Fiction - Jewish

The seventh book in the Rabbi Gabrielle saga. When Rabbi Gabrielle's guarded secret about the Yeshu Fragment goes viral on public media, she becomes a fugitive from Israeli justice. Disguised as a male monk in an Orthodox monastery in Palestine. she writes a documentary...

Aaron Clifton, a social worker at the Suicide Prevention & Crisis Hotline Center, is tormented by the request to help his ailing grandmother kill herself.A literary, psychological novel imbued with social commentary, Not Yet reflects on the depressive conditions that lead to suicide. This...

Gravnick is several novels woven into one. It is a love story, first and foremost, but also a twisted family saga of murder, disguise, trickery and greed. Two families are involved - one mafioso, the other Jewish. Hard-edged and fast-paced, Gravnick takes us into...

Professor/Rabbi Arthur Gross Schaefer, JD, CPA, MAHL, DD, is a full professor of business law, ethics, mysticism and sustainability at Loyola Marymount University. He has been listed by the Princeton ReviewAuthor: Gross-SchaeferISBN-10: 8765774957ISBN-13: 9798765774953Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1753Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x...

During Billy Lange's childhood on the Isle of Wight, he is entranced by Karin, the wild and elusive daughter of a German-Jewish baron who employs Billy's parents. Years later, after the upheavals of World War I, the two children are reunited on the baron's...

The unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth.Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade...

Based on actual events, a gripping novel of sex, love, history and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandatory Palestine, by the acclaimed author of A Palestine Affair "The story of what is arguably Israel's foundational murder trial--a tale of multiple identities and loyalties."...

A Holocaust story as fascinating and compelling as it is terrifying and puzzling--a book about aging and war crimes, pain and pride. In the middle of summer, omnipresent heat radiates as a group of elderly people are remembering their youth. The story focuses on...

"No, Mama, please don't make me leave!" Sophie cries, clutching her teddy bear as her blue eyes fill with tears. "I'd rather be here in Paris with you, than far away somewhere safe..."Paris, 1940: All over Paris, families are being pulled from their beds...

After so much death, this young immigrant will do anything to start her new life.Ireland, 1847. Myra McCormick has lost too much to stay. After the sixteen-year-old's two younger siblings die in the Irish Potato Famine, she resolves to create a new family of...

Israel begins to thrive as a nation but has enemies on every side. And now, every Israeli must answer the call to defend their newly budding country as the Six-Day War breaks out.When Mendel gets drafted to war, Katja, his wife, battles the fear...

It's never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs--an active senior community in southern Florida--she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father's...

Amid the chaos of Hitler's conquest of Europe, a family teeters on the edge of utter destruction.Trudy is still obsessed with her sister's husband, Max. But Max is torn between his loyalty to his wife, Margot, and giving in to Trudy, who might turn...

What would you do if you lost your mother when you were 12, your father abandoned you at age 15, only to return when you were 16, taking a family treasure you thought he didn't deserve to have, then leaving you with no means...

Funny, poignant, and revelatory while plumbing the emotional depths of the relationship between estranged brothers, Goyhood examines what happens when one becomes unmoored from a comfortable, spiritual existence and must decide whether coincidence is in fact destiny. When Mayer (née Marty) Belkin fled small...

No one knows why John Carter has a number on his arm, obviously from a German Concentration Camp.He himself was never given a satisfactory answer about a tatoo which seems to have been with him all his life.His past - a dark mystery.His present...

In the seamy atmosphere of Miami Beach's Collins Avenue, Mila Katz, a streaky card shark and confidante of mobsters, lives by the wits with which she has survived the Holocaust. Second Hand Smoke is the story of Mila's sons, Issac and Duncan, the one...

Ghetto Comedies (1907) is a collection of stories 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 and author, he dedicated his career...

'He had not been in this part of the attic before. Probably no one had for many years. Next to him was a battered cabin trunk, the kind which was used on the old Union Castle Shipping Lines. The box had a lock of...

Hailed as "the finest depiction of the infamous Trail of Tears," this unflinching novel sheds light on a tragic history (Pat Conroy). As the tribes of the South make the grueling journey across the Mississippi River, a trio of disparate characters is united by...

They were the wonder couple: Sara, a gifted artist and musician, and her fianc , Lionel, a professional violinist with an endearing smile and a thoughtful personality. The fact that Sara was a South African Jew, and Lionel a gentile of German extraction, meant...

When the Rosenbergs decide to vacation in Kingston, it is to get away from the bustle of city life. Little do they know that the town and its famous castle hold in store the adventure of a lifetime.The Rosenberg kids become fast friends with...

The Druggist of Auschwitz is a frighteningly vivid portrayal of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of criminal and victim alike. Adam, the last Jew of Sch burg, recounts with disturbing clarity his imprisonment at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. Through his fictional...

At his own expense, he self-published Thirty Problems Concerning Creation (De Creatione Problemata XXX) from his home. This work aimed to restore the classical doctrine of creation and to address intricate philosophical and theological questions related to the creation of the world and faith....

What would you do if you lost your mother when you were 12, your father abandoned you at age 15, only to return when you were 16, taking a family treasure you thought he didn't deserve to have, then leaving you with no means...

"Brilliant and insistent . . . The prose is sharp as a cameo, simple yet compelling, smoky, precise, lustrous, eerie." -- Boston Sunday Globe Here Amos Oz captures the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews have lived, died, and struggled for understanding. In Crusade,...

At the turn of the eighteenth century, a writer--a Jew--enters an English country manor, where he has been invited to read through the night to his host until the gentleman falls asleep. What unfolds then are seemingly unconnected stories covering a vast array of...

Despite Janice's disapproval, Bari Lynn makes a trip to Israel to visit her homeland and find her father, Elan. It doesn't take long before it all goes horribly wrong.As Mossad agent Elan deals with a devastating loss, he stumbles upon a shocking revelation: he...

A smoldering novel about an exhausted young mother in an Orthodox Jewish community of Los Angeles whose quest for authenticity erupts in a passionate affair following a night of wife swapping Rina Kirsch is an exhausted young mother and Modern Orthodox Jew in the...

Patricia Wilson's latest sweeping historical romantic novel follows a Daphne, a young, Jewish Greek artist as she hides during the Nazi occupation of Athens. I'll begin with the war, when everything changed for us. In 1943, our comfortable family life came to an abrupt...

Beyond The Scent Of Olives is a historical novel about a Jewish family that fled the Spanish Inquisition. The novel follows the family from the late 1500's to 1654 through several European countries. Their adventures and misadventures are shaped by the events of their...

"This is an amazing novel. The writing is piercing and clear, and the humanity of the author and her characters will inhabit my thoughts for years to come."--Anne Roiphe, National Book Award-winning author of Fruitful" An astonishing tale of grief and anger, memory and...

Coats by Naomi Telushkin was selected by Kim Fu as the winner of the 2022 Chapbook Open for The Masters Review. This novella traces Alexa's doomed, decades-long affair with her classmate Isaac, the son of a Russian oligarch. When Isaac resurfaces in her life...

Krak, Poland, 1927: when Evette, a young Polish-Jewish woman meets the handsome and charming Frank, she falls in love instantly. But after he becomes abusive, she must leave him to raise their infant son with the help of her grandmother and friends.By 1938, Evette...

Introspective and poignant, The Wine of Solitude is the most autobiographical of all of the novels from the celebrated author of Suite Fran aise. Beginning in a fictionalized Kiev, The Wine of Solitude follows the Karol family through the Great War and the Russian...

The soldier looks her dead in the eye, his weapon raised. "You must leave now," he warns. But this is her last chance to save her husband, and she won't be silenced...1943. Fleeing Germany had been Edith Falkenstein and her Jewish husband Julius's last...

A chilling and unforgettable story of a close-knit Jewish family in London pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch.Hannah and Eric Rosenthal are devout Jews living in North London with their three children and Eric's father Yosef, a Holocaust...

Krak, Poland, 1927: when Evette, a young Polish-Jewish woman meets the handsome and charming Frank, she falls in love instantly. But after he becomes abusive, she must leave him to raise their infant son with the help of her grandmother and friends.By 1938, Evette...

Daughters of Jerusalem is a saga of three generations of extraordinary Jewish women. Lili Ventura immigrates to the Holy Land in 1903 to fulfill a promise to God, and reinvents herself as a midwife, serving not only the Jews of the Walled City but...

"Martin Kleinman weaves powerful stories in distinctly diverse New York accents and ring true to this New Yorker. I enjoyed, and will treasure, every one of them."--Fernando Ferrer, former Borough President of The Bronx, and two-time New York City mayoral candidate"Kleinman's latest collection gently...

This book is an exciting story based on real facts. Through this amazing story we will explore the mysteries of the Holy Bible. One of the mysteries of which the Bible speaks is the revelation of the sacred lineage of the Semitics and as...

From Sun to Sun presents two parallel stories separated by twenty-five centuries: The first, set in modern New York City, features a hardworking, smart-mouthed Latina investigator, Felicity Ortega P駻ez, as she hunts for a missing person who holds the clue to an ancient mystery....

From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love and loss, spanning postwar France when Israeli agents roamed the countryside to rescue hidden Jewish orphans--to the 1969 daring escape of the Israeli boats of Cherbourg.1942:...

With sensitivity and wit, Friedman creates a tableau of characters, scenery, sounds, smells, and tastes as varied as those who have claimed or seek to claim a home within our borders.In this compelling collection of stories, we find immigrants everywhere: in the poignant and...

"Evocative...The Emperor of Shoes underscores the extent to which the promise of economic opportunity still moves people across great distances on our planet...[A novel] of our times..."--New York Times Book Review *A Library Journal Best Debut of Summer 2018* From an exciting new voice...

"A laugh-out-loud funny romance with depth and heart, readers will love this spellbinding novel!" --Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling authorIs he the real deal...or did she truly summon a golem?Faye Kaplan used to be engaged. She also used to have a successful...

In this riveting sequel to The Pomegranate Gate, Toba, Naftaly, and their allies must defend a city under siege--while the desperate deals they've made begin to unravel around them. After a near-disastrous confrontation with La Caceria, Toba and Asmel are trapped on the human...

From the winner of the National Jewish Book AwardTheodore "Teddy" Hartigan is the scion of a wealthy Washington, D.C. family who place him into a comfortable job at the State Department and a placid diplomat's career. In 1938, as Hitler's inexorable rise continues, Teddy...

Jewish Stories. Jew-ish Stories.Stories about Jews and non-Jews, living together in a confusing world and trying to find a way to continue to do so, in a world that keeps changing, collapsing in on itself, the ground changing under everyone's feet. Stories about small...

One of Israel's most celebrated novelists--the acclaimed author of A Pigeon and a Boy--gives us a story of village love and vengeance in the early days of British Palestine that is still being played out two generations later. "In the year 1930 three farmers...