Fiction - Jewish

First published in 1898, and here made available for the first time in English in a translation by Brian Stableford, The Gate of Ivory was the last of Symbolist Bernard Lazare's volumes of fiction to be released before his time was wholly taken up...

Willy presents an intergenerational combative relationship which has been lifted wholesale from Europe to America, with the same contentious features in play. The dual narrative of father and son, deriving from literalist observance and heterodox dissent respectively, obtains with equal force on both sides...

Book 3 of 4 of the Herring Cove Road series With Blue's father in prison for selling marijuana and his mother estranged for over the last seven years, Blue is doing well, all considering. As the second addition to the not-so-nuclear Dixon family of...

Book 2 of 4 of the Herring Cove Road (Not-So-Nuclear Family Saga) series.Ten-year-old Dewey is moving, and he couldn't be more excited; though, he's alone in his enthusiasm. Lisa, his mother, and recently retired Avriel, his next-door neighbor and best buddy, don't share in...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2017In Jerusalem's Old City a young priest and a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon's windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; and in Postwar Japan...

From critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer "If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe...

A young German woman, thinking she can escape her memories of wartime Berlin, moves to London in 1954 under her new name of Charlotte Brown. The offer of a prestigious job at the National Gallery leads her to believe that she can establish a...

"An unabashed tale that does not pull punches and looks at love's underside...This breathless story should only be read in one sitting. It hits hard and never lets up. Terse, brusque, etched on one's inner thigh with an old serrated knife." --Andr Aciman, author...

In trenchant and colorful prose, Lihi Lapid tells a true-life story of women (and men) struggling to live up to expectations (most of all their own): a story about shattered dreams, and about finding the strength to gather up the pieces and learn to...

THROUGH SHADOWS SLOW by Abraham Boyarsky*Winner of the CJLA 2020 Award for FictionDaniel is in the twilight of his life, tormented by doubts, of cuckolding, an illegitimate son, his late wife's 'dissolute' nature, the horrors of war and the inanity of all human activity....

Inspired by an incredible true story of two Jewish friends who survived the Holocaust, this sweeping novel of love and friendship spans World War II from Budapest to Austria and the postwar years from Naples to Caracas, perfect for fans of The German Girl...

A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the United States and follows a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War II--and the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival.Love brought them together. But only...

Days before his thirty-third birthday, Jacob Paul, an ordinary New Yorker, learns that his life is the dream of a man being slowly gassed in the back of a box truck headed from the Chelmno extermination camp to a mass grave in the Polish...

Shari Boruvka Roth was born in Prague, where she witnessed the Nazi and Communist takeovers of the then-newly-born Czech Republic. She immigrated to the U.S. with her family to escape the Stalinist persecutions. In New York City she studied illustration at Pratt Institute and...

Jerusha's father dotes on her and calls her Royalty, a lioness who will one day dance before his King. She adores her father, but cannot tell him her darkest secret. Instead of dancing like other Jewish girls, Jerusha sits alone plagued by guilt for...

At the age of twelve, Eva Salomon becomes disillusioned about all the "isms" raging through her world. Crushed by her father's rigid Jewish orthodoxy and by the cruelties of a burgeoning Nazi regime, she renounces all belief systems, and even belief itself. Five years...

Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2016 The Oath tracks the intertwined lives of Dr. Katz and SS Doktor Bloch, who both survive Auschwitz and the war to practice medicine in the United States, never losing the stains upon their souls. Katz, a...

A child is wounded, a teenage girl goes missing, and a man is kidnapped...In this story about clashing values and the search for connection in a multicultural world, the drummer wakes the faithful during Ramadan in the predominantly Muslim neighborhood of Little Mecca so...

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...

Dani Perez, a secular Israeli working as a software engineer, has never had trouble balancing his faith and his sexuality-until he meets Avi Levine, a gay Orthodox Jew and sign language interpreter. As they fall in love, they are challenged to reconcile religious ideology...

In the operating room Bernard Helgm an is a brilliant pediatric surgeon. But his private life is hell - a hell fueled by guilt over his presence in a Nazi concentration camp infirmary while sadistic experiments were performed on fellow prisoners. Bernard's career -...

A spy navigates the labyrinthine horrors of Nazi Germany, on a mission to save the woman he loves"Charyn's blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words. . . . [Cesare is] provocative, stimulating...

In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, creating the iconic concept, and incidentally creating modern science fiction.In 1935, Elsa Lanchester married the monster.And now, Daniel M. Kimmel updates the myth, and tells us the tale from the point of view of the most important character:...

An award-winning, mystery-filled collection of short stories with a Jewish twist. Throughout the tangled puzzles and suspenseful adventures, the characters not only solve whodunits but also struggle to solve the mystery of their Jewish lives.Author: Joel SiegelISBN-10: 1580230555ISBN-13: 9781580230551Publisher: Jewish Lights PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1999Pages:...

Czarist Russia, 1840. Yankeleh, only son of the Kronitzer Rebbe and the pride of his community, suddenly finds himself thrust into the horror of the Russian army, an unwilling conscript facing the might of an empire dedicated to obliterating his beliefs. The challenge the...

Winner of the 2018 PEN Translation Prize One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2017This canonical work of Polish reportage is a terse, unexpected human lesson born of an occupation-era love story. Based on a true story, the raw interplay of history and fictionalization...

Over two thousand years ago, remnants of one of the lost tribes of Israel appeared on the shores of India. They became known in India as the Bene Israel. Nothing has been the same since. After religious riots break out in modern Ahmedabad, a...

Now in paperback and "brimming with wondrous surprises . . . There's magic in The Pinch" (The Boston Globe)Steve Stern's prodigious imagination finds a wondrous home in the Pinch, a once-thriving Jewish community in Memphis. The Pinch revolves around a single enchanted day containing...

It's just another boring summer for our teenaged narrator -- until Barbra arrives. An Ethiopian Jew, Barbra was brought to Israel at age five, a part of Operation Solomon, and now our narrator's well-intentioned father has brought her, as a teen, to their home...

From the author's introduction: "Summer on a Mountain of Spices" (the title derives from the "Song of Solomon) is a novel, i.e. a fiction, based on life at The Spring Lake House, a small family hotel, in the summer of 1945 during the last...

A novel of unforgettable characters about two brothers who emigrate out of Russia to escape anti-Semitism-one to America and one to Israel-Odessa, Odessa gives readers a great story for our time: a younger generation discovering their lost heritage and reuniting a family.Author: Barbara ArtsonISBN-10:...

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...

The mothers of some of the most illustrious Jewish men in recent history--Albert Einstein, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Woody Allen, the Marx Brothers--are chatting in heaven. The subject: their respective sons--and their undying love for their mothers. Each one, as before in life, engages...

Sanders, whose first novel Kamikaze Lust, won a 2000 Lambda Literary Award, offers an international espionage thriller in which a failed Olympic speed skater falls for her father's lover, a former Israeli army pilot turned corporate spy.--Publishers WeeklyThis is a book of murky morality...

--Longlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award --Finalist for the Jewish Book Council's 2014 JJ Greenberg Memorial Award --One of The Margins's 100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers"Lyrical, shrewd, and daring novelist Nahai . . . writes with acute emotional and nearly anthropological...

'Nyk nen's twist on Nordic crime fiction may be the most inventive of the year. Ariel Kafka, a middle-aged bachelor, is a detective in Helsinki (think early Harry Hole) and, as far as he knows, the only Jew on the entire Helsinki police force,...

The Romance of A Shop was fist published in 1888. Praised by Oscar Wilde who thought it 'admirably done ... clever and full of quick observation, ' her little novel seemed to herald a brilliant career. The book is ostensibly the story of four...

1974. Foggy Moskowitz, a Jewish car thief on the run from Brooklyn authorities, is in Florida working for the Child Protective Service. For personal reasons. Searching for a missing child, snatched from hospital by her addict mother, Foggy finds the case takes an unexpected...

Raining Delusions is a work of fictionalized stories woven together about those who grew up in a tiny community in The Catskills, and how they related to families, friends, lovers, life's experiences, obstacles and fate.Some of the events are based on memories, fragments of...

This rabbi gig. People have no idea what it's all about. The Rabbi Finds Her Way follows Pearl Ross-Levy's first two years as associate rabbi at a large Reform congregation in California. This compelling, inspiring, and often funny narrative weaves the experiences and insights...

Novelist Walker Percy once said that the only remaining unexplored territory in Southern literature was the Jewish southerner. Famous all over Town, the first novel from Southern storyteller Bernie Schein, stakes a claim on Percy's unexplored terrain with a comically candid multi-generational account of...

In Rondo, Kazimierz Brandys eloquently explores many of the obsessions of contemporary literature--politics, war, art, and personal exile--against the backdrop of a touching, enthralling love story. One of the previous century's great literary figures, Brandys "quickened the conscience and enriched the writing of the...

In the anti-everything hippie culture of early '80s Ithaca, New York, what rituals can a girl borrow, steal, or invent to make sense of puberty? Jane Schwartz, a lonely, Talmud-quoting, disco-worshipping eleven-year-old girl, builds a mikvah (Jewish ritual bath) in the porta-sauna of her...

"The babysitter's a spy? " When Binyamin Eisenberg, a financially successful widower, flies off to China on a business trip and leaves his three children with a new babysitter, he's understandably nervous. But the situation goes from bad to worse when his eldest daughter...

"Inventive . . . Cantor's 'what-if' story combines historical fiction with mounting suspense and romance, but above all, it is an ode to the adoration and competition between sisters." --O, the Oprah Magazine A story of sisters that imagines Anne Frank's sister Margot survived...

This novel presents the comically entertaining tale of a young writer - a Galician Jew who has lived in Palestine, returns to Europe on the eve of World War I, and is now stranded in Berlin - who wanders from rented room to rented...

"Zeruya Shalev is one of my favorite contemporary writers, her work always spiky and original, and Pain is a searing book, a wild and ravenous story of family entanglement and impossible yearning." --Lauren Groff, author of Florida and Fates and Furies A powerful, astute...

The Book of Blam, Aleksandar Tisma's "extended kaddish . . . his] masterpiece" (Kirkus Reviews), is a modern-day retelling of the book of Job. The war is over. Miroslav Blam walks along the former Jew Street, and he remembers. He remembers Aaron Gr n,...

In the fourth book in the Rabbi Gabrielle saga, a prized Torah scroll is stolen from Ohav Shalom which the FBI determines to be a "Hate Crime," initiating an investigation. But Rabbi Gabrielle unearths clues into the theft that lead in another direction. While...

In the third book in the Rabbi Gabrielle saga, a Korean computer geek who operates a successful online political campaign website for underfunded, unknown candidates. At the same time her congregation has lost a child burned to death in an accident lighting Hanukkah candles....