Fiction - Jewish

The minister of a struggling congregation in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan forms a friendship with the rabbi of a neighboring synagogue following an act of antisemitic vandalism in his congregation's sanctuary. Their friendship deepens as they explore the scourge of antisemitism and the...

It's 1953. Soviets have the bomb and fear of communist influence in the US government and society at large is at its peak. In the quiet, rural town of Goshen, one family learns hiding in plain sight isn't as easy as it seems.Eavesdropper is...

The perfect holiday gift for the crime fiction lover in your life! Curated by New York Times bestselling author Tod Goldberg, this collection of eleven delightful and twisted Hanukkah capers will entertain you through all eight nights of the Festival of Lights. In Stefanie...

BASTARD. A JEW . . .With these three words, Eva Schmidt is abandoned to the arms of Bertha Pappenheim, the director of an orphanage for Jewish girls in Frankfurt. It is 1913 and Frau Pappenheim raises Eva among her 'spiritual daughters.' Despite being highly...

"A riveting journey of hurt and healing, questioning and hope." -ELIZABETH GRAVER, author of Kantika, winner of the National Jewish Book AwardAfter she discovers her husband's infidelity, Rachel Cohen, reeling from hurt and shame, escapes to a rental house in the idyllic town of...

"A riveting journey of hurt and healing, questioning and hope." -ELIZABETH GRAVER, author of Kantika, winner of the National Jewish Book AwardAfter she discovers her husband's infidelity, Rachel Cohen, reeling from hurt and shame, escapes to a rental house in the idyllic town of...

"Passionate summary of the inhuman treatment of the Jewish people in Europe, of the exodus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to Palestine, and of the triumphant founding of the new Israel."--The New York Times Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of...

Can opposites attract when tradition stands in the way? Josh Axelrod is incensed! His matchmaker date brought along her annoying best friend--Emma something-or-other. The same Emma who's ruining the house filled with the young rabbi's childhood memories and turning it into a bookstore. Sure,...

This funny mother-daughter caper story stars 73-year-old, overweight former beauty, Aurora Hmans Feldenburg, who is a hapless, perpetually broke, eccentric divorcee living in the wealthy enclave of Marin County in Northern California. Aurora is wakened by a phone call informing her that her father's...

"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...

National Bestseller - A New York Times Notable BookNamed Best Book of the Year by Esquire, Times Literary Supplement, Elle Magazine, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Financial Times, Guardian, Refinery29, PopSugar, and Globe and Mail"A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." --Philip Roth"One of America's...

A recipe for disaster... Or true love? After devoting his life to his family, empty nester and single dad Sander Fortune is seizing a life truly his own this Christmas! When he meets cooking instructor Lisa Bergen, he's taken by more than just her...

Italy, 1943--Germany occupies much of the country, placing the Jewish population in grave danger during World War II.As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the...

Set in Minnesota, Gone to Dust is the New York Times bestselling debut private eye murder mystery from Emmy Award-winning Seinfeld writer Matt Goldman. "Sharp wit, complex characters, and masterful plotting makes Goldman a writer to watch. Irreverent and insightful, private detective Nils Shapiro...

A mother- and daughter-in-law. To move on, one of them will have to move out in a hopeful and hilarious novel about widowhood and family friction by the bestselling author of Don't Forget to Write.It's 1963, two years since Barbara Feldman's husband died. Raising...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER"A masterpiece."--Newsweek"Superior, startling, incandescently alive."--The New Yorker"Brilliant. . . . Both entirely like and distinct from everything Roth wrote later." --The Times Literary SupplementPhilip Roth's first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and...

Will Sam purge his guilty conscience before it's too late? Will he atone for his offenses and find solace in the final countdown? Sam Fox spent his whole life running against the hands of time. He is now racing to set the record straight...

"Maya Arad is the smart, tart, and heartbroken sibyl of exile, who is remaking expectations of Hebrew literature book by book."--Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The NetanyahusAfter emigrating to the United States in the mid-1960s, Leah maintains her connection to Israel by writing...

A fortieth-anniversary edition of the unforgettable, eccentric "truly original novel" (Newsday), an evocative tale of race, romance, and the complexities of the human--experience, by the Pulitzer Prize finalist She's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States....