Schocken imprint: 160 books
Two She-Bears
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
One of Israel’s most celebrated novelists—the acclaimed author of A Pigeon and a Boy—gives us a story of village love and vengeance in the early days of British Palestine that is still being played out two generations later.
“In the year 1930 three farmers committed suicide here . ....
Blooms of Darkness
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
**WINNER OF THE 2012 INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE**
A new novel from the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli writer (“One of the greatest writers of the age”—The Guardian), a haunting, heartbreaking story of love and loss.
The ghetto in which the Jews have been...
Until the Dawn's Light
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
***NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER (2012)***
From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer (“One of the best novelists alive” —Irving Howe): a Jewish woman marries a gentile laborer in turn-of-the-century Austria, with disastrous results.
A high school honor student bound...
The Conversion
A novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Our story opens in an Austrian city, two generations before the Holocaust, where almost all of the Jews have converted to Christianity. Today the church bells are pealing for Karl, an ambitious young civil servant whose conversion will clear his path to a coveted high government post. Karl's future...
Unto the Soul
A novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
In turn of the century Eastern Europe, a brother and sister have been chosen to guard an ancient cemetery of Jewish martyrs situated on an isolated mountain. The endless snows protect them from the pogroms and plagues that rage in the world below, but that same protective blanket cuts them off from...
To the Edge of Sorrow
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
From "fiction's foremost chronicler of the Holocaust" (Philip Roth), a haunting novel about an unforgettable group of Jewish partisans fighting the Nazis during World War II.
Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance...
The Retreat
A novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
The year is 1937. On a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna stands a hotel called The Retreat. Founded by a man who is determined to cleanse himself and his guests of all "Jewish traits," it is a resort of assimilation, with daily activities that include lessons in how to look, talk,...
Laish
A novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
A caravan of Jews wanders through Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century on a heartbreaking quest. Spiritual seekers and the elderly, widows and orphans, the sick and the dying, con artists and adventurers, victims of pogroms who have no place else to go–they are all on a pilgrimage...
by Martin Buber
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Edited by Nahum N. Glatzer
With a new Foreword by Rodger Kamenetz
“The question I put before you, as well as before myself, is the question of the meaning of Judaism for the Jews. Why do we call ourselves Jews? I want to speak to you not of an abstraction but of your own life . . . its authenticity...
Sacred Trash
The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
**NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Part of the Jewish Encounter series**
One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect...
Jewish Soul Food
From Minsk to Marrakesh, More Than 100 Unforgettable Dishes Updated for Today's Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The author of the acclaimed The Book of New Israeli Food returns with a cookbook devoted to the culinary masterpieces of Jewish grandmothers from Minsk to Marrakesh: recipes that have traveled across continents and cultural borders and are now brought to life for a new generation.
For more...
Pesach for the Rest of Us
Making the Passover Seder Your Own
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Every year, poet and novelist Marge Piercy creates her own Passover seder with a group of family and friends. Babies have been born and grown up, friends have moved or divorced, but the principals continue to gather in her rustic Cape Cod home to participate in a seder that Piercy takes joy in tweaking...
The Children's Jewish Holiday Kitchen
70 Fun Recipes for You and Your Kids, from the Author of Jewish Cooking in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
There could be no more festive way to introduce Jewish children to their Jewish heritage than through the food associated with the holidays. And no better person to do it than Joan Nathan, whose great enthusiasm and knowledge have gained her a national reputation as the maven of the Jewish kitchen.
Here...
The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook
Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today's Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Beautifully translated for a new generation of devotees of delicious and healthy eating: a groundbreaking, mouthwatering vegetarian cookbook originally published in Yiddish in pre–World War II Vilna and miraculously rediscovered more than half a century later.
In 1938, Fania Lewando, the...