Fiction - Jewish

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

"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

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...

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...

Linked stories expose generational conflicts, broken relationships and Jewish insecurity post-Holocaust. Darkly humorous, absurd, sometimes tragic and erotic. 'Verklempt', Yiddish slang, means 'choked with emotion.' In his latest collection of stories, internationally best-selling author Peter Sichrovsky aggressively dismantles post-Holocaust Jewish identity. These are love...

Jamie Goldberg suspects his homosexuality at an early age. He manages to hide it from his homophobic Seventies Detroit community, his Jewish political activist parents, and even from himself until his rape, at the hands of a male prostitute, at the age of 16....

Meticulously researched and controversial in scope and imagination, And So It Was Written travels to a time when a Third Temple is built and the Ark of the Covenant holding the Ten Commandments is found. The year is 132 CE, and the proclaimed Jewish...

Drawing on years of experience working with survivors of trauma and their children, psychologist Michael Milgraum takes the reader on a riveting journey from trauma, loss and despair to hope, healing and renewed faith. "Never Forget My Soul" provides an honest and uncompromising look...

"Fever at Dawn has the sweetness of The Rosie Project and the pathos of The Fault in Our Stars . . . A book to fall in love with." -- Herald Sun It's 1945 and Mikl is looking for a wife. The fact that...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWinner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre ﾉtranger "The greatest Hebrew novelist." -- Jewish Review of Books An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his...

The first novel in a dramatic trilogy set in eleventh-century France about the lives and loves of three daughters of the great Talmud scholar In 1068, the scholar Salomon ben Isaac returns home to Troyes, France, to take over the family winemaking business and...

The New York Times bestselling "master of mystery", Faye Kellerman delivers a riveting novel set in 1920s Munich, a war-wounded city rocked by political agitation and stalked by a nameless, barbaric butcher (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Lustmord - the joy of murder. The terrifying concept...

A spellbinding historical novel about a woman who befriends Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and is drawn into their world of intrigue, from the author of Margot and The Lost Letter On June 19, 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for conspiring to commit...

Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats him with bitter severity. He begins...

Allegra Goodman has delighted readers with her critically acclaimed collections Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz, and her celebrated first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, which was a national bestseller and a National Book Award finalist. Abandoned by her folk-dancing partner, Gary, in a Honolulu hotel...

From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, the debut novel from the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges casts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina's Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles...

"RICH AND SONOROUS PROSE . . . There's plenty of reason to hope for the future of a fiction that welcomes writers with such a passionate sense of the past."-San Jose Mercury NewsOn New Year's Day, 1959, Alejandra San Jos was born in Havana,...

From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men--stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century. Ilana Davita Dinn is the...

"Oz's strangest, riskiest, and richest novel." --Washington Post Book World Israel, just before the Six-Day War. On a kibbutz, the country's founders and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. The messianic father exults in accomplishments that...

"A generous imagination at work. [Oz's] language, for all of its sensuous imagery, has a careful and wise simplicity." --New York Times Book ReviewSituated only two miles from a hostile border, Amos Oz's fictional community of Metsudat Ram is a microcosm of the Israeli...

In the autumn, Molkho's wife dies and his years of loving attention are ended. But his newfound freedom is filled with the erotic fantasies of a man who must fall in love. Winter sees him away to the operas of Berlin and a comic...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "A rich symphony of humanity . . . If Oz's eye for detail is enviable, it is his magnanimity which raises him to the first rank of world authors." --Sunday Telegraph (UK) At Tel-Kedar, a...

"Astonishing . . . galvanic and intoxicating." --The New Yorker Fima lives in Jerusalem, but feels he ought to be somewhere else. In his life he has had secret love affairs, good ideas, and written a book of poems that aroused expectations. He has...

"An uproarious, sprawling masterpiece by a grand Yiddish storyteller." --O, The Oprah Magazine Translated in full for the first time, one hundred years after its original publication, the acclaimed epic love story set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater. Wandering Stars spans...

'The more I knew of Haffner, ' writes Adam Thirlwell in The Escape, 'the more real he became, this was true. And, simultaneously, Haffner disappeared.' In a forgotten spa town snug in the Alps, at the end of the twentieth century, Haffner is seeking...

With the publication of Elijah Visible, Thane Rosenbaum emerged as a fresh and important new voice on the American literary scene, a young writer in the great Jewish storytelling tradition of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Isaac Babel. In this haunting debut, Rosenbaum weaves together...

A family is torn apart by fierce belief and private longing in this unprecedented journey deep inside the most insular Hasidic sect, the Satmar. In 1939, five-year-old Josef witnesses the murder of his family by the Romanian Iron Guard. He is taken in by...

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller Suite Fran aise, a newly discovered novel, a story of passion and long-kept secrets, set against the background of a rural French village in the years before World War II.Written in 1941, Fire in the Blood...

"In The Third Daughter, Talia Carner ably illuminates a little-known piece of history: the sex trafficking of young women from Russia to South America in the late 19th century. Thoroughly researched and vividly rendered, this is an important and unforgettable story of exploitation and...

This epic, enthralling debut novel--in the vein of Nicole Krauss' The History of Love--follows a postwar love triangle between an American rabbi, his wife, and a German-Jewish refugee.Spanning seventy years and several continents--from a refugee's shattered dreams in 1938 Berlin, to a discontented American...

"A humorous and heart-wrenching story of an aspiring twenty-something Russian-Jewish writer who struggles to reconcile his immigrant roots with his fragile new American identity"--Author: Boris FishmanISBN-10: 0062287877ISBN-13: 9780062287878Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2014Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.30w x 1.30dAward: National Jewish Book Award -...

Now in paperback, the inventive, lushly imagined debut novel--reminiscent of The Tiger's Wife and The History of Love--that explores the intersections of family secrets, Jewish myths, the legacy of war and history, and the bonds between sistersSisters Marjorie and Holly are best friends--until Holly...

"Whatever you are currently reading, I promise you it is not nearly as intelligent, witty, compelling, or entertaining as The Fifth Servant....Wishnia makes history come alive." -- David Liss, author of The Devil's Company A brilliantly imagined, beautifully written combination of scrupulously researched historical...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom bestselling author Susan Isaacs, Shining Through is a novel of honor, sacrifice, passion, and humor--made into a movie of the same name starring Melanie Griffith, Michael Douglas, and Liam NeesonIt's 1940 and Linda Voss, legal secretary extraordinaire, has a secret....

Spanning the length and breadth of the twentieth century, Alice Mattison's masterful In Case We're Separated looks at a family of Jewish immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s and follows the urban, emotionally turbulent lives of their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren against a backdrop...

Published in Tunis in 1938, Ninette of Sin Street is one of the first works of Tunisian fiction in French. Ninette's author, Vitalis Danon, arrived in Tunisia under the aegis of the Franco-Jewish organization the Alliance Isra駘ite Universelle and quickly adopted--and was adopted by--the...

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!From the sandy shores of America to the battered streets of London, one woman's search for love and redemption will defy all odds Young Adelia Monteforte begins the summer of 1941...

"A lushly detailed look into a fascinatingly unknown time and culture--a tale of Talmud, sorcery, and a most engaging heroine "--Diana Gabaldon, author of the bestselling Outlander series Hisdadukh, blessed to be beautiful and learned, is the youngest child of Talmudic sage Rav Hisda....

Explosive psychological novel for fans of Michael Chabon, Mark Haddon, and George Saunders.Marilyn Monroe died just after midnight on August 5th, 1962; former Little League champion Kimitake "Clyde" Koba was born on the same day, at the same time. As Clyde struggles to escape...

[Slavitt's] sentences are so unburdened by the trivial or any kind of distraction, so transparent, that it would be too gross even to say that they are like angels in the sky. Because they don't just hang around in the sky like angels; they...