The Train to Warsaw by Gwen Edelman
Jascha and Lilka escape separately from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. Reunited years later, they are living in London where Jascha has become a celebrated writer, feted for his dark tales about his wartime...
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The Lie by Hesh Kestin
Dahlia Barr does not suffer fools – or her own government, with which she is normally at odds. Shrewd, brash, and as tough as she is beautiful, the controversial Israeli attorney specializes in defending...
The Doppelganger’s Dance by Libi Astaire
Jane Austen meets Sherlock Holmes when a crime wave sweeps through Regency London’s Jewish community and the adventures of wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth Ezra Melamed are recorded for posterity by Miss Rebecca Lyon, a young lady not...
The Balancing Game by Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
It describes the strange and unique world occupied by a Jewish child, the daughter of refugees from Hitler’s Germany, growing up in post-war London and living in a run-down neighborhood. Naomi is obliged to maintain...
You Should Have Known Book Giveaway
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees...
The Opposite of Everything by David Kalish
When Brooklyn journalist Daniel Plotnick learns he has cancer, his fortunes fall faster than you can say Ten Plagues of Egypt. His wife can’t cope, his marriage ends in a showdown with police, and...
Mannequin Girl by Ellen Litman
Growing up in Soviet Russia, Kat Knopman worships her parents, temperamental Anechka and soft-hearted, absent-minded Misha. Young Jewish intellectuals, they teach literature at a Moscow school, run a drama club, and dabble in political...
An Excerpt From ‘Mount Terminus’
In David Grand’s atmospheric new novel, ‘Mount Terminus’, set in pre-Hollywood Los Angeles, a man can’t outrun his dark New York past. The Rosenblooms were conceived somewhere on the other side of the world. In...
A Holocaust Novel with Fangs
Add to your bookshelf’s “Undead” section The Color of Light, Helen Maryles Shankman’s debut novel. This vampire tale is set in an art school that closely resembles the New York Academy of Art, which...
Joshua Max Feldman’s The Book of Jonah
A Young Lawyer, Given a Revelation by God, at Sea About What To Do With It In Joshua Max Feldman’s entertaining debut novel ‘The Book of Jonah,’ Greed is Good meets Sept. 11 …What...
