Ethnic Orientation/Jewish
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Yentl the Yeshiva Boy and Other Stories: including Short Friday
$16.95 Add to cartFirst published as Short Friday and Other Stories, Singer’s 1965 collection presents a profoundly gifted writer who can deftly immerse the reader in a rich sensory experience of both bygone and modern… [more below]
- Series: Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions
- Author: Bashevis Singer, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: October 06 2021
- ISBN10: 163292188X
- Language: English
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Of Lodz and Love
$66.58 Add to cartIn Of Lodz and Love, Chava Rosenfarb revisits her themes of the the shtetl and pre-Holocaust Poland, of economic and political oppression, and of the upheavals that would herald a new Jewish national
- Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature
- Author: Rosenfarb, Chava
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815605773
- Language: English
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Beyond the Pale
$27.99 Add to cartWinner of the Lambda Literary Award: “A page-turner that brings to life turn-of-the-century New York’s Lower East Side.” —Library Journal
Born in a Russian-Jewish settlement, Gutke Gurvich is a midw… [more below]- Author: Dykewomon, Elana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1504052919
- Language: English
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Operation Shylock: A Confession (Pen/Faulkner Award)
$16.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD – From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral–a fiendishly imaginative book that features Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Roth, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 15 1994
- ISBN10: 679750290
- Language: English
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Call It Sleep
$32.99 Add to cartWhen Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only with its paperback publicatio
- Author: Roth, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312424124
- Language: English
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The Last Jew: A Novel of the Spanish Inquisition
$19.99 Add to cartIn the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. After centuries of pogrom-like riots encouraged by the Church, the Jews – who have been an important part of Spanish life since the days
- Author: Gordon, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0312300530
- Language: English
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The Middlesteins
$21.99 Add to cartFor more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie’s enormous … [more below]
- Author: Attenberg, Jami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1455507202
- Language: English
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The Midwife of Venice
$17.99 Add to cartNot since Anna Diamant’s The Red Tent or Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book has a novel transported readers so intimately into the complex lives of women centuries ago or so richly into a story of … [more below]
- Author: Rich, Roberta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 1451657471
- Language: English
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The Bones of the World
$20.99 Add to cartSuffering guards its mysteries, but when an upswell of antisemitism forces Rachel into hiding from the Righteous, she begins her journey to its center.
The journey will take her back in history, to Sar
- Author: Ross, Betsy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 163988694X
- Language: English
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Una Chica JudÃa En ParÃs / A Jewish Girl in Paris
$18.95 Read more«En esta novela v?vida y conmovedora sobre destinos entrelazados y el poder perdurable del amor contra las peores probabilidades, Levensohn teje una historia saturada de precisi?n hist?rica y, s… [more below]
- Author: Levensohn, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 6073827369
- Language: Spanish
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The Gustav Sonata
$15.95 Add to cartGustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats
- Author: Tremain, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354849
- Language: English
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All Other Nights
$17.99 Read moreHow is tonight different from all other nights? For Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, it is a question his commanders have already answered for him–on Passove
- Author: Horn, Dara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338320
- Language: English
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Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls: Stories
$16.99 Add to cartIn this darkly comic and surreal collection from celebrated author Alissa Nutting, misfit women scramble for agency in a series of uncanny circumstances
Throughout these breathtakingly creative sevente
- Series: Art of the Story
- Author: Nutting, Alissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0062699857
- Language: English
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Inappropriation
$19.99 Add to cart“This is a daring book, thrillingly of our moment.” — Emma Cline, author of The Girls
A wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of ide
- Author: Freiman, Lexi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0062699741
- Language: English
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The Septembers of Shiraz
$16.99 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture starring Adrien Brody and Salma Hayek
In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Sofer, Dalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0061130419
- Language: English
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City of a Thousand Gates
$16.99 Read moreWINNER OF THE JANET HEIGINGER KAFKA PRIZE FOR FICTION
“The novel showcases the humanity, tragedy, and complexity of life in the West Bank. . . . The characters’ interwoven lives will stay with you long
- Author: Sacks, Bee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063011484
- Language: English
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Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism
$15.95 Add to cartFrom medieval accusations that Jews murder Christians for their blood to the far-right conspiracy theories animating present-day political discourse, it’s clear that the belief that Jews are plotting
- Author: Glanville, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064544
- Language: English
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Save the Last Dance
$23.95 Add to cartA passionate roller-coaster ride that challenges the decisions, loyalties, and responsibilities of mothers, daughters, and friends alike.
Twenty-five-year-old Sofia Brenner is a determined and sassy ba
- Author: Eizenbaum, Mandi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887639666
- Language: English
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Letters That Never Came
$21.95 Add to cartOriginally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in English in 2004, The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts that reflects Rosencof’s life growing up in 1930… [more below]
- Series: Americas (Texas Tech)
- Author: Rosencof, Mauricio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 089672865X
- Language: English
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Bociany
$66.58 Add to cartIn Bociany, Rosenfarb offers completely absorbing portrayals of Jews and Christians from several walks of life in the shtetl. Her primary characters are the scribe’s widow Hindele, her son Yacov, the
- Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature
- Author: Rosenfarb, Chava
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815605765
- Language: English
