Fiction - Jewish

Jaded New York City Public Defender Liana Cohen would give anything to have one client in whom she can believe. Dozens of hardened criminals and repeat offenders have chipped away at her faith in both herself and the system. Her boyfriend Jakob's high-powered law...

Rudolf II, king of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, is paranoid, spendthrift, and wayward. In sixteenth-century Prague, seat of Christendom, he rules over an empty treasury and a court of parasites and schemers. Meanwhile in the ghetto, the Great Rabbi, mystic and seer, guides...

When a sassy grandmother comes up against skeletons in the community closet, will her persistent prying weave fresh joy into everyone's lives? Esther Kellerman finds old age delightful. Still sharp as a tack at seventy-nine, the Jewish widow's main worry is how many mailboxes...

Fiction. Jewish Studies. THE RENTER, Michael Tregebov's fourth novel, is set in Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba's version of cottage country, ca. 1968. Once the preserve of the city's establishment, by the time the events of the novel take place, Winnipeg Beach has declined to the...

Galilee Gold is a novel inspired by Daher el-Omar, the Bedouin King of eighteenth-century Galilee, who was willing to do anything to achieve prosperity in his region, including trading with pirates, taking another wife, or plotting to kill his own brother. Enter Tamar of...

"Nils Shapiro accepts what appears to be an easy, lucrative job: find out if Beverly Mayer's grandson is foolishly throwing away his trust fund in Hollywood, especially now, in the wake of his fianc稙e's tragic death. However, that easy job becomes much more complicated...

Can folklore be reality? Part instruction manual, part ghost story collection, and part history lesson, this volume in thirteen chapters is a how-to guide for trapping an evil entity, known as a dybbuk, in a box. It describes the history of the dybbuk, and...

"Anna's Dance: A Balkan Odyssey is an ambitious undertaking. Rich with drama and passion, it's a poignant story of love and misadventure..." -The Manhattan ReviewAnna Rossi, the protagonist of the coming-of-age novel, Anna's Dance: A Balkan Odyssey, is a twenty-three-year-old mostly Jewish-American girl alienated...

Two sisters, their mother, and a Nazi thief.In 1939, a beautiful enameled heirloom menorah was looted by the Nazis, grabbed from the hands of its young Jewish owner. Too beautiful to kill, Aurora herself was singled out by the SS for "special duties."Eighty years...

A major literary figure and frequent contributor to the Yiddish-language newspaper Forverts from the 1920s to the mid-1930s, Jonah Rosenfeld was recognized during and after his lifetime as an explorer of human psychology. His work foregrounds loneliness, social anxiety, and people's frustrated longing for...

Yochanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often na ve curiosity. His wife, Hagit, a district judge, is tolerant of almost everything but her husband's faults and prevarications. Frequent arguments aside, they are a well-adjusted couple with two...

This captivating, breakout novel--told in alternating viewpoints--brings readers from the skies of World War II to the present day, where a woman is prepared to tell her secrets at last.Estranged from her family since just after World War II, Mary Browning has spent her...

"A humorous and heart-wrenching story of an aspiring twenty-something Russian-Jewish writer who struggles to reconcile his immigrant roots with his fragile new American identity"--Author: Boris FishmanISBN-10: 0062287885ISBN-13: 9780062287885Publisher: Harper PerennialLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/20/2015Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): New York Times...

Meticulously researched, this New York Times bestselling novel gives a historically accurate account of the early days of the Cold War and the fight for German redemption.At the end of World War II, American army officer Captain Sean O'Sullivan is commissioned with rebuilding Berlin....

Do Men Ever Listen?Are Their Friendships Real? How Does a Widower Start Over? George Elden had it all. A lovely wife. Two beautiful adult children. A condo on the grounds of the Boca Raton Resort & Club. But when his wife dies, he's alone...

First published as Short Friday and Other Stories, Singer's 1965 collection presents a profoundly gifted writer who can deftly immerse the reader in a rich sensory experience of both bygone and modern life. The collection features some of Singer's most provocative early stories, including...

In this intriguing historical novel, a young woman who is sent to a horrific bride school to be molded into the perfect Nazi wife finds her life forever intertwined with a young Jewish woman about to give birth.Germany, 1939As the war begins, Hanna Rombauer,...

Sometimes courage is all you have... Embark on an unforgettable journey through one of history's darkest chapters in The Last Daughter by Belle Ami, a poignant novel inspired by a remarkable true story from World War II. In the chilling dawn of September 8,...

Caught in a pincer movement between the sudden death of Evelyn (her favourite aunt) and the Corona virus, Ascher Lieb finds herself unexpectedly locked down in her aunt's retirement community with only Evelyn's grief-stricken dog Freddie for company.As the world tumbles down into a...

'Austin Duffy's uniquely dry, laconic style adds a subversive and compelling charge to this moving and intense story of the relationship between a father and daughter. A terrific novel' - William Boyd When Wolf's recently-estranged wife Miriam dies from cancer, his entire world is...

What if you suspected your husband of murder?Israel, 1951: Private investigator Adam Lapid has never had a case like this.Five years before, his client lied to the police, giving a false alibi to her husband. Now, she's sure he committed murder, and she wants...

New to Jerusalem and to adulthood, Rutha serves Café Shira's devoted customers with a quiet compassion and a sensitive gaze, collecting their stories and absorbing them at her peril. Avigdor, the melancholy and somewhat weary café owner, philosophizes about love as he attends to...

The police don't want to catch the killer. So he'll have to.Tel Aviv, 1949 - A young Arab woman lies murdered in the city morgue and no one seems to care. The newspapers won't report it. The police won't investigate. No one is trying...

The Old New Land is a utopian novel by Theodor Herzl (1860 - 1904), the founder of political Zionism. Outlining Herzl's vision for a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, this book became one of Zionism's establishing texts. It was translated into Hebrew...

What if an empire of Jewish warriors that really existed in the Middle Ages had never fallen--and was the only thing standing between Hitler and his conquest of Russia? Eastern Europe, August 1942. The Khazar kaganate, an isolated nation of Turkic warrior Jews, lies...

Abraham Karpinowitz (1913-2004) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania), the city that serves as both the backdrop and the central character for his stories. He survived the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and, after two years in an internment camp on the...

Detective Peter Decker teams up with his wife and daughter to solve a crime rooted in both the past and present.While on routine patrol, LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley dumpster. But she can't call it a night until...

When life is at its best, the unimaginable can shatter everything you think you know... Abigail Samuels has no reason to feel anything but joy on the morning her life falls apart. The epitome of the successful Jewish American woman, she is married to...

A dazzling debut novel about love, loss, and the courage it takes to start over. It's 1994 and Adam, a drug addict from New York City, arrives at a kibbutz in Israel with a medieval sapphire brooch. To redress a past crime, he must...

A multigenerational saga inspired by Bauhaus artists and the impact of the Holocaust's lingering legacy on their children and protégésIn a Europe torn by war and revolution, Berta Altmann comes of age as a gifted artist and independent woman. Her search for freedom leads...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones, freelance writer and researcher. George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for...

Many years have passed. Israel is surrounded by enemies (as usual). But there is new technology that could allow Israel as a whole to escape. Central to this is Israel's giant space station. One of its inhabitants, a young student of Torah, may hold...

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: During WWII, a Jewish boy copes with a new homeland, a polio diagnosis--and falling in love for the first time. Frank Gold's family, Hungarian Jews, have fled the perils of World War II for the safety...

Marge Piercy carries her portrait of the American experience back into the Fifties--that closed, repressive time in which forces for the upheavals of the Sixties ticked away underground. Spanning twenty years, and teeming with vivid characters, Braided Lives tells the powerful, unsentimental story of...

The New York Times-bestselling novel by the critically acclaimed author of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life and My Year Abroad. At 59, Jerry Battle is coasting through life. His favorite pastime is flying his small plane high above Long Island. Aloft, he can escape...

Genevieve and Jeremy have known each other since they were seven, and have been summertime best friends at Camp Meira, a Jewish overnight camp in the mountains. As campers, and then as staff, their friendship was a constant, something neither wanted to change, no...

Collection of true stories, written by real people.People Speak is a collection of true stories written by real people about their own lives, collected by popular writer and editor Rabbi Chaim Walder, bestselling author of the series Kids Speak.Rabbi Walder's storytelling prowess continues to...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth...

""Told with attention to historical fact and channeling actual personalities of the era, Swan Song should interest both music lovers and lovers of a fast-paced historical novel."" --Addie R. Appelbaum, St. Petersburg Opera Guild, Vice-President of Programming Ursula Becker's operatic star is on the...

Once upon a time, the port of Aden was a trading post and meeting point for people from all over the world. Now, in Tel Aviv, a short distance from the Mediterranean Sea, its spirit lives on at a little museum... But at this...

Jewish Noir II is unique collection of twenty-three all-new stories (and one reprint) by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors such as Gabriela Alemán, Doug Allyn, Rita Lakin, Rabbi Ilene Schneider, E.J. Wagner, and Kenneth Wishnia, with a foreword...

A multigenerational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer by "a wonderful talent [who] should be read widely" (Edward P. Jones). In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named "Bagel Beach," has long been a summer destination...

In her tender, sweetly comic debut, Natasha Solomons tells the captivating love story of a Jewish immigrant couple making a new life -- and their wildest dreams -- come true in WWII-era England. At the outset of World War II, Jewish refugees Jack Rosenblum,...

Now a Major Motion Picture A dazzling debut--and a publishing phenomenon--Natasha: And Other Stories is the tender, savagely funny collection from a young immigrant who has taken the critics by storm.Few readers had heard of David Bezmozgis before May 2003, when Harper's, Zoetrope, and...

"P.S. insights, interviews & more..."--Cover.Author: Elyssa FriedlandISBN-10: 0062379844ISBN-13: 9780062379849Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2015Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.10dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2015Romantic Times 05/01/2015 pg. 41 - ExcellentBooklist 05/01/2015 pg. 76

" Zoe Heller] is an extraordinarily entertaining writer, and this novel showcases her copious gifts, including a scathing, Waugh-like wit."--New York Times Best-selling author Zoe Heller has followed up the critical and commercial success of What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal with...

Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892) is a novel by Israel Zangwill. Raised in London by parents from Latvia and Poland, Zangwill understood the plight of the city's Jewish community firsthand. Having risen through poverty to become an educator...

When Hannah Eisin snags an interview with controversial Talmud professor Nathan Mandel in 1955 Brooklyn, her goal is to gain the respect of her male coworkers at the Daily Freiheit. But everything changes after she persuades Nathan to become her teacher and guide into...

Would you risk your life to avenge a murdered friend?Israel, 1951 - When private detective Adam Lapid finds Nathan Frankel dead in the street, he makes a quick decision: He'll discover who murdered Nathan and punish the killer himself. Because Adam owes Nathan a...

The police don't want to catch the killer. So he'll have to.Tel Aviv, 1949 - A young Arab woman lies murdered in the city morgue and no one seems to care. The newspapers won't report it. The police won't investigate. No one is trying...