Fiction - Jewish

Acclaimed novelist and playwright Yasmina Reza masterfully portrays the messiness of family, where affection and resentment intertwine and the weight of a shared past looms large.When adult siblings Serge, Jean, and Nana embark on an unexpected road trip, they take along one daughter and...

Poor Shavuot! It's hard to be a holiday that's ignored or even forgotten. All the more famous Jewish holidays like Hanukkah and Passover try to cheer up Shavuot, but it's no use--until the true meaning of Shavuot is revealed! Maybe there's more to this...

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 -...

"Syrian Jewish culture gets the Jane Austen treatment, with sisters Nina, Fortune and Lucy--the rebel, the good girl and the baby of the family, respectively--all on the marriage market. What's Mama Cohen to do? Chehebar's witty debut dives deep into Brooklyn's Syrian Jewish community."--People...

From "one of the great--if not the greatest--contemporary Yiddish novelists" (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity "A great beard novel . . ....

"Fun, fan-yourself sexy, and full of heart." - Rosie Danan, USA Today bestselling author of The Intimacy Experiment 27 Dresses meets The Intimacy Experiment in this sexy, emotional, opposites-attract rom-com set in New York City's Modern Orthodox community. Arielle Becker is one hora away...

"Spinning at the Edges is, simply, a marvel."--Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known WorldFrom the author of the acclaimed As Close to Us as Breathing, a captivating novel steeped in history, revealing the bonds of family and community, and the healing...

A holiday story about family traditions that's sweet in more ways than one. It's Rosh Hashanah and Stella is finally old enough to make her family's famous stuffed cabbage rolls. The recipe has been passed down from her Bubbe Sophie to her Nana to...

Author: Lore SegalPublisher: Melville House PublishingPublished: 03/17/2026Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.44w x 0.56dISBN: 9781685892517About the AuthorLore Segal (1928 - 2024) was the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Shakespeare's Kitchen, as well as the novels Half the Kingdom, Lucinella, Other People's...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control during World War II--a heartrending "portrait of a small French town under seige, and the people trying to survive, even to live, as Hitler's horrors march closer...

"A uniquely nuanced and engaging perspective on the oddness of Hollywood...Superhero goes inside baseball in all the best ways: unbiased, at times ridiculous, and wonderfully, uncomfortably accurate. It begs to be read because it is so damned good." --Amanda SeyfriedA-list actor Peter Compton and...

Dark lessons from a childhood sleepaway camp reverberate in the presentIn 1984, Eduardo and his younger brother, living in exile for several years in the United States, travel back to their native Guatemala to participate in a Jewish children's camp in a remote forest...

The Abadi Family saga begins when a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story between a Palestinian and a Jew ends in predictable tragedy. The family flees to America to mend, but encounters only more turmoil that threatens to tear the family apart.In the wake of...

The Abadi Family saga begins when a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story between a Palestinian and a Jew ends in predictable tragedy. The family flees to America to mend, but encounters only more turmoil that threatens to tear the family apart. In the wake...

The Ashes Know Her Name is a gripping saga of survival, love, and the enduring scars of terror.Ana Summer was just ten years old when her world shattered. Raised on a peaceful kibbutz in Israel, her idyllic childhood was torn apart by a brutal...

The boy was murdered in Auschwitz. The killer isn't a Nazi.Poland, 1944: Adam Lapid used to be a police detective. Now he's a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.Reduced to a slave after losing his family in the gas chambers, Adam struggles to find a reason...

New York Times bestseller An unforgettable novel about a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century, told "with humor and optimism...through the eyes of an irresistible heroine" (People)--from the acclaimed author of The Red Tent. Anita Diamant's "vivid, affectionate...

Felcia Hodaks's vital botanical skills are the only thing keeping her away from the gas chambers.Against the backdrop of Auschwitz-Birkenau's ever-present brutality, Felcia tends to the plants needed for one of the Reich's most ambitious experiments-one that could tip the war in favor of...

A coming-of-age classic about two Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, this "profound and universal" (The Wall Street Journal) story of faith, family, tradition, and assimilation remains deeply pertinent today. "Works of this caliber should be occasion for singing in the...

This beloved and inspiring children's book, now updated and expanded for a new generation, recounts the true story of how an American town took a stand against hate and antisemitism during the holiday season of 1993.When a rock is thrown through a young Jewish...