Fiction - Jewish

Anna opened the letter with trembling hands. 'My darling, if you're reading this, I haven't managed to unravel my parents' secret. But you can. Will you finish the search for me, find out who they were, and who you really are?' Nazi-occupied Holland, 1944....

Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated LGBTQ Romances of 2022 Miriam Blum has no choice but to face the past she thought she'd left behind when she inherits her great-aunt's Christmas tree farm in this witty, glittering, heart-filled romcom with all of the warm, queer, Jewish holiday...

Within the pages of this book, you'll meet an urban demon, a witch in the suburbs, a Jewish vampire, a magic dog, and a golem named Judith. You'll find out what happened to Marx, Freud, and Einstein after they died, read lost Jewish texts,...

Zieglitz's Blessing tells the story of a multigenerational search for identity and the meaning of a man's life. From childhood, Rod Zieglitz questions the truthfulness of his Hebrew name, which means "God will show mercy." Sometimes that name seems fitting. At other times, though,...

A breathtaking short novel about the complicated feelings of hate and pity in familial love by an acknowledged Latin American master. A brilliant and dark tour de force, Jewish Son presents the delicate archeology of the stubbornness of a boy who demands his parents'...

Two families, like so many before them, set sail for the "golden land," of America. One family was drawn by the glow of the American dream. The other group was driven out of Europe by violence, political upheaval, and the ever-darkening shadow of an...

Swirling with secrets and their consequences, exploring how revelation and redemption might be accessed through sin, and driven through twists and turns toward a startling conclusion, The 12th Commandment is a brilliant novel by award-winning author Daniel Torday.The Dme sect―a group of Jewish-Islamic adherents...

A woman must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of bravery and resistance, from the bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in...

An engrossing, breakout, standalone, suspense novel with heart, by New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award-winning author Matt GoldmanJoey Green has returned to Beaufort, South Carolina, with its palmettos and shrimp boats, to look after his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia, while...

London 1988: Agata grew up in post-war Prague and believes that her mother was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust.But not everyone died. Agata's search for her 'lost' family, set against the background of revolutions in Eastern Europe, threatens to...

I always knew it would come out one day. They are finding everyone who has stayed hidden. They would have come to me in the end. Hamburg, 1942Seventeen-year-old Anna knows she can never tell her proud parents the truth about where she is going....

1944, Germany: The war is still raging, as a young woman named Margarete hides from the Nazis in plain sight. With each day that passes, she takes more risks. But will one of those risks ultimately take her to the most evil place on...

Brought up in the Anglo-Welsh borders by an affectionate but alcoholic and feckless mother, Owen Ithell's sense of self is rooted in his long, vivid visits to his grandparents' small farm in the hills. There he is deeply impressed by his grandfather's primitive, cruel...

Through a largely hidden ceremony...four friends discover the true meaning of life.It's 2006 in a seaside village in Israel, where a war is brewing. Lauren, Emily, Aviva and Rachel, four memorable women from different backgrounds, are drawn to the village. Lauren, a maternity nurse,...

Happiness and friendship; love and beauty; art and revolution-these and other themes are investigated by the sometimes caustic, sometimes lyrical pen of Yiddish writer Hersh Dovid Nomberg (1876-1927). From unhealthy friendships, debauchery and petty rivalry, to cramped rooms, fever dreams and creeping dread, this...

LARGE PRINT EDITION. 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...

A dog, a synagogue, and a deadly crime. When a young man suffering from mental illness disrupts the blessing of the animals at Steve Levitan's synagogue, he and his golden retriever Rochester are launched into an investigation that will take Steve back into the...

In this sequel to the award-winning post-Holocaust novel The Takeaway Men, the Lubinski twins struggle with their roles as women and coming to terms with their family's Holocaust legacy at the same time as political and social upheaval roils through the US.Author: Meryl AinISBN-10:...

Within the pages of this book, you'll meet an urban demon, a witch in the suburbs, a Jewish vampire, a magic dog, and a golem named Judith. You'll find out what happened to Marx, Freud, and Einstein after they died, read lost Jewish texts,...

Can a meddling matchmaker help two broken hearts to love again? After a brutal break-up, Sam is ready for a lot of things: spring, hosting on her own again, a casual fling or two. Sam is definitely not ready for anything real, but her...

An unforgettable story of female strength, hope and friendship. This collaborative work is magnificent--a true revelation! --Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman with the Blue Star A brilliant story brimming with unexpected friendships and family ties. Historically sound and beautifully...

From the author of The Matzah Ball comes a pitch-perfect romcom following a third-generation Jewish matchmaker who unwittingly finds her own search for love thrust into the spotlight... The perfect Jewish husband should be: A doctor or lawyer (preferably a doctor)Baggage-free (no previous marriages,...

A spellbinding novel of World War II based on the little-known history of the X Troop--a team of European Jews who escaped the Continent only to join the British Army and return home to exact their revenge on Hitler's military.A lone soldier wearing a...

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....

To everyone who knows her, 28-year-old Marcia Gold leads the perfect life. A high school guidance counselor in 1980 Brooklyn, New York who specializes in helping pregnant teens, Marcia thrives in her work. She also has a handsome, successful boyfriend who has won the...

In der Novellensammlung Die Juden von Barnow (1877), die j dische Stetlgeschichten vereint, setzte Franzos seinem Heimatort Czortkow (dem fiktiven Barnow seiner Schriften) ein literarisches Denkmal. Diese Werke schufen die materielle Grundlage daf r, dass er sich mehr und mehr vom Tagesjournalismus abwenden und...

Hiob ist ein Roman von Joseph Roth, der 1930 erschien. Er beschreibt den Leidensweg des j disch-orthodoxen Toralehrers Mendel Singer im Schtetl Zuchnow in Russland und in dem folgenden amerikanischen Exil in der Zeit von 1900 bis nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Mendel erleidet in...

Entertainment Weekly Best Romances of 2023 Kirkus Best Romances of 2023 New York Public Library Best Romances of 2023 Fated Mates Podcast Best Romances of 2023 Hey Alma Best Jewish Fiction of 5783 From an author known for her "powerful and passionate" work comes...

The story of a Jewish girl, in the U.S., who was raised in a Catholic convent post WWII, who endured prejudice and antisemitismmost of her life. Despite the constant cruel hatred and discrimination, she manages to survive.Author: J. D. KochISBN-10: 1088047246ISBN-13: 9781088047248Publisher: June McClureLanguage:...

Alice Miller is an idealistic young woman who leaves the New York rat race in search of a more passionate and authentic life in South Florida. Her Manhattan salary affords her an ocean-facing condominium and luxury beyond her wildest, Upper West Side dreams. Those...

The greatest secret ever, which was hidden under the Vatican ...... has finally been revealed. For over a hundred years there have been widespread rumors of a vast treasure hidden somewhere in Vatican's secret passageways. Many believe that the treasure was pillaged by the...

In this ambitious novel, Phillips creates a dazzling kaleidoscope of historical fiction, one that illuminates the dark legacy of Europe's obsession with race and blood. At the center of The Nature of Blood is a young woman, a Nazi death camp survivor, devastated by...

This is the story of Herod the Great's mother and how she brought the Arabic world of Nabataea and the Latin world of Rome to the Land of Israel.The Middle East, 76 BCE. Internal power struggles consume Jerusalem's attention while surrounding nations manipulate events...

This is the story of Herod the Great's mother and how she brought the Arabic world of Nabataea and the Latin world of Rome to the Land of Israel.The Middle East, 76 BCE. Internal power struggles consume Jerusalem's attention while surrounding nations manipulate events...

As the Nazi shadow of death falls across Europe, one man's wickedness looms out of the darkness.Mengele, the Angel of Death.When the Aizenberg family winds up in the dreaded Warsaw ghetto, they must share an apartment with a secular Jewish family. This living arrangement...

Sometimes Dreams Come True...And so do nightmares.When Naomi's daughter, Perle, starts to have nightmares about smokestacks and creepy doctors, Naomi is struck with terror - the terror of a mother who fears her daughter is in mortal danger. Naomi believes dreams are glimpses into...

Poland. 1944. Alfred Mendl and his family are brought on a crowded train to a Nazi concentration camp after being caught trying to flee Paris with forged papers. His family is torn away from him on arrival, his life s work burned before his...

New and revised translations from the Hebrew Including the Novellas Two Scholars Who Were in Our Town In the Heart of the Seas In the Prime of Her Life Tehilla. The volume's title story Two Scholars Who Were in Our Town tells of the...

In this anthology, the central novella, 'The Wheel Turns Full Circle' relates the history of a family spanning a century; 'Broken Tablets' is an elegy to a generation of Jewish scholars who emigrated to Israel in the 1950s; and 'Truth Shall Spring From the...

At 41, single professor Sara Leader decides to create a family by adopting a child. After the adoption agency asks for details about her background, Sara reluctantly begins to probe her father's secret history -- in particular, his flight as a 17-year-old Holocaust refugee...

From a masterful storyteller, comes a Midwestern epic that illuminates the majestic in the commonplace.When David Rhodes burst onto the American literary scene in the 1970s, he was hailed as "a brilliant visionary" (John Gardner), and compared to Sherwood Anderson and Marilynne Robinson. In...

Moving from character to character, perspective to perspective, Homesick is a complex and moving portrait of parallel lives and failing love in a time of permanent war.Author: Eshkol NevoISBN-10: 1564785823ISBN-13: 9781564785824Publisher: Dalkey Archive PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2010Pages: 374Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.25dReview...

The Israeli author's poetry, essays, and stories on the haunting legacy of WWII "swirl mystically out of history and into dazzling floods of wonder" (Don DeLillo, author of White Noise). In this portrait of the artist as a young woman, one of Israel's most...

"In the name of the Jewish people I sentence you to death." This was the condemnation to top Nazi SS and Gestapo officers as each was secretly assassinated after WWII by members of the Underground Jewish Brigade from Palestine.These underground operations are only part...

"In the world of people, one and one adds up to another one, the one of their relationship." The relationship dynamics of Myra Geller's family are complex, to say the least. Born to Orthodox Jewish immigrants and growing up in midcentury Montreal, Myra strives...

Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1940 Herta, and her family, Jewish refugees, are living contentedly until the Nazi invasion, which echoes the persecution and fear they experienced before fleeing Germany. Across town, another wife and mother, Julia, also faces upheaval when her husband becomes more involved...

Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1940 Herta, and her family, Jewish refugees, are living contentedly until the Nazi invasion, which echoes the persecution and fear they experienced before fleeing Germany. Across town, another wife and mother, Julia, also faces upheaval when her husband becomes more involved...

The Boy Behind the Door is historical fiction inspired by the true story of Salomon Kool, a Dutch teenager who evaded the Nazi dragnet and survived the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940 to the end of WWII. Sal had just celebrated...

The Big Festival of Lights: Stories and Plays for Hanukkah is a collection of short fiction and plays by nine prominent Jewish figures of the early twentieth-century meant to capture and celebrate the spirit of the holiday. In, "By the Light of Hanukkah: A...

Marvelous and mystical stories of the thirty-six anonymous saints whose decency sustains the world-reimagined from Jewish folklore. A liar, a cheat, a degenerate, and a whore. These are the last people one might expect to be virtuous. But a legendary Kabbalist has discovered the...