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Kalooki Nights

By: Howard Jacobson

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...

A French Father

By: Alain Elkann

A fictional account of a conversation between Elkann's father and his neighbor in the cemetery, the Jewish artist Roland Topor/BDIV Two men are buried alongside each other in the cemetery of Montparnasse. One strict, upper middle class, a firm...

A Hanukkah Present

By: Mark Binder

What Shlemiel invented the Chanukah Present? Find out in this collection of eleven stories and a novella of Chelm. • Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for Family Literature! • Winner of Storytelling World Storytelling Magazine Honor...

By the Waters of Manhattan

By: Charles Reznikoff

By the Waters of Manhattan was Charles Reznikoff's first novel, published in 1930 by Charles Boni in New York. Part family saga, part bildungsroman, and part unrequited love story, the novel follows the lives of a Jewish family at the turn of the...

Daniel Stein, Interpreter

By: Ludmila Ulitskaya

Daniel Stein, Interpreter is seen by many as the great Russian novel of our time. Winner of the Russian National Literary Prize and the Simone de Beauvoir Prize, and nominated for the Russian Booker Novel of the Decade, Ludmila Ulitskaya has earned...

Death of Lysanda: Two Novellas (Hebrew Literature Series)

By: Yitzhak Orpaz

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...

Farewell Shanghai

By: Angel Wagenstein

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...

Four Stories

By: Etgar Keret

This remarkable collection includes four of Keret s most treasured stories: Asthma Attack, Shoes, Siren, and Foreign Language. Heralded as one of Israel s leading voices in literature and cinema, Keret mixes wry humor, keen intelligence, and subtle...

Grand River and Joy (Sweetwater Fiction: Originals)

By: Susan Messer

"With unsparing candor, Susan Messer thrusts us into a time when racial tensions sundered friends and neighbors and turned families upside down. The confrontations in Grand River and Joy are complex, challenging, bitterly funny, and---painful...

Homesick

By: Eshkol Nevo

Moving from character to character, perspective to perspective, Homesick is a complex and moving portrait of parallel lives and failing love in a time of permanent war.This remarkable, kaleidoscopic novel tells the fragmented...

In the King's Arms

By: Sonia Taitz

Lily Taub is the brilliant, beautiful and headstrong American daughter of Holocaust survivors. Seeking relief from their traumatized world, Lily escapes to Oxford University, where she meets Julian Aiken — black sheep of an aristocratic English...

Jacob's Return

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"Jacob Goldman is a deeply conflicted man. Having dismissed his own Jewish heritage as lackluster and irrelevant, Jacob s route to spirituality has been cobbled together through his affinity with the natural world, and through his marriage to...

Last Train from Liguria

By: Christine Dwyer Hickey

A sweeping tale of consequences spanning the 1930s to the 1990s, moving between fascist Italy and modern Ireland In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an...

Laundry

By: Suzane Adam

In 1960s Transylvania where the novel begins, five-year-old Ildiko becomes victim to psychological abuse at the hands of her babysitter, Yutzi, whom she worships and follows everywhere. Though Ildiko’s family...

Panorama

By: H. G. Adler

Only recently available for the first time in English, Panorama is the newly rediscovered first novel of H. G. Adler, a modernist master whose work has been compared to that of Kafka, Joyce, and Solzhenitsyn. A brilliant epic told in ten distinct...

Redemption Street

By: Reed Farrel Coleman

Walking the Perfect Square introduced Moe Prager - retired New York City cop-turned-wine shop owner - to much acclaim and an enthusiastic readership. Still possessed of his vintage police savvy, and perhaps the only Jewish licensed PI in the five...

Sarah/Sara

By: Jacob Paul

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...

Sotah

By: Naomi Ragen

Raised under the strict laws of a Jerusalem haredi sect, Dina Reich enters an arranged marriage but is tempted by another man, a transgression that brands her an adulteress and results in her exile to America. Reissue. PW.

Taroko Gorge

By: Jacob Ritari

A disillusioned and raggedy American reporter and his drunken photojournalist partner are the last to see three Japanese schoolgirls who disappear into Taroko Gorge, Taiwan s largest national park. The journalists who are themselves suspects...

The Dawning of the Day: A Jerusalem Tale

By: Haim Sabato

A humble man and a religious man, Ezra Siman Tov is also a teller of stories, stories that enthrall and captivate his friends in their old Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem. His brother-in-law, Dr Tawil, gives him a grudging respect, the Torah...

The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats

By: Hesh Kestin

 The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats (Publishers Weekly 10/26/09)Hesh Kestin. Dzanc (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 paper (334p) ISBN 9780976717782"From the author of the short fiction collection Based on a True Story comes a vibrant,...

The Sacrifice of Tamar

By: Naomi Ragen

Tamar Finegold is twenty-one years old, the happy bride of a rising young Rabbi in one of Brooklyn's insulated, ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. But her secure, predictable existence is brought to an abrupt end when she is raped by an intruder....

The Seventh Well

By: Fred Wander

"Shockingly brutal, profoundly transcendent." --Seattle TimesAlready considered a classic of Holocaust literature, The Seventh Well is a novel of total ...

The Vienna Jazz Trio: A Novel

By: Tomas Bohm

A lively and entertaining novel about jazz, psychoanalysis, and the Jewish experience, the Vienna Jazz Trio is framed by an interview with an aging Nathan Mentzel, who relates his life as a piano player and satirist. His story begins in...

The Wayward Moon

By: Janice Weizman

The year is 854. Rahel, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, is preparing to meet her fiance for the first time. She cannot know that even as she stands observing herself in the mirror, an enemy of her father is making his way to her house. In mere minutes,...

A Brilliant Novel in the Works

By: Yuvi Zalkow

When Yuvi's wife finds him in his underwear, standing on top of his desk, she isn't terribly impressed with him and his writing habits. But Yuvi worries. He has a wife who wants things he can't give, an editor who wants a book he can't...

A Bed in Heaven

By: Tessa De Loo

Landsman

By: Peter Charles Melman

Modern Hebrew Fiction (Hebrew Classics)

By: Gershon Shaked

Souls Are Flying! A Celebration of Jewish Stories

By: Scott Hilton Davis