Set in 1940's Palestine, Bernhard concerns a German-Jewish widower.
Devastated by the loss of his wife, Bernhard disconsolately walks the streets of Jerusalem, considering Gandhi, analysis, the beauty of his wife Paula's neck, his Arab neighbors, Kokoschka, the Messiah, and the inner life of his friend Gustav the plumber. As his hero tries to come to terms with his grief and the disasters of WWII, Hoffmann shows the slow remaking of an inner world.Book Description
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Yoel Hoffmann was born in Brasow, Romania in 1937. He is presently a citizen of Israel, and is Professor of Eastern Philosophy at the U. of Haifa. He has had a lifelong scholarly engagement with Hebrew literature, Western philosophy, and Japanese Buddhism. His is the winner of the first Koret Jewish Book Award. His books include The Heart is Katmandu, Bernhardt, The Christ of Fish, and Katschen & The Book of Joseph.
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Adam Horvath, Elvira Neuwirth, Prophets Street, Friedrich Hahnemann, Strauss Street, Major Slocomb, Osip Bove, Mendel Grubi, Pierre Laval, Sigmund Stein, Bernhard Stein, Frank Jackson, Fraulein Schmidt, Ludwig Stein, Old Kovacs, Tel Aviv, Anne Marie, Omurtag Khan, Oskar Kokoschka, Ussishkin Square, Anne Liese, Gregory the Terrible, Herr Saft, Jozef Plenk New!
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