[Cohsl-list] Notification re Red Heifer Press

BS"D 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 [image: image.png] 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*,