Ethnic Orientation/Jewish
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Why Read the Classics?
$15.99 Add to cartA posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino’s invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0544146379
- Language: English
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The Fixer
$19.00 Add to cartThe Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud’s best-known and most acclaimed novel — one that makes- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Malamud, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: May 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529388
- Language: English
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Herzog
$20.00 Add to cartIn one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption.
A- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Bellow, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437298
- Language: English
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Die Laughing
$17.99 Add to cartL.A.’s oldest and most unconventional Jewish gumshoe is back and more relentless than ever in the highly anticipated fourth Amos Parisman Mystery!
When a legend of late-night comedy is found brutally m… [more below]
- Series: Amos Parisman Mysteries #4
- Author: Weinberger, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1684429609
- Language: English
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The Instructions: 13th Anniversary Bar Mitzvah Edition
$32.00 Add to cartBeginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and 900 pages later, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lo… [more below]
- Author: Levin, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1026
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1952119731
- Language: English
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The One Man: The Riveting and Intense Bestselling WWII Thriller
$30.00 Add to cart“As moving as it is gripping. A winner on all fronts.”–Booklist (starred review)
“Heart-pounding…This is Gross’s best work yet, with his heart and soul imprinted on every page.”–Kirkus Reviews (sta- Author: Gross, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160537
- Language: English
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Dear Edna Sloane
$18.95 Add to cartDear Edna Sloane is a funny, fast-paced epistolary novel about fame, writers, ambition, and the ups and downs of a creative life.
Edna Sloane was a promising author at the top of her game. Her debut no
- Author: Shearn, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1636281222
- Language: English
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Untethered
$24.95 Read moreDuring a teenage adventure abroad, twins Petal and Rose find their lives diverging in ways they could not have imagined, highlighting the complexities of their relationship and a shrouded family histo
- Author: Rakoff, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1770867015
- Language: English
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Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto
$14.99 Read moreNo American fiction of the year merits recognition more than this Russian’s stories of Yiddish life. … [Mr. Cahan] is a humorist, and his humor does not spare the sordid and uncouth aspects of the c
- Author: Cahan, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 1970
- ISBN10: 0486224279
- Language: English
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A Walker in the City
$15.99 Add to cartKazin’s memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the journey from Brooklyn to “americanca”-the larger world that begins at the other end of the subway in Manhattan. A classic portr… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Kazin, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0156941767
- Language: English
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
$24.00 Add to cartA literary masterpiece by a Polish traveller, aristocratic adventurer, political activist, ethnographer and publisher
Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in … [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Potocki, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140445803
- Language: English
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Sharp Teeth
$14.99 Add to cart“Barlow’s imagery is magnificent . . . [A] kooky combo of grit, goofiness, and gusto . . . demonstrates that fantasy . . . may just be the place to find true exuberance and stylistic innovation.” — L
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Barlow, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0061430242
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Occupation: A Novel of WWII
$18.99 Add to cartInspired by true events in World War II Latvia, an emotionally charged novel of sacrifice, trauma, resilience, and survival, as witnessed by three generations of women.
On one extraordinary day in 194
- Author: Sanders, Shelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0063226669
- Language: English
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Judas
$17.99 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER and winner of the International Literature Prize. At once an exquisite love story and a coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from… [more below]
- Author: Oz, Amos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 132874549X
- Language: English
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The Big Green Tent
$26.00 Add to cartNamed a Must-Read Book by New York Magazine, Travel+Leisure, Flavorwire, and Bustle
With epic breadth and intimate detail, Ludmila Ulitska
Long-listed for the 2016 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction- Author: Ulitskaya, Ludmila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1250097444
- Language: English
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Street Corner Dreams
$17.95 Read moreFamily, romance and gangsters support and thwart Golda, Ben, and Morty from achieving their dreams: Golda gives up independence to marry her widowed brother-in-law, Ben, and care for baby Morty; later… [more below]
- Author: Kraut, Florence Reiss
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425913
- Language: English
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The Hebrew Teacher
$17.95 Add to cart“Intensely readable and beautifully observed . . . full of wisdom, generosity, humor, and sharp insights.”–Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or and The Idiot
Three Israeli women, their lives altered by i… [more below]
- Author: Arad, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1954404239
- Language: English
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The Glory
$28.99 Add to cartLike no other novelist at work today, Herman Wouk has managed to capture the sweep of history in novels rich in character and alive with drama. In “The Hope,” which opens in 1948 and culminates in the… [more below]
- Author: Wouk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 03 2002
- ISBN10: 0316953199
- Language: English
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Woman in Jerusalem
$14.99 Add to cartA woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no r… [more below]
- Author: Yehoshua, A. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0156031949
- Language: English
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Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries.
In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190076976
- Language: English
