Fiction - Jewish

In the second book in the Rabbi Gabrielle saga, Gabby -- in her new role as senior rabbi at Congregation Ohav Shalom -- must perform a funeral for her favorite Bar Mitzvah boy, now a young man recently murdered in a remote Washington DC...

First published in 1876, "Daniel Deronda" was George Eliot's final novel. Controversial in its time for its morally ambiguous characterizations and its sympathy for the proto-Zionist movement, the novel is regarded today as one of the great social satires of the Victorian era. The...

In his classic followup to his debut story collection, Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer continues to introduce readers to his unique brand of fiction in eleven unforgettable stories. Praise: "The most brilliant living representative of the Yiddish language in prose...

A funny, fresh, and brilliantly insightful collection of stories from a beloved writer, with a new introduction by Francine ProseJohanna Kaplan's beautifully written stories first burst on the literary scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Today they have retained all of their...

They would not be the first or last orphans to have washed up on the shore. If there was one universal truth it was that mothers, who only had one life jacket would always put it on their child...Elijah rarely gives thought to the...

Lively and engaging new view of London's Jewish East End through translated stories of its Yiddish writers. 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...

The Greek empire. A Jewish rebellion. A musically gifted girl strives to overcome the brutal siege of a contested land.Maccabean Israel, 135 BCE. Judean orphan Keziah has been traumatized by a savage war. As the Greek empire invades Jerusalem with battle elephants and a...

A new generation. A dangerous town. Can an immigrant family make room for new traditions?Portland, 1854. David Kaplan dreams of a fresh start. But when he and his family arrive in Oregon, he's surprised to find the rules of the past no longer apply....

In the words of Lee Child on Gone to Dust, "I want more of Nils Shapiro." New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award-winning author Matt Goldman happily obliges by bringing the Minneapolis private detective back for another thrilling, standalone adventure in Dead West.Nils Shapiro...

In 1945 seventeen-year-old Sal Hecht feels like a prisoner in New York City. For four years, he dreamt of fighting in the Second World War and being a hero. Now that the war has ended, it seems, at least to Sal, that his life...

What if? What if Jesus had not died on the cross? How would he have lived his remaining years, and what would he say about his life, his ministry, and his alleged death? In this fictional account, told from the perspective of Jesus, readers...

In this lighthearted novel that received the Madcap Award for Romantic Comedy, 62-year-old BJ, widowed six years ago, is once again enjoying a successful career, a nice house, and a pleasant life . . . until her younger sister, Iris, moves in with her....

It is 1998. The old Soviet Union is dead, and the new Russia is awash in corruption and despair. Manya and Yuri Zalinikov, secular Jews -- he, a gifted mathematician recently dismissed from the Academy; she, a talented concert pianist -- sell black market...

This delightful book presents fairy tales based on Talmudic and rabbinic literature. Aunt Naomi was interested in compiling the folklore and legends of the Jewish people, from the earliest times up until the dawn of the modern era. This Folktales are characterized by the...

This remarkable story is challenging and unpredictable, dissecting unique and thought-provoking life paths with literary precision. --Self-Publishing Review, ★★★★1/2"Capturing the root, growth and revelations of romance during a tumultuous time in history, Uri Full of Light by author Holly Sortland is a vivid cultural...

"This cast of senior sleuths made me laugh out loud."The High Holidays are approaching. So is murder.At the upscale Menorah Retirement Home, residents are expiring under peculiar circumstances.Accidental? Not to Ellie Shapiro and her octogenarian pal Riva, who are convinced that a killer is...

A historical romantic comedy and the prequel to the Herring Cove Road (Not-So-Nuclear Family Saga) series.With her mother's death two years before, her father's recent marriage to a woman she doesn't get along with, and then finding herself engaged to a man she isn't...

Book 3 of 4 of the Herring Cove Road series With Blue's father in prison for selling marijuana and his mother estranged for over the last seven years, Blue is doing well, all considering. As the second addition to the not-so-nuclear Dixon family of...

Book 2 of 4 of the Herring Cove Road (Not-So-Nuclear Family Saga) series.Ten-year-old Dewey is moving, and he couldn't be more excited; though, he's alone in his enthusiasm. Lisa, his mother, and recently retired Avriel, his next-door neighbor and best buddy, don't share in...

2016 Bronze IPPY AWARD WINNER "Compelling . . . engaging . . . a moving family saga" Kirkus Reviews From the author of the Book Club favorite, Pictures of the Past, comes another multi-layered novel, ripe with the twists and turns of the best...

While Licco Hazan, the narrator of this novel, was held captive at a Bulgarian labor camp in World War II, he could hardly imagine that one day he d have a much brighter future in the far-off, frightening Amazon.Accompanying the lives of this character...

A turn-of-the-century Jewish boy works his way up through the gangs of New York.When Alex Cohen arrives in 1915 America, he seizes the land of opportunity with both hands and grabs it by the throat. But success breeds distrust and Alex must choose between...

In the autumn of 1895, citizens of Leadville, Colorado construct the Ice Palace: a last sign of hope for the fading silver mining town. There, on New Year's Eve beneath the magic lights and frozen ramparts of this fantastic ice marvel, June Selig and...

Magnificent in scope, internationally lauded, and transcendent, the novel in verse that inspired the sensational West End and Off-Broadway play of the same name. The Lehman Trilogy follows the epic rise and fall of three generations of that infamous family and through them tells...

First published in 1898, and here made available for the first time in English in a translation by Brian Stableford, The Gate of Ivory was the last of Symbolist Bernard Lazare's volumes of fiction to be released before his time was wholly taken up...

Willy presents an intergenerational combative relationship which has been lifted wholesale from Europe to America, with the same contentious features in play. The dual narrative of father and son, deriving from literalist observance and heterodox dissent respectively, obtains with equal force on both sides...

Book 3 of 4 of the Herring Cove Road series With Blue's father in prison for selling marijuana and his mother estranged for over the last seven years, Blue is doing well, all considering. As the second addition to the not-so-nuclear Dixon family of...

Book 2 of 4 of the Herring Cove Road (Not-So-Nuclear Family Saga) series.Ten-year-old Dewey is moving, and he couldn't be more excited; though, he's alone in his enthusiasm. Lisa, his mother, and recently retired Avriel, his next-door neighbor and best buddy, don't share in...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2017In Jerusalem's Old City a young priest and a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon's windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; and in Postwar Japan...

A young German woman, thinking she can escape her memories of wartime Berlin, moves to London in 1954 under her new name of Charlotte Brown. The offer of a prestigious job at the National Gallery leads her to believe that she can establish a...

"An unabashed tale that does not pull punches and looks at love's underside...This breathless story should only be read in one sitting. It hits hard and never lets up. Terse, brusque, etched on one's inner thigh with an old serrated knife." --Andr Aciman, author...

THROUGH SHADOWS SLOW by Abraham Boyarsky*Winner of the CJLA 2020 Award for FictionDaniel is in the twilight of his life, tormented by doubts, of cuckolding, an illegitimate son, his late wife's 'dissolute' nature, the horrors of war and the inanity of all human activity....

Inspired by an incredible true story of two Jewish friends who survived the Holocaust, this sweeping novel of love and friendship spans World War II from Budapest to Austria and the postwar years from Naples to Caracas, perfect for fans of The German Girl...

A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the United States and follows a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War II--and the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival.Love brought them together. But only...

Days before his thirty-third birthday, Jacob Paul, an ordinary New Yorker, learns that his life is the dream of a man being slowly gassed in the back of a box truck headed from the Chelmno extermination camp to a mass grave in the Polish...

Jerusha's father dotes on her and calls her Royalty, a lioness who will one day dance before his King. She adores her father, but cannot tell him her darkest secret. Instead of dancing like other Jewish girls, Jerusha sits alone plagued by guilt for...

At the age of twelve, Eva Salomon becomes disillusioned about all the "isms" raging through her world. Crushed by her father's rigid Jewish orthodoxy and by the cruelties of a burgeoning Nazi regime, she renounces all belief systems, and even belief itself. Five years...

Dani Perez, a secular Israeli working as a software engineer, has never had trouble balancing his faith and his sexuality-until he meets Avi Levine, a gay Orthodox Jew and sign language interpreter. As they fall in love, they are challenged to reconcile religious ideology...

In the operating room Bernard Helgm an is a brilliant pediatric surgeon. But his private life is hell - a hell fueled by guilt over his presence in a Nazi concentration camp infirmary while sadistic experiments were performed on fellow prisoners. Bernard's career -...

A spy navigates the labyrinthine horrors of Nazi Germany, on a mission to save the woman he loves"Charyn's blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words. . . . [Cesare is] provocative, stimulating...

In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, creating the iconic concept, and incidentally creating modern science fiction.In 1935, Elsa Lanchester married the monster.And now, Daniel M. Kimmel updates the myth, and tells us the tale from the point of view of the most important character:...

An award-winning, mystery-filled collection of short stories with a Jewish twist. Throughout the tangled puzzles and suspenseful adventures, the characters not only solve whodunits but also struggle to solve the mystery of their Jewish lives.Author: Joel SiegelISBN-10: 1580230555ISBN-13: 9781580230551Publisher: Jewish Lights PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1999Pages:...

Czarist Russia, 1840. Yankeleh, only son of the Kronitzer Rebbe and the pride of his community, suddenly finds himself thrust into the horror of the Russian army, an unwilling conscript facing the might of an empire dedicated to obliterating his beliefs. The challenge the...

Winner of the 2018 PEN Translation Prize One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2017This canonical work of Polish reportage is a terse, unexpected human lesson born of an occupation-era love story. Based on a true story, the raw interplay of history and fictionalization...

Over two thousand years ago, remnants of one of the lost tribes of Israel appeared on the shores of India. They became known in India as the Bene Israel. Nothing has been the same since. After religious riots break out in modern Ahmedabad, a...

Now in paperback and "brimming with wondrous surprises . . . There's magic in The Pinch" (The Boston Globe)Steve Stern's prodigious imagination finds a wondrous home in the Pinch, a once-thriving Jewish community in Memphis. The Pinch revolves around a single enchanted day containing...

It's just another boring summer for our teenaged narrator -- until Barbra arrives. An Ethiopian Jew, Barbra was brought to Israel at age five, a part of Operation Solomon, and now our narrator's well-intentioned father has brought her, as a teen, to their home...

From the author's introduction: "Summer on a Mountain of Spices" (the title derives from the "Song of Solomon) is a novel, i.e. a fiction, based on life at The Spring Lake House, a small family hotel, in the summer of 1945 during the last...

A novel of unforgettable characters about two brothers who emigrate out of Russia to escape anti-Semitism-one to America and one to Israel-Odessa, Odessa gives readers a great story for our time: a younger generation discovering their lost heritage and reuniting a family.Author: Barbara ArtsonISBN-10:...

Marge Piercy's debut collection of short stories, The Cost of Lunch, Etc., brings us glimpses into the lives of everyday women moving through and making sense of their daily internal and external worlds. Keeping to the engaging, accessible language of Piercy's novels, the collection...