Fiction - Jewish

1937, Europe and America. Based on a powerful true story, this extraordinary novel about wartime courage and extraordinary friendship, tells how two women changed the fate of the Second World War and the course of history. When an impossibly shy young woman named Judy...

Author: Marion KummerowISBN-10: 1805506811ISBN-13: 9781805506812Publisher: BookoutureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2026Pages: 262Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.59d

Ben Canaan returns in this darkly gripping stand-alone adventure mystery set in Hong Kong, sequel to the acclaimed Murder in Constantinople! Like its predecessor, Death on the Pearl River, this thrilling murder mystery promises to "deliver a multitude of pleasures!" (The New York Times)....

Hugo Bettauer's "The city without Jews," originally subtitled "A novel of our time," is a profound and unsettling work of literary fiction that remains strikingly pertinent. This influential novel presents a compelling social commentary through its exploration of antisemitism in Austria. Set against the...

When desperate choices mean the difference between life and death.Inspired by true events, Bright One tells the story of Jetti Finkelthal, Lisajoy Sachs' great-grandmother. In Czernowitz, Romania, this young Jewish mother is forced to face impossible choices as the world begins to collapse around...

Author: Hersh Dovid NombergISBN-10: 0989373193ISBN-13: 9780989373197Publisher: White Goat PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2019Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.50d

These stories describe aspects of Jewish life in Brantford from the 1940's; they are centred on fictional characters and events. Although 'small town', or shtetl communities like Brantford have faded away, the memory of them continues to fascinate and inspire some of those fortunate...

Filled with Curt Leviant's signature blend of humor and drama, these two enchanting and original novellas lure readers into a dazzling storybook world. "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet" is set in Budapest during the Communist era. The story focuses...

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 of the title wakes the faithful during Ramadan in the predominantly Muslim neighborhood...

It's 1988, and our heroine is leaving Brazil for the US with her new husband: an Argentinian clergyman with a roving eye toward women.Frozen Brazilian Delight is the story of a newlywed couple, brought together by the protagonist's sense of duty toward her Holocaust...

In a series of funny and delightful poems, lyrics, and essays, emma estrada takes us to another level of human consciousness. Her witty voice provokes your world and leave you with the question, "Someone else did that too?" As she writes in the third...

Emma Wolf's "Other Things Being Equal" offers a compelling glimpse into the lives of Jewish women in late 19th century New York City. This meticulously prepared edition of a classic work explores the social issues and complex family dynamics that shaped their experiences. A...

Seymour Epstein's The Esther Scroll: The Author's Tale is a bold thesis and a radically new interpretation of The Book of Esther that contends it was written neither as light comedy, nor as sacred history, nor as a romance, nor as a handbook for...

Late 1966. A sharp young FBI agent finds himself summoned to J. Edgar Hoover's office for an extremely important and highly confidential assignment: to fly to Dallas and interview a dying man who might just know the secrets behind one of the greatest crimes...

The Gospel of Caiaphas offers a bold reimagining of one of history's most enduring stories-told from the perspective of the Jewish high priest who condemned Jesus of Nazareth.From humble beginnings as the son of a temple guard to the most powerful religious office in...

Open the next chapter of wonder and wisdom. More Tales of the Magid continues the tradition of original Jewish folklore and fantasy, bringing new stories that are by turns mystical, moving, and delightfully unexpected. In these pages, you'll encounter a spice box that once...

Scapegoat is a Jewish work of moral inquiry and ritual imagination. Drawing on ancient tradition and contemporary fracture, Laurie S. Sherman examines how communities survive by displacing what they cannot bear-fear, guilt, contradiction, unresolved grief-and the human cost of that exile. This book refuses...

This short story collection contemplates the arrivals and departures of a lost urban world. The "Silk City" of Paterson, NJ was once home to one of America's largest Jewish communities, now nearly vanished, almost without a trace. Set in the 1960s, the survivors, children...

The Unauthorized Director's Commentary on Creation, Humanity, and All Things DivineWhat if the Bible were rewritten by the angel who got kicked out of the writers' room?In this irreverently sharp, darkly funny, and surprisingly insightful reinterpretation of the Good Book, Lucifer-Heaven's former golden boy...

September 1945. Auschwitz survivor Simon Mendelevski, penniless and unkempt, returns to Amsterdam in a desperate search for his family, friends and neighbours.Simon meets two Dutch women, both of whom have also suffered. One, known to him before the war, is anxious to make amends...

A Jewish civil war is tearing apart northern Israel. In the south, servants of the goddess Ashtaroth are abducting unwary refugees. Haim, an unwanted boy, escapes into this nightmarish landscape to find his way in a world gone mad. 92 BCE. A widow and...

The Greek empire. A Jewish rebellion. A musically gifted girl strives to overcome the brutal siege of a contested land.Maccabean Israel, 135 BCE. Judean orphan Keziah has been traumatized by a savage war. As the Greek empire invades Jerusalem with battle elephants and a...

This volume includes a collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer's early work, including 27 short stories, 7 sketches of early fiction, and a range of critical essays, childhood memoirs, and interviews.Singer's early literary career in Warsaw (1925-1935) was crucially important in laying the building blocks...

A secular Jewish lawyer, Bob Jaffe, seeks redemption by representing a poor, gay, African-American man accused of selling fake artwork in Detroit, but Jaffe discovers it to be challenging as he is beaten down by the financial crisis, age, and illness. Only by investigating...

Alex B. Stone began writing fiction in middle age and continued until about a decade before his death in 2015 at age 93. A Polish-born Jew, he focused on life in the American Midwest, portraying characters who were prosperous but off-center within the larger...

Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and 900 pages later, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular...

It's 1965 and US State Department Officer Josh Ross has been sent to Turkey to settle a dispute between Turkey and Greece. While there his old friend Gabe Smith hands him a letter sent from Russia that starts him on an adventure that takes...

Abraham Cahan's "The Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto" offers a compelling glimpse into the lives of Jewish immigrants navigating the challenges and opportunities of early 20th-century America. This collection of short stories vividly portrays ghetto life in New York...

The Enduring Odyssey of the Black Hebrew explores the centuries-long journey of the Black Hebrew people, tracing their ancient roots, forced dispersals, and their modern-day movements. With a rich blend of history, cultural memory, and religious identity, this book examines the ways in which...

One of the most anticipated books of the year by the Chicago Review of Books, Debutiful, The Millions, Hey Alma, and the Orange County Register "A gangster novel of epic scale." --People "A sprawling, funny, Jewish family saga. . . . Kaplan's Plot concerns...

River Ridge, New Jersey, 1978: As feminism takes root in this tight-knit Modern Orthodox community, women are starting businesses, rethinking their marriages, and challenging their synagogue's long-standing rules.Not Marilyn Weisfeld.Once a promising writer, Marilyn gave up her literary dreams twenty years ago when she...

Hugo Bettauer's "The city without Jews," originally subtitled "A novel of our time," is a profound and unsettling work of literary fiction that remains strikingly pertinent. This influential novel presents a compelling social commentary through its exploration of antisemitism in Austria. Set against the...

"A riveting journey of hurt and healing, questioning and hope." -ELIZABETH GRAVER, author of Kantika, winner of the National Jewish Book AwardAfter she discovers her husband's infidelity, Rachel Cohen, reeling from hurt and shame, escapes to a rental house in the idyllic town of...

Cursing the Darkness is a compelling tale of fracture and family, set against the backdrop of 1989 London and Berlin. The narrative delves into the profound impact of wartime trauma through the lives of two women - whose fates collide - one Jewish, the...

In Oedipus in Jerusalem, the biblical prophet Nathan meets blind Oedipus wandering alone outside of Thebes, becoming convinced that Oedipus has been entrapped by misleading information. He brings him to trial at the Jerusalem Sanhedrin, where Oedipus is acquitted of intentional patricide and incest,...

These stories are open-ended, a subtle hint that there is something else that is about to happen, but untold, bringing together a private, individual experience and a sense of what could be, the rhythm of wonder and surprise, things turned inside out, an unbalanced...

The Angel From The Forest is an extremely moving, original novel. It chronicles the wonderful love story between a Jewish girl and a Partisan fighter during World War II in Eastern Poland, between the summer of 1941 and summer of 1944. The author eloquently,...

The Golden Girls reboot we all deserve--hilarious, heartfelt, and exactly what women want to read right now, The Cabernet Club is a joyful ode to reinvention at any age!Pour a glass, pull up a chair, and meet your new favorite friends. Debbie Gordon has...

A Gripping Saga of Russia's Civil War A war-time romance during the Russian Revolution, this historical novel introduces anunforgettable heroine. A few weeks after the October Bolshevik Revolution, as civil war looms, an argument ensues in the Jewish home of the Rasputnis over who...

An extraordinary first novel capturing a family unravelling as the unspeakable finds a voice.Author: Miranda GoldISBN-10: 1912573660ISBN-13: 9781912573660Publisher: Gods&radicalsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2018Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.60d

The seven stories that compose Regrowth (Vidervuks) might shock readers familiar with accounts of the Holocaust marked by mournful and sentimental overtones. Although the outcome is often terrible, Der Nister's characters refuse to accept the role of victim. Likewise, the monstrosity of the perpetrators...

"Jewish stories," writes Adam Biro, "resemble every people's stories." Yet at the same time there is no better way to understand the soul, history, millennial suffering, or, crucially, the joys of the Jewish people than through such tales--"There's nothing," writes Biro, "more revelatory of...

Author: Jason Z. MorrisISBN-10: 1934639311ISBN-13: 9781934639313Publisher: Chami and Shim PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2026Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

When dreams collide with war, survival becomes the ultimate performance.In October 1916, eighteen-year-old Josephine Therese Marzynski leaves Boston for Berlin to pursue her dream of studying opera at Germany's most prestigious music conservatory. Living with family friends and immersing herself in German culture, she...

'You must find her, my darling girl.' Lily's mother whispers, pressing a small brass key into her palm. 'You must find my twin sister, before it is too late...' Paris, 2011: Lily Tremaine's hands shake as she opens the envelope addressed in her mother's...

A sixtieth-anniversary edition of Lore Segal's "immensely impressive" (The New Republic) semi-autobiographical novel of a Jewish girl's escape to England from Vienna after Hitler's rise to power--"both moving and newly relevant" (The Guardian) Originally published in 1964 and hailed by critics including Cynthia Ozick...

Sender Pleskin is a self-proclaimed trauma specialist dedicated to serving his Chassidic community and to 'gently' nudging it into modernity. When a Bubmer Hasid child falls inexplicably into a coma, Sender and his team jump to action. Hunting down leads in his investigation, Sender...

"A beautiful modern fable that combines Jewish philosophy with modern problems." -Matthew Arnold Stern, author of AmigaFour-year-old Eva is abducted by her grandmother from a Jewish Community in Indiana and raised in the forest. As an adult, she becomes "First Woman," leader of the...

Author: Andrew KaneISBN-10: 0990951529ISBN-13: 9780990951520Publisher: Berwick Court PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2015Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.76d

Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark's greatest writers of the nineteenth century, situating him, first and foremost, as a Jewish artist. Offering an alternative to the nationalistic discourse so prevalent in the...