Jewish Fiction category: 695 books
by Zvi Kolitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
A dying Jew's last words to God -- a text that is regarded as the greatest piece of writing to have emerged from the Holocaust -- the story of how it came to be written, and the afterlife of both the author and his creation.
As the German tanks destroy the Warsaw Ghetto, one of the few remaining fighters,...
by Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature.
CliffsNotes on Diary of Anne Frank takes you into the handwritten accounts of life in hiding from Nazis in World War II.
Following the feelings of a 13-year-old Jewish...
Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies
Judaism in Christian Painting, Poetry, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Through most of Western European history, Jews have been a numerically tiny or entirely absent minority, but across that history Europeans have nonetheless worried a great deal about Judaism. Why should that be so? This short but powerfully argued book suggests that Christian anxieties about their...
Come Spring
an autobiographical novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2002
'I wasn't happy. I wasn't unhappy. I was there at that time and that was all. I didn't involve myself in philosophical reflections, but my mind was like a camera, imprinting forever the idyllic beauty of the European summer of 1939.'
The idyll does not last long. Within days a young Jewish...
Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic
Blood and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Identity, family, and community unite three autobiographical texts by New World crypto-Jews, or descendants of Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity in 17th-century Iberia and Spanish America. Ronnie Perelis presents the fascinating stories of three men who were caught within the matrix...
Trauma in First Person
Diary Writing During the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
What are the effects of radical oppression on the human psyche? What happens to the inner self of the powerless and traumatized victim, especially during times of widespread horror? In this bold and deeply penetrating book, Amos Goldberg addresses diary writing by Jews under Nazi persecution. Throughout...
by Israel Abrahams
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Israel Abrahams' extensive analyses of the famous jewish poem. Joseph Zabara has only in recent times received the consideration justly due to him. Yet his "Book of Delight," finished about the year 1200, is more than a poetical romance. It is a golden link between folk-literature and imaginative poetry.
The Andalusi Literary and Intellectual Tradition
The Role of Arabic in Judah ibn Tibbon's Ethical Will
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Beginning in 1172, Judah ibn Tibbon, who was called the father of Hebrew translators, wrote a letter to his son that was full of personal and professional guidance. The detailed letter, described as an ethical will, was revised through the years and offered a vivid picture of intellectual life among...
by Stephen J Greenstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.
CliffsNotes on The Chosen reveals the condition of American Jews living in two cultures, one secular and one religious. In his classic novel, author...
Salvaged Pages, Multimedia Edition
Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprisoned in ghettos, and nearly all perished before liberation....
A.M. Klein: Complete Poems
Part I: Original poems 1926-1934; Part II: Original Poems 1937-1955 and Poetry Translations (Collected Works of A.M. Klein)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
It is for his poetry that A.M. Klein is best known and most warmly remembered. This collection includes all Klein's poetry, both original works and translations from Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, and Latin. Many of them, coming from all periods of his careers, have never been published.
The poems...
Golem
Modern Wars and Their Monsters
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics
Honorable Mention, 2016 Baron Book Prize presented by AAJR
A monster tour of the Golem narrative across
various cultural and historical landscapes
In the 1910s and 1920s, a “golem cult” swept across Europe...
Survivors and Exiles
Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
After the Holocaust’s near complete destruction of European Yiddish cultural centers, the Yiddish language was largely viewed as a remnant of the past, tragically eradicated in its prime. In Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust, Jan Schwarz reveals that, on the contrary, Yiddish...
by Malcolm McGowan
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
There is a loud knock at the door. The Germans have arrived to take this Jewish family away. It is 1939 in Poland. The Huberman family were partly prepared and the three children escape through a secret passage. The two older children, 13 and 10 leave the baby at the Abbey and plan to go to family...