jewish fiction

"Rabbi Hanina feels sorry for himself when he becomes wet,cold, and muddy from the rain. But when he goes inside his house--where he is dry, warm, and happy--he feels selfish, knowing that the parched earth needs the earth, and he learns a lesson about his place in the world"--Provided by publisher.

When Micah and his family volunteer to pick pumpkins for a soup kitchen, he also hopes to get the perfect pumpkin for himself, but soon learns that giving to others can be even better. Includes facts about Sukkot.

"Brooklyn, 1947: in the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women. They are sisters by marriage with an impenetrable bond forged before and during that dramatic night; but as the years progress, small cracks start to appear and their once deep friendship begins to unravel. No one knows why, and no one can stop it. One misguided choice; one moment of tragedy. Heartbreak wars with happiness and almost but not quite wins.From debut novelist Lynda Cohen Loigman comes The Two-Family House, a moving family saga filled with heart, emotion, longing, love, and mystery. "Two families, both living in one house, drive an exquisitely written novel of love, alliances, the messiness of life and long buried secrets. Loigman's debut is just shatteringly wonderful and I can't wait to see what she does next." - Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You"No good deed goes unpunished. In a single, intensely charged moment, two women come to a private agreement meant to assure each other's happiness. But as Lynda Cohen Loigman deftly reveals, life is not so simple, especially when it involves two families, tightly intertwined. The Two-Family House is sympathetically observed and surely plotted all the way through to its deeply satisfying conclusion." - Christina Schwarz, author of Drowning Ruth (an Oprah's Book Club pick) and national bestseller The Edge of the Earth"--.

Miriam, the second daughter of Talmud commentator Salomon ben Isaac in eleventh-century France, comes to depend heavily on her faith when she decides to become a midwife and mohel, and falls in love with a learned and handsome young scholar with a devastating secret.

Follows the passionate evolution of Elizabeth Taube, the shy, chubby daughter of remote parents, from childhood to middle age, as she pursues love in all its many and varied forms.

In a series of interconnected stories set in the 1960s, Zosha, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, struggles to be free of her parents' memories and expectations as she writes stories that reflect her search for an identity of her own.

Studies a representative selection of novels to illustrate the significance of Jewish-American fiction to the body of American literature, examining some of the general themes that have occupied Jewish-American writers, while keeping in the mind the individuality of such authors as Philip Roth and Norman Mailer.

A collection of stories and personal writings originally featured on National Public Radio's "Hanukkah Lights" program that reflect the traditions and lore of the holiday. Includes a CD with four bonus recordings.

Contains essays that provide literary analyses of the works of award-winning American author Bernard Malamud, and includes personal portraits and memoirs of Malamud by friends and colleagues.