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...

A controversial, award-winning story about the passionate but untenable affair between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man, from one of Israel's most acclaimed novelists When Liat meets Hilmi on a blustery autumn afternoon in Greenwich Village, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him....

The Street By Israel Rabon. Translated from the Yiddish by Leonard Wolf. A novel of poverty and desperation in the tradition of Dostoevski's Notes from Underground. "Bold, disturbing." -the New York Times ISBN: 0-941423-45-XAuthor: Israel RabonISBN-10: 094142345XISBN-13: 9780941423458Publisher: Carroll & Graf PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1990Pages:...

This is the first anthology of translated multilingual Jewish fiction in 25 years: a collection of 18 splendid stories, each translated into English from a different language: Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Ladino, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish,...

"Esther" is gripping historic fiction, a complex and exciting family saga, and a high-suspense detective novel. It follows a young man's quest to find his grandfather, a man he has never known, and who abandoned the family and disappeared from the world early in...

The New York Times bestseller with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide Soon to be a Hulu limited series starring Joey King and Logan Lerman Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II,...

Replete with romance, political intrigue, and history, The Furious Pharisee follows the development of Saul from a young student of the Torah and the Jewish religion to a vehement opposer of the disciples of Jesus. Al Dublanko draws on historical fact while creating well...

A woman with three loves and a son with three fathers: a universal story of passion and personal destiny by the award-winning author of A Pigeon and a Boy. When the mysterious Judith arrives in a small agricultural village in Palestine in the 1930s,...

Author: Kim Van AlkemadeISBN-10: 8885795668ISBN-13: 9798885795661Publisher: Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage CompLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/10/2024Pages: 629Format: Library BindingLarge Print

Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a coastal Greek city during the Holocaust, to America, where the intertwined lives of three survivors are forever changed by the perils of deception and the grace of redemption.Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis...

*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER* Rachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commits a drunken act of violence just before her sister vanishes without a trace On the night of her high school graduation, a...

Replete with romance, political intrigue, and history, The Furious Pharisee follows the development of Saul from a young student of the Torah and the Jewish religion to a vehement opposer of the disciples of Jesus. Al Dublanko draws on historical fact while creating well...

Go behind the headlines through a story of love, music, and the search for redemption.In August 2005, Sarah Dakar didn't lose only the home she loved in Gush Katif, a Jewish settlement in Gaza, she lost her faith in God, her country and humanity....

Set in a Jewish folklore-inspired reimagining of 19th century Eastern Europe, this queer dark fantasy debut pits two estranged husbands and a daring spymaster on opposite sides of a civil war. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, C.S. Pacat, Ava Reid, and Katherine Arden....

Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize "J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied orthodoxies. Jacobson's triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as...

A poignant and evocative novel of one Greek woman's story of her own--and her nation's--epic struggle in the aftermath of World War II. Aliki is one of the last of her kind, a lamenter who mourns and celebrates the passing of life. She is...

A first novel written by PEN Discovery Award Winner Risa Miller, Welcome to Heavenly Heights describes a group of American Jews who have left the United States, not just to move to Israel, but to live in a settlement on the West Bank. Miller...

Two of Amy Sorrells' most beloved novels--Miracle at the Sideshow, and The Longest Journey (formerly Then Sings My Soul) in one beautiful edition. Two unforgettable stories about two Easteern European immigrants who overcome all odds to find hope, faith, and life after escaping the...

"Pages, Isabel, I need pages, pages."Isabel Toledo's publisher is getting impatient. An American living in the Galilee, Isabel has been telling other people's stories for twenty years­--as a ghostwriter for Holocaust survivors. But her latest project has bogged her down in a way no...

A National Indie Bestseller and Winner of the American Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest's The Postcard is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, and a poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the...