Fiction - Jewish

A BEST BOOK OF 2023TIME Magazine・NPR・Library Journal・The Globe and Mail・Lilith・Forward Magazine・Toronto Star・The New Yorker"A testament to the power of imagination and an investigation of empathy."--Vogue"Stunning."--Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker"A can't-miss novel."--Chicago Review of Books"Compelling."--The Washington ExaminerAnne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed...

The Interpretation of Cakes is like no other novel you have ever read and is one novel that you will never forget.It's 1916 and Isaak Brodsky has inherited his family's patisserie in the Jewish quarter of Budapest. Here, in the midst of shelves overcrowded...

Have you ever told a missionary "Moses said..." only to hear them attempt to "trump" your fact with "Well, the Gospels say...", which totally contradicts Moses?Well, this shouldn't surprise you. The churches not only misread the Jewish Bible, but misread their own gospels, as...

Mourning the death of his wife after a senseless and tragic accident, Boston businessman Adam Friedman finds solace through living the mitzvot--instructions for goodness, justice, and compassion. In a frenzy of good deeds, he saves lives and helps the needy. Even his adolescent daughter,...

From acclaimed poet and memoirist Jonathan Wells comes a raucous and aching New York novel about family derangement, Boomer laments and youthful revolt, rock and roll, and the sacrifices we make for what we love. Benjamin and Dita Stern are seasoned New Yorkers whose...

Fans of the Hallmark Channel and Gilmore Girls will adore this delightful rom-com about a city girl who goes in search of small-town happiness, only to discover life--and love--are nothing like the TV movies. Emerging journalist Adina Gellar is done with dating in New...

Does the mystery behind a recently discovered medieval manuscript hold the secret to the survival of the Jewish people? Russell Woolfe, a faded TV producer, is struggling with his father's death. Deeply uncomfortable with his own Jewish identity, he is torn between anger with...

Kenny the Kippah is a delightful children's book that tells the story of a small kippah, about to be worn for the first time. Written in charming rhymes that are perfect for children ages 3 and up, this heartwarming tale follows Kenny on his...

Hilarious and surprising, this unapologetically Jewish story delivers a present-day take on a highly creative grandmother trying to find her Ph.D granddaughter a husband who is a doctor-with a yarmulke, of course. Goldie Mandell is opinionated, assertive, and stuck in an Assisted Living Facility....

The Paris Photo compassionately conveys the story of American soldier Ben Gordon and his relationship with a young mother and her son just after the Liberation of Paris in August 1944. Despite the strength of this relationship during the war, Ben's eventual return to...

A deadly mission to hunt down the resistance's top soldier will make SS Officer Jonas Amsel question everything he kills for...Jonas Amsel and Avalina Keller, devoted Nazis and best friends, have a bright future in Hitler's Third Reich. Ava, a talented gymnast, wants to...

A vampire's tale of love, lust, revenge and redemption.Schlimazel has been bullied his whole life by the coarse and prejudiced peasants of Sebreim, and it doesn't help when he falls in love with the innkeeper's luminous daughter, Ludmilla. Oy!One night, drunken peasants beat poor...

Originally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in English in 2004, The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts that reflects Rosencof's life growing up in 1930s Uruguay as the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants and, later, his twelve-year...

The stories in John J. Clayton's newest collection are luminous, expressing a struggle to see growth and meaning in life as much as possible. Nearly all focus on family, and the characters, most of them Jewish, grapple with questions of living, dying, loving, and...

A posthumously published Hungarian masterpiece that reflects on fragmented lives. Born in 1963, Szilárd Borbély emerged as one of the most important poets of post-communist Europe, exploring the themes of grief, memory, and trauma in his critically acclaimed work. Following the murder of his...

Inspired by true events and set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Melanie Levensohn's A Jewish Girl in Paris is a powerful novel about forbidden love.'This beautiful, heart-wrenching novel examines the harsh realities while remaining hopeful and celebrating resilience and love.' -...

Jenny Reynolds, a young South African convert to Judaism, was full of eager anticipation as she set out from Johannesburg on the "March of the Living" tour. Over the next few weeks, as part of an organized groups of thousands of holocaust survivors and...

Seymour Rossel, author of dozens of books for children and adults, editor and publisher of several hundred, has drawn together selected writings of his last fifty years in Alone and Wrestling to confront the meaning and milieu of our times. Fiction ranges from his...

By all accounts, Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish commodore in the U.S. Navy, was both a principled and pugnacious man. On his way to becoming a flag officer, he was subjected to six courts-martial and engaged in a duel, all in response to...

The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company is an enchanting tale set in the silent film era. Beginning in 1915, in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where a Jewish family makes one and two reel silent films, the novel is composed of six chapters,...

"A deeply touching novel about two young women whose differences, which once united them, will tear them apart forever, during Hitler's Nazi occupation of Belgium and France. Based on true events. For fans of All The Light We Cannot See and Tattooist of Auschwitz....

WITH A FOREWORD BY EDMUND DE WAAL, AUTHOR OF THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES SET IN THE ASHES OF POST-SECOND WORLD WAR VIENNA, A POWERFUL, SUBTLE NOVEL OF EXILES RETURNING HOME FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER FLEEING HITLER'S DEADLY REIGN Vienna is demolished by war, the...

Elusive LinksA Story of Connection, Compassion and CompetitionIn 2011, a rare book sells for $2 million. Its original owner, Ben Solomon, expelled from Spain in 1492, settles in Scotland where he helps develop the sport of golf. In 2002, Sandra Cole and Rusty Stephens,...

The dazzlingly imaginative, ferociously funny story of an art teacher, a bodega clerk, and a five-thousand-year-old clay crisis monster, from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep. "A devastating romp through history, a bonkers road trip through...

Her family history has more thorns than roses...Lauren Steele has always been grateful for her adoptive family's love and support. So much so that she takes over the family floral business when her parents retire, despite her dreams of working on political campaigns. Instead...

Would you risk everything to be home again?Poland, 1935. When Syma - a young, outspoken physician decides to leave home and embark on an adventure in a strange land, she cannot imagine the powerful emotional whirlpool she'll find herself in.When the conflict between the...

Alexander Haralson, the deranged star of Leonard Borman's eccentric debut novel Our Jewish Robot Future, returns--only slightly more sane-in his new effort, Fix the Roads, as a retired accountant who wants to start a new career as a stand-up comedian. His ambition is to...

When Nazi Germany troops enter Krakow, Poland on September 2, 1939, fourteen-year-old Simon Baron learns two truths that have been hidden from him. One, the people who have raised him are not his biological parents. Two, his birth mother was Jewish. In the eyes...

This book shows the critical roles that love, determination, and steadfast belief play toward battling one's demons both physically and mentally. Jacob's Courage is ultimately a tribute to the triumphant human spirit. - The Jewish Book CouncilJacob's Courage is a poignant and powerful tale...

Set in the early 1970s, A Separate Reality is the story of Mark Grosfeld, a twelve-year-old growing up in Phoenix with politically active liberal Jewish parents. Mark, who is lonely and unhappy, meets Anna Voigt, a teacher who becomes his mentor. Anna, an ex-hippie...

Leaving Earth was Helen Humphreys's debut, and it brought the beauty of her poetry into the story of two women's love of flight and dream to excel, even if it took all their courage and strength and even their lives. Novice flyer Willa joins...

Noa, at sixteen, sets out with the twelve tribes of the Exodus, dreaming of a life of freedom and the Promised Land that her father says will be theirs. When religious fanatics kill her father, Noa and her four sisters are in danger of...

This book represents an anthology of Avigdor Hameiri's ten most compelling war stories and poetry. They are unique in mixing the supernatural and macabre with war, pogroms, and antisemitism, and reflect the unique complexity of the Jewish soldier's experience of the most vicious war...

The Shady Elders of Zion is a Minnesota ghost story. Ivan Kalinsky, the book's narrator, is the last surviving Bolshevik from the class of 1917. When Stalin started purging Jews from the Communist Party ranks in the 1930's, Kalinsky escaped to northern Minnesota, where...

"Only the Dead Know Peace is a powerhouse book. An adrenaline-fueled epic that is authentic, propulsive, timely, and unforgettable. It will keep you on the edge of your seat till the very last page." - Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling authorIn the spirit...

"Crime and Punishment―for the Jews! Paul Goldberg's [work]...is a dead-serious, dead-funny, no-he-didn't marvel." ―Joshua Cohen, author of The NetanyahusA thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow.On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles...

National Jewish Book Award Finalist The New Yorker's Best Book of the Year! "Segal writes with welcome clarity about life's final years, and if her characters are not always as wise as they think they are, Segal eyes them all with the unsentimental wisdom...

Powerful, page-turning and deeply moving, Naomi Ragen's The Sisters Weiss is an unforgettable examination of loyalty and betrayal; the differences that can tear a family apart and the invisible bonds that tie them together. In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up...

New Horizons is based on the true story of a Jewish family escaping pogroms in the Ukraine, where they lived, and the general slaughter and hunger in Russia during the Revolution of 1917 and the following civil war that lasted through 1920. For safety,...

First published in 1964, Seymour Epstein's LEAH received immediate acclaim. Montemayor Press is proud to reissue this classic novel in a new edition. Leah is a significant achievement in many ways: as a portrait of a thoughtful woman searching for love; as a vivid...

REVISED EDITIONWinner of several literary awards!-- Elite Choice Gold Winner-- Book Excellence Awards Winner-- Kops-Fetherling International Book Awards Gold-- Beverly Hills Book Awards Winner-- National Indie Excellence Awards.Alerted by a letter from Berlin that her grandmother may be alive in a Jewish hospice there,...

An Instant USA Today Bestseller One surprise inheritance, two best friends (now bitter exes), and three months to prove he loves her, forever and always, in this swoony second-chance romance for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Ashley Herring Blake. Hannah Rosenstein should be happy:...

A multi-generational biblical saga of captivity, romance, faith, and redemption, set against the Judean exile in Babylon. Everything changes for Sarah the day Nebuchadnezzar's army storms Jerusalem. In an instant, her peaceful life on the farm is ripped away: her city sacked, her temple...

From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award--A spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb--now in paperback! Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a...

Zar was raised in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem. But he breaks away from this insular world to pursue his dream of playing soccer professionally. Egel, a kibbutznik, and Hajji, a Muslim, are young Israelis from very different backgrounds who share with Zar a...

Tzippy Goldman was born for marriage. She and her mother had always assumed she'd graduate high school, be set up with the right boy, and have a beautiful wedding with white lace and pareve vanilla cream frosting. But at twenty-two, Tzippy's fast approaching spinsterhood....

Set in modern Jerusalem and among the desert ruins of Qumran, this desperate hunt for an ancient treasure scroll pits a female Israeli intelligence agent against a religious fanatic hell-bent on bringing about the End of Days. An American professor's murder reveals his discovery...

A compelling and compassionate debut about friendship, faith, family and identity. Winner of the Debut Fiction Prize, 72nd National Jewish Book Awards 'We recognize and appreciate Penguin Random House Australia's decision to publish a book of such high quality - one that enlarges the...

Swimming to Jerusalem is the story of Bram Goodman; his family, friends, colleagues, and demons.Born in Paris, he spent his childhood in Israel and moved to Brooklyn as a teenager. When he flunks out of college, Bram returns to Israel in an effort to...

National Jewish Book Award Finalist - Association of Jewish Libraries Fiction Honor Book"This forgotten history of displaced WWII children and the return to their roots [is] captivating, thought-provoking, enlightening, and bittersweet." ―Alka Joshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Henna Artist "Rosner is...