Jewish Fiction category: 695 books
Notebooks
Selections from the A.M. Klein Papers (Collected Works of A.M. Klein)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Much of A.M. Klein's finest prose is to be found in the mass of uncompleted work that he abandoned at the time of his breakdown, and that became accessible only when his papers were deposited in the National Archives. Notebooks offers a generous selection of this work, revealing previously unsuspected...
Eve's Journey
Feminine Images in Hebraic Literary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
In Eve's Journey, Nehama Aschkenasy traces the migration of several female images and feminine situations from their early appearances in Biblical writings to their incarnations in modern Hebraic literature. Focusing on the evolution of early female archetypes and prototypes, Aschkenasy uncovers the...
The Scroll and the Cross
1,000 Years of Jewish-Hispanic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This groundbreaking, eclectic book of readings, edited by Ilan Stavans, whom The Washington Post described as "one of our foremost cultural critics," offers a sideboard of the ups and downs of that partnership. It includes...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and renowned memoirist, is one of the most widely read writers of post-World War II Italy. His works are characterized by the lean, dispassionate eloquence with which he approaches his experience of incarceration in Auschwitz. His memoirs--as well as his poetry and fiction...
Introducing the Holocaust
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
'Excellent ... an astounding amount of material.' Times Educational Supplement
Popular culture often portrays the Holocaust as a horrific drama played out between Nazi executioners and ghetto Jewish victims - in short, a single aberration of history.
Introducing the Holocaust is a powerful...
A Bintel Brief
Love and Longing in Old New York
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
An evocative, elegiac love letter to New York City and the immigrant culture that continues to make it the most original and influential city in the world.
As the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, a surge of Jewish immigrants to New York City reshaped indelibly not only the culture...
Summary and Analysis of Night
Based on the Book by Elie Wiesel
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Night tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Elie Wiesel’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This short summary...
The Temple of Culture
Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2000
From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary...
by Petr Ginz
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
“Recalling the diaries of . . . Anne Frank, Ginz’s diaries reveal a budding Czech literary and artistic genius whose life was cut short by the Nazis.” —International Herald Tribune
Not since Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl has such an intimately candid, deeply affecting account...
by Patrick Modiano
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Modiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation. We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphaël Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, torn between self-aggrandisement and self-loathing, who may be the heir to a Venezuelan fortune,...
Edith Bruck in the Mirror
Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Author of more than thirteen books and several volumes of poetry, screenwriter, and director, Edith Bruck is one of the leading literary voices in Italy, attracting increasing attention in the English-speaking world not least for her powerful Holocaust testimony, which is often compared with the work...
by Steven J. Zipperstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Born in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted and erudite Isaac Rosenfeld was anointed a “genius” upon the publication of his “luminescent” novel, Passage from Home and was expected to surpass even his closest friend and rival, Saul Bellow. Yet when felled by a heart attack at the age of thirty-eight,...
Schlepping Through the Alps
My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Hans Breuer, Austria’s only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd’s stick in hand, singing lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even gives concerts in historically anti-Semitic towns, showing slides of the flock as he belts out Yiddish ditties.
When...
by Julian Novitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
**Holocaust Tours is funny, fierce and unafraid: a first novel that questions what history means to us now.**Taking time out in the UK, Daniel meets Anita. Getting involved with her means getting involved with her study of Holocaust memorials - and brings him face to face with his own Jewish heritage....