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Yasha Mazur, a Jewish magician and acrobat in 1870s Poland with a pious wife in Lublin and lovers along the road, plans a burglary to win a widow in Warsaw.
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The Family Moskat
The wealthy Moskat family of Warsaw and its old patriarch Meshulam, from the turn of the century to the German bombardment of 1939.
The Slave
After the Cossack massacres of 1648, Jacob, a learned young Jew, is sold as a slave to a peasant in a Polish mountain village and falls in love with his master's daughter, Wanda.
The Promised Land
In the booming textile city of Łódź in the 1880s, three friends, a Pole, a German and a Jew, scheme to build a factory of their own in a place where everything is for sale.
A Simple Story
In a small Galician town at the turn of the century, Hirshl, the son of a prosperous shopkeeper, falls for his poor orphaned cousin Blume, who works as a servant in his parents' house.
For Two Thousand Years
A young Jewish architecture student in Bucharest in the 1920s and 30s keeps a diary as the antisemitism of his friends and teachers grows around him.
Thaïs
Paphnuce, a desert monk in fourth-century Egypt, resolves to save the soul of Thaïs, the celebrated courtesan of Alexandria he once desired.
The Heretic of Soana
A young priest in the mountains above Lake Lugano is sent to deal with a family of outcasts living in sin on the slopes of Monte Generoso, and is undone by the eldest daughter.
Madame Bovary
A provincial doctor's wife in mid-nineteenth-century France drowns in romantic fantasies, debt, and affairs, and her destruction exposes the poison of bourgeois aspiration.
The End of the Affair
A man in wartime London is tormented by a love affair that he believes ended through divine intervention, and his obsessive retelling reveals a faith he can't accept.
Lucky Per
Per Sidenius, the rebellious son of a provincial Lutheran pastor, goes to Copenhagen to become an engineer with a grand scheme of canals and harbours, and wins a rich Jewish family's daughter.
Tevye the Dairyman
Tevye, a poor Jewish dairyman in a village in Ukraine, tells the author how his daughters, one after another, break with tradition.
Until August
Every August, on the anniversary of her mother's death, Ana Magdalena Bach takes the ferry to the island where her mother is buried, and one year she spends the night with a stranger.