Jewish Fiction category: 695 books
The Wandering Signifier
Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2008
While Jews figure in the work of many modern Latin American writers, the questions of how and to what end they are represented have received remarkably little critical attention. Helping to correct this imbalance, Erin Graff Zivin traces the symbolic presence of Jews and Jewishness in late-nineteenth-...
Leon Uris
Life of a Best Seller
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
As the best-selling author of Exodus, Mila 18, QB VII, and Trinity, Leon Uris blazed a path to celebrity with books that readers could not put down. Uris's thirteen novels sold millions of copies, spent months on the best-seller lists, appeared in fifty languages, and have been adapted into equally...
The Conflagration of Community
Fiction before and after Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
“After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric.” The Conflagration of Community challenges Theodor Adorno’s famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extreme collective and personal experiences. J....
Michael Chabon's America
Magical Words, Secret Worlds, and Sacred Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Author Michael Chabon is acutely attuned to life in contemporary America, providing insight into the history of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in novels such as The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), Wonder Boys (1995), and Telegraph Avenue (2012). The Pulitzer prize–winning author...
Motherhood, Fatherland, and Primo Levi
The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in His Auschwitz Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Motherhood, Fatherland and Primo Levi: The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in his Auschwitz Writings offers major new insights into the political dimensions of Levi’s thought by using those texts conventionally thought to be marginal to his oeuvre (i.e., his short works of science fiction and fantasy...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
Primo Levi (1919–87) was the author of a rich body of work, including memoirs and reflections on Auschwitz, poetry, science fiction, historical fiction and essays. In particular, his lucid and direct accounts of his time at Auschwitz, begun immediately after liberation in 1945 and sustained until...
On the Edge of the Holocaust
The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment of the Shoah by five leading figures in Argentine,...
Representations of Anne Frank in American Literature
Stories in New Ways
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book explores portrayals of Anne Frank in American literature, where she is often invoked, if problematically, as a means of encouraging readers to think widely about persecution, genocide, and victimisation; often in relation to gender, ethnicity, and race. It shows how literary representations...
The Impossible Exile
Stefan Zweig at the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig
By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also...
Proust
The Search
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
“Taylor’s endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different emotional upheavals, fired Proust’s imagination and, albeit sometimes completely transformed, appeared in his work. The result is a very subtle, thought-provoking book.”—Anka...
Jerusalem
A Family Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Jerusalem is a sweeping, epic graphic novel that follows a single family—three generations and fifteen very different people—as they are swept up in chaos, war, and nation-making from 1940-1948. Faith, family, and politics are the heady mix that fuel this ambitious, cinematic graphic novel.
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by Anne Frank, Ari Folman
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
A timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For both young readers and adults it continues to capture the remarkable spirit of Anne Frank, who for a time survived the worst horror the modern world has seen—and who remained triumphantly and...
Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait...
The Hours After
Letters of Love and Longing in War's Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2000
The love letters of Gerda and Kurt Klein, revealing one of the greatest love stories ever told.
Over fifty years ago, Gerda Weissmann was barely alive at the end of a 350-mile death march that took her from a slave labor camp in Germany to the Czech border. On May 7, 1945, the American military...