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  • About the Night by Talshir, Anat
    Anat Talshir

    About the Night

    On a hot summer day in 1947, on a grandstand overlooking Jerusalem, Elias and Lila fall deeply, irrevocably in love.Tragically, they come from two different worlds. Elias is a Christian Arab living on the eastern side of the newly divided city, and Lila is...
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  • The Monkey's Wrench by Levi, Primo
    Primo Levi

    The Monkey's Wrench

    A chemist-turned-writer and a construction rigger in a remote factory pass the time swapping tales of their lives and voyages. Primo Levi's most light-hearted novel, The Monkey's Wrench is a tribute to storytelling, human ingenuity, and the importance of finding meaningful work in life....
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  • They Were Like Family to Me: Stories by Shankman, Helen Maryles
    Helen Maryles Shankman

    They Were Like Family to Me: Stories

    Finalist for the 2017 Story Prize Honorable Mention in the 2017 ALA Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish Literature "An absolutely dazzling triumph...A singularly inventive collection" (Jewish Book Council) of linked stories set in a German-occupied town in Poland during World War II,...
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  • One Moroccan Woman by Armbrister, Yamit
    Yamit Armbrister

    One Moroccan Woman

    The year is 1951, and just as the recently born State of Israel takes its first toddling steps toward the future, a young Jewish woman in Morocco watches as her mother's last breath reduces her into a thing of the past. Amid her sorrow...
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  • And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories of a Family by Dawid, Annie
    Annie Dawid

    And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories of a Family

    "This sprawling, warm-hearted story spans six continents and one hundred years, from the 1900 Sabbath table of Reizl and Lazar Solomon and their young sons, in Radautz, Bukovina, to a glorious millennial reunion in Paris. "Dawid presents the family history in twenty-four accounts of...
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  • The Taster by Alexander, V. S.
    V. S. Alexander

    The Taster

    Amid the turbulence of World War II, a young German woman finds a precarious haven closer to the source of danger than she ever imagined--one that will propel her through the extremes of privilege and terror under Hitler's dictatorship . . . In early...
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  • The Garment Maker's Daughter by Stern, Hillary Adrienne
    Hillary Adrienne Stern

    The Garment Maker's Daughter

    The Garment Maker's Daughter is a multigenerational saga of immigrant dreams and sweatshop realities, labor strikes, and women's rights. Lena Rothman is a shirtwaist-maker and devoted suffragette whose plans get derailed when she falls in love with her best friend's boyfriend. Jake Brenner is...
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  • Julius Matthias: : A Pact With The Devil by Mazel, Michelle
    Michelle Mazel

    Julius Matthias: : A Pact With The Devil

    As the twentieth century begins, in a small Transylvanian city Julius Matthias light-heartedly declares that he is ready to make a pact with the devil to fulfill his dream: becoming a doctor. An arranged marriage with an heiress neither young nor pleasant will make...
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  • Chanukah Tales from Oykvetchnik by Davis, Scott Hilton
    Scott Hilton Davis

    Chanukah Tales from Oykvetchnik

    Celebrate the holiday of Chanukah with eight original short stories by Jewish storyteller Scott Hilton Davis. Enjoy a fun-filled journey to Oykvetchnik, the tiny shtetl town in Eastern Europe where people complain a lot (except during Chanukah when they seem to be a little...
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  • Rabbi, Rabbi by Kane, Andrew
    Andrew Kane

    Rabbi, Rabbi

    Descending from a long line of revered rabbis, Yakov is expected to follow in his father's footsteps as the leader of an ultra-Orthodox community in Brooklyn. But for Yakov, who questions his faith from an early age, becoming a rabbi is more an obligation...
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  • Beyond the Silk Mills by Rupley, Leslie
    Leslie Rupley

    Beyond the Silk Mills

    Emma Epstein arrives in America in 1898 craving wealth and status. Her husband Meyer, a socialist and textile worker, has a passion for workers' rights, stemming from his days as a weaver in the Jewish ghetto of Lodz, Poland, where he was an activist...
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  • A Premature Apocalypse by Sofer, Dan
    Dan Sofer

    A Premature Apocalypse

    The final novel in the award-winning Dry Bones Society trilogy.WORLD WAR III IS THE LEAST OF HIS PROBLEMS... Everyone knows Moshe Karlin is the Messiah. Except for Moshe Karlin.As he wields his newfound political power to fix Israeli society, natural disasters--and some very unnatural...
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  • An Accidental Messiah by Sofer, Dan
    Dan Sofer

    An Accidental Messiah

    The second novel in the "highly original" and "heartwarming" Dry Bones Society series from an award-winning author. HE DEFEATED DEATH. WILL HE BEAT BUREAUCRACY?Rooms at the Dry Bones Society are filling up as more and more Israelis leave their graves to rejoin the living....
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  • The Silent Avenger by Berry, James R.
    James R. Berry

    The Silent Avenger

    It is nighttime. Cold brisk wind ruffles the blond hair of a tall figure standing under the light of nature's full moon. Embers flickering from the campfire cast strobes of light across a face that carries piercing stares of cold steel. The Aryan-looking man...
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  • Kabbalah of Stone by Reti, Irene Helen
    Irene Helen Reti

    Kabbalah of Stone

    Girona, Spain, 1492-Rabbi Raphael Halevi seeks to save his community from the Inquisition. Help comes in the unexpected form of the spirit of the biblical prophet, Huldah, and a Christian scribe who has discovered his hidden Jewish identity. This lyrical and suspenseful novel of...
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  • One Is Not A Lonely Number by Larson, Leah
    Leah Larson

    One Is Not A Lonely Number

    Thirteen-year-old Talia Shumacher is the only child of a wealthy orthodox couple, known for their hospitality. As Talia becomes a teenager, her parents' open-door policy begins to irritate her. When Gabrielle Markus, an eccentric twenty-three-year old ballet dancer shows up one day, Talia's life...
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  • Shadow of the Rock by McIntire, Eileen Haavik
    Eileen Haavik McIntire

    Shadow of the Rock

    "A riveting story of time and humanity, highly recommended (Midwest Book Review), "A bold adventure....Chapters move quickly in a mixture of danger, excitement, and pure enjoyment..." (Foreword Online Reviews). Two women, two hundred years apart, seek their past and their future on journeys that...
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  • Hershele: A Jewish Love Story by Dinezon, Jacob
    Jacob Dinezon

    Hershele: A Jewish Love Story

    When Hershele, a poor but brilliant yeshiva student, is invited for a weekly charity meal by a rich widow, he comes face-to-face with Mirele, the widow's pretty, bright, and strong-willed daughter. As the two innocently come to know each other, they fall in love....
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  • The Dark Young Man by Dinezon, Jacob
    Jacob Dinezon

    The Dark Young Man

    Jacob Dinezon's historical Jewish romance is set in the Russian Empire in the 1840s and weaves the bittersweet tale of Yosef, a poor but brilliant yeshiva student, who falls in love with Roza, the beautiful and charming daughter of a rich merchant. But the...
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  • Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers by Dinezon, Jacob
    Jacob Dinezon

    Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers

    Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers is the first English translation of eleven autobiographical short stories by the 19th century Eastern European Yiddish writer, Jacob Dinezon (1852-1919). A beloved and successful Jewish novelist who championed Yiddish as a literary language, Dinezon befriended and mentored...
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  • King of Shards: Book One of The Worldmender Trilogy by Kressel, Matthew
    Matthew Kressel

    King of Shards: Book One of The Worldmender Trilogy

    Daniel Fisher is about to discover he's one of the Thirty Six, a group of hidden saints who can create and destroy worlds with their actions. When Ashmedai, king of demons, abducts Daniel and carries him to the hell realm of Gehinnom, Daniel learns...
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  • Aftermath: Stories by Nadelson, Scott
    Scott Nadelson

    Aftermath: Stories

    THE CHARACTERS IN SCOTT NADELSON'S third collection are living in the wake of momentous events-- the rupture of relationships, the loss of loved ones, the dissolution of dreams, and yet they find new ways of forging on with their lives, making accommodations that are...
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  • One Foot in America by Suhl, Yuri
    Yuri Suhl

    One Foot in America

    A sweet coming-of-age novel about Shloime (Sol) Kenner's first three years in America, as lived in a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. The protagonist, a sort of Jewish David Copperfield, takes a job in a butcher's shop to help his tradition father put bread on...
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  • Isaac by Karmon, Robert
    Robert Karmon

    Isaac

    On the night of November 6th, 1941, the life of Isaac Gochman, a 16 year old Polish Jew, changes tragically and profoundly. Over 20,000 Jews from Rovno, Poland are marched into the Sosenki Forest by the Nazis, stripped and shot to death, then buried...
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  • Gentleman's Agreement by Hobson-, Laura Z.
    Laura Z. Hobson-

    Gentleman's Agreement

    The plot of GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT concerns the experiences of a young Gentile writer who poses as a Jew in order to secure material on anti-Semitism for a series of magazine articles. A thesis novel concerning the social and economic aspects of anti-Semitism in American...
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  • Refuge by Michael, Sami
    Sami Michael

    Refuge

    In the surprising world that Sami Michael reveals, Shula, an Ashkenazic Jew, is the center of a web of brilliantly drawn characters: Israeli Arabs, Palestinian refugees, "black Jews," and "white Jews." Swirling in and out of Shula's story are poignantly drawn minor players -...
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  • Arrogant Beggar by Yezierska, Anzia
    Anzia Yezierska

    Arrogant Beggar

    The target of intense critical comment when it was first published in 1927, Arrogant Beggar's scathing attack on charity-run boardinghouses remains one of Anzia Yezierska's most devastating works of social criticism. The novel follows the fortunes of its young Jewish narrator, Adele Lindner, as...
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  • Mother India by Reich, Tova
    Tova Reich

    Mother India

    Literary, lyrical, and cuttingly satiric, Mother India is a brilliantly original novel about Jews who go to India to find transformation and eternal release from the sufferings of life. Narrated in luminous prose by Meena, a Jewish American lesbian who has claimed India as...
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  • Petty Business by Pinkus, Yirmi
    Yirmi Pinkus

    Petty Business

    As they do every year, Yosef Zinman, a well-to-do Tel Aviv grocer, and his beloved wife Zippi plan a vacation during the holiday of Sukkot to Seefeld in the mountainous Tirols region of Austria. This year, Zippi decides to invite her sister, who has...
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  • Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories by Shrayer-Petrov, David
    David Shrayer-Petrov

    Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories

    These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity, acculturation, and assimilation. Shrayer-Petrov explores aspects of antisemitism and persecution, problems of mixed...
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  • The Human Season by Wallant, Edward
    Edward Wallant

    The Human Season

    In this powerfully affecting novel--by the author of The Pawnbroker--Joe Berman, an immigrant at eighteen, fifty-nine now, and a hard-working Connecticut plumber, faces the loss of his deeply loved wife. The months that follow, months of wrath and rebellion during which he fights his...
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  • Journey by Adler, H. G.
    H. G. Adler

    Journey

    Here is "a rich and lyrical masterpiece"-notes Peter Constantine-the first translation of a lost treasure by acclaimed author H. G. Adler, a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Written in 1950, after Adler's emigration to England, The Journey was ignored by large publishing houses after...
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  • Faith for Beginners by Hamburger, Aaron
    Aaron Hamburger

    Faith for Beginners

    An acclaimed short-story writer has created a miraculous first novel about an American family on the verge of a breakdown-and an epiphany. In the summer of 2000, Israel teeters between total war and total peace. Similarly on edge, Helen Michaelson, a respectable suburban housewife...
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  • The Essential Fictions by Babel, Isaac
    Isaac Babel

    The Essential Fictions

    The Essential Fictions offers contemporary readers seventy-two short stories by one of twentieth-century Russia's premier storytellers, Isaac Babel. This unique volume, which includes Babel's famous Red Cavalry series and his Odessa Stories, is translated, edited, introduced, and annotated by Val Vinokur, a 2008 Guggenheim...
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  • The Empire of the Senses by Landau, Alexis
    Alexis Landau

    The Empire of the Senses

    A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year The Empire of the Senses is an enthralling tale of love and war, duty and self-discovery. It begins in 1914 when Lev Perlmutter, an assimilated German Jew fighting in World War I, finds unexpected companionship...
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  • A Boy in Winter by Seiffert, Rachel
    Rachel Seiffert

    A Boy in Winter

    Early on a gray November morning in 1941, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. Penned in with his fellow Jews, a father anxiously awaits word of his two sons, while a young woman, come to fetch her sweetheart away from the...
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  • The Last Jew by Kaniuk, Yoram
    Yoram Kaniuk

    The Last Jew

    Yoram Kaniuk has been hailed as "one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World" (The New York Times), and The Last Jew is his exhilarating masterwork. Like Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Last Jew is a sweeping...
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  • Love Life by Shalev, Zeruya
    Zeruya Shalev

    Love Life

    Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a novel that "broke all the barriers...sexually explicit yet dense with biblical allusions and psychological insight," Love Life unbuttoned Hebrew literature and spent four months as Israel's number one best-seller. What begins as a story...
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  • Moving Waters by Rosett, Racelle
    Racelle Rosett

    Moving Waters

    A television producer who moonlights as a cantor, an actress who leaves her husband for another woman and enters a mikvah to mark the transition, a young widow who gets her hair colored to prepare for the unveiling of her husband's gravestone - Racelle...
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  • Damascus Gate by Stone, Robert
    Robert Stone

    Damascus Gate

    On the cusp of the millennium, Jerusalem has become a battleground in the race for redemption. American journalist Christopher Lucas is investigating religious fanatics when he discovers a plot to bomb the sacred Temple Mount. A violent confrontation in the Gaza Strip, a race...
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  • Kalooki Nights by Jacobson, Howard
    Howard Jacobson

    Kalooki Nights

    Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s. Growing up, Max is surrounded by Jews, each with an entirely different and outspoken view on...
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  • The Days of Awe by Nissenson, Hugh
    Hugh Nissenson

    The Days of Awe

    Washington Post Best Books of 2005.Philadelphia Inquirer Top 10 Fiction Pick, Fall 2005At age 67, Artie Rubin finds his world shaken to its foundation by events he cannot control. His tale his both universal and unique; it is the story of the end of...
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  • Trial by Rivera-Garcia, Jose
    Jose Rivera-Garcia

    Trial

    What's it like to be Jewish full of traditions? Being a foreigner in a new land and still feeling ostracized. Being moved from one country to the next in order to survive as a family and a people. Only Religion and Traditions could save...
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  • Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Kertész, Imre
    Imre Kert駸z

    Kaddish for an Unborn Child

    The first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is "No." It is how the novel's narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child. It is the answer he...
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  • The Mandela Plot by Bonert, Kenneth
    Kenneth Bonert

    The Mandela Plot

    A Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award--Fiction For fans of The Kite Runner and A Brief History of Seven Killings, a page-turning literary and political thriller set in apartheid Johannesburg As the 1980s draw to a close, South Africa is a maelstrom of...
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  • Muck by Burstein, Dror
    Dror Burstein

    Muck

    "Those who lament that the novel has lost its prophecy should pay heed and cover-price: Muck is the future, both of Jerusalem and of literature. God is showing some rare good taste, by choosing to speak to us through Dror Burstein." --Joshua Cohen, author...
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  • The Debt of Tamar by Dweck, Nicole
    Nicole Dweck

    Debt of Tamar

    A USA TODAY Best seller! Bestselling author Nicole Dweck brings to life one of history's greatest yet overlooked stories of love and resilience. In 2002, thirty-two-year-old Selim Osman, the last descendant of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, flees Istanbul for New York. In...
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  • Leaving Lucy Pear by Solomon, Anna
    Anna Solomon

    Leaving Lucy Pear

    "A novel about the entangled lives of two women in 1920s New England, both mothers to the same unforgettable girl"--Author: Anna SolomonISBN-10: 1101981768ISBN-13: 9781101981764Publisher: Penguin BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2017Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d
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  • The Last Train to London Lib/E by Clayton, Meg Waite
    Meg Waite Clayton

    The Last Train to London Lib/E

    The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of...
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  • Gay Passover: The gayest version of Exodus ever told by Charnley, Max
    Max Charnley

    Gay Passover: The gayest version of Exodus ever told

    This is a haggadah, but an unconventional one. Many in the LGBTQ community come from humble roots; We move from suburban, conservative areas to big cities. We come to terms with our identities as being different from the families that raised us. This story...
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