Jewish Fiction category: 695 books
Iterations of Loss
Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries....
"The Space of Words"
Exile and Diaspora in the Works of Nelly Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) has long been regarded as one of the most significant Holocaust poets. Her conception of language and words as a landscape has been understood by scholars and critics as an exilic ersatz Heimat for the lost German homeland of a displaced poet. This reading, however, is based...
The Parable and Its Lesson
A Novella
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive cycle of stories about Buczacz, the Galician town (now in Ukraine) in which he grew up. Yet when these...
Lilly's Album
Based on a true story
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2019
Lilly’s Album is a story based on the trials and tribulations of a Jewish family that takes place between the First and Second World Wars. The book was written by Holocaust survivor’s son, Lilly's nephew. This is a heart-rending tale of the journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of...
Exile in the Maghreb
Jews under Islam, Sources and Documents, 997–1912
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The Exile in the Maghreb entails the first attempt at describing the historical reality of the legal and social condition of the Jews in the Muslim countries of North Africa (principally Algeria and Morocco) over a thousand year period from the Middle Ages (997 C.E.) to the French colonization (1830...
Choosing Yiddish
New Frontiers of Language and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Yiddish Hip Hop, a nineteenth-century “Hasidic Slasher,” obscure Yiddish writers, and immigrant Jewish newspapers in Buenos Aires, Paris, and New York are just a few of the topics featured in Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture. Editors Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah...
by Andre Schwarz-Bart
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
On March 11, 1185, in the old Anglican city of York, the Jews of the city were brutally massacred by their townsmen. As legend has it, God blessed the only survivor of this medieval pogrom, Rabbi Yom Tov Levy, as one of the Lamed-Vov, the thirty-six Just Men of Jewish tradition, a blessing which extended...
Summary of The Boston Girl
by Anita Diamant | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Summary of The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant | Includes Analysis Preview: The Boston Girl is a novel by award winning writer, Anita Diamant. In this novel, Addie Baum is being interviewed by her granddaughter, Ava Miller, about the many experiences she has had in her life, especially...
The Full Severity of Compassion
The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) was the foremost Israeli poet of the twentieth century and an internationally influential literary figure whose poetry has been translated into some 40 languages. Hitherto, no comprehensive literary study of Amichai's poetry has appeared in English. This long-awaited book...
by Dr. David Rabeeya
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Israel: Stripped Bare is a book about the brutal reality of Israels existence, written from a perspective of an Arab-Jew. Some of these articles were already published in Sephardic Heritage Update, and some have been added over the years. It becomes crucial to see Israels existence through the eyes...
by Marie Seltenrych
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Esther is chosen to visit the King in his quest to find a new Queen.
A plot is devised behind the scenes and soon the entire Jewish community will be decimated.
The date is set and the Decree formulated...
One person can save her people. But at what cost?
Esther must make plan of equal dexterity to...
Matters of Testimony
Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando—the “special squads,” composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness...
by Richard Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
"The Assembled Parties is Greenberg's most richly emotional work in years, and the most beautifully detailed."—New York magazine"This tragicomedy shocks us into realizing how hungry we have been for witty and wounded grown-ups who toss off gorgeously written observations without knowing how little...
Contemporary Israel
New Insights and Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
For a country smaller than Vermont, with roughly the same population as Honduras, modern Israel receives a remarkable amount of attention. For supporters, it is a unique bastion of democracy in the Middle East, while detractors view it as a racist outpost of Western colonialism. The romanticization...