Jewish American Heritage Month

Stories about Jewish lives or written by Jewish authors

Updated April 17, 2025
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American pastoral
Roth, Philip.
Paper Book
American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate American's rise and fall - of a strong, confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces of social disorder. Seymour "Swede" Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his...
Bee season : a novel
Goldberg, Myla.
Ebook
Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But when...
The chosen : a novel
Potok, Chaim.
Audiobook
Though they've lived their entire lives less than five blocks from each other, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders exist in very different worlds. Reuven blends easily into both his secular Jewish faith and his typical American teen life, while Danny's conservative Hasidic clothes and appearance make...
Doppelganger : a trip into the mirror world
Klein, Naomi
Paper Book
A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the Women's Prize for Nonfiction NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | National Indie Bestseller A New York Times notable book of 2023 | Vulture's #1 book of 2023...
The dovekeepers : a novel
Hoffman, Alice.
Paper Book
Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a...
Eight very bad nights : a collection of Hanukkah noir
Goldberg, Tod
Paper Book
This captivating collection, which features bestselling and award-winning authors, contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of Hanukkah noir, and poignant reminders of the meaning of the Festival of Lights. Includes stories by David L. Ulin, Ivy Pochoda, James D.F. Hannah, Lee Goldberg, Nikki...
Find me
Aciman, André
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. No novel in...
Fleishman is in trouble : a novel
Brodesser-Akner, Taffy
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST * "A masterpiece" (NPR) about marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambition Now an Emmy Award-nominated FX limited series on Hulu, starring Claire Danes, Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan, and...
Foundation
Asimov, Isaac
Paper Book
The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THEAPPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION .Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read For twelve thousand...
Heir to the glimmering world
Ozick, Cynthia.
Ebook
A teenage girl goes to work for a chaotic family of Jewish immigrants, in a New York Times bestseller that's "a cause for celebration" (Ann Patchett).   In the 1930s, New York is swarming with Europe's ousted dreamers, alien families adapting to a new world. Rose...
Herzog
Bellow, Saul.
Ebook
The impossible exile : Stefan Zweig at the end of the world
Prochnik, George
Paper Book
An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, the man who inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel   By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were...
Kissing kosher
Meltzer, Jean
Ebook
"An unflinchingly honest romance." --Kirkus, starred review From the author of THE MATZAH BALL and MR. PERFECT ON PAPER comes this hilarious and emotional rivals-to-lovers romance. Step 1: Get the secret recipe. Step 2: Don't fall in love......
A legacy
Bedford, Sybille
Paper Book
A Legacy is the tale of two very different families, the Merzes and the Feldens. The Jewish Merzes are longstanding members of Berlin's haute bourgeoisie who count a friend of Goethe among their distinguished ancestors. Not that this proud legacy means much of anything to them anymore....
Long Island compromise : a novel
Brodesser-Akner, Taffy
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * New York<...
Magical meet cute
Meltzer, Jean
Man's search for meaning
Frankl, Viktor E.
Paper Book
A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published. "This is a book I reread a lot . . . it gives me hope . . . it gives me a sense of strength." -Anderson...
Mazeltov : a novel
Zuzovsky, Eli
Paper Book
In a glorious debut, a boy confronts queer lust, shame, the threat of war, and the plague of family on the day he becomes a man At a banquet hall, at the onset of war, Adam Weizmann's bar mitzvah party turns into a glorious catastrophe. On the cusp of manhood--and the verge of...
Moonglow : a novel
Chabon, Michael
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal * An NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction * ALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction * Wall Street Journal's Best Novel of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book of the...
Night
Wiesel, Elie
Paper Book
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent...
The particular sadness of lemon cake : a novel
Bender, Aimee.
Paper Book
The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her...
The postcard
Berest, Anne
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR TIME Magazine・NPR・Library Journal・The Globe and Mail・Lilith・Forward Magazine・Toronto Star・The New Yorker Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest...
The power : a novel
Alderman, Naomi
Paper Book
In this stunning bestseller praised as "our era's Handmaid's Tale," a fierce new power has emerged--and only women have it (Washington Post).  In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around...
The seven good years : a memoir
Keret, Etgar
Paper Book
A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a "genius" (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan. The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of...
Tepper isn't going out : a novel
Trillin, Calvin.
Paper Book
Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not surprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by...
Uncomfortable conversations with a Jew
Acho, Emmanuel
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking investigation into antisemitism that connects the dots between the tropes and hatred of the past to our current complicated moment.
We need to talk about antisemitism
Fersko, Diana
Paper Book
A millennial rabbi explores why we're reluctant to discuss antisemitism--and empowers us to fight against it  Antisemitism is on the rise in America, in cities and rural areas, in red states and blue states, and in guises both subtle and terrifyingly overt. Rabbi Diana Fersko...
What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank
Englander, Nathan.
Audiobook
These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.

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