Jewish Fiction category: 695 books
One Hundred Great Jewish Books
Three Millennia of Jewish Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
An introduction to one hundred great Jewish books, arranged as a concise and thought-provoking guide to the Jewish conversation across many centuries. Each of the entries features one work in its historical and cultural context, provides a summary of content and author, and reflects on its relevance for today’s readers.
From Continuity to Contiguity
Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Dan Miron—widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on modern Jewish literatures—begins this study by surveying and critiquing previous attempts to define a common denominator unifying the various modern Jewish literatures. He argues that these prior efforts have all been trapped...
Unclean Lips
Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award presented by the Association for Jewish Studies
Jews have played an integral role in the history of obscenity in America. For most of the 20th century, Jewish entrepreneurs and editors led the charge against obscenity laws. Jewish lawyers battled...
Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890–1930
Struggles for Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
The compelling argument of Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890–1930: Struggles for Recognition is that narratives of Eastern European Jewish Americans are important discourses offering a response to America’s norms of assimilation, rationalized progress, and control in the early...
by Victor Teboul
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
About Revisiting Tolerance. Lessons drawn from Egypt's Cosmopolitanism
How does a polyglot Jewish family from Alexandria, Egypt, get caught up in the power play of the Suez Crisis? In this fascinating ebook Egyptian-born writer Victor Teboul recounts his cosmopolitan experience and his family’s...
by Lewis Glinert
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1993
When do you say mazal tov? What is the English equivalent to the Talmudic expression Alya ve-kots ba ("a sheep's tail with a thorn in it")? What is a get, a golem, a kibbutz, a chalutz? What four plant species are waved during prayers on the harvest festival of Sukkot? You'll find answers to these...
Jean-Claude Grumberg
Three Plays
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Winner of seven Molières, the Pulitzer Prize of France, Jean-Claude Grumberg is one of France's leading dramatists and a distinguished voice of modern European Jewry after the Shoah. His success in portraying contemporary Parisian Jews on the stage represents a new development in European theater and...
Calypso Jews
Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the "Calypso Jews" who fled Europe for Trinidad in the 1930s. Examining these historical migrations through the lens of...
Sanctuary in the Wilderness
A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution....
City of Rogues and Schnorrers
Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
“Outstanding . . . A delightfully written work of serious scholarship.” —Jewish Book World
Old Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked...
Haskalah and Beyond
The Reception of the Hebrew Enlightenment and the Emergence of Haskalah Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Haskalah and Beyond deals with the Hebrew Haskalah (Enlightenment) — the literary, cultural, and social movement in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe. It represents the emergence of modernism and perhaps the budding of some aspects of secularism in Jewish society, following the efforts of the...
Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews
Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many perceived American Jewry to be in a state of crisis as traditions of faith faced modern sensibilities. Published beginning in 1909, Rabbi and Professor Louis Ginzberg’s seven-volume The Legends of the Jews appeared at this crucial time and offered a landmark...
Children of the Ghetto
A Study of a Peculiar People
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
In its first appearance in 1892, Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto created a sensation in both England and America, becoming the first Anglo-Jewish bestseller and establishing Zangwill as the literary voice of Anglo-Jewry. A novel set in late nineteenth-century London, Children of the Ghetto gave...
Writing Jewish Culture
Paradoxes in Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of "ethnoliterature" across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the...