Jewish Fiction category: 695 books
Ancestral Tales
Reading the Buczacz Stories of S.Y. Agnon
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S. Y. Agnon's A City in Its Fullness is an ambitious, historically rich sequence of stories memorializing Buczacz, the city of his birth. This town in present-day Ukraine was once home to a vibrant Jewish population...
An Early Self
Jewish Belonging in Romance Literature, 1499-1627
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
What role has Jewish intellectual culture played in the development of modern Romance literature? Susanne Zepp seeks to answer this question through an examination of five influential early modern texts written between 1499 and 1627: Fernando de Rojas's La Celestina, Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore,...
Bernard Malamud
A Centennial Tribute
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Master storyteller and literary stylist Bernard Malamud is considered one of the top three most influential postwar American Jewish writers, having established a voice and a presence for other authors in the literary canon. Along with Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, Malamud brought to life a decidedly American...
Inventing the Israelite
Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
In this book, Maurice Samuels brings to light little known works of literature produced from 1830 to 1870 by the first generation of Jews born as French citizens. These writers, Samuels asserts, used fiction as a laboratory to experiment with new forms of Jewish identity relevant to the modern world....
by Geoff Hamilton, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Understanding Gary Shteyngart, the first comprehensive examination of Shteyngart’s novels and memoir, introduces readers to one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful contemporary American authors. Born in Leningrad in 1972, Shteyngart immigrated to the United States in 1979,...
Sephardism
Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor. Since the nineteenth century, this metaphor has occurred with extraordinary frequency in works by authors from a variety of ethnicities, religions, and nationalities in Europe, the...
Short Stories by Jesus
The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
The renowned biblical scholar, author of The Misunderstood Jew, and general editor for The Jewish Annotated New Testament interweaves history and spiritual analysis to explore Jesus’ most popular teaching parables, exposing their misinterpretations and making them lively and relevant for modern...
The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem
The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Part of the Jewish Encounters series
The first comprehensive biography of one of the most beloved authors of all time: the creator of Tevye the Dairyman, the collection of stories that inspired Fiddler on the Roof.
Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and editor, Sholem Aleichem was...
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm
The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors.
When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world—one fool...
A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era
The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
In 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pin as Hurwitz published one of the best-selling Hebrew books of the modern era. Nominally an extended commentary on a sixteenth-century kabbalist text, The Book of the Covenant was in fact a compendium of scientific knowledge and a manual of moral behavior....
by Katja Garloff
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler,...
Letters to America
Selected Poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Letters to America presents the life and work of an accomplished Jewish poet who exchanged the American promised land for the Israeli one, yet struggled to exorcise the ghosts of his American past and make his home in the Jewish state. Born Robert Reiss in 1930s New York, in 1959 Reuven Ben-Yosef...
Diasporas of the Mind
Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers—some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal—to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. Moving from early responses to...