Ethnic Orientation/Jewish
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Street Corner Dreams
$17.95 Add to cartFamily, romance and gangsters support and thwart Golda, Ben, and Morty from achieving their dreams: Golda gives up independence to marry her widowed brother-in-law, Ben, and care for baby Morty; later… [more below]
- Author: Kraut, Florence Reiss
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425913
- Language: English
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The Hebrew Teacher
$17.95 Add to cart“Intensely readable and beautifully observed . . . full of wisdom, generosity, humor, and sharp insights.”–Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or and The Idiot
Three Israeli women, their lives altered by i… [more below]
- Author: Arad, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1954404239
- Language: English
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The Glory
$28.99 Add to cartLike no other novelist at work today, Herman Wouk has managed to capture the sweep of history in novels rich in character and alive with drama. In “The Hope,” which opens in 1948 and culminates in the… [more below]
- Author: Wouk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 03 2002
- ISBN10: 0316953199
- Language: English
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Woman in Jerusalem
$14.99 Add to cartA woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no r… [more below]
- Author: Yehoshua, A. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0156031949
- Language: English
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Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries.
In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190076976
- Language: English
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Madonna in a Fur Coat
$17.99 Add to cartAvailable in English for the first time, this best-selling Turkish classic of love and alienation in a changing world captures the vibrancy of interwar Berlin.
A shy young man leaves his home in rur… [more below]- Author: Ali, Sabahattin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1590518802
- Language: English
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Kantika
$17.99 Add to cartA dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home.
A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s- Author: Graver, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1250869838
- Language: English
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Jewish Comedy: A Serious History
$16.95 Add to cartIn a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business (and vice versa), Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times
- Author: Dauber, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356299
- Language: English
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Orphan Number Eight
$16.99 Add to cartNew York Times and USA Today Bestseller
In this stunning new historical novel inspired by true events, Kim van Alkemade tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy
- Author: Van Alkemade, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0062338307
- Language: English
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Die Laughing
$31.99 Add to cartL.A.’s oldest and most unconventional Jewish gumshoe is back and more relentless than ever in the highly anticipated fourth Amos Parisman Mystery! Gripping, enchanting, and witty as ever, Die Laughing… [more below]
- Series: Amos Parisman Mysteries #4
- Author: Weinberger, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1684429617
- Language: English
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The Hyena Murders
$18.00 Read moreA murder plot seeded in the wild mountains of Ethiopia bears its poison fruit years later in modern Jerusalem as a serial killer targets a prominent Beta Israel family. Confronting racial politics, po
- Series: Jerusalem Mysteries #2
- Author: Frankel, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 20, 2023
- ISBN10: 1637589352
- Language: English
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Once We Were Home
$17.99 Add to cartNational Jewish Book Award Finalist – Jewish Fiction Award Honor Book
“This forgotten history of displaced WWII children and the return to their roots [is] captivating, thought-provoking, enlightening,- Author: Rosner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 125085556X
- Language: English
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South of Sepharad: The 1492 Jewish Expulsion from Spain
$32.95 Add to cartFleeing death by the Spanish Inquisition, a Jewish doctor makes an impossible choice between home and faith, then struggles to lead his family on a journey for a new life.
GRANADA, SPAIN, 1492. Vidal
- Author: Weintraub, Eric Z.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987319123
- Language: English
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The Lost Diary of Anne Frank
$19.99 Read moreThe Diary of Anne Frank is a seminal piece of twentieth-century literature. It recounts the tragic and moving story of a young Jewish teenager faced with the horrors of Nazism. In it, Anne establishes
- Author: Teague, Johnny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1592110568
- Language: English
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While Paris Slept
$16.99 Read moreOne woman must make the hardest decision of her life in this unforgettably moving story of resistance and faith during one of the darkest times in history.
Santa Cruz, 1953. Jean-Luc is a man on the r- Author: Druart, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1538735199
- Language: English
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Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds
$17.95 Add to cartJewish Noir II is unique collection of twenty-three all-new stories (and one reprint) by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors such as Gabriela Ale
- Author: Wishnia, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1629638226
- Language: English
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After Abel and Other Stories
$16.00 Add to cartFinalist, 2015 National Jewish Book Award
Honorable Mention, Sophie Brody Medal, American Library Association One of the Jewish Book Council’s “15 fiction books that shaped Jewish literature in 2015”- Author: Lemberger, Michal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1938849477
- Language: English
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The Invisible Bridge
$20.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The “stunning” debut novel (Los Angeles Times) from the bestselling author of The Flight Portfolio–the inspiration for the Netflix series Transatlantic–is a grand love st… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Orringer, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: January 25 2011
- ISBN10: 140003437X
- Language: English
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Jews Without Money
$19.99 Add to cartAs a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for more than three decades. Beginning in the 1920s his was… [more below]
- Author: Gold, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 309
- Publish Date: March 05 2004
- ISBN10: 786713453
- Language: English
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Day After Night
$18.99 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Salt Lake Tribune
Just as she gave voice to the silent women of the Hebrew Bible in The Red Tent, Anita Diamant creates a cast of breathta- Author: Diamant, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 10, 2010
- ISBN10: 074329985X
- Language: English
