Farrar-Straus-Giroux

Prologue The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the...

I T JLh .HE VILLAGE OF OKUP, on the border of Volhynia, was small and old. For several decades it had been imder Turkish rule, and then it was occupied by the Poles. By the time the Poles entered Okup, the kingdoms of both Turkey and Poland had lost their former importance. The Turks had...

1they had been married for thirty-one years, and the following spring, full of resolve and a measure of hope, he would marry again. But that day, on a late afternoon near the end of March, Mr. Alejandro Stern had returned home and, with his attache case and garment bag still in hand, called out...

AUTHOR'S NOTE In My Father's Court, or Beth Din, as this book is called in the Yiddish original, is in a certain sense a literary experiment. It is an attempt to combine two styles—that of memoirs and that of belles-lettres—and its approach to description and its manner of conveying...