Fiction - Jewish

The novel is an imaginative tale of the main character's interest to identify himself in answer to a question about his true purpose in life.The challenge is answered in a diary kept by the soul of his predecessor.Author: Roger NeetzISBN-10: 1491795107ISBN-13: 9781491795101Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

A Pharaoh who ruled Egypt about three thousand years ago forced all Hebrew men and boys to work long hours and decreed that all newborn Hebrew boys be drowned. Young Miriam consoles her parents who worry that the baby her mother is pregnant with...

Sant Joan Januz. A village locked away from strangers' prying eyes. But when Vidal Bonet, a young man with big dreams, tries to turn his sleepy Catalan village into a world-class resort, he unwittingly stumbles upon a long-buried family secret that threatens to destroy...

Spanning more than a decade 'Not my People" encompasses the stories of a spectrum of characters and their lives in the late decades of the last century. Personal stories and the impact of terrorism (and defense against it) are interwoven with a taste of...

Blood Line is a high-voltage spy thriller that redefines rogue--the Granger Spy Novel series introduces a loving family with lethal issues caught in the crosshairs of global arms dealers. When a simple home invasion turns out to be not so simple, Ron Granger must...

Created by leading Jewish authors and storytellers for both youth and adult readers, these forty-three true and fictional stories excite the imagination and open the heart. Each tale poses challenges that highlight the life-enhancing effect of mitzvah-centered living throughout each waking day. NEW MITZVAH...

"Exceptional, vibrant anthology" --Jewish Book World Finalist, National Jewish Book Awards Sixty inspiring and provocative adult-level mitzvah stories crafted by leading Jewish storytellers, rabbis and authors from across the full spectrum of Jewish life. These juried, newly-minted tales reveal how each mitzvah, when carried...

It is the autumn of 1938 when Julia Kaufmann meets Erich Schmidt while studying medicine at the German University in Prague. With Hitler's army soon to invade the city and the terror of World War II looming, it is the worst of times for...

Converso is a story of crypto-Jewish life in a small town in northern New Mexico during the 1870's, the time of Bishop Lamy. Abran Espinosa along with his uncle, Don Mois s Espinosa, discover their Jewish birthright through an old family journal. The newly-appointed...

Myra Lost and Found is the story of orphan Myra's journey of self-discovery. Her journey begins when one day she mysteriously receives a valuable golden brooch with a note claiming it is rightfully hers as part of her ancestral inheritance. The brooch suggests a...

The last thing zaftig middle-aged journalist, Rhoda Ginsburg, expects when she signs up for JDate is to fall for a vampire. But when she meets drop-dead gorgeous Sheldon, a Hasidic vampire, she falls hard. She rationalizes that he may not be alive, but at...

How to be a Jewish Mother byDan Greenburg Here's the wildly funny Jewish mother's guide to care and feeding if the young, by a man who threw a wonderful education right out the window to become a writer.Author: Dan GreenburgISBN-10: 0843100206ISBN-13: 9780843100204Publisher: Price Stern...

Red Shoes for Rachel, Sandler's award-winning collection of three novellas, features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate diverse genres, including magic realism, satire, and autobiography, and profound psychological profiles to create touching portrayals of the human experience. Zumoff's translation of Sandler's original Yiddish collection...

Red Shoes for Rachel, Sandler's award-winning collection of three novellas, features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate diverse genres, including magic realism, satire, and autobiography, and profound psychological profiles to create touching portrayals of the human experience. Zumoff's translation of Sandler's original Yiddish collection...

Hilarious and sad at the same time, Ehrlich's collection of short stories, Who Will Die Last is an original and moving work of fiction. Ever deeply humane, the author takes his characters on a tantalizing journey through their souls. His understated style transforms even...

In this pair of moving, gracefully poignant novellas, sisters Pokras and Yariv explore the world of the elderly with deft humor and heart-wrenching detail. Pokras' Feeding Mrs. Moskowitz introduces us to the remarkable Golde Moskowitz, an elderly Russian widow living alone with her memories....

Like Andr Schwarz-Bart's previous book, Last of the Just, which traced the Jewish experience of martyrdom, this book recreates through fact and myth people's enslavement, humiliation and survival.Author: André Schwarz-BartISBN-10: 0815607040ISBN-13: 9780815607045Publisher: Syracuse University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2001Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x...

The story of a doctor's family torn apart by Soviet politics, persecution, and the Jewish struggle for freedom during the Cold War. Available now for the first time in English, Doctor Levitin is a modern classic in Jewish literature. A major work of late...

Reissued with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a stunning and disquieting novel of heroism and cowardiceA masterful novel that was a huge bestseller in Europe, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is a testament to the power of literature. Now with an introduction by Chimamanda...

Books have souls. . . The siddur seemed like nothing more than a dying bequest, an impulse of the moment. Certainly Shammai deserved it, after all the hours he'd spent helping Mr. Enstein, all the times he'd listened patiently to the old man's complaints...

It is the spring of 1977 and Elvis Presley is dying. But he does not want to die. He just wants the pain to go away. To whom can he reach out to? Not his fianc馥. Not his Memphis Mafia. Certainly not to Colonel...

COMPENSATION is concerned with the relatively brief life of salesman Art Feldman, a second generation American living with a wife and three sons in the Bronx during the 1960's. Lacking formal education, unsuccessful as a small business owner, he tries to find gratification and...

In his first collection of stories since Fabulous Small Jews, Joseph Epstein delivers all the pleasures his readers have come to expect: stories of ordinary men confronting the moments that define a life, told with the bittersweet humor and loving irony encompassed in the...

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK* A GMA BUZZ PICK * AN INDIE NEXT PICK* AN AMAZON BEST OF THE MONTH PICK, LITERATURE AND FICTION*A PEOPLE MAGAZINE PICKThe New York Times bestselling author of The Last Train to London revisits the...

Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892) is a novel 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...

A WWII saga in the heart of the world's most decadent city in 1936. Enter the Paris of the East, where one man and one woman strive to hold on to their dreams as the Communists rise and the shadow of Japan closes in....

...Three Muses captivates the reader from the first page to the last." --Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Tinkers and EnonThree Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust survival venturing through memory, trauma, and identity, while raising the curtain...

The King of Schnorrers (1893) is a novel 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...

When an elderly woman goes missing, the women of her neighborhood dig into the secrets and lies of her husband's past to save her.Author: Ellen MeeropolISBN-10: 1636280498ISBN-13: 9781636280493Publisher: Red Hen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2022Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Library Journal...

A supernatural thriller novelette for young adults and older: Angel will grip you with its unique blend of suspense, dark humor, and quirky teen protagonists from its first pages until the very last Freshman Angie Brewer went missing weeks ago, before the chill of...

The follow-up to her highly praised debut story collection, The First Hurt, Rachel Sherman's Living Room is a beautiful and disarmingly direct portrait of a family in trouble. With the tone of a modern-day Jewish The Ice Storm set in Long Island, imbued with...

A literary manifesto of Russian Jews in America, Shrayer's A Russian Immigrant features the travails of Simon Reznikov, a restless Jewish-Russian protagonist.Author: Maxim D. ShrayerISBN-10: 1644690365ISBN-13: 9781644690369Publisher: Cherry Orchard BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2019Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d

We Never Told is a page-turning novel about a glamorous family in the golden age of Hollywood. Set in suburban New York, it follows Sonya Adler's life from growing up in a "broken home," to the hippie sixties, and into the present with a...

A serio-comic novel that plunges into the life of Shmulik Gafni, an Israeli professor of Yiddish. Two contrasting motivations plague Gafni: his extended, obsessive search in Poland for the man who murdered his father in the notorious Kielce pogrom, and his infatuation with Malina,...

If you're looking for spine-chilling mystery, syrupy romance, blatant sex or gratuitous violence, read no further.If you're interested in an enthralling chronicle of two young men, one white, one black, in apartheid South Africa, then this is a book for you. Their destinies become...

Imagine being an immortal and knowing that you had to share your 6,000-year existence with your mother and grandmother. Imagine if you were forced to watch the follies of humanity while causing problems of your own with famous figures from history. Welcome to the...

The story of the Shunammite Woman is based on the Old Testament scriptures 2 Kings 4:8-37 and 2 Kings 8:1-6. She is described as a great woman. She shows hospitality to the prophet Elisha and his servant, Gehazi as they pass through her village...

**DEBUT FICTION** Golden Country vividly brings to life the intertwining stories of three immigrants seeking their fortunes: the handsome and ambitious Seymour, a salesman turned gangster turned Broadway producer; the gentle and pragmatic Joseph, a door-to-door salesman who is driven to invent a cleanser...

There's a global fainting pandemic that affects everyone but the Jews. Naturally, the world goes upside down (both literally and figuratively), and the Schtinklers are no exception.Sara is a quirky goat scientist whose expertise on "Fainting Goat Syndrome" becomes suddenly relevant, thrusting her into...

"Mois Benarroch is the best Sephardic Mediterranean writer in Israel today."Haaretz Literary Supplement, 2020.Prof. Habiba Pdaya. The Jerusalem syndrome: a Spanish teenager decides to reveal a false secret to his closest friend and tells him he is a Jew. To his surprise his friend...

He knows who did the killing. Now he needs to figure out why.Israel, 1952 - Private detective Adam Lapid tries to do the right thing. He may end up in prison because of it.To stay free, Adam must work for a man he hates....

"A heartfelt, delicious story." --Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia PalaceFrom the author of Husbands and Other Sharp Objects comes a witty, bighearted novel about the happy accidents that lead to love and second chances.Forty-one years old, the last of...

"A heartfelt, delicious story." --Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia PalaceFrom the author of Husbands and Other Sharp Objects comes a witty, bighearted novel about the happy accidents that lead to love and second chances.Forty-one years old, the last of...

Drawing from the extensive tradition of medieval Jewish folklore surrounding the Biblical King Solomon, King Solomon and Ashmedai: A Wisdom Tale recounts the fall and restoration of the legendary king of Israel. In order to build the Temple in Jerusalem, King Solomon is forced...

The USA Today BestsellerAn extraordinary novel of hope and heartbreak, this is a story about a family separated by the Holocaust and their harrowing journey back to each other.My brother's tears left a delicate, clean line on his face. I stroked his cheek, whispered,...

Li, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual...

The queue is long, but that barely matters. She is used to waiting. For the midnight knock at the door, for her number to be called, for the next meal of watery soup, the sound of a gunshot... Sustaining her through every moment of...

A mother recovering from an abortion in a Borscht Belt rental. An eccentric aging landlord, haunted by a mysterious death. A grief-stricken Hasid. A scheming real estate agent looking for her break, her dogged daughter longing for her way out (specifically, a career as...

"A beautiful, soulful story of friendship and sisterhood, depth and meaning; an adventure filled with cultural and historic lessons that will uplift and speak to the hearts of readers of all backgrounds. This inspiring book is not to be missed!"--Neshama CarlebachAward winning singer/songwriter"A charming...

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 "A frothy picaresque that ... vibrates to the "sweet celestial confusion" of Soutine's painting: delirious and earthy, reverent and irreligious." -- The New York Times Book Review A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life...