הספרים של הוצאת THE TOBY PRESS
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This scenic, moving novel, set at the end of the 19th Century, follows the life-altering trials and experiences of a pioneer woman in pre-state Israel. Fania, a 16 year old survivor of a pogram in the Ukraine, arrives in Israel with her uncle, her deranged brother, and her unwanted baby a product of...
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Journalist Leon Abramowitz never intended to immigrate to Palestine. Yet in 1922 four years after he was sent there from Europe to report in the lives of the pioneers, he discovers that the editor who dispatched him has run off with half the papers money leaving Leon forgotten in The Promised Widern...
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December 22, 2000 is a day of dramatic confluence in the life of Joop Koopman, a Dutchman living in California. It is the day he celebrates his daughter Miriam's seventeenth birthday, meets his old friend Philip, with whom he has been out of touch for eighteen years and who now works for the Israel ...
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WITH is the sensual, suspenseful and irresistible tale of Robin Kerr, a young girl abducted from her family and brought to a remote Ozark mountaintop, where she is left to fend for herself. Over the course of a decade, Robin grows up without human relationships and only the company of animals and an...
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The 36 hiking routes in this book range from challenging hikes to short, simple jaunts. The book is written by two of Israel's foremost experts on the Land of Israel- Yadin Roman, the editor in chief of "Eretz Magazine", Israel's English language geographic magazine, and Ya'acov Shkolnik, the editor...
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Halter returns with a remarkable tale, based on truth, of the little-known crusade by a 16C Jew to marshal support for a Jewish state, 4 centuries before the creation of modern-day Israel....
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He wants to get away from it all. Despite a satisfying career as chief curator of a museum devoted to the vanished American past, he find he himself wants to vanish. So with the help of a book on the life an culture of a vanished tribe of Indians known as Bluff-dwelelrs, he takes up residence in the...
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The journey begins when Sarah, a strong, aging, haunted woman, defies Sam Ridley, lord of her small English village. After a cruel punishment prompts Sarah's swift, unforgettable revenge, Ridley takes his own brutal oath of vengeance. Forced to flee the village, Sarah meets Bill, a sin eater, who be...
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Superintendent Brahim Llob is bored. Nothing seems to need his attention in an unusually peaceful Algiers. Then suddenly peace is shatterd in ways Llob could never have imagined. His subordinate, Lieutenant Lino, falls for an entirely unsuitable woman, and is devastated when she returns to a previou...
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To This Day is Nobel prizewinner S.Y. Agnon's last novel to be translated into English. On the surface it is a comicaly entertaining tale of a young writer who wanders from rented room to rented room in a city with a severe wartime housing shortage. On a deeper level it is a profound commentary on e...
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With the gentle humor and earthy passion that characterize all of his novels, Donald Harington attempts to offer some knowing and some understanding, father along....
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Elisa Traum, a former Argentinian currently residing in Israel, returns to Buenos Aires after twenty years of absence to mourn two friends- two fellow Jews who together with him once comprised " the three musketeers". These young men signed their own death sentences when they joined the Montoneros, ...
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Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes follows the life-journey of a wandering narrator who encounters a series of displaced persons. With each encounter the narrator inevitably moves on, dreaming of home, unable to resist the lure of the world's labyrinth....
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The characters in the monologues that make up A Leap seek a home, some kind of anchorage or self-realization, but circumstances or fate ensure that their goal remains elusive....
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Forty years ago, Donald Harington created a little town of Stay More, hidden away in the hills of the Ozarks. He populated it with generations of families that had escaped the Appalachians in serach of more room, greener pastures, freedom from convention, sweeter air and water, or, simply, a world w...
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This anthology brings together the most important works of three Jewish Philosphers of the Middle Ages. Selections of the writings of Philo of Alexandria, edited with an introduction by Hans Lewy: Saadia Gaon's Book of Doctrines and Beliefs, abridged, introduced and translated from the Arabic by Ale...
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It is 1891 in New Orleans, and young Typhus Morningstar cycles under the light of the half-moon to fulfill his calling, re-birthing aborted foetuses in the fecund waters of the Mississippi River. He cannot know that nearby, events are unfolding that will change his life forever - events that were se...
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MAGGID showcases the best new Jewish writing, in all genres, from around the world. This third edition is built around the theme Jewish Bodies: The Flesh Made Words, which illustrates the variety of ways in which Jewish writers imagine and represent their bodies. Among the contributors are the emerg...
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Louis, a jewish conman in 1948, navigates the treacherous waters of jazz, women, passion and cyniscm....
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One by one, over a period of several years, the wife and children of a prominent Hamburg citizen are being slain. Von Ditfurth has crafted a breathtaking thriller that highlights in vivid detail how present the German past is today....
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