Getting Even

Written by Woody Allen

Format: Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 1978
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-72640-3 (0-394-72640-5)

In Getting Even Woody Allen revenges himself upon such significant subjects as death, obesity, organized crime, the invention of the sandwich, adult education, laundry lists of famous people, and Latin American revolutionaries. In all seventeen pieces by this legendary comic and filmmaker. Read more >

The Rise of David Levinsky

Written by Abraham Cahan
Introduction by Seth Lipsky

Format: Trade Paperback, 556 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75798-3 (0-375-75798-8)

The Rise of David Levinsky, written by the legendary founder and editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, is an early Jewish-American classic. According to the scholar Sam B. Girgus, "The novel is more than an important literary work and cultural document. It forms part of the traditional ritual of renewal of... Read more >

The Palace Thief
Stories
Written by Ethan Canin

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7617-5 (0-8129-7617-7)

“Extraordinary for its craft and emotional effect . . . [Ethan Canin is] a writer of enormous talent and charm.”
–The Washington Post

“Character is destiny,” wrote Heraclitus–and in this collection of four unforgettable stories, we meet people struggling to understand themselves and the unexpected turns their lives have taken.

In “Accountant,” a quintessential... Read more >

Great Neck

Written by Jay Cantor

Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71339-2 (0-375-71339-5)

From the much-praised author of Krazy Kat and The Death of Che Guevara, the tumultuous story of a group of friends growing up idealistic, radical, and romantic in the sixties and seventies.

We enter their lives in 1960 as a sixth-grade class of Great Neck kids—most of them Jewish—learns for the first... Read more >

Burnt Bread and Chutney
Growing Up Between Cultures - A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Childhood
Written by Carmit Delman

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: September 30, 2003
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-44594-0 (0-345-44594-5)

**Named by School Library Journal as one of the Best Adult Books for High School Students, 2003

Contributing her own unique story to the growing genre of bi-cultural narratives (which includes Marie Arana’s critically-acclaimed American Chica) Carmit Delman has written a coming-of-age memoir that explores the life of an Indian Jewish girl... Read more >

The Vices

Written by Lawrence Douglas

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-415-3 (1-59051-415-7)

Oliver Vice, forty-one, prominent philosopher, scholar, and art collector, is missing and presumed dead, over the side of Queen Mary 2.Troubled by his friend’s possible suicide, the unnamed narrator of Lawrence Douglas’ new novel launches an all-consuming investigation into Vice’s life history. Douglas, moving backward through time, tells a mordantly humorous... Read more >

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Stories
Written by Nathan Englander

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 21, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70443-7 (0-375-70443-4)

The stories in For the Relief of Unbearable Urges are powerfully inventive and often haunting, steeped in the weight of Jewish history and in the customs of Orthodox life. But it is in the largeness of their spirit-- a spirit that finds in doubt a doorway to faith, that sees in... Read more >

The Ministry of Special Cases

Written by Nathan Englander

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70444-4 (0-375-70444-2)

From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, Nathan Englander's debut novel The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina's Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who won't accept him; strives for a wife who forever... Read more >

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Stories
Written by Nathan Englander

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-95870-9 (0-307-95870-1)

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.

The title story, inspired by Raymond Carver’s... Read more >

The Family Orchard
A Novel
Written by Nomi Eve

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72457-2 (0-375-72457-5)

In the bestselling tradition of The Red Tent, The Family Orchard is a spellbinding novel of one unforgettable family, the orchard they've tended for generations, and a love story that transcends the ages.

Nomi Eve’s lavishly imagined account begins in Palestine in 1837, with the tale of the irrepressible family matriach, Esther... Read more >

Light Fell

Written by Evan Fallenberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Soho Press
On Sale: January 1, 2009
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-1-56947-536-2 (1-56947-536-9)

Awarded the 2009 Stonewall Prize for Fiction

Winner of the Publishing Triangle’s 2008 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.

Twenty years have passed since Joseph left his family and his religious Israeli community when he fell in love with a man, the brilliant rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Now, for his fiftieth birthday, Joseph... Read more >

Swimming Toward the Ocean
A Novel
Written by Carole L. Glickfeld

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 26, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72176-9 (0-385-72176-5)

From the author of the Flannery O’Connor Award-winning collection Useful Gifts, a sharp and tender debut novel chronicling the boisterous life and loves of a Russian Jewish immigrant family in 1950s New York City.

Chenia is a Betty Grable look-alike, passionate, sharp-witted, in many ways still Old-World. Her husband Ruben is... Read more >

Bee Season
A Novel
Written by Myla Goldberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 15, 2001
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49880-7 (0-385-49880-2)

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 Eliza sweeps her school and district spelling... Read more >

Wickett's Remedy
A Novel
Written by Myla Goldberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7812-7 (1-4000-7812-1)

Lydia Kilkenny is eager to move beyond her South Boston childhood, and when she marries Henry Wickett, a shy Boston Brahmin who plans to become a doctor, her future seems assured. That path changes when Henry abandons his medical studies and enlists Lydia to help him invent a mail-order medicine called... Read more >

Intuition

Written by Allegra Goodman

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33610-9 (0-385-33610-1)

“The best major American novel of the year so far” — The New York Sun

Hailed as “a writer of uncommon clarity” by the New Yorker, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman has dazzled readers with her acclaimed works of fiction, including such beloved bestsellers as The Family Markowitz and Kaaterskill Falls... Read more >

Paradise Park

Written by Allegra Goodman

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: April 30, 2002
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33418-1 (0-385-33418-4)

***New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Nominee***

Allegra Goodman debuted on the literary scene in 1989 with the collection of short stories, Total Immersion. She then went on to pen a second and critically-acclaimed short story collection, The Family Markowitz (1996) and Kaaterskill Falls (1998), her debut novel which was... Read more >

The View from Stalin's Head

Written by Aaron Hamburger

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7093-7 (0-8129-7093-4)

A debut collection of ten lucid, haunting, and darkly comic stories about Americans and Europeans in post-Cold War Prague.

The ten stories in The View from Stalin's Head unfold in the post-Cold War Prague of the 1990s, a magnet not only for artists and writers but also for tourists and drifters, a... Read more >

Appassionata

Written by Eva Hoffman

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-457-3 (1-59051-457-2)

Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist, whose performances are marked by a rare intensity of feeling. At the height of her career, she feels increasingly torn between the compelling musical realm she deeply inhabits, and her fragmented itinerant artist’s life, with its frequent flights, anonymous hotels, and brief, arbitrary encounters... Read more >

Yossel

Written by Joe Kubert

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vertigo
On Sale: May 17, 2011
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-3180-4 (1-4012-3180-2)

Famed comic creator Joe Kubert’s family came to America from Poland in the 1920s, but the family almost was not allowed into the country. YOSSEL asks the question, “What if my family had still been in Poland when the Warsaw Ghetto was founded?”
In 1939, Yossel and his family were relocated... Read more >

Portrait of My Body

Written by Phillip Lopate

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 15, 1997
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-48377-3 (0-385-48377-5)

Phillip Lopate’s richest and most ambitious book yet—the final volume of a trilogy that began with Bachelorhood and Against Joie de Vivre—Portrait of My Body is a powerful memoir in the form of interconnected personal essays. One of America’s foremost essayists, who helped focus attention on the form in his acclaimed... Read more >

Crossing the Borders of Time
A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Written by Leslie Maitland

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-570-9 (1-59051-570-6)

Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees, the last two under risk of Nazi deportation. In 1942 they made it onto the last boat to escape France before... Read more >

The Outside World

Written by Tova Mirvis

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7528-7 (1-4000-7528-9)

Tzippy Goldman was born for marriage. She and her mother had always assumed she’d graduate high school, be set up with the right boy, and have a beautiful wedding with white lace and pareve vanilla cream frosting. But at twenty-two, Tzippy’s fast approaching spinsterhood. She dreams of escape; instead, she leaves... Read more >

A Garden of Earthly Delights

Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Elaine Showalter

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 22, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6834-7 (0-8129-6834-4)

In her second novel, Joyce Carol Oates, author of many bestselling novels, including We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde, created one of her most memorable heroines, Clara, the beautiful daughter of migrant farmworkers. Intent upon rising above her haphazard life of violence and poverty, Clara struggles for independence while relying on... Read more >

The Messiah of Stockholm

Written by Cynthia Ozick

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 1988
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-75694-3 (0-394-75694-0)

A small group of Jews weave a web of intrigue and fantasy around a book reviewer's contention that he is the son of Borus Schultz, the legendary Polish writer killed by the Nazis before his magnum opus,  THE MESSIAH, could be brought to light. Read more >

The Puttermesser Papers
A Novel
Written by Cynthia Ozick

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 30, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77739-7 (0-679-77739-3)

With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with... Read more >