Jewish Fiction category: 695 books

In History's Grip concentrates on the literature of Philip Roth, one of America's greatest writers, and in particular on American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain. Each of these novels from the 1990s uses Newark, New Jersey, to explore American history and character. Each features...

In this book, Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of nineteenth-century Yiddish literature and twentieth-century Anglophone and Francophone African literature and reveals unexpected...

What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core that consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, and tales of individual survival? Is it the same everywhere: West and East, in Australia as in the Americas, in poetry as in...

This interdisciplinary study intergrates historiographical, literary and cultural methodologies in its focus on a little known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps. Comprising epistemological and literary analyses of the accounts and an examination of the...

This Siddur (prayer book) speaks to all those who seek a meaningful and humanistic approach to prayer. Rabbi Rabeeya offers his reflections and inner thoughts about the divine to those searching for meaning in an alienated society.

From 1923, when he emigrated from Bucharest, to his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Benjamin Fondane made a unique and independent-minded contribution to the literary and intellectual life of Paris. One of the most significant pieces in Fondane’s body of work is the long poem Ulysses,...

Abandonné à la naissance, Antoine Boulan fuit l’orphelinat et tente de survivre en restant sur le droit chemin pour tenir une promesse. Rattrapé par l’époque, il sombre dans les cambriolages et se voit condamné au bagne par erreur. Quand la guerre éclate, il revient en France pour prendre...

Aux portes de l’enfer (juillet 1942 - décembre 1944) Traqué par la Gestapo, Antoine fuit Paris et se réfugie auprès du groupe de Gustave Jandart, Honneur du Loiret. Il en devient vite le lieutenant et s’installe dans la ferme abandonnée où transitent les candidats au passage de...

Après la diffusion des tracts et les missions de renseignements, Antoine est devenu un membre du Groupe Opéra sur qui on peut compter. Après une première exfiltration réussie, avec son ami Jean-Paul Mazières, ils doivent récupérer un camion chargé d’armes et de munitions qui les attend...

Dedicated to Duras’ companion with whom she spent her last decade of life, Yann Andréa Steiner is a haunting dance between two parallel stories of love and solitude: the love between Duras and the young Yann Andréa and a seaside romance observed – or imagined – by the narrator between a camp...

“Told in clear and beautiful prose, Aaron’s Leap is a deeply moving portrait of love, sacrifice, and the transformative power of art in a time of brutal uncertainty.” -SIMON VAN BOOY, author of The Illusion of Separateness Based on the real-life story of Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis,...

Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Debarati Sanyal calls...

A rich and significant collection of more than one hundred poems, drawn from a lifetime of “wild gratitude” in poetry. In poems chronicling insomnia (“the blue-rimmed edge / of outer dark, those crossroads / where we meet the dead”), art and culture (poems on Edward Hopper and Paul...

An uncompromising account of the bloody persecution of the Jews, and others, in the Ukraine and the terrors of the Nazi death camps will shock and horrify many readers. All the events are as told by one of the survivors, Carl the main character in the book (although that was not his real name). The...