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  Rabbis and Wives by Chaim Grade was shortlisted for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, albeit I could not find it on The Greatest Books of All Time site at all, never mind seeing it near the top…you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other prestigious lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html The Oath was the last part   <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODnZhRkjjKbJaqofBhInS1vPtdbQ7TSG1OuYCE4tJ6LAQv7kr-kefoHr1fGZibMv8had3Q1JbsVRrY42HH8yU-EUg1RD2D5jQ6ac83ygZ5RJfuFch_xBn0b4Jz5oDykieeEIQp2RejM8L0tlPBRtrXD7MWlX6KzRS0LLTU6myolWwovTL5bi07UdW1z1r/w155-h277/image.jpeg" /> 9 out of 10   Rebbetzin https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/10/rebbetzin-by-chaim-grade-is-first.html was the first of three novellas included in Rabbis and Wives, and I have just finished the third and last, The Oath: these were three impressive narratives, ...

  The Concert aka Das Konzert by Hermann Bahr – when you search for Hermann Bahr on The Greatest Books of All Time site, you get Herman Hesse, presumably because the algorithm, or we should say AI, thinks you have made a mistake- https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg07xtKX7lHAExP_Jd9tUAmuUv1T9tEZPDun9Y8s04P1h_ymcabHURlHiBTAk4tX3h5apfBNaGBB5fXWYDg1l1PMbDwe-sxOmKgHu7jqonTYqMbLN3sn8v4IK9tYpTOhoU9QskQOdfmHmuOO__7VxE7VMYk03zQZcPnKpMjQIKR7NN_lL3TbJuoZZsASVLO/w177-h316/image.jpeg" />   8 out of 10   George Constantin https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/peer-gynt-by-henrik-ibsen-calling.html was the greatest thespian I have ever seen, Magister Ludi with imposing presence, emanating power and the reality distortion field that we hear Steve Jobs had, maybe others, he was a shaman, wizard, his performances were dazzling ...

  Dissolution by C.J. Sansom, adapted for BBC Radio – the oeuvre is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, albeit the algorithm for The Greatest Books of All Time site has it in the 5959 th place; for more of my reviews you can access https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html this is where you see more pictures and videos of my macaws, one photo is inserted here   8 out of 10   The Daughter of Time https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-daughter-of-time-by-josephine-fey.html is the Best Book in The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time, which is a list published in 1990 by the Crime Writers' Association (CWA), and it came to mind while reading Dissolution, which is also one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read   One of the Six Principles of Influence is Conformity, explained in the psychology classic by Robert Cialdini, manifest in the way we reciprocate when we receive something, this happens t...

  Le Corsaire aka The Privateer by Marcel Achard – if you search for the author on The Greatest Books of All Time, which goes to 20,000 entries or more, you get…Marcel Proust, presumably, because Marcel Achard is not relevant enough, although he was elected, at the age of sixty, as member of The French Academy; you find more of my notes at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html     8 out of 10   George Constantin https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/09/vassa-zheleznova-by-maxim-gorky-is-not.html is the reason I have listened to this play, for the name of Marcel Achard was not familiar, when looking for him on The Greatest Books of All Time, the result is Marcel Proust, because Achard had little impact   I just realized that the next line could well serve as a spoiler alert, George Constantin was the greatest thespian for the under signed; as for spoiler alerts, they represent a moment of hilari...

  Tragedian in Spite of Himself by Anton Chekhov, his Short Stories are included on The Bokklubben World Library’s Best 100 Books of All Time list, and they are ranked 127th on The Greatest Books of All Time site…you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are the stars   9 out of 10   Anton Chekhov https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-short-stories-of-anton-chekhov-are.html is one of my favorite authors: I was talking just a few hours ago, at the jacuzzi downtown, about oeuvres, to a femme charmante from Moldova, who was listening to an audiobook, and my advice was to focus on The GOAT, Greatest of All Time   Coming from the Republic of Moldova, she had read Russian classics in their own language, I failed to get into politics, but just touching on the subject, ...

    Rabbi Avraham – Abba Seligman              link to positive3 Those who study to observe see new wonders every day Every day he marvels anew at how the sun rises and how it sets, the storm’s lightning… Period of mayhem, when territory passed from one to the other: Germans Russians Polish people   One was not permited to gaze directly at a woman other than his wife It is forbidden to len to a person who has no thought of repaying   Zalman Rappaport cllaed the rabbi one week before his death Says to wife of dying man that one must not lie to a him Rabbi was known as ‘The Divorced Rabbi’ and had the repuation of a pious and righteous man   Zalman wants his son, Gavriel aka Gabik Rappaport, to leave university and study with Rabbi Seligman but then he starts working with Godl in growing cucumbers cabbage shiksas swoon over him – then, because of the advise of the rabbi, he is sn...