Fiction - Jewish

When master carpenter Barry Goldstein loses his wife Ellen to a sudden heart attack, he finds himself drawn to Brooklyn's mysterious Smiling Dog Café, where the coffee tastes like memory and painted dogs on the walls seem to watch with knowing eyes. Meanwhile, his...

In 1930s Berlin, Eli G. is an abstracted young Jewish painter addled by Marxist idealism and tangled memories of his mother and the shtetl. Longing to move to Paris, Eli feverishly paints maps and watches the baby while his wife Vera gives up her...

A Priceless Treasure with a Mysterious Past... Boston attorney Theodore Murphy, Teddy to his friends, has been handed a seemingly straightforward case: to recover a valuable painting by Franz Winterhalter, Young Girl Called Princess Charlotte, which was stolen by the Nazis from Jewish art...

AmeriCorps Memoir about a college girl who starts her first real "job" in California. But it's no ordinary position, it's volunteering with AmeriCorps for minimum wage and she has no idea what's about to happen. Was it worth moving from Michigan to meet her...

From the New York Times bestselling and National Jewish Book Award winning author: a gripping novel of foreboding, betrayal, heroism, and hope set in World War II Budapest By the end of 1943, nearly all of Europe's Jewish population had fled, been deported, captured,...

"In the 25 years since [Stern] published his first book, younger Jewish writers have run with a similar shtick . . . But Stern was there first." --The Toronto Globe and MailThe Book of Mischief triumphantly showcases twenty-five years of outstanding work by one...

A vivid portrait of immigrant life in early twentieth-century New York, chronicling aspiration, hardship, and the hunger for dignity.First published in 1920, Hungry Hearts gathers a series of interconnected stories centred on Jewish immigrant families struggling to establish themselves on Manhattan's Lower East Side....

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, an epic family saga about a headstrong Austrian heiress who will be forced to choose between the family she's made and the family that made her at the outbreak...

A rabbi who doubts. A city on edge. A truth older than memory rising from the earth.When Nashville is shaken by the brutal murder of a young woman visiting from New York, Rabbi Benjamin "Ben" Golub-a reluctant spiritual leader whose faith has long wavered-finds...

Author: Anzia YezierskaISBN-10: 1025965590ISBN-13: 9781025965598Publisher: Tradd Street PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2026Pages: 328Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Author: Anzia YezierskaISBN-10: 1025315618ISBN-13: 9781025315614Publisher: Tradd Street PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2026Pages: 322Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Author: Philip RothISBN-10: 0063498219ISBN-13: 9780063498211Publisher: Mariner Books ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2026Pages: 480Format: PaperbackAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8.2Point Value: 24Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 84291 / Plot Against America

Author: Philip RothISBN-10: 0063499312ISBN-13: 9780063499317Publisher: Mariner Books ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2026Pages: 448Format: Paperback

Her survival depended on a secret no one could discover.Eva's Secret is one man's tribute to his mother after discovering her diaries and his own Jewish identity after her death. It follows Eva Baum, born "Chawa Demb," from her impoverished childhood in a Jewish...

At the age of five years a Jewish boy named Aharon Levy was traveling with his family in Israel when they were attacked by Palestinian terrorists who murdered Aharon's entire family in his presence. He was saved by the arrival of IDF officers. Many...

From one of the preeminent literary voices in Israel comes a darkly funny collection of surrealist stories exploring the increasingly complex relationship between humans and technology. Set in our world, alternate realities, distant futures, and the immortal realm, the stories in Autocorrect traverse the...

A small masterpiece of world literature, set in Austria as the Nazis began their rise. It is spring 1939. And Badenheim, a resort town vaguely in the orbit of Vienna, is preparing for its summer season. The vacationers arrive as they always have, a...

The New York Times-bestselling novel that follows the life and career of a rabbi as he journeys through America: "A rewarding reading experience." --Los Angeles TimesMichael Kind is raised in the Jewish cauldron of 1920s New York, familiar with the stresses and materialism of...

In the tradition of The Lost and The Postcard, a powerful novel of loss and restitution in and after wartime, like a detective novel in reverse. When young French woman marries and moves to her German husband's small hometown, Bad Arolsen, she finds a...

Imagine. . . A momentous archeological find has rocked the world of biblical scholarship: four scrolls dating from the time of the Judges in Israel-more than 3,100 years ago-have been unearthed in the city of Bethlehem. To add to the excitement, the scrolls were...

Colonel Jack Marsh, decorated for bravery during World War 1, is now with MI5, working closely with the P.M, Mr. Chamberlain.In 1938, Hitler's armed forces are on a relentless assault across Europe. Jews are being rounded up and sent to concentration camps, trying to...

Malcolm, an aging hairdresser, is reclusive and bitter. Alison, a salon apprentice, is dismissed by Malcolm for her embarrassing innocence. When their colleague is murdered by neo-Nazis, however, the two embark on an unplanned pilgrimage to Auschwitz. A moving and sharp-edged novel by the...

The Gestapo arrested my father in Berlin in the summer of 1933. When he asked why, he was told, "We do not give reasons."Author: Vernon L. AnleyISBN-10: 1725264676ISBN-13: 9781725264670Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)Language: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2020Pages: 242Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

THE MOST IMPORTANT SEPHARDI WRITER IN ISRAEL.haaretz, sept. 2020A.EINSTEIN LITERARY PRIZE 2023. An international bestseller published in 7 languages (Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Hebrew, Arabic, English)."If I had a nomination vote for the nobel prize he'd be in the running." Klaus Gerken, Ygdrasil editorWhen...

David DuVin, a rabbi in his late thirties, has recently been engaged by a dying middle-class suburban congregation. The community is so middle class it lacks gardeners and landscape architects. For a variety of reasons, his contracts were not renewed in his prior positions....

Etan Yogev had had no experience in bed--and hardly any outside of it--and it was not without a strong feeling of awkwardness and insecurity that he had first allowed Daphna Flinker to guide his somewhat ambivalent member into her own body, and his lips...

Ella is born in the 1960s, in Leopoldstadt, once a ghetto in Vienna, but she has no knowledge of her Jewish heritage. Her mother is unwilling to discuss the past and her father, a concentration camp survivor, dies shortly after her birth.Ella and her...

Das Haus, (The House) is a story spanning almost seventy years, and is partially based on TRUE EVENTS as told to the author by our hero Erik Goldmann (Fictitious name) and the author's father-in-law. At the request of Erik, many of the characters and...

YOSELE, Jacob Dinezon's short novel published in 1899, exposed in stark detail the outmoded and cruel teaching methods prevalent in the traditional cheders (Jewish elementary schools) of the late 1800s. Writing in Yiddish to reach the broadest Jewish audience, Dinezon described with all the...

When young Zalmen Itzkowitz steps off the train on a dark, dreary day at the close of the nineteenth century, the residents of Miloslavka have no idea what's in store for them. Zalmen is a freethinker who has come to the rural town to...

J. Jacob Potashnik's collection of short stories about Montreal and other places is in the tradition of Saul Bellow, Mordechai Richler, and reminiscent of the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Sholom Aleichem, among others. Shortlisted for Canada's 2017 Quebec Writer's Federation Concordia First...

A determined young woman challenges her Jewish immigrant family's rigid norms in this "raw, uncontrollable" (The New York Times) classic American novel More and more I began to think inside myself, I don't want to sell herring for the rest of my days. I...

"First published in Israel as Shalosh Komot by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan, Tel Aviv, in 2015"--Copyright page.Author: Eshkol NevoISBN-10: 1590518780ISBN-13: 9781590518786Publisher: Other Press (NY)Language: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2017Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2017Publishers Weekly 08/14/2017Library Journal 09/01/2017 pg. 113Booklist 10/01/2017 pg....

The legal thriller series you need to read! Perfect for fans of John Grisham, Robert Bailey, Michael Connelly and Robert Dugoni. Guilty until proven innocent... London, 1960 Barrister Charles Holborne is not popular. A Jewish East Ender with a rough past, he is ostracised...

Author: Marion KummerowISBN-10: 1805506811ISBN-13: 9781805506812Publisher: BookoutureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2026Pages: 262Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.59d

Ben Canaan returns in this darkly gripping stand-alone adventure mystery set in Hong Kong, sequel to the acclaimed Murder in Constantinople! Like its predecessor, Death on the Pearl River, this thrilling murder mystery promises to "deliver a multitude of pleasures!" (The New York Times)....

Hugo Bettauer's "The city without Jews," originally subtitled "A novel of our time," is a profound and unsettling work of literary fiction that remains strikingly pertinent. This influential novel presents a compelling social commentary through its exploration of antisemitism in Austria. Set against the...

When desperate choices mean the difference between life and death.Inspired by true events, Bright One tells the story of Jetti Finkelthal, Lisajoy Sachs' great-grandmother. In Czernowitz, Romania, this young Jewish mother is forced to face impossible choices as the world begins to collapse around...

Author: Hersh Dovid NombergISBN-10: 0989373193ISBN-13: 9780989373197Publisher: White Goat PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2019Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.50d

These stories describe aspects of Jewish life in Brantford from the 1940's; they are centred on fictional characters and events. Although 'small town', or shtetl communities like Brantford have faded away, the memory of them continues to fascinate and inspire some of those fortunate...

Filled with Curt Leviant's signature blend of humor and drama, these two enchanting and original novellas lure readers into a dazzling storybook world. "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet" is set in Budapest during the Communist era. The story focuses...

A child is wounded, a teenage girl goes missing, and a man is kidnapped... In this story about clashing values and the search for connection in a multicultural world, the drummer of the title wakes the faithful during Ramadan in the predominantly Muslim neighborhood...

It's 1988, and our heroine is leaving Brazil for the US with her new husband: an Argentinian clergyman with a roving eye toward women.Frozen Brazilian Delight is the story of a newlywed couple, brought together by the protagonist's sense of duty toward her Holocaust...

In a series of funny and delightful poems, lyrics, and essays, emma estrada takes us to another level of human consciousness. Her witty voice provokes your world and leave you with the question, "Someone else did that too?" As she writes in the third...

Emma Wolf's "Other Things Being Equal" offers a compelling glimpse into the lives of Jewish women in late 19th century New York City. This meticulously prepared edition of a classic work explores the social issues and complex family dynamics that shaped their experiences. A...

Seymour Epstein's The Esther Scroll: The Author's Tale is a bold thesis and a radically new interpretation of The Book of Esther that contends it was written neither as light comedy, nor as sacred history, nor as a romance, nor as a handbook for...

Late 1966. A sharp young FBI agent finds himself summoned to J. Edgar Hoover's office for an extremely important and highly confidential assignment: to fly to Dallas and interview a dying man who might just know the secrets behind one of the greatest crimes...

The Gospel of Caiaphas offers a bold reimagining of one of history's most enduring stories-told from the perspective of the Jewish high priest who condemned Jesus of Nazareth.From humble beginnings as the son of a temple guard to the most powerful religious office in...

Open the next chapter of wonder and wisdom. More Tales of the Magid continues the tradition of original Jewish folklore and fantasy, bringing new stories that are by turns mystical, moving, and delightfully unexpected. In these pages, you'll encounter a spice box that once...

Scapegoat is a Jewish work of moral inquiry and ritual imagination. Drawing on ancient tradition and contemporary fracture, Laurie S. Sherman examines how communities survive by displacing what they cannot bear-fear, guilt, contradiction, unresolved grief-and the human cost of that exile. This book refuses...