The Last Miracle: Jewish StoriesThis collection from one of the great writers of Europe's Jewish diaspora shows the heat of individual passions blazing out against the levelling forces of history. In stories that move back through time from the First World War to Ancient Rome, we encounter heroes and bookworms, visionaries and gadabouts, patriarchs and rebel childrenall tied together across the centuries by their faith and by the intensity with which they live and die. In 'Mendel