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
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Philip Roth's masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America 'Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted...
Doppelganger : a trip into the mirror world
Klein, Naomi
Paper Book
What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed...
Find me
Aciman, André
Paper Book
In this spellbinding new exploration of the vicissitudes and varieties of love, the author of Call Me by Your Name revisits his characters' complex lives in the years after their first meeting.
Fleishman is in trouble : a novel
Brodesser-Akner, Taffy
Paper Book
Foundation
Asimov, Isaac
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon's two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one that shaped...
A legacy
Bedford, Sybille
Paper Book
On the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In A Legacy, Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds - the wealthy bourgeois life of the Merzes in Berlin and the aristocratic eccentricity of the von Felden dynasty in...
The light of the midnight stars
Rossner, Rena
Paper Book
A SPELLBINDING TALE OF LOVE AND LOSS, SISTERHOOD AND THE TANGLED THREADS OF FATE. 'Blending folktale with history, hope with tragedy, its touch will linger on your heart long after you put it down' Marie Brennan, author of the Memoirs of Lady Trent series ...
Long Island compromise : a novel
Brodesser-Akner, Taffy
Paper Book
Moonglow : a novel
Chabon, Michael
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A Telegraph Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book of the Year * A Washington Post Book of the Year * A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year * A Slate Book of the Year 'Probably Chabon's greatest, a piece of sustained writing that will be hard to see outdone...
Night
Wiesel, Elie
Paper Book
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity- the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of...
The particular sadness of lemon cake : a novel
Bender, Aimee.
Paper Book
The postcard
Berest, Anne
Paper Book
A moving novel based on the true story of a family's endurance and pain, and a heartfelt exploration of Jewish identity in a secular society
The power : a novel
Alderman, Naomi
Paper Book
Tepper isn't going out : a novel
Trillin, Calvin.
Paper Book

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