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  • A Cheerful Soul and Other Stories by Nomberg, Hersh Dovid
    Hersh Dovid Nomberg

    A Cheerful Soul and Other Stories

    Now largely forgotten, Hersh Dovid Nomberg was once one of the most popular Yiddish writers of his generation, best known for his short stories delving into the concerns and psychologies of those on the margins of society. These eight stories, collected and translated by...
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  • In the Shadow of Dora by Hicks, Patrick
    Patrick Hicks

    In the Shadow of Dora

    In the Shadow of Dora spans two very different decades from the Nazi concentration camp of Dora-Mittelbau to the coast of central Florida in the late 1960s; the book tells the story of the real life intersections between the horror of the Third Reich's...
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  • Saint Mazie by Attenberg, Jami
    Jami Attenberg

    Saint Mazie

    Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her...
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  • The Exiles Return by de Waal, Elisabeth
    Elisabeth de Waal

    The Exiles Return

    WITH A FOREWORD BY EDMUND DE WAAL, AUTHOR OF THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES SET IN THE ASHES OF POST-SECOND WORLD WAR VIENNA, A POWERFUL, SUBTLE NOVEL OF EXILES RETURNING HOME FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER FLEEING HITLER'S DEADLY REIGN Vienna is demolished by war, the...
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  • Don't Ever Get Old: A Mystery by Friedman, Daniel
    Daniel Friedman

    Don't Ever Get Old: A Mystery

    When Buck Schatz, senior citizen and retired Memphis cop, learns that an old adversary may have escaped Germany with a fortune in stolen gold, Buck decides to hunt down the fugitive and claim the loot. But a lot of people want a piece of...
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  • Let It Be Morning by Kashua, Sayed
    Sayed Kashua

    Let It Be Morning

    Soon to be a major motion picture from award-winning director Eran Kolirin In his searing new novel, the young Arab-Israeli writer Sayed Kashua introduces a disillusioned journalist who returns to his hometown, an Arab village within Israel, hoping to reclaim the simplicity of life...
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  • The Counterlife by Roth, Philip
    Philip Roth

    The Counterlife

    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - A "magnificent...splendid" novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral about people living out their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them even risking their lives to change their...
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  • The Lost Letter by Cantor, Jillian
    Jillian Cantor

    The Lost Letter

    "A gorgeous and thrilling novel... Perfect for book clubs and fans of The Nightingale." -PopSugar A historical novel of love and survival inspired by real resistance workers during World War II Austria, and the mysterious love letter that connects generations of Jewish families. A...
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  • For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories by Englander, Nathan
    Nathan Englander

    For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories

    Energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories from Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man gets a special dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute. "The Wig" takes...
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  • Ellis Island and Other Stories by Helprin, Mark
    Mark Helprin

    Ellis Island and Other Stories

    Winner of the Prix de Rome and the National Jewish Book Award, these ten stories and the title novella, "Ellis Island," exhibit tremendous range and versatility of style and technique, yet are closely unified in their beauty and in their concern with enduring and...
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  • Between Parents by Nomberg, Hersh Dovid
    Hersh Dovid Nomberg

    Between Parents

    A child of divorced parents, eleven-year-old Yitskhok, finds himself adrift when his mother decides to remarry and he is sent to live with his estranged father in the big city.Bilingual Edition Hersh Dovid Nomberg (1876-1927) was an influential Yiddish author famed for his depictions...
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  • Second Person Singular by Kashua, Sayed
    Sayed Kashua

    Second Person Singular

    "Part comedy of manners, part psychological mystery . . . Issues of nationalism, religion, and passing collide with quickly changing social and sexual mores." --Boston Globe From one of the most important contemporary voices to emerge from the Middle East comes a gripping tale...
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  • All Other Nights by Horn, Dara
    Dara Horn

    All Other Nights

    How is tonight different from all other nights? For Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, it is a question his commanders have already answered for him--on Passover, 1862, he is ordered to murder his own uncle in...
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  • The Last Jew: A Novel of the Spanish Inquisition by Gordon, Noah
    Noah Gordon

    The Last Jew: A Novel of the Spanish Inquisition

    In the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. After centuries of pogrom-like riots encouraged by the Church, the Jews - who have been an important part of Spanish life since the days of the Romans - are expelled from...
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  • Two Jews on a Train: Stories from the Old Country and the New by Biro, Adam
    Adam Biro

    Two Jews on a Train: Stories from the Old Country and the New

    "Two Jews were traveling on a train. . . . " Many Eastern European jokes-and several of the charming and often hilarious conversations in this book-begin this way. From all regions of the world and from all walks of life, the characters are young...
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  • The Faberge Secret by Belfoure, Charles
    Charles Belfoure

    The Faberge Secret

    New York Times bestselling author Charles Belfoure takes readers on a breathless journey from the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Russia to the grim violence of the pogroms, in his latest thrilling historical adventure. St Petersburg, 1903. Prince Dimitri Markhov counts himself lucky to be...
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  • The Memory Monster by Sarid, Yishai
    Yishai Sarid

    The Memory Monster

    "A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present" (The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice), Yishai Sarid's The Memory Monster is a harrowing parable of a young historian who becomes consumed by the...
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  • The Nazi and The Barber by Hilsenrath, Edgar
    Edgar Hilsenrath

    The Nazi and The Barber

    "Berlin was still a heap of ruins. ... One day they would rebuild the city again. I could see the day coming. And the rest of Germany, too. Yes. They would rebuild everything again. All Germany. And then ... yes ... perhaps they will...
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  • The Convert by Hertmans, Stefan
    Stefan Hertmans

    The Convert

    Finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards In this dazzling work of historical fiction, the Man Booker International-long-listed author of War and Turpentine reconstructs the tragic story of a medieval noblewoman who leaves her home and family for the love of a Jewish...
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  • The Two-Family House by Loigman, Lynda Cohen
    Lynda Cohen Loigman

    The Two-Family House

    "An emotional but dreamy novel that...will transport you far, far away from your next dreary Monday morning. You may do a lot of sobbing, but don't worry, you'll be smiling by the end." --Bustle, "12 Spring Break Reads To Help You Escape Normal Life"**Buzzfeed,...
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  • The Hidden Palace: A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni by Wecker, Helene
    Helene Wecker

    The Hidden Palace: A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni

    "Richly nuanced and beautiful. . . . An immersive and magical tale of loneliness, love, and finding hope." (Buzzfeed)"A layered novel of many complex characters...To keep their worlds safe, Chava and Ahmad must access both their greatest supernatural powers and their deepest human impulses."...
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  • The Girl with the Leica: Based on the True Story of the Woman Behind the Name Robert Capa by Janeczek, Helena
    Helena Janeczek

    The Girl with the Leica: Based on the True Story of the Woman Behind the Name Robert Capa

    WINNER The Strega Prize Gerda Taro was a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political...
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  • The Crown and Salvation by Fox, Neil R.
    Neil R. Fox

    The Crown and Salvation

    This is the story of a young Jewish boy who reached manhood during the tumultuous period of Roman rule in Israel. Young Atara joins the burgeoning Zealot movement because of his hatred and anger towards the Roman occupiers. Through forces beyond his control, he...
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  • Sweet Lifts by Stein, Carolyn Ivy
    Carolyn Ivy Stein

    Sweet Lifts

    Miriam, a high-end thief with a kind heart, steals from the filthy rich to sell to the morally deficient rich. Every now and then someone needs her special talents. A lock genius, Miriam opens any door, safe, or house. In the snap of your...
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  • An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures by Lispector, Clarice
    Clarice Lispector

    An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures

    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...
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  • London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930-1950: Selected Works of Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Li by Lachs, Vivi
    Vivi Lachs

    London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930-1950: Selected Works of Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Li

    In London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930-1950, Vivi Lachs presents a selection of previously un-translated short stories and sketches by Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Lisky, for the general reader and academic alike. These intriguing...
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  • Reason to Kill: An Amos Parisman Mystery by Weinberger, Andy
    Andy Weinberger

    Reason to Kill: An Amos Parisman Mystery

    The highly anticipated second Amos Parisman mystery"Amos Parisman is one of the most unique PIs in literary history."-- Gumshoe MagazineSomewhat-retired L.A. private eye Amos Parisman is hired by lonely booking agent Pinky Bleistiff to find one of his missing singers, Risa Barsky. But what...
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  • The Village Feasts: Passover Stories of Food and Laughter by Abrahmson, Izzy
    Izzy Abrahmson

    The Village Feasts: Passover Stories of Food and Laughter

    Delicious Passovers in The Village Izzy Abrahmson's THE VILLAGE FEASTS warms the heart.Life in The Village often revolves around food and families. THE VILLAGE FEASTS is the follow-up collection to WINTER BLESSINGS by National Jewish Book Award For Family Literature nominee Izzy Abrahmson.Rich with...
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  • Me, Mo, Mu, or Mod by Leviant, Curt
    Curt Leviant

    Me, Mo, Mu, or Mod

    In Venice, the narrator meets two women, one a devout and sensual Parisian, the other, an enigmatic beauty, who is mute but can hear. At the wedding--whoever bride may be--a 17th century rabbi will preside. For in this true fiction, characters cross time lines.Fiction....
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  • Not In America: Book One in a Jewish Family Saga by Kagan, Roberta
    Roberta Kagan

    Not In America: Book One in a Jewish Family Saga

    "Jews drink the blood of Christian babies. They use it for their rituals. They are evil and they consort with the devil." This heinous slander is called the "Blood Libel. And it is a slander the Jews have lived with for more than a...
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  • Falik and His House by Dinezon, Jacob
    Jacob Dinezon

    Falik and His House

    Jacob Dinezon's novella Falik and His House, originally published in Yiddish in 1904 and translated into English for the first time by Mindy Liberman, tells the story of an elderly tailor who has fallen on hard times. His house, which he talks to like...
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  • The Teacher by Ben-Naftali, Michal
    Michal Ben-Naftali

    The Teacher

    No one knew the story of Elsa Weiss. She was a respected English teacher at a Tel Aviv high school, but she remained aloof and never tried to befriend her students. No one ever encountered her outside of school hours. She was a riddle,...
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  • After Abel and Other Stories by Lemberger, Michal
    Michal Lemberger

    After Abel and Other Stories

    Finalist, 2015 National Jewish Book Award Honorable Mention, Sophie Brody Medal, American Library Association One of the Jewish Book Council's "15 fiction books that shaped Jewish literature in 2015" "Lemberger imbues her characters with a consciousness that, although taking place in ancient times, seems...
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  • Old New Land (Altneuland) by Herzl, Theodor
    Theodor Herzl

    Old New Land (Altneuland)

    Old New land, or Altneuland, is a novel written in the early 20th century by Zionism founder, Theodor Herzl. In this utopian novel, Herzl outlines his vision for a Jewish state in the land of Israel. As one of the most important texts in...
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  • By the Waters of Manhattan by Reznikoff, Charles
    Charles Reznikoff

    By the Waters of Manhattan

    A novel about a Jewish immigrant family at the turn of the century -- from Czarist Russia to Brownsville, Brooklyn. This is poet Charles Reznikoff's finest fiction. By the Waters of Manhattan was Charles Reznikoff's first novel, published in 1930 by Charles Boni in...
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  • Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud by Ramer, Andrew
    Andrew Ramer

    Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud

    Eighty years from now, in a time of increasing environmental degradation and after one sixth of the Earth's population has died in a vast pandemic, a noted rabbi in Brooklyn hosts a convocation for Jewish clergy and scholars from every background. Her vision--to create...
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  • The Tobacconist by Seethaler, Robert
    Robert Seethaler

    The Tobacconist

    From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story of one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets...
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  • A Girl During the War by Abriel, Anita
    Anita Abriel

    A Girl During the War

    Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is on her way home when she finds out that her father has been killed for harboring a Jewish artist in their home. Fearful of the consequences, Marina flees to Villa I Tatti, the Florence villa of her...
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  • The Teacher of Warsaw by Escobar, Mario
    Mario Escobar

    The Teacher of Warsaw

    For fans of The Warsaw Orphan and The Tattooist of Auschwitz: the start of WWII changed everything in Poland irrevocably--except for one man's capacity to love.September 1, 1939. Sixty-year-old Janusz Korczak and the students and teachers at his Dom Sierot Jewish orphanage are outside...
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  • A Deadly Act by Dunsky, Jonathan
    Jonathan Dunsky

    A Deadly Act

    What if you suspected your husband of murder?Israel, 1951: Private investigator Adam Lapid has never had a case like this.Five years before, his client lied to the police, giving a false alibi to her husband. Now, she's sure he committed murder, and she wants...
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  • Ayuni by Ansbacher, Sarah
    Sarah Ansbacher

    Ayuni

    Miri and Ben's paths should never have crossed. Although they live in the same north London neighbourhood of Stamford Hill, they come from two culturally different communities that rarely interact.Miri is a sheltered but contemplative young woman from a Chassidic family. Her strict upbringing...
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  • All the Shining People by Friedman, Kathy
    Kathy Friedman

    All the Shining People

    Finalist, 2023 Trillium Book Award Finalist, Writers Union of Canada 2023 Daunta Gleed Literary Award Finalist, 2023 ReLit Award for Short Fiction Twelve exquisitely written stories depicting the search for human connection and the attempt to fit in far from home. All the Shining...
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  • Beyond This Broken Sky: A completely heartbreaking and unforgettable WW2 historical novel by Curham, Siobhan
    Siobhan Curham

    Beyond This Broken Sky: A completely heartbreaking and unforgettable WW2 historical novel

    940, London: An unforgettable novel about the strength of the human spirit in the face of war and the remarkable women who put themselves in danger on the front lines during the Battle of Britain.As a volunteer for the ambulance service, Ruby has the...
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  • Where Madness Lies by True, Sylvia
    Sylvia True

    Where Madness Lies

    'A masterful novel. Where Madness Lies unfolds against the backdrop of the Holocaust and seamlessly reflects back to us our own perilous times. Told with utter insight and beauty.' Annie Weatherwax, author of All We Had, now a major motion picture. Germany, 1934. Rigmor,...
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  • The Child on Platform One by Thompson, Gill
    Gill Thompson

    The Child on Platform One

    Inspired by the real-life escape of thousands of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Europe on the Kindertransport trains to London. Prague 1939. Young mother Eva has a secret from her past. When the Nazis invade, Eva knows the only way to keep her daughter Miriam...
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  • The Mapmaker's Daughter by Corona, Laurel
    Laurel Corona

    The Mapmaker's Daughter

    "Vividly detailed and beautifully written, this is a pleasure to read, a thoughtful, deeply engaging story of the power of faith to navigate history's rough terrain."--BooklistHow Far Would You Go To Stay True to Yourself?Spain, 1492. On the eve of the Jewish expulsion from...
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  • The Book of Aron by Shepard, Jim
    Jim Shepard

    The Book of Aron

    Small and sullen, Aron is eight years old when his family moves from a rural Polish village to hectic Warsaw. At first gradually and then ever more quickly, his family's opportunities for a better life vanish as the occupying German government imposes harsh restrictions....
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  • The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Gilman, Susan Jane
    Susan Jane Gilman

    The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street

    A clever and complex woman builds an ice cream empire after immigrating from Russia in this stunning novel of power, Prohibition, and performance set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America. In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales...
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  • To Know a Woman by Oz, Amos
    Amos Oz

    To Know a Woman

    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "[To Know a Woman has] the powerful undertow of myth . . . A rich and affecting novel." -- New York Times Following the accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid...
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  • A Deadly Act by Dunsky, Jonathan
    Jonathan Dunsky

    A Deadly Act

    What if you suspected your husband of murder?Israel, 1951: Private investigator Adam Lapid has never had a case like this.Five years before, his client lied to the police, giving a false alibi to her husband. Now, she's sure he committed murder, and she wants...
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