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

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)

Dispatches from a Land of Distraction

ATTENTION

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

Alex Byrne

Seana Valentine Shiffrin

Gideon Rosen

Elizabeth Harman

The Norton Introduction to Philosophy (Second Edition)

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.

Benjamin Gold is damaged goods. After he cracked up in the war and was discharged into a psych ward, his rich wife dumped him. Right after that, the white-shoe law firm that never hired Jews dumped him too; without powerful in-laws, it didn't matter how many cases he won or how much he shortened his name. Unemployable as a lawyer, he wound up working as a private eye—and not exactly at the top of the profession. Drunk and anorectic, his only remaining friends are bartenders and bottles. After a long string of jilted wives and small-time scams, Gold isn't expecting the beautiful daughter of his legal hero to show up in his office. Especially not with a crazy theory that her father—recently shot dead, supposedly in a random robbery—was in fact assassinated by order of Cleveland's biggest tycoon, Clayton Forsythe. To prove Judith Sorin's case, Benjamin Gold has to navigate a web of lies and evasion, a legal establishment that's been bought and paid for, disappearing witnesses, the FBI, surprisingly polite thugs, and the Forsythes—who just happen to be his former in-laws. A tall order for anyone, and Benny Goldstein has never been lucky...

The Best Assassination in the Nation

Deborah Chasman

Investigation of power and dominion, through the lens of genre fiction, interviews, and essays. “All history,” writes Maximillian Alvarez, “is the history of empire—a bid for control of that greatest expanse of territory, the past.” Evil Empire confronts these histories head-on, exploring the motivations, consequences, and surprising resiliency of empire and its narratives. Contributors grapple with the economic, technological, racial, and rhetorical elements of U.S. power and show how the effects are far-reaching and, in many ways, self-defeating. Drawing on a range of disciplines—from political science to science fiction—our authors approach the theme with imagination and urgency, animated by the desire to strengthen the fight for a better future. Contributors Maximillian Alvarez, Mark Bould, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Adom Getachew, Yuri Herrera, Michael Kimmage, Marisol LeBrón, Pankaj Mishra, Jeanne Morefield, Frank Pasquale, Arundhati Roy, Stuart Schrader, Nikhil Pal Singh

Evil Empire

Michael Hafftka

Cultural Writing. Essays. Fiction. Jewish Studies. Writer Joshua Cohen and artist Michael Hafftka interpret the twenty-two letters of the "Aleph Bet," the Hebrew alphabet, in this collection of short writings. Through their images and texts, both writer and artist engage these letters, in form and in function, in manners both mundane and mystical: the letter "hey" becomes a hat, or a ritual head-covering; the letter "yod" is said to represent a young girl, etc. Together they formulate a challenge to the Second Commandment, which forbids representation, in a style at once traditional and modern, expressively mindful of what it means to lack faith and yet, in the turn of a phrase, at the stroke of a paintbrush, refusing the consolation of cult.

An Alphabet for the Perplexed

Aleph-bet

Benjamin Gold is damaged goods: discharged into a psych ward after the war, dumped by his rich wife, fired by the white-shoe law firm that normally didn't hire Jews in the first place. Unemployable as a lawyer, he wound up drunk and anorectic, working as a private eye--and not exactly at the top of the profession.

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