Fiction - Jewish

Anna and Lena, neighbors on the same floor in a Hamburgian apartment-building on Baumstrasse, are the base for the life-stories of the residents on the floor, to illuminate and fade out. The two girls, one Christian and the other Jewish, grow up in innocent,...

The Girl from the Marsh Croft By Selma Lagerl f, Velma Swanston HowardAuthor: Velma Swanston Howard, Selma LagerlofISBN-10: 1986379086ISBN-13: 9781986379083Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2018Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d

Pink tutus, sarcasm, amulets and bushfires: that is suburban fantasy in Australian cities. It is magic. Life is never quite what it seems, even without the lost family heritage delivered to Judith and Belinda in boxes. Judith (who owns the haunted lemon tree and...

LONDON 1600. When the Earl of Essex is removed from command and placed under arrest for reaching a forbidden truce with the Irish rebels, Serjeant Noah Ames reluctantly accepts a commission to investigate the earl's fitness for command, and the two are pitted against...

London 1558. An orphan from a far-off land is renamed "Noah Ames," and given every advantage the English Crown can bestow. London 1592. Now an experienced barrister, Noah witnesses what appears to be a botched robbery outside the Rose Theater, a crime he soon...

"A fable becoming reality of a woman becoming herself: Tehila Hakimi's Hunting in America just purely bangs." --Joshua Cohen An award-winning, thrillingly subversive novel about an Israeli woman who moves to America, takes up hunting, and is drawn into a world of predator, prey,...

In this hilarious, heart-warming debut novel, three Syrian Jewish sisters chase love and grapple with the growing pains of young womanhood as they seek their place within and beyond their Brooklyn community. The Cohen sisters are at a crossroads. And not just because the...

An historical novel inspired by the experiences of the author's own family after the Holocaust, a sweeping saga about survival, loss, love, and the reverberating effects of war In 2018, Zoe Rosenzweig is reeling after the loss of her beloved grandfather, a Holocaust survivor....

A beautiful story of love and redemption set in the aftermath of World War II--perfect for fans of The Longest Echo and The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Munich, 1945. Max Fischer cannot remember anything from his life before the concentration camp. Not his family, not...

Part World War II spy thriller, part romance, and part tale of buried family secrets, The Serpent Bearer is perfect for fans of Kelly Rimmer's The German Wife and Kate Quinn's The Alice Network. A suspenseful tale stretching from Spain to Hollywood, from a...

Author: Ann BennettISBN-10: 1835258905ISBN-13: 9781835258903Publisher: BookoutureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2024Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.71d

For readers of Leave the World Behind and Exit West, an astonishingly resonant novel that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life through one family after a black hole consumes the State of Israel and similar strange events occur in major cities around the...

"Tells more about Iraq than many commentaries being offered up these days." --Le MondeAuthor: Shimon BallasISBN-10: 0872864812ISBN-13: 9780872864818Publisher: City Lights BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2007Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 7.28h x 5.01w x 0.63dReview Citation(s): Booklist 06/01/2007 pg. 41Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2008 pg. 10Library Journal 05/21/2007

Author: Joel BigmanISBN-10: 9888843702ISBN-13: 9789888843701Publisher: Earnshaw Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/17/2024Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d

A riveting World War II story of Parisian romance and resistance. This harrowing debut novel should appeal to fans of coming of age stories and historical fiction masterpieces like Lilac Girls and The Nightingale. Paris, 1941. At the height of World War II, young...

An intriguing Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction Terence Ball, The Banality of Evil Sandra Levy Ceren, Silver Is Better Than Gold Martin S. Cohen, Death Has Beckoned Richard Fliegel, The Golem of Bronx Park EastMichael A. Kahn, Truth in a Plain Brown...

This is the first complete English-language translation of a classic of Yiddish literature, one of the great comic novels of the twentieth century. The Zelmenyaners describes the travails of a Jewish family in Minsk that is torn asunder by the new Soviet reality. Four...

A perilous journey through the unthinkable. A riveting story of hope and survival. Can their faith shield them against unbridled hatred? August, 1942. When they realize the danger of remaining under the rule of the Nazi occupation, Dr. Leon Schmelzer, his wife Donya, and...

A long-lost novel by the author of As a Driven LeafInfidelity, faith, and power all come together in a gripping story of the biblical prophet Hosea and his wife, Gomer.When Milton Steinberg died in 1950, he left one manuscript tantalizingly unfinished. Set against a...

Serious Jews, Funny Jews is a fiction collection of 30 short stories and tales, about half previously published, that touch on Jewish life and experiences related to Jewish holidays and practices, the Bible, the Holocaust, family life, coming-of-age, and growing old, among other topics.Author:...

It's truly powerful, and acrid, and barbed, and filled with wonderful, and unexpected, turns of phrase and above all it's shocking in its directness and understated anger and sadness and fear... it's an amazing piece of writing.--Cynthia OzickImagine being told before the age of...

An engrossing meditation on the meaning of faith, Sarah/Sara is the story of a young Orthodox Jewish woman who undertakes a solo kayaking journey across the Arctic Ocean after her parents are killed and she is disfigured by a terrorist bomb in a Jerusalem...

The final literary testament of "one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World" (New York Times), Between Life and Death is a startlingly brave, funny, poetic, and moving autobiographical novel about the four months Yoram Kaniuk spent in a coma near...

This volume collects two macabre novellas by one of Israel's greatest authors: "The Death of Lysanda," which tells the story of a taxidermist heading steadily into insanity, and "Ants," about an invasion of household insects forcing a doomed marriage into crisis.Author: Yitzhak Orpaz, Yitsohaok...

This novel "unflinchingly confronts the issue of Jewish continuity in a diverse and changing America" (Anne Roiphe, author and journalist). Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin's second novel is the story of Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother on...

Girl Unwrapped is a girl's coming-of-age story set in 1960s Montreal about the burdens and blessings of history, the divided self, and the quest to be whole. Toni Goldblatt's awakening to taboo desire conflicts with her Holocaust-scarred parents' expectations. Yearning to reinvent herself, she...

S. A. An-sky's novel dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young people in late Tsarist Russia as they strive to throw off their traditional religious upbringing to adopt a secular and modern identity. The action unfolds in the town of M. in the Pale of...

The end of World War I sees an upheaval in American society-the Great Migration of Black Americans, the devastation of the Spanish Flu, and women's struggle for the vote. Victory, Virus, and Votes: 1917-1920 brings history to life through the lens of two young...

The sixteen stories in Old Dogs and Other Stories are mostly told through the lens of the recurring main character, Buddy, who is seen at different stages of his life, from boyhood to old age. Buddy wrestles with issues of masculinity in a changing...

Author: Felicia GrossmanISBN-10: 1538769867ISBN-13: 9781538769867Publisher: ForeverLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/29/2025Pages: 400Format: PaperbackSize: 6.75h x 4.19w x 1.00d

Jake's life is shaped by the Spanish Civil War and the not-so-civil wars that go on within families and intimate relationships. With wit and originality, David Spaner does for Vancouver what writers like Mordecai Richler and Philip Roth did for Montreal and Newark. Jake...

**A Modern Fantasy Where Ancient Hebrew Mysticism Comes Alive On The Streets Of New York** College student and certified nerd Arthur Rose has issues: he's estranged from his Jewish faith, he needs a recommendation for grad school, and getting back with his ex, Lynn,...

For four decades Rabbi Bonder was immersed in spirituality and sought out by people who needed comfort. He has now transformed some of these cases into fiction.A Romanian woman, resident of Copacabana, wants to marry her dead fianc?. The discovery of a manuscript from...

In the ruins of postwar Europe, the world's leading expert on the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism goes on a hair-raising journey to recover sacred books stolen by the Nazis . . . At the end of the Second World War Gershom Scholem, the magisterial...

Part coming-of-age tale, part family saga, an extraordinary debut novel set between Berlin, Chicago, and Jerusalem "about being Jewish and German, and all the awkwardness that entails" (The Guardian). It's the hottest of summers in Chicago, and fifteen-year-old Margarita is spending her vacation as...

After a controversial doctor's violent death, Inspector Green unearths a long list of potential suspects in this gripping police procedural for fans of Louise Penny and Michael Connelly.In the seventh book in the award-winning Inspector Green series, an old man is found beaten to...

Set during World War II, an unforgettable historical novel about love, war, family, and loyalty told in in the voices of two women, generations apart, who find themselves connected by a mysterious and valuable bottle of wine stolen by the Nazis.1942. Seven-year-old Martine hides...

Set during World War II, an unforgettable historical novel about love, war, family, and loyalty told in in the voices of two women, generations apart, who find themselves connected by a mysterious and valuable bottle of wine stolen by the Nazis.1942. Seven-year-old Martine hides...

A heartbreaking story of friendship, loyalty and the true cost of love, from the bestselling author of The Secret Midwife and Wives of War.Berlin, 1944: Amira and Gisele have been best friends since they were children, and now Gisele is the only person who...

Graphic artist Rob Stone is selected as the new CEO of Remora Insurance. Although he has guile and a sharp tongue, he lacks any management or business experience, and must overcome a variety of challenges.He must contend with a white-collar rebellion, a gun-toting claims...

Based on the true story of two World War II heroines who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Gestapo by hiding them throughout Belgium. Belgium, 1942 Young schoolteacher Andr?e Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium, who are forcing Jews to wear...

"The Library of Unfulfilled Wishes" a wonderful book of short stores by New London, CT, writer, Arthur Dean. He writes in his introduction: "This is my second collection of short stories to be published by Little Red Tree Publishing. They are gleaned from my...

Rabbi Tovah Feldner and her husband, Dan Goldin, love each other. Even at the moment when Dan is planning to leave his wife and two small children, their love is still evidentDan has deep emotional hurts he has never shared. Now he feels he...

Author: Yael Van Der WoudenISBN-10: 1668034352ISBN-13: 9781668034354Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2025Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.64d

Berlin, 1939. Tears pouring down her cheeks, Rosa pushes through the crowds and thrusts the basket containing her darling newborn twins at the woman closing the door to the carriage. All she can say is please take them. Then she runs, praying the train...

He dedicated himself to the survival of his people. Then his family's secret came out. . . When William von Antrim decided to pursue a career as a doctor, working to help Jewish survivors recover from the horrors of World War II, he believed...

Set during World War II, an unforgettable historical novel about love, war, family, and loyalty told in in the voices of two women, generations apart, who find themselves connected by a mysterious and valuable bottle of wine stolen by the Nazis.1942. Seven-year-old Martine hides...

The short stories in Dance Me to the End of Love reflect the real day-to-day life of ordinary people of different ages, genders, professions, and ethnicities with connections to a believable world of imagined events. They take place in the former Soviet Union, in...

The assassination of Czar Alexander in 1881 unleashed a sequence of consequences which impelled, in the next two decades, the birth of Zionism and the proliferation of transatlantic migrations.Following a family of Russian Jews scattered by persecution and reunited by chance at the Mansion...

"Paul's prose is skillful, almost ornate, and obsessed with the truth of the modern experience of religion. A Song of Ilan is a remarkable exploration of issues and experiences that are often discounted or outright ignored in American writing today."- The Public "A philosophic...