Fiction - Jewish

This stunningly intimate collection of stories is an exquisite portrait of a Jewish community -- the secular and religious families who inhabit it and the tensions that exist there -- that illuminates the unexpected ways we remain connected during times of change. When Uncle...

A novel inspired by the legendary spiritual master, Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezar, known as the Baal Shem Tov, the Good Master of the Name, who beckoned forth love from the hearts of rag pickers, ruby merchants, midwives, and murderers. Poor orphan. Simpleton. Harder to...

'The evening the men came I fled through the garden gate...'The Netherlands, World War IIWhen the Nazis invade the Netherlands in May 1940 it's clear that life is changing for the girl and her family. Step by step, the Nazis close in on the...

From the author of the "fast-paced, heartbreaking, and hopeful" (Kristin Harmel, author of The Room on Rue Am lie) The Light After the War, a riveting and heartfelt story of a young woman recruited to be a spy for the resistance on the French...

Twenty years of addiction to cloud, a drug which wipes the user's short-term memory, have left single mom Mellie with her mind in fragments. With the help of a tough-minded sponsor, and motivated by her own medically-challenged daughter, Mellie clings to a fragile sobriety....

"If you, Jakob Bronsky, meet a girl like that, she's going to ask herself: Who is this Jakob Bronsky? ... What does Jakob Bronsky know about the American way of life? Does Jakob Bronsky know that success is the only thing that counts? Is...

A literary event that tells story of five hundred children who lived in the Czech Family Camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau between September 1943 and June 1944. We lived on a bunk built for four but in times of overcrowding, it slept seven and at times...

From privileged young German-Jewish woman to concentration camp refugee, German Jew Kl舐e Kohler navigates the horrors of war and-through unlikely sources--somehow findsing the strength, and hope, and love she needs to survive.Author: Barbara Stark-NemonISBN-10: 1631529560ISBN-13: 9781631529566Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2015Pages: 326Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize:...

When the Nazis invade her country, Rachel Klein is just a normal teenager in love - but becomes a secret courier for the underground. Relentless dangers eventually force her and her parents to hide in a dank basement, where much is revealed.Author: Mary Dingee...

An ambitious and mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of Rules of Magic. The Dovekeepers is "striking....Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose" (Entertainment Weekly). Nearly two thousand years ago, nine...

A girl comes of age in a tightly knit family hit by tragedies in this arresting story of loss, love, and redemption. Ruby is the youngest child in the tightly knit Bronstein family, a sensitive, observant girl who looks up to her older brothers...

Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths from a balcony, Philippe Grimbert has written a gripping novel about the hidden memories that dominated their lives. A colossal bestseller in Europe, Memory is the story of a family haunted by the...

When Sadie looks out her window and sees her bother standing on the front lawn she knows he can't bring good news. Fidgeting over coffee with sugar and cream he explains: Their sister is gone. Three days earlier Goldie left to go shopping and...

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...

The brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, one of the first feminist writers in Canada and the award-winning author of Basic Black With Pearls.In Helen Weinzweig's brilliant debut novel, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and...

In book three of the Michal's Destiny series, after her parents are arrested by the Nazis on Kristallnacht, twelve-year-old Gilde Margolis is sent away from her home, her sister, and everyone she knows and loves. Alone and afraid, Gilde boards a train through the...

1 Samuel 18:1 & 3: "And it came to pass... that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own...

Longlisted for the Booker PrizeA New York Times Editor's Choice Named a Best Book of the Year By: The New York Times Book Review (Notable Books of the Year) * The New York Public Library * The Washington Post * Time.com * The New...

"Captivity is a complex and fast-paced tale of Jewish life in the early first century, a sort of sword-and-sandals saga as reimagined by Henry Roth. The narrative follows Uri from Rome to Jerusalem and back, from prospectless dreamer to political operative to pogrom survivor--who...

From Alejandro Jodorowsky--the legendary director of The Holy Mountain, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, and author of Where the Bird Sings Best--comes another autobiographical tour-de-force: a mythopoetic portrait of the artist as a young man in Chile in the tumultuous...

Dov Taylor, an unhappy former cop, is summoned by a local rabbi to help solve a murder in the Hassidic community. Why Dov? Some hundred-odd years ago, his ancestor was a famous Polish mystic, and the rabbi believes this ancestry might help Dov see...

It is 1988. Judit Klemmer is a filmmaker who is assembling a fortieth-anniversary official documentary about the birth of Judenstaat, the Jewish homeland surrendered by defeated Germany in 1948. Her work is complicated by Cold War tensions between the competing U.S. and Soviet empires...

Feminist scholar Hannah Stern finds herself working at the Library of Congress, assigned to catalogue a donation of rare lesbian books. But it's more than a one-year job in Washington: it's a mission handed to her by Sappho, The Overhead Herself. When a series...

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award of 1979 Violence shattered her golden world, and Leah's journey began... It swept her from the burning villages of old Russia to the tenements of New York, from the glittering showrooms of Paris to the settlements of...

An "enthralling" novel of growing up amid the terrors of World War II that offers "a superb lesson in resilience and the importance of imagination" (La Presse). Julek has assumed countless identities, lived with numerous families, and worked as a secret agent for the...

An American foreign correspondent finds herself in love, and in danger, in this novel that "presents startlingly vivid images of life in Hitler's Europe" (The New York Times). Rose Manon grew up in the mountains of Nevada, and is now working as a journalist...

For Elisheva Raskin, an adventurous ten-year-old with a knack for getting herself into sticky situations, life is anything but dull. At home with her family or in school with her friends, Elisheva learns to expect the unexpected. She's a remarkable girl who tries to...

Marge Piercy's debut collection of short stories, The Cost of Lunch, Etc., brings us glimpses into the lives of everyday women moving through and making sense of their daily internal and external worlds. Keeping to the engaging, accessible language of Piercy's novels, the collection...

And the Rat Laughed is a unique book. Unlike other Holocaust-related books that focus on the historical horrific events, this novel deals with the act of remembering them. It resembles a relay race in which the characters transfer memory from one another, while travelling...

In a house in a quiet street in North London, Helena struggles with her self-appointed task of writing a book about the reclusive American artist Joseph Cornell. At the same time she dreams and thinks about her sister Alice working in an orphanage in...

Two children need former car thief turned amateur sleuth and Child Protective Officer Foggy Moscowitz's help in this latest noir mystery set in Florida. Foggy Moscowitz is shocked when ID found on a body in the bay suggests it's his close Brooklyn friend, Pan...

When L a's car gets a puncture out in the countryside, the man who lives nearest proves recalcitrantly helpful. She ends up falling asleep in his armchair and wakes to intense guilt at neglecting her daughter back in Reykjavik, followed by shock at what...

What's a girl to do when she has a message from God that makes everyone - her family, the media and even the government - angry? MiMi knows she is meant for something greater. This belief, partnered with personal tragedy, drives her to establish...

"This is storytelling at the top of the heap." --Jane Yolen, winner of the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement"Powerful and dreamlike, this intergenerational meditation on family, mortality, and hope is far more than the sum of its parts." --Publishers Weekly, starred review"Achingly familiar...

In the final book in the I Am Proud To Be A Jew series the children of Holocaust survivors Eidel and Dovid Levi have grown to adulthood. They each face hard trials and tribulations of their own, many of which stem from growing up...

Hitler has surrendered. The Nazi flags, which once hung throughout the city, striking terror in the hearts of Polish citizens, have been torn down. It seems that Warsaw should be rejoicing in its new-found freedom. But Warsaw is not free. Instead it is occupied...

A year in Jerusalem questioning American Jews who return to Israel and to traditional religion changes Wendy Goldberg's life forever.Every year, 700,000 Americans visit Israel. Wendy Goldberg spends a year in Jerusalem questioning the lives of American Jews who do Aliya--a return both to...

Prayers for the Living is a novel both grand in its vision and loving in its familiarity. Presented in a series of conversations between grandmother Minnie Bloch and her companions, Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio commentator on All Things Considered, unfolds a layered family...

In Jews vs Aliens, editors Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene have gathered together brand new stories from the light-hearted to the profound, with authors ranging from Orange Prize winner Naomi Alderman to Big Bang Theory writer/producer Eric Kaplan, all asking, for the first time,...

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature"A remarkable work . . . [that] documents a triumph of the human spirit over tremendous adversity."--Harper's"This elegantly-written tribute makes as beautiful a use of the darkness and light of one man's life as a Halsman photograph of a...

The two men came at dinnertime on friday night to murder a young rabbi and his family. They didn't say why. They didn't say who sent them. Fortunately, Gidon Aronson was at the right place at the right time. Gidon, a former member of...

There's only one place Joanna Kane can tell it like it is. Her journal: I hate Terri Rubin, the woman I'm in love with. She called and told me she's dating a woman named Sonya. I hate this Sonya and I hate Terri and...

Deena's house is being auctioned off at sheriff's sale and her marriage is falling apart. As her carefully constructed life unravels, her thoughts return to the New Moon Commune outside Santa Fe where she was born, and to Rain, the lesbian mother she had...

Scrappy, street smart drug dealer Reggie Marshall has never liked the simpering addict Leland Bloom-Mittwoch, which doesn't stop Leland from looking up to Reggie with puppy-esque devotion. But when a drug deal goes dramatically, tragically wrong and a suitcase (which may or may not...

Roman legions thunder across first-century Palestine, seeking to use the power of the cross to crush the lightning strikes of the zealots led by Barabbas. Behind the scenes, a secret squad of thespian assassins are being trained--and Titius Marcus Julianus is caught up in...

Die Geschichte spielt im Russischen Kaiserreich im ukrainischen Schtetl Anatevka in der vorrevolution ren Zeit um 1905. Im Dorf lebt eine j dische Gemeinschaft, die gro en Wert auf Tradition legt. Der Milchmann Tevje (jiddische Koseform des hebr ischen Namens Tuvia) lebt mit seiner...

In EVA'S DAUGHTERS, an unexpected letter is the catalyst for a Passover and 50th wedding celebration in New York. Hosts, Eva and Max Stern, are Holocaust survivors who met and married in a Displaced Persons camp after losing their families, including Eva's baby. Hoping...

When Jewish Holocaust survivors Eidel and Dovid Levi arrive in the United States, they believe that their struggles are finally over. Both have suffered greatly under the Nazi reign and are ready to leave the past behind. They arrive in this new and different...

Tales of the Havurah is a kaleidoscope of interrelated stories about life in the Jewish counterculture in post-1960's Boston. Narrated by a talkative, pot-smoking host named Solomon, who is endowed with "a chaotic, eccentric, ironic, poetic, and touchy religious bent," the stories introduce the...

​One of the most remarkable novels of the Holocaust ever written, and the basis of the 1999 major motion picture starring Robin Williams. A novel about the Holocaust "that has never been surpassed" (Times Literary Supplement), Jacob the Liar is a now classic work...