Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Jewish

An ambulance screams through the Jerusalem's quiet streets. Inside, a toddler fights for his life, his parents nowhere to be found. With profound shock, an emergency room doctor realizes that the child's mother--a young American--is already at the hospital, sitting at the bedside of yet another child with traumatic injuries. Devoutly reciting Pslams, she stubbornly refuses to answer any questions, cautioning her children to say nothing.

Brought in to investigate, Jerusalem detective Bina Tzedek--herself a young mother--carefully peels back layer after layer of secrets and lies,...

A stunning decades-spanning debut novel, about a man forced to confront his moral culpability, the legacy of impossible loss, and the claims of his Jewish identity.

Paul Hartman, coming of age in postwar Rockaway, grows up haunted by the specter of his cousin Max, an Auschwitz survivor, and Max's mysterious cache of diamonds, which fund Paul's Harvard Law education and even sparkle in his fiancEe's engagement ring. When a stranger from his past confronts him with an impossible demand, one that could destroy his law career, his marriage and his sense of...

Winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel, Minyan is both bittersweet and hilarious in a way that hurts to laugh. It is the tale of Norbert Wilner, a man who has mastered the art of arrested development who, at 37, is still single and living in New York City, surrounded by the Jewish guys he grew up with in Jersey. They are all searching for God, women, and most of all, a good pastrami-on-rye with spicy brown mustard, a side of potato salad and a cream soda.

Bernstein is a Hindu, Greenblatt's a Sufi, Weissbaum worships Willie Mays, and nobody likes Finkelstein, the big-shot lawyer...

Leave the Day Its Disgust. A Novel. 2nd Volume: The Carrier Pigeon or Why We Love America

This book is in Romanian. It is a masterpiece of the Romanian literature. It's author, Ştefan Dimitriu, is one of the most important Romanian writers of today.

Solomon Fridman, an old Jew lawyer same age with the 20th century, known mainly as Mister Guta, and Pompilian Covaliu, TV journalist and writer, called Pompidou by his friends, about 40 years his younger, meet each other and become friends by chance at the end of the 20th century in Bucharest, at...

Leave the Day Its Disgust. A Novel. 1st Volume: The Ballad of the Autumn Chick

This book is in Romanian. It is a masterpiece of the Romanian literature. It's author, Ştefan Dimitriu, is one of the most important Romanian writers of today.

Solomon Fridman, an old Jew lawyer same age with the 20th century, known mainly as Mister Guta, and Pompilian Covaliu, TV journalist and writer, called Pompidou by his friends, about 40 years his younger, meet each other and become friends by chance at the end of the 20th century in Bucharest, at the peak of...

Eavesdropping in Oberammergau presents the lives of two families--a Jewish-American military family and a German family--plus a character derived from a true story who meet in Oberammergau, Germany, in the years immediately following World War II. The novel knits together the friendship between the families' eleven-year- old daughters, the eavesdropping Alison and Trudy, and Stefan Hirsch, the novel's hero.

Oberammergau is no ordinary Bavarian village--it is the home of the world-famous Passion Play, drawing millions of visitors to view the drama of the last days of Jesus....

SOULS ARE FLYING A Celebration of Jewish Stories is a collection of twelve short stories based on the writings of beloved Jewish authors Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Abramovtish, I. L. Peretz, and Jacob Dinezon.

Collected and retold by storyteller Scott Hilton Davis, these new adaptations celebrate Jewish heritage, culture, and values.

Featured in this revised edition are characters such as the Old Book Peddler who struggles to remain true to his own path; the poor Melamud (a Hebrew school teacher of young children) who imagines the world he would create...

Shirah Shulamit Ojero has four loves, her African American culture, her Jewish heritage, academic study -- especially the study of literary epics -- and her city, Washington, DC. Peacesong DC displays the interconnection of these four loves as Shirah grows up in the Washington DC neighborhoods of Mayfair Mansions, Kenilworth, Anacostia, Takoma DC. and downtown. Throughout her life, Shirah connects with the buildings and images of the National Mall which she considers the epic center of the United States. After graduating from DC Public Schools (Neval Thomas,...