brand of economics—one focused on power and inequality and aimed at a more inclusive society. Three prominent economists—Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik, and Gabriel Zucman—lead off with a vision for economic policy that stands as a genuine alternative to market fundamentalism. Contributors from across the spectrum expand on the state of creative ferment Naidu, Rodrik, and Zucman describe and offer new essays that challenge the current shape of markets and suggest more democratic alternatives. Contributors Samuel Bowles, Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Oren Cass, William R. Easterly, Alice Evans, Amy Kapczynski, Robert Manduca, Suresh Naidu, Caleb Orr, Lenore Palladino, Margaret Peters, Corey Robin, Dani Rodrik, Debra Satz, Quinn Slobodian, Marshall Steinbaum, Arvind Subramanian, Gabriel Zucman.

Economics after Neoliberalism

Alex Byrne

Seana Valentine Shiffrin

Gideon Rosen

Elizabeth Harman

The Norton Introduction to Philosophy (Second Edition)

Vier neue Nachrichten

From Joshua Cohen--winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize--comes one of the great comic epics of our time, newly restored in this definitive edition. On Christmas Eve, 1999, all the Jews in the world die in a strange, millennial plague, with the exception of the firstborn males, who are soon adopted by a cabal of powerful people in the American government. By the following Passover, however, only one is still alive: Benjamin Israelien; a kindly, innocent, ignorant man-child. As he rapidly ascends to international fame, Jewishness becomes all the rage: matzo-ball soup is in every bowl, sidelocks are hip; while Israelien, the only truly Jewish Jew left, is increasingly stigmatized for refusing to perform his religion. Since his very existence exposes the illegitimacy of the newly converted, Israelien becomes a wanted man just as quickly as he had become a famous one. Elsewhere, in the not-too-distant future of our own, "real" world, another last Jew--the last living Holocaust survivor--sits snowbound in his Manhattan apartment, telling jokes that he only half-remembers. A final, melancholy witness, attempting to find the punch line for a century.

Witz

Hiver 1959-1960, dans une petite ville de l’État de New York. Ruben Blum est historien, fils de parents (névrosés et excentriques) d’origine russo-ukrainienne, gendre de beaux-parents (plus névrosés et excentriques encore) d’origine germanique, et père d’une jeune fille qui a hérité de cette folie familiale. Il enseigne à l’Université de Corbin où il est le seul professeur de confession juive, ce qui fait de lui un sujet de curiosité, de conversation et, par de sombres raccourcis, la personne idéale pour évaluer la candidature d’un spécialiste de l’Inquisition, juif lui aussi, qui postule à la faculté : Ben-Zion Nétanyahou. Ce dernier est attendu chez les Blum pour un cocktail de bienvenue avant ses entretiens, mais lorsque sa voiture s’arrête devant la maison, quatre autres personnes apparaissent à ses côtés – Ben-Zion a fait le voyage avec sa femme et ses trois garçons, l’aîné s’appelle Jonathan, le plus jeune Iddo, et entre les deux : Benjamin Nétanyahou, 10 ans. La soirée qui attend les Blum et les Nétanyahou restera dans les mémoires de tous les habitants de la ville, du directeur de l’université jusqu’au Shérif de Corbindale, de l’équipe locale de football jusqu’aux draps de la fille de Ruben... Dans les pas de Philip Roth et de Saul Bellow, Joshua Cohen signe un très grand roman sur la société américaine, les familles dysfonctionnelles et l’identité juive. Celui que certains considèrent comme « le plus grand auteur américain vivant » (The Washington Post) nous plonge, avec ce pastiche de campus novel, dans un épisode invraisemblable de l’histoire personnelle des Nétanyahou. Et rien de tel que l’humour pour revisiter le passé, parfois embarrassant, des hommes de pouvoir. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Stéphane Vanderhaeghe

Les Nétanyahou

Yoav y Uri, jóvenes veteranos de la última guerra de Gaza, llegan en 2015 a Nueva York después de completar el servicio militar israelí.Trabajan en la empresa de mudanzas de David King, un primo lejano de Yoav, judío republicano y en plena crisis existencial. A través del absurdo trabajo de vaciar casas y desahuciar, Joshua Cohen nos muestra una sociedad interracial y desestructurada en la que sus miembros pueden terminar estallando.

Una novela

Los reyes de la mudanza

Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian--but not an historian of the Jews--is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics--"An Account of A Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family" that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.

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