Mordechai Richler   Ebullient and perverse, thrice married, Barney Panofsky has always clung to two cherished beliefs: life is absurd and nobody truly ever understands anybody else. But when his...

Pete HamillSet in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood in 1947, this poignant tale revolves around two of the most endearing characters in recent fiction: an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael...

Naomi Ragen A modern classic of Jewish-American literature, a remarkable journey into the shrouded world of Chassidic women. Naomi Ragen's first novel has been called "one of the too most...

Stephen Jerome KohnFiction writer Stephen Jerome Kohn explores the lives of everyday people, using his keen eye to survey the human spirit and delicately craft his observations into short stories...

Zev SpektorWhen his father doesn't return home, Chaim begins a search that is joined by the enigmatic Mr. Wolfson, who helps put together a series of puzzling clues involving the...

Sam Apple   Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd   In the tradition of Confederates in the Attic comes a hilarious...

Jurek Becker One of the most remarkable novels of the Holocaust ever written, Jakob the Liar is a tale of everyday heroism and the extraordinary power of illusion. Set in...

Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau With a foreword by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel!Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, was just eight years old when the camp...

Howard Jacobson Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer, and television personality, are...

Louis Finkelstein

Sarah Silberstein SwartzExcerpts from memoirs, biographies, novels, short stories, religious, ethical, and psychological literature, and visual art provide the bar mitzvah boy with examples from his Jewish heritage.

Valerie HurleyMaking a second attempt at her senior year in high school, Raine Rassaby is now enrolled in St. Ursula’s Academy for Girls, where she has been made the special...