Fiction - Jewish

Rabbi Isaac Abrams escaped the Holocaust and wandered in search of mission and meaning. He arrived in a small university town walking the quiet streets at night in vocal argument with . . . whom? One evening he encountered Jack Israel, a professor of...

A woman reveals her most intimate fantasy... a stolen secret which could lead to murder A strait-laced patient in San Diego running for District Attorney is threatened by a midnight phone caller who knows her dirty secret--her fantasy of living as a prostitute--a secret...

Embark on an electrifying journey with Professor Yoshua Rosenberg as he stumbles upon a revelation that could reshape history.After years of relentless research into the enigmatic legends surrounding the Light of Justice, Prof. Rosenberg's archaeological team makes an astonishing discovery--a 500-year-old book containing the...

1941, Germany: There's a man in uniform outside my door. They've come for her. My beautiful little girl is wrenched from our home and there's nothing I can do to stop it. But I vow to find Clara... no matter what it takes. Minki...

Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely exploration of the fault lines in a community, a school, and a family, as a mother begins to suspect her teenage son of committing a terrible crime. Lilach has it all: a beautiful home in the...

Albie Greenberg, born in New York at the start of World War II, wants to be accepted as normal. His parents, fearing post-Holocaust that their Jewish identity could become a death sentence, have never once discussed religion in Albie's presence, and practice none.For Albie's...

First published in 1937, Meyer Levin's novel The Old Bunch recounts the lives of 19 teenagers-11 boys and 8 girls- from the same neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. Too young for World War I, they will later be too old for World War II....

Mark Glassman does a surprisingly good job of feigning confidence, fooling everyone but himself. Mark Glassman is twenty-five in 1979. Self-taught after dropping out of college, he devises a course of study that encompasses such varied works as The Sorrows of Young Werther, The...

Winner of the 2019 Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award, short-listed for the 2019 JQ Wingate Literary Prize, and a Finalist for the 2019 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of Entertainment Weekly's 20 Books to Read in March and one of...

In his thirteenth book, acclaimed poet, critic, and memoirist David Biespiel turns to the novel to tell a story about Houston that has few, if any, parallels in Texas literature. It's the first year of the Reagan era. Jon "Duke" Wain, a charmed 18-year-old...

Eva: A Novel of the Holocaust, first published in 1959, is a fictionalized account of Ida Loew, a young Jewish girl from Poland who survived the Jewish pogroms of the Nazis and the Auschwitz camp. The book opens with the girl at age 16...

A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home. A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika--"song" in Ladino--follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter...

"An intricately detailed novel of resistance and community." --Kirkus ReviewsThis beautiful new work of historical fiction was inspired by the diary of an 18th-century Roman Jewish girl who was imprisoned in a convent cell by the Catholic Church in an attempt to forcibly convert...

"Brav's is a unique style and voice, one that can grip the reader, draw them in, and hold them even after the last page."- Independent Book ReviewWhat if the key to your wholeness lay in your wounding?2011: Sarah Baum is a white humanitarian nurse...

Fleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenage peasant in Ukraine in the 1880s, is taken in by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. Feeling the warmth of family life for the first time and incorporating the family's customs and rituals into her own...

In the tradition of epic novels like Exodus and Cast a Giant Shadow, Isaac's Beacon is a sweeping historical tale based on the real events of Israel's founding--bringing alive the power and complexities of the birth of the Jewish state out of the ashes...

Fleeing post-World War II Germany, an aristocratic young man and his Nazi officer father are spirited away to the Brazilian jungle to help create a new, occult-obsessed, German Reich...but love, ambition, and vengeance interfere. In the waning days of World War II, fourteen-year-old Axel,...

This novel is the saga in five parts of Isaac Jacob Blumenfeld, who grows up in Kolodetz, a small town near Lvov, which, when he's a boy, belongs to the Hapsburg Empire, but which subsequently belongs to Poland, Soviet Russia, Germany, and then Russia...

Elisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, famous musicians, Hilde, a young film extra, and Vladek, an Eastern European adventurer wanted by the police on political charges, flee Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of World War II. A magnet for every human ambition and vice,...

A mesmerizing, poetic autofiction about the quest to find meaning in family tragedies, and a sense of self after loss. In 2012, Theseus heads east in search of a new life, fleeing the painful memories of his past: the suicide of his older brother,...

At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf is the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in World War II France, living "in hiding" as a Catholic orphan with a family in a small village.When Danielle Marton's father is killed during the early days...

A deeply moving interwar romance set between 1930s Austria and 1980s Ireland, based on a real-life unsolved mystery. 1930s Austria. Vienna is a bustling, cosmopolitan city on the brink of war. Matthias Sindelar is an internationally renowned soccer player known as "The Paper Man"...

Drawing from the extensive tradition of medieval Jewish folklore surrounding the Biblical King Solomon, King Solomon and Ashmedai: A Wisdom Tale recounts the fall and restoration of the legendary king of Israel. In order to build the Temple in Jerusalem, King Solomon is forced...

Renate Edler loves to visit her grandmother in the house on Schellberg Street. She often meets up with her friend Hani G dde who lives nearby. This year, though, it is not to be. Just a few weeks after a night when synagogues are...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD AND THE JEWISH FICTION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIESGOOD MORNING AMERICA MUST READ NEW BOOKS * NEW YORK POST BUZZ BOOKS * THE MILLIONS MOST ANTICIPATEDA remarkable debut novel--written with the fearless imagination of Michael...

A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects eighteen astounding works of Jewish fiction.This is the first anthology of translated multilingual Jewish fiction in 25 years: a collection of...

* An Award Winning Book. Immerse yourself in this award-winning masterpiece that has garnered 11 prestigious book awards.*Friddie, 18, is an ordinary yet rebellious young Jewish woman, living in Bucharest in the 1930s. Born and raised in Romania's capital, she dreams of living as...

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE"Outstanding."--Alex Harvey, Los Angeles Review of Books"Captivating...A delight."--Malcolm Forbes, Washington Examiner"A really warm and wonderful and fun and happy book."--NPR's All Sides with Ann Fischer"Beautifully written and filled with compassion, humor and an abundance of knowledge about old Hollywood,...

Part novel and part memoir, Yoel Hoffmann's Moods is flooded with feelings, evoked by his family, losses, loves, the soul's hidden powers, old phone books, and life in the Galilee--with its every scent, breeze, notable dog, and odd neighbor. Carrying these shards is a...

War and the Holocaust tear three young girls from their youthful innocence.Catapulted into their new lives, they become extraordinary women of resilience, grit and grace.An unrelenting pursuit of forgiveness and peace for humanity follows.The essences of individual humans are substantially more alike than they...

When the young narrator of Miriam Karpilove's A Provincial Newspaper leaves New York to work for a new Yiddish newspaper in Massachusetts, she expects to be treated with respect as a professional writer. Instead, she finds herself underpaid and overworked. In this slapstick novella,...

Tristan Wishnasky seems to have it all: a successful career as a cynical novelist in love with the Void, a romantic relationship with a formidable woman, and admission to the parties and revelries of the glitterati. But just when he's confident nothing can stop...

'Gripping, compelling and beautiful.' Emma Cowell, author of The House in the Olive Grove A secret big enough to destroy the F?rer's reputation. . .January 1939: When Katja Heinz secures a job as a typist at Doctor Viktor's clinic, she doesn't expect to be...

Jewish extraterrestrials?Brisket-eating zombies?Baby robot golems?The first Jewish diaspora began nearly three thousand years ago. Those three millennia have informed a rich story-telling tradition that will only continue to expand in the coming centuries. This volume-the literary heir to the Wandering Stars anthologies of the...

Jewish extraterrestrials?Brisket-eating zombies?Baby robot golems?The first Jewish diaspora began nearly three thousand years ago. Those three millennia have informed a rich story-telling tradition that will only continue to expand in the coming centuries. This volume-the literary heir to the Wandering Stars anthologies of the...

"An intelligently conceived meditation on the curative powers of storytelling." -Kirkus ReviewsSeth Feinberg, in spite of being an atheist, has always seen life through a Jewish lens. Inheriting a Nazi officer's full- length leather coat from his Holocaust-survivor grandfather motivates him to research and...

In a world filled with danger, heartbreak, and impossible choices, the blood sisters must navigate through the darkness to find love, redemption, and a chance at survival.Anna has found solace and love in the colorful Romany camp. How long will this last under the...

An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one woman's final semester at an elite New England college into controversy and chaos--and into an ill-advised affair with a married professor. It's 1998 and Isabel Rosen, the only daughter of...

"No one knows more about Israel's existential dilemma than Alan Dershowitz-or writes about it better. From its explosive beginning to its startling climax, The Trials of Zion excites and intrigues, even as it depicts the unique dangers of a lethal part of the world....

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 yearsAn ambitious, delirious novel that tangles with queerness, spirituality, and generational silence, City...

Germany, 1938. 'No, ' she cries out as she falls to the floor, fear clutching desperately at her chest, 'They can't have taken him, they can't have taken my husband.' As her tear-filled eyes dart wildly around the empty room, she realises she has...

"Uniformly excellent."--The Jewish StandardThis rich medley of stories, poems, and essays features evocations of Chanukah by classic and contemporary authors including Sholom Aleichem, Nobel laureates S. Y. Agnon and Elie Wiesel, I. L. Peretz, Emma Lazarus, Theodor Herzl, Chaim Potok, Mark Strand, A. B....

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist In the vein of The Chosen, Catcher in the Rye, and The Kite Runner comes Adam Unrehearsed, a "hilarious, deeply moving, coming-of-age comedy" (Yossi Klein Halevi). From the moment he's mugged on the subway home from Bat Day at...

When her village in Albion is sacked by the Roman general Vespasian, young Aislin is left without home and family. Determined to exact revenge, she travels to Rome, a sprawling city of wealth, decadence, and power. A "barbarian" in a "civilized" world, Aislin struggles...

Suburban Heathens follows the trajectory of parallel and converging catastrophes that begin with the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s and the protagonist's best friend's death, and continue with her father's struggle with heart disease, actually made worse by medical interventions witnessed by the wandering...

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: 1647425409ISBN-13: 9781647425401Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2023Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight:...

On a summer night in 1985, three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything changes. A TIME Best Fiction Book of the Year - A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction -...

This extraordinary novel is part of Grigory Kanovich's "Litvak saga," his tribute to Jewish life before the Holocaust. Set in a small Lithuanian town in the late nineteenth century, the story begins with the arrival of a stranger who sets everyone on edge and...

From the author of THE MATZAH BALL and MR. PERFECT ON PAPER comes this hilarious and emotional rivals-to-lovers romance. Step 1: Get the secret recipe. Step 2: Don't fall in love... Avital Cohen isn't wearing underpants--woefully, for unsexy reasons. Chronic pelvic pain has forced...

A young holocaust survivor tries to create a new life in the newly established state of Israel. Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe when the war ended because he spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged...