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  • Tales in Context: Sefer Ha-Ma'asim in Medieval Northern France by Kushelevsky, Rella
    Rella Kushelevsky

    Tales in Context: Sefer Ha-Ma'asim in Medieval Northern France

    A folkloric research project on Sefer ha-ma'asim. In the thirteenth century, an anonymous scribe compiled sixty-nine tales that became Sefer ha-ma'asim, the earliest compilation of Hebrew tales known to us in Western Europe. The author writes that the stories encompass "descriptions of herbs that...
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  • Before All the World by Rothman-Zecher, Moriel
    Moriel Rothman-Zecher

    Before All the World

    An NPR Best Book of the YearA mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old. I do not believe that all the world is darkness. In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition,...
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  • Heirs of Yesterday by Cantalupo, Barbara
    Barbara Cantalupo

    Heirs of Yesterday

    A reissue of the controversial novel about middle-class Jewish life in Old San Francisco. Originally published in 1900 and set in fin-de-si鐵le California, Heirs of Yesterday by Emma Wolf (1865-1932) uses a love story to explore topics such as familial loyalty, the conflict between...
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  • A Tale of a Ring by Berris, Anthony
    Anthony Berris

    A Tale of a Ring

    A desperate Jewish mother, living in the Polish town of Shedlets at the end of the 18th century, seeks a cure for her daughter Reina-Haya, who suffers from epilepsy, the disease that has taken the lives of all her other children. The Seer of...
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  • The Boarding House by Pazinski, Piotr
    Piotr Pazinski

    The Boarding House

    Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. In this debut novel by the Polish writer Piotr P痙inski, a young man takes a train to a small town outside of Warsaw to visit a boarding house populated by the last generation of Polish Holocaust...
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  • Market Day by Závada, Pál
    P疝 Z疱ada

    Market Day

    A novel exploring the descent of superficially decent people into vindictive killers. What could bring people to form a mob and attack others? What circumstances could provoke a thirst for blood at the market square? Who will gang up to batter their neighbor, improbably...
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  • The Longest Journey by Sorrells, Amy K.
    Amy K. Sorrells

    The Longest Journey

    1904, Chudniv, Ukraine. Playing hide-and-seek in bucolic fields of sunflowers, young Jakob never imagines the horrific secrets he will carry as he and his brother escape through genocide-ridden Eastern Europe. 1994, South Haven, Michigan. At age 94, time is running out for any hope...
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  • The Book of Paradise by Manger, Itzik
    Itzik Manger

    The Book of Paradise: A Yiddish Comic Novel

    "Electrifying...sparkles with Manger's song and poetry, and is brilliantly layered with literary and folkloric references." -- Tablet "There is something joyous about Manger's playful language." -- The Jewish Chronicle The raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and...
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  • God Might Forgive Gershwin Burr by Prousky, Brian
    Brian Prousky

    God Might Forgive Gershwin Burr

    Following the violent death of his father, Gershwin Burr descends into a seemingly inescapable depression until, not-so-accidentally, he discovers a remedy for his condition: he steals a book and finds his mood has lightened. Before long, he's stealing indiscriminately while refining his skills as...
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  • By Fire, by Water by Kaplan, Mitchell James
    Mitchell James Kaplan

    By Fire, by Water

    Recipient of the Independent Publishers Award for Historical Fiction (Gold Medal), the Foreword Book of the Year Award for Historical Fiction (Bronze Medal), and an honorable mention in the category of General Fiction for the Eric Hoffer Award. Luis de Sant疣gel, chancellor to the...
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  • Untethered by Rakoff, Ruth
    Ruth Rakoff

    Untethered

    During a teenage adventure abroad, twins Petal and Rose find their lives diverging in ways they could not have imagined, highlighting the complexities of their relationship and a shrouded family history. Free-spirited Rose becomes enraptured with the ultra-orthodox Jewish community, while Petal delays her...
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  • Our Jewish Robot Future by Borman, Leonard
    Leonard Borman

    Our Jewish Robot Future

    Meet the Haralsons-retired, eccentric, always discontented. Margarita, the post-menopausal narrator, wants a baby, while her heroic husband Alex is obsessed with finding the missing 11th commandment. Perhaps conjured from their obsessions, arrives John Chapman, a Max Headroom type cyborg from the distant future, begging...
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  • Mount Chicago by Levin, Adam
    Adam Levin

    Mount Chicago

    From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the irony, the humor, and the heartbreak of survivorship. "Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest." -George Saunders, bestselling, award-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo...
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  • The New South by Waldfogel, Sabra
    Sabra Waldfogel

    The New South

    Atlanta, July 1881. The Civil War tore Eliza's family apart. Can the washerwomen's strike bring it back together? Former slave Amanda Gardiner, a washerwoman for decades, has had enough of low wages and bad treatment. When she invites twenty washerwomen to her church to...
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  • Elusive Links by Rosenberg, Dan A.
    Dan A. Rosenberg

    Elusive Links

    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,...
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  • The Incandescent Threads by Zimler, Richard
    Richard Zimler

    The Incandescent Threads

    The fifth novel in the Sephardic Cycle, a group of independent works that explore the lives of different branches and generations of a Portuguese-Jewish family, the Zarcos. Across six non-linear mosaic pieces, we move from a Poland decimated by World War II to modern-day...
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  • The End of Daze by Fox, Andrew
    Andrew Fox

    The End of Daze

    Jacob Zvi has turned his back on everything he was taught to value. His faith, his family, his citizenship, and even his morals. Yet seemingly divine fate introduces Jacob to the struggling members of an Orthodox congregation in the middle of ghetto in New...
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  • Dog of Thieves by Plakcy, Neil S.
    Neil S. Plakcy

    Dog of Thieves

    Stolen treasures, a cane-whacking elderly woman and a couple of dead bodies. A favorite furry sleuth returns in a new adventure! Amateur sleuth Steve Levitan and his clue-sniffing golden retriever Rochester are back in the 16th full-length novel in this long-running series. With over...
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  • Good Town by Wells, Mary Louise
    Mary Louise Wells

    Good Town

    In Nazi Germany, a pious man makes a decision to protect his family, but at what cost?Josef Haupt, once a staunch opponent of Hitler, now finds himself as a local Reich official, enabling the horror he once fought against. As the Jewish community is...
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  • Pioneers: The First Breach by An-Sky, S.
    S. An-Sky

    Pioneers: The First Breach

    When young Zalmen Itzkowitz steps off the train on a dark, dreary day at the close of the nineteenth century, the residents of Miloslavka have no idea what's in store for them. Zalmen is a freethinker who has come to the rural town to...
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  • The Red Heifer by Haber, Leo
    Leo Haber

    The Red Heifer

    The main character of Leo Haber's debut novel grows to sexual and social awareness amid old-world Yiddish-speaking rabbis, new-world mobsters, Jewish non-believers, musicians, ballplayers, and new waves of immigrants. The novel teems with unforgettable characters who grapple with traditional values and the cultural enticements...
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  • Moving Kings by Cohen, Joshua
    Joshua Cohen

    Moving Kings

    A propulsive, incendiary novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus "A Jewish Sopranos . . . utterly engrossing, full of passionate sympathy . . . Cohen is an extraordinary prose...
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  • Every House Needs a Balcony by Frank, Rina
    Rina Frank

    Every House Needs a Balcony

    An international bestseller and publishing phenomenon, Every House Needs a Balcony--dubbed the "Israeli Kite Runner" by The Bookseller--is the story of one family, one home, and the surprising arc of one woman's life, from the poverty of her youth, to the glowing love and...
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  • Promise Me Eternity: An Immigrant Young Woman's Quest for Safety and Belonging by Willis, Shiloh
    Shiloh Willis

    Promise Me Eternity: An Immigrant Young Woman's Quest for Safety and Belonging

    Broken by rejection, abuse, and fear, 17-year-old Jewish immigrant, Alexei Zagoradniy, after discovering she's pregnant, escapes her abusive husband to protect her child. Terrified of the unknown ahead, Alexei journeys across Texas seeking refuge far from the dangers of her past. Betrayed once, she...
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  • Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna
    Edna Ferber

    Fanny Herself

    Fanny Herself (1917) is a novel by Edna Ferber. Inspired by her experience as a young Jewish woman from the Midwest, Fanny Herself is the story of a young woman who recognizes the unhappiness in her life and decides to risk it all for...
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  • The Story of Danny Three Times by Estrin, Leibel
    Leibel Estrin

    The Story of Danny Three Times

    What are parents to do if their child won't listen? Danny's parents are willing ask everyone and try anything to solve the problem.Will they get Danny to listen while he is still young enough to learn?You'll find out in the Story of Danny Three...
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  • The Confession by Toews, Richard
    Richard Toews

    The Confession

    Mennonites have, historically, registered as pacifists. It comes, then, as profound shock to realize that WWII brought about a sea change within the Mennonite community in Ukraine. Notably, the consequence of Operation Barbarossa (1941). Cornelius, the protagonist feels compelled to make his confession. His...
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  • The Rabbi's Holocaust Heroes Museum by Goldsmith, Seth B.
    Seth B. Goldsmith

    The Rabbi's Holocaust Heroes Museum

    The idyllic life of the Rabbi of Resurrection Bay, Chani Kahn, is shattered by a cold sensitive disease, especially problematic for people living in Alaska. Her surgeon husband, Marc Cohn, MD, is privately suffering from a traumatic stress disorder after a clandestine trip to...
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  • The Coffee Lover - a novel: A captivating story of suspense, mystery and adventure by Tell, Cass
    Cass Tell

    The Coffee Lover - a novel: A captivating story of suspense, mystery and adventure

    If you like coffee, you will love The COFFEE LOVER. Sit back with a cup of coffee and enjoy this new delightful holiday novel from the author of The SAVANT. Sarah Zipper, a food journalist, is looking for a new challenge and accepts an...
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  • Suburban Souls by Espinosa, Maria
    Maria Espinosa

    Suburban Souls

    Against the vibrant and liberated backdrop of 1970's San Francisco, a husband and wife-both Jewish immigrants indelibly traumatized by their childhoods in Nazi Germany-face the turbulence of an increasingly sterile marriage. Saul, an emotionally withdrawn scientist, escapes into New Age mysticism with Shivaya, a...
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  • Lament: A Soviet Woman and Her True Story by MacKie, Liz
    Liz MacKie

    Lament: A Soviet Woman and Her True Story

    Based on remarkable real life events, a modern epic novel follows a young Jewish woman struggling to survive the 20th century's most pitiless decades.With Lament: A Soviet Woman and Her True Story, author Liz Mackie has crafted a propulsive marvel of narrative immediacy and...
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  • Ain't Love Enough: A Dave Rifkin Mystery by Schwach, Howard J.
    Howard J. Schwach

    Ain't Love Enough: A Dave Rifkin Mystery

    Retired detective Dave and his wife, Linda, are back in New York City after their adventures in Israel and life is not quite what the couple expected it to be. Dave has become an alcoholic and a womanizer and Linda has thrown him out...
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  • A Rose of the Ghetto - A Short Story: With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton by Zangwill, Israel
    Israel Zangwill

    A Rose of the Ghetto - A Short Story: With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton

    "A Rose of the Ghetto" is a 1919 short story by British author Israel Zangwill (1864-1926). This amusing tale of English countryside and customs is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Zangwill's much-celebrated work. Zangwill was a leading figure in cultural...
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  • What the Living Remember by Gerber, Nancy
    Nancy Gerber

    What the Living Remember

    On a cold January morning, thirteen-year-old Karl Zimmer awakens to find the public square of his city draped in crimson-colored flags. Hitler has been named Chancellor. Karl doesn't know what this means but he understands danger is in the air. Narrated in the first...
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  • After Sara's Year by Gerson, Mark David
    Mark David Gerson

    After Sara's Year

    A Spellbinding Tale of Love, Friendship, Transformation & Transcendence...from the Award-Winning Author of Sara's Year Marc-Allan Cameron hasn't felt alive in thirty years. For Sadie Finkel, it has been more than fifty. When life comes knocking, will they let it in?"A beautiful, complex, sophisticated...
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  • Sara's Year by Gerson, Mark David
    Mark David Gerson

    Sara's Year

    It's Never Too Late to Follow Your Dreams Esther and Sarah share a single passion: to be the best they can be - on an epic scale. That's easier dreamed than done in Jewish Montreal on the eve of World War II. Fifty years...
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  • Don't Tell Ima by Barness, Lisa
    Lisa Barness

    Don't Tell Ima

    When Efraim and Shifra Baumen decide to move from the United States to a new life in Israel, it is with the dream of raising their children with a vibrant set of Jewish values. Aside from Efraim's day job as an architect and Shifra's...
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  • Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop by Kroft, Michael
    Michael Kroft

    Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop

    A historical romantic comedy and the prequel to the Herring Cove Road (Not-So-Nuclear Family Saga) series.With her mother's death two years before, her father's recent marriage to a woman she doesn't get along with, and then finding herself engaged to a man she isn't...
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  • A Cobbler's Tale: Jewish Immigrants Story of Survival, from Eastern Europe to New York's Lower East Side by Gordon, Neil Perry
    Neil Perry Gordon

    A Cobbler's Tale: Jewish Immigrants Story of Survival, from Eastern Europe to New York's Lower East Side

    A huge wave of Eastern European migration is hitting the New World. It's 1910. Pincus Potasznik, a Jewish cobbler, has left his pregnant wife and three small children to sail for America. His goal is to seek a new life for his family in...
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  • Founding Stones: A Novel of Cultural and Environmental Conflict by Rolnick, Abbe
    Abbe Rolnick

    Founding Stones: A Novel of Cultural and Environmental Conflict

    Part coming of age, part political intrigue, and Founding Stones questions what it mean to be a citizen of the world. Trouble simmers in a small Pacific Northwest town when generations of secrets collide. Hannah, the daughter of the largest berry farmer in the...
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  • Still We Hope by Wilhelm, Amanda
    Amanda Wilhelm

    Still We Hope

    September 1939 - Returning home to Manhattan for the High Holidays fifteen-year-old David Rosenbaum can't help but notice the changes in his childhood friend, Kathleen O'Dell. No longer the little girl he lent his favorite books to, David finds himself torn between his growing...
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  • Still We Hope by Wilhelm, Amanda
    Amanda Wilhelm

    Still We Hope

    September 1939 - Returning home to Manhattan for the High Holidays fifteen-year-old David Rosenbaum can't help but notice the changes in his childhood friend, Kathleen O'Dell. No longer the little girl he lent his favorite books to, David finds himself torn between his growing...
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  • Seder in Space and Other Tales by Blackrose, Jd
    Jd Blackrose

    Seder in Space and Other Tales

    Will Elijah come even if we are on Alpha Seti 6? How do Jewish women whip up a dinner for eighteen in an hour? Why can't you visit Masada at night? What is the real reason pigs aren't kosher? This collection answers the burning...
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  • The Open Door To My Soul by Wedekind Lopez, Yiskah
    Yiskah Wedekind Lopez

    The Open Door To My Soul

    The time of peace between Jews and Muslims in Yemen ended in the year 1948, when the nation of Israel was reborn in the Middle East. When violence escalates in Yemen, Azia, a young, 17-year-old, Jewish woman gets caught in the midst of the...
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  • Waterfront Whorehouse Pianist by Sobel, Steven
    Steven Sobel

    Waterfront Whorehouse Pianist

    After the politics of his prestigious law firm send Ben out on the street, he finds himself playing piano at a waterfront brothel. In his new life, Ben explores the underbelly of peoples' desires, fears, compulsions, and dreams. As Ben moves throughout this new...
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  • Leah's Children by Goldreich, Gloria
    Gloria Goldreich

    Leah's Children

    Spanning decades and the globe, the remarkable odysseys of Aaron, Michael, and Rebecca were as compelling as the journey of their renowned mother, Leah. From the courageous struggle of the Hungarian revolution, to the dramatic strife of the civil rights movement in Mississippi...from Israel's...
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  • The Berlin Woman by Kaufman, Alan
    Alan Kaufman

    The Berlin Woman

    Lena is a married, chronically infidelitous Berlin-based European writer, devoted only to gratifying her ambitions and hard-driving libido. Nathan is a footloose womanizing American author, unable to produce the big novel for which he's been contracted. When both writers meet in the Alps, they...
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  • The Book of Stone by Papernick, Jonathan
    Jonathan Papernick

    The Book of Stone

    The Book of Stone examines the evolution of the terrorist mentality and the complexities of religious extremism, as well as how easily a vulnerable mind can be exploited for dark purposes. Matthew Stone has inherited a troubling legacy: a gangster grandfather and a distant...
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  • Lilacs in the Snow by Henderson, A. K.
    A. K. Henderson

    Lilacs in the Snow

    Arona Henderson, a Canadian born author, attended McGill University and the University of British Columbia. She received her medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. After a forty-year career as a beloved family practitioner, Arona faced her own devastating illness. Out of...
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  • Shimon by Steinberg, John
    John Steinberg

    Shimon

    Set in the bustling streets, glorious villas and fearsome gladiatorial arenas of the third-century Roman Empire, Shimon is a moving story of one man's journey to maturity and the rediscovery of his faith. Can a young man, beset by intrigue and jealousy because of...
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