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Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust | Yaffa Eliach | First-hand accounts, parables, and stories explaining how these brave but suffering people endured o… |
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon | Richard Zimler | Novel which transport readers back to the time of the Inquisition and the reign of terror that was f… |
The Finkler Question | Howard Jacobson | Howard Jacobson's Man Booker Prize winning novel which poignantly and humorously describes the dilem… |
The Rabbi | Noah Gordon | The life of a rabbi from his early beginnings and inspirations in Massachusetts and New York, and th… |
Zlateh The Goat and other stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer (Illus.Maurice Sendak) Trans. From Yiddish by Singer and Eliz.Shub | The setting is, of course, Chelm, a 'village of fools.' Stories are about fools, devils, shlemiels a… |
Plots and Players | Pamela Melnikoff | The time period is Elizabethan England, the world of Shakespeare, and the plot involves an attempt o… |
The Call of the Shofar and other Stories | Nissan Mindel/Adapted by Chan Zuber-Sharfstein; Illus. By Zalman Kleinman | Old and musty but charming children's story book (ages 4-10?). Titles of stories include: "The Call… |
Mommy Never Went to Hebrew School | Mindy Avra Portnoy Illus. By Shelly O. Hass | A no-brainer, very American book which is so cute it's nauseating. You have to be pretty desperate… |
The Star and the Sword | Pamela Melnikof (Illus. Hans Schwarz) | The setting is 12th Century England, so there were actually Jews in England then. This time the Jewi… |
The Gilded Chamber | Rebecca Kohn | Fictional account of Queen Esther, the Purim Heroine following in the same tradition as Daimant's Th… |
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories | Wonderful collection of short stories form the master himself which deals with human nature, how peo… | |
From Many Countries-The collected Short Stories of Sholem Asch | Sholem Asch/Translators: Maurice Samuel and Meyer Levin | Heart-rending stories of Jewish life before and after The Shoah. Dedicated to the writer's father w… |
Almonds & Raisins | Maisie Mosco | Classic story of Sarah Sandberg in the early 20th century and the life she left behind in Russia and… |
For Love and Duty | Maisie Mosco | Life of Bella Minsky during the war, the rags to riches story of the famous milliner and how hard it… |
Sadie | Marcelle Bernstein | Manchester born, Berstein comes from an Orthodox family, and her work reflects the knowledge which h… |
Dreidelcat | Wendy Mallin Walinow | Lovely childrens' story of Hanukkah through the perspective of a cat family. Charming. Perfect for c… |
Mistress of the Art of Death | Ariana Franklin | Winner of the historical fiction award, the late A. Franklin, writes a gripping tale of a doctor who… |
The Dove Keepers | Alice Hoffman | Novel which traces Jewish escapees from Jerusalem to Masada and their sad end during the violent tim… |
Crusader Gold | David Gibbins | Novel which tells the story of an archaeologist who searches for the lost gold Menorah of Temple tim… |
Guardian of the Dawn | Richard Zimler | Action-packed, bloody account of the last remaining Portuguese Jews in Lisbon, some of whom survived… |
Jewish Literature between the Bible and The Mishnah | George W. E. Nickelsburg | Critical and sensitive examination of major literary works from the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and th… |
Here I Am | Jonathan Safran Foer | The Jewish angst is in high gear in this novel about relationships and duties between family members… |
In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov | Dan Ben-Amos and Jerome R. Mintz (trans. And eds.) | Collection of legends and stories about the Baal Shem Tov's life. Legenda and miracles abound. |
The Folklore of Cornwall | Tony Deane and Tony Shaw | A collection of anecdotal and legendary histories of the Cornish county with references to Jewish pr… |
The Prague Golem, Jewish Stories of the Ghetto | Trans. Sona Maresovai | Illustrated and with pictures, the famous Jewish sites in Prague along with the stories associated w… |
Moonglow | Michael Chabon | Fast-paced latest novel by established writer and winner of many literary awards, this novel traces… |
The Finkler Question | Howard Jacobson | Howard Jacobson's Booker prize-winning novel about Jewish neurosis via Sam Finkler and his friends… |
Jewish Folk Tales in Britian and Ireland | Liz Berg | Delightful tour of England and Ireland through Jewish story-teling, and its relationship to local cu… |
Parasha Play for children of All Ages | Richard Allen | A series of plays written for children by the author which covers every parashah in the five books o… |
The Penguin Book of Jewish Short Stories | Emanuel Litvinoff | Lovely collection of stories from the 'greats' of Jewish short stories: I.L. Peretz, Sholom Aleichem… |
The Temple | Jerome Weidman | As a result of his experience with American troops liberating the death camps and Buchenwald, the ma… |
The White Hotel | D. M. Thomas | Some narration, some poetry, some stream of consciousness, some letters: a mixture of a woman's jour… |
Other People's Trades | Primo Levi/Raymond Rosenthal, trans. | Essays by Levi about various observations of people, city life, country and natural phenomenon, zool… |
The Hasidic Story Book | Harry M. Rabinowicz | The charming tales with a message from, of course, the Baal Shem Tov, and also by other Hasidic rabb… |
Jewish Legends of the Middle Ages | Claud Field, translator | Written primarily for children (who possess a very good vocabulary), a curious, odd, old edition, in… |