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...

"Max." Aurelia went to her husband, and took his face in her hands. "You need to leave. You are the one in danger. I am not. I have my brother; the soldiers won't touch me. You go and I'll stay." Berlin, 1933: As Aurelia...

The Ashes Know Her Name is a gripping saga of survival, love, and the enduring scars of terror.Ana Summer was just ten years old when her world shattered. Raised on a peaceful kibbutz in Israel, her idyllic childhood was torn apart by a brutal...

In a world torn by hatred, Stefan Harkel finds himself expelled from home at sixteen and drawn to the Nazi Party's Brownshirt Unit. But when the Führer turns against his own during the Night of Long Knives, Stefan vows vengeance for those he lost.Joining...

The highly awaited new novel from the internationally bestseller, and author of The German Midwife (also published as A Woman of War)."Rich and captivating...a vivid story of love, sacrifice and betrayal." -Woman's WorldVenice, 1943The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a...

From the author of Confessions of the Fox comes a novel in which a yenta on her deathbed begins to look back at all her failures--including her child. "The unleashed Id of Portnoy's Complaint alloyed with transmasculine prodigal sons, smutty yentas, and Cold War...

Author: Chava RosenfarbISBN-13: 9798987707838Publisher: White Goat PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2023Pages: 299Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.70h x 6.20w x 1.20d

Three Jewish couples are on a journey to find love over a year of holidays.Jenna can't find time for a fun fling while working three jobs and living in her childhood bedroom. Asher has realized that he's become a slave to other people's expectations...

Longlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2025One of the Best Books to Read this Spring 2025 Jewish News'A true moral tale for today, told with great humour and pathos' Rest lessCan two sisters overlook their differences?Mixed is a hilarious yet moving story...

With a New Foreword by Dara HornRead it again for the very first time.In a powerful foreword that considers the events of October 7, acclaimed writer Dara Horn invites us to look beyond the theme of assimilation vs traditionalism and read As A Driven...

The Forward, founded in 1897, is the most renowned Yiddish newspaper in the world. It welcomed generations of immigrants to the United States, brought them news of Europe and the Middle East, and provided them with sundry comforts such as comic strips and noodle...

A psychosexual relationship between a rabbi and the man devoted to him goes off the rails in this explosive novel. The rabbi is, to the untrained eye, far from desirable. Lofty and disorderly, aging and constantly losing members of his flock, he is nonetheless...

"A tender second-chance romance bursting with Jewish joy." --Amanda Elliot, USA TODAY bestselling author of Love You a Latke Can these exes rekindle their love this Hanukkah? Evelyn Schwartz has the perfect Hanukkah planned: eight jam-packed days producing the live-action televised musical of A...

Author: Yishay Ishi RonISBN-13: 9798992645231Publisher: Soncata PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2025Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d

Jackpot's heartwarming true story is portrayed through an interesting mix of narrative, original art, photographic images, and the additional, easy-to-view Quick Reference (QR) codes throughout the book. The interactive aspect of seeing Jackpot in action through the QR codes is enjoyable for children and...

Eli Wiesel, Primo Levi and others have written notably about the horrors of the Holocaust, the loss of life, and the personal costs of cruelty. Ted Lehman adds a uniquely intimate, autobiographical view of that experience with day-by-day accounts of his life. His descriptions...

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize - A Parade Best Book of the Year - A Paste Most Anticipated Historical Fiction for Fall"[Sarah Jessica Parker] is curating as a publisher some of the most beautiful novels that I read. And this one, in love with...

From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award, a novel of heroism and resistance during World War II Theodore "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...

A fictional story about a family's struggle with their Jewish identity amidst growing anti-Semitism in 19th century Europe.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in...

Author: Leora Skolkin-SmithISBN-10: 0980178649ISBN-13: 9780980178647Publisher: Hamilton Stone EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/2010Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d

"A wonderful storyteller with a vibrant voice."--New York Times From the author of the cult classic Treasure Island!!!, a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of...

'Extraordinary... Brought history alive on the page... Tense and emotional... Sensitive yet brutal...With the most unexpected end that left me breathless. Wow, just wow... Incredible' NetGalley Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐1941, Nazi-occupied Paris: In the glamorous Ritz hotel there is a woman with a dangerous secret...As Coco...

Author: Mark Leslie ShookISBN-10: 194549378XISBN-13: 9781945493782Publisher: Newhouse Creative GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2025Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d

Over a span of five days, two strangers find themselves in a sea-rocked sanitarium on the coast of Maine where, as they gather at an auction for a piece of art stolen in the Second World War, they must reckon with the wounds of...

The bestselling Brazilian satire, now available in English for the first time. Moacyr Scliar was the preeminent literary voice of the Jewish immigrant experience in modern Brazil. Now his most ambitiously satirical and irreverent novel is at last translated into English, offering not just...

"It was...unnecessary for me to fret about who the murderer was: Everybody was." A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prize winner. An unnamed narrator recounts a simple anecdote, his sighting of the Union Jack--the British Flag--during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956,...

For fans of André Aciman, Omer Friedlander, and Ayelet Tsabari, these twelve stories convey the power, magic, and pain of place--one iconic street in Jerusalem where immigrants young and old struggle to find themselves between the years 1967 and 1999. Leaving one country for...

"[Tova Reich's] verbal blade is amazingly, ingeniously, startlingly, all-consumingly, all-encompassingly, deservedly, and brilliantly savage."--Cynthia Ozick In this extraordinary collection of short fiction, Tova Reich dives deep into the world of Orthodox Jewry--a world that her stories, like the shows "Unorthodox" and "Shtisel," embrace with...

A rabbi must decide whether to follow his conscience or the will of his congregation. A young boy may sacrifice his one chance at popularity to do the right thing. A doctor clashes with a Jewish chaplain. These and other stories create vivid images...

This is the story of two children caught in the midst of war.It is 1939 and thirteen-year-old Ilse, half-Jewish, has been sent out of Germany by her Aryan mother to a place of supposed safety. Her journey takes her from the labyrinthine bazaars of...

An anthology of European and American short stories from the 1870s through the 1930s in which Jewish writers respond to antisemitism with humor, satire, irony, and hope Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jewish writers in Europe and America published countless stories...

A story of courage and a fight for survival like none you have ever read. Guaranteed!Inspired by a previously untold true story...⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Thought-provoking, heartbreaking, and deeply inspiring. If you're a fan of historical fiction-especially stories that spotlight resilience and the human spirit-this one is...

A collection of crime, military, & dystopian narratives from past and future history, by the acclaimed author of Flight of the Lawnchair Man, Eliot Ness in Cleveland, and The Last Electric House.Author: Peter UllianISBN-10: 1735247618ISBN-13: 9781735247618Publisher: Swamp Angel PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/11/2025Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize:...

* FINALIST FOR THE SAMI ROHR PRIZE * A gripping and hauntingly prescient novel that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life after a black hole consumes Israel, setting off a chain of global anomalies plunging the world into a time of peril and...

A stunning decades-spanning debut novel, about a man forced to confront his moral culpability, the legacy of impossible loss, and the claims of his Jewish identity. Paul Hartman, coming of age in postwar Rockaway, grows up haunted by the specter of his cousin Max,...

Written as an introspective, lyrical letter to her missing husband, the novel begins one night in January 1943, when Roszy's husband Moritz, a member of the French Resistance, is hauled away by the Gestapo in Marseilles. Roszy is left alone and seven months pregnant...

For thirteen-year-old Sarah Waldman, life in the Polish town of Olkusz is grounded in her family and their Jewish traditions. But as the Nazis come to power, will Sarah be forever haunted by the memories of what she lost?Author: Melissa W. HunterISBN-10: 194797615XISBN-13: 9781947976153Publisher:...

Author: Joel Burcat, David S. BurcatISBN-13: 9798888193297Publisher: Milford House PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2025Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001

Author: David KurzISBN-13: 9798896941101Publisher: Selfpublishing.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2025Pages: 506Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d

Author: Barbara ViniarISBN-13: 9798897409976Publisher: Sibylline Digital FirstLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2025Pages: 396Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d

"A big-hearted and clear-eyed story of life's biggest choices: who to love and how best to love them...Compulsively readable and oh so worth the read." --Heather Harpham, author of Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After YOU ARE INVITED... To the wedding of...

Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple of his parents' eyes... until at forty-one he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations...

New York, 1918. One fateful winter night, Miriam Eidelberg finds herself strolling across the Williamsburg Bridge with her literary hero, the man whose poems she knows by heart. Nyezhiner, a star of his Yiddish artistic clique, is beguiled by the wistful girl at his...

In 1909, Malka Kaminsky steals her dowry to flee Russia and an arranged marriage, arriving in New York hungry for freedom. Drawn into the hustle of the Golden Land, Malka joins a sweatshop strike and is nearly beaten by thugs, but a stranger and...

The story of The Lampmaker begins in the northwest corner of Czarist Russia, present-day Latvia, in the last decades of the nineteenth century. It concerns the adventures of two young Jewish boys, Rafael Yacobsohn and his younger brother Yossel.​Their parents, Itzhak and Scheine, struggle...

For fans of Kate Quinn and The Nightingale, a gripping story of a young Jewish girl who joins an elite Russian sniper unit and embarks on a mission targeting the highest prize of World War II: Adolph Hitler.With the Nazi invasion of the Soviet...

For fans of Kate Quinn and The Nightingale, a gripping story of a young Jewish girl who joins an elite Russian sniper unit and embarks on a mission targeting the highest prize of World War II: Adolph Hitler.With the Nazi invasion of the Soviet...

The Abadi Family saga begins when a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story between a Palestinian and a Jew ends in predictable tragedy. The family flees to America to mend, but encounters only more turmoil that threatens to tear the family apart. In the wake...

From the award-winning author of The Book of V., an unflinching, lushly imagined love story set against the backdrop of the epic frontier When 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a...

Amy Levy's "Reuben Sachs; a sketch" offers a compelling glimpse into Jewish life in 19th-century London. This Victorian era novel, a work of literary and historical fiction, provides insightful social commentary on the experiences of Jews in England. Set against the backdrop of London's...