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Dear List Moderator:
Please note that, owing to problems with my previous webhost, undisclosed
interferences with my previous website, (
redheiferpress.com), and
unauthorized deactivation of my business email (editor(a)redheiferpress.com),
Red Heifer Press has now moved to redheiferpress.company.site .
Our Red Heifer Press is the publisher of a beautiful bi-lingual edition of
Iossif Ventura's TANAIS (see below). My recently published "polymorophic
novel," *Turning Back the River Speaks* (see below) presents, among other
things, a revealing expose of classical studies in the USA, as well as an
original perspective on Philodemus and a philosophical examination of the
problem of ancient text preservation.
Please note that, to my knowledge, two other *unrelated websites* have
imitated my business name and logo for their own *unrelated purposes*. I am
informed that one of them ("Red Heifer Publishing") is permanently closed,
yet its website still appears first in a google search for Red Heifer
Press! The other, ("Red Heifer Media") claims to be a PR firm with no
purposeful connection to book publishing. Again, we emphatically disavow
any connection to either "Red Heifer Publishing" or "Red Heifer
Media."
Many thanks for your attention to this important notice.
With best wishes,
Sholem (Peter) Gimpel
Red Heifer Press
661-822-3438 (PDT)
redheiferpress.company.site
[image: image.png]TANAIS: Kyklonio & Tanaïs. Two Poem Cycles Commemorating
the Holocaust of the Jewish Community of Crete.
$14.95
First Bilingual Edition: Modern Greek & English
By Iossif Ventura.
Just over 70 years ago, on June 9, 1944, the German merchant vessel
*Tanaïs* was
torpedoed by a British submarine off the coast of the Greek Island of
Crete. The freighter was carrying 900 prisoners of war destined for the
slave camps and crematoria of mainland Europe. All prisoners perished in
the attack—among them, 299 Jews (men, women and children) comprising
virtually the entire Jewish Community of Crete.
Among the handful of Jews who evaded capture was the family of a small
child named Iossif Ventura. Iossif survived to become a nationally renowned
poet. Red Heifer Press is very honored to present the English-speaking
world with the first bilingual edition of *Tanaïs* & *Kyklonio,* in which
the original Modern Greek is accompanied by a powerful English translation
that is the collaborative effort of several distinguished poets, scholars
and critics.
Iossif Ventura lives the echoing void left by friends, playmates, cousins,
uncles and aunts, in a small town haunted by his uprooted Jewish Heritage.
These poems stand out among all the poetry of the Holocaust for their
eloquent tone, tempered grief, and surrealistic imagery. They are
beautifully moving poems, a worthy memorial to the small but ancient
Community that for at least 2300 years played an integral role in the
economic and cultural life of the Island—a Community that was wiped out in
one fatal hour that must never be forgotten.
REVIEWS:
"Harshly realistic and softly surrealistic by turns, Kyklonio & Tanais is
both a dirge and a love song. It sails unflinchingly through the waves of
pain and grief that the poet feels over the loss of his culture while
gazing back fondly on a warm people who managed to blend Jewish and Greek
heritage into an embracing and seamless whole."
--Chris Leppek, *Intermountain Jewish News*
“Transcendent revelation traverses the poetry of Iossif Ventura, a feeling
of everyday sacredness, the sacredness of life, transcendent revelation.
This sense of the *sacre* of the historical moment extends throughout
Ventura’s poetry, giving it a certain rhythm, a musical movement interwoven
with biblical rhetoric not that far from the solemn dithyrambs of
[legendary Greek poet] Andreas Kalvos.”
—Alexis Ziras, Founding Member and past Vice-Chairman and President of the
Hellenic Authors Society.
"Anglophone readers certainly have every reason to be grateful to Red
Heifer Press for making this important Greek Jewish voice accessible. " -
Mark Glanville, *Jewish Review of Books*
Turning Back The River Speaks: a Polymorphic Novel of Music, Mischief &
Murder, by Peter Gimpel
$16.95
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Product Details
A young scholar on a career path involving the preservation of ancient
texts investigates the long-forgotten disappearance of the pretty coed who
once loved him. The search leads him into amazing discoveries and a *grave*
predicament.
Couched in an unpredictable yet carefully organized itinerary of
interrelated themes and motives,* Turning Back The River Speaks* is a
blistering social satire with far-reaching implications for the
reconstruction of an American self-awareness.
REVIEWS:
"Unpredictability and suspense in the hands of the right author lend a
story the elements of anticipation and surprise that keep readers turning
pages, and in this book Gimpel is the right author. As he has done in his
previous works, Gimpel conjures fantastical and mystical elements
brilliantly, weaving them in and out of realism deftly and cleverly. The
author's "polymorphic" approach to story and theme is an ambitious
undertaking indeed, and it is a tribute to Gimpel's skill and vision that
he pulls it off."
--Chris Leppek, *Intermountain Jewish News*,