Fiction - Jewish

Reading the West Book Awards Nominee The "gloriously original" (The New York Times) and critically acclaimed crime series starring a Chicago hitman hiding out as a rabbi in the desert suburbs of Las Vegas comes to its thrilling conclusion Mafia hit-man-turned-rabbi Sal Cupertine is...

Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time -- and another triumphfor Pete Hamill. Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger....

Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson-the talented daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants-who, in the bigoted milieu of 1945, remarkably rises to become Miss America.Author: Linda KassISBN-10: 1647425956ISBN-13: 9781647425951Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2023Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight:...

The first adventure in the Mirror Realm Cycle, a Spanish Inquisition-era fantasy trilogy inspired by Jewish folklore, with echoes of Naomi Novik and Katherine Arden. Toba Peres can speak, but not shout; sleep, but not dream. She can write with both hands at once,...

The World Needs a Mensch... But Stewie Blueschwitz will have to do. A somewhat nebbishy twelve year old, Stewie would have been a curious choice to be a novel's protagonist, were it not for the one unique and hidden ability he discovers. Devoting it...

The author of the "unforgettable story of strength, love, and survival" (Jillian Cantor, USA TODAY bestselling author) The Light After the War returns with a sweeping and evocative story of love and purpose in WWII Italy.Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is on her...

Austria 1929When three little girls-Anna, Bernie, and Elica-make a pact to be blood sisters for life, they believe nothing can come between them.Anna is from an affluent Jewish family, while Bernie and Elica are from poor Austrian families who barely make ends meet. As...

Praise for THE EVIL INCLINATION"An exhilarating, spellbinding tale ... that will surprise, astonish and move you deeply."- Joseph Telushkin, best-selling author of Words That Hurt, Words That Heal."A captivating love story pitting passion against faith ... an irresistible read..."- Judith Shulevitz, best-selling author of...

A bloodcurdling drama unravels in the shadow of Mengele's dark, twisted obsession.Ernst must face his nemesis as he battles to save Shoshana, Bluma, Perle, and ultimately, his heart.Marcel Petoit has weaponized Gisele's dark secrets. Will she escape his evil grip?Will Herschel and Naomi ever...

Seventy-eight-year-old Mavis rides a motorcycle, smokes a stogie, and swears like a sailor. Eighty-four-year-old Blooma bakes tasty strudel, as long as she doesn't confuse the sugar with the salt. Nothing satisfies sixty-eight-year-old Gertrude who complains that the early bird specials aren't early enough. And...

Straddling Black and White follows the story of brave, fourteen-year-old Azmera, who takes part in the mass immigration of Ethiopian Jewry to Israel in the 1980s. Azmera embarks on the treacherous journey to join her father in Israel, leaving her pregnant mother and four...

A young man returns to the town of his youth after a period spent on the road. Unable to rekindle a high school flame, Cal Bedrick, who is Jewish, soon meets a very nice Catholic girl, Frannie Sinkiewicz, who falls hard for the troubled...

Our new favorite trope: Childhood friends. To enemies. To lovers. In a chemistry-filled debut romance.Daniel Rosenberg and Liyah Cohen-Jackson's last conversation--fourteen years ago at summer camp--ended their friendship. Until they find themselves seated next to each other on a plane, and bitterly pick up...

In Nazi Germany, a pious man makes a decision to protect his family, but at what cost?Josef Haupt, once a staunch opponent of Hitler, now finds himself as a local Reich official, enabling the horror he once fought against. As the Jewish community is...

When we first meet Nomi, she is gazing out the window of an airplane taking her from the kibbutz that's been home all her adult life, to Massachusetts, which she has not seen since she left after a traumatic fallout with her parents in...

Both suspenseful and deeply moving, Carolina Moonset is an engrossing novel about family, memories both golden and terrible, and secrets too dangerous to stay hidden forever, from New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award-winning author, Matt Goldman. Joey Green has returned to Beaufort, South...

Inspired by true events, Naomi Ragen's The Enemy Beside Me is a powerful, provocative novel about two people fighting for reconciliation over unforgivable crimes of the past. Taking over from her father and grandfather as the head of the Survivor's Campaign, an organization whose...

"The perfect summer read" (USA TODAY) begins with a shocking tragedy that results in three generations of the Adler family grappling with heartbreak, romance, and the weight of family secrets over the course of one summer. *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice...

Praise for the Author's Work: "Tsipi Keller has taken us into a writer's very being. It is hard work and all-consuming... This is a provocative story that stays with the reader." -Jewish Book Council on The Prophet of Tenth Street"Poet and novelist Keller handles...

Vienna in 1942 is a city overrun with Nazis, profiteers, and spies. A desperate Nazi officer, under pressure from his superiors, bullies Lichtblau, a banker, also a writer, into handing him over some of the bank's money. He is the object of hatred on...

Sam Liptzin-also known as Feter Shepsl, Uncle Sam, and Kvikzilber (Quicksilver)-was a self-proclaimed "radical humorist." Born in Lipsk, Belarus, in 1893, Liptzin moved to the United States in 1909 and became active in leftist politics as an organizer, speaker, and writer. For much of...

Following the violent death of his father, Gershwin Burr descends into a seemingly inescapable depression until, not-so-accidentally, he discovers a remedy for his condition: he steals a book and finds his mood has lightened. Before long, he's stealing indiscriminately while refining his skills as...

The Nazi oppression whips up a storm of terror, ripping apart the blood sisters Anna, Bernie, Elica, and Dagna.Desperate to be reunited with her husband, Daniel, Elica walks into the dreaded den of the ruthless Gestapo. She's ready to sacrifice anything for their love.Anna...

When she gets pushed too far, even her hot flashes won't hold her back. Tootsie Goldberg was never one to rock the boat. Witnessing tragedy after a seemingly harmless protest taught the Jersey native to keep her mouth shut, even when she's fuming. But...

Living with her Babby after her parents' death, 10-year-old Dinah Ash is invited to train at Leningrad's legendary Vaganova Ballet School. In the world of elite dance, she works hard, falls in love, and weathers the Soviet Union's ubiquitous antisemitism, but despite an impressive...

Jerusalem, 2002: the height of the second intifada. Kobi Benami is a middle-aged psychologist whose life is in shambles. His wife has thrown him out for his casual philandering; his daughter refuses to speak to him; and the new clinic director has placed him...

Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and 900 pages later, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular...