1045 results for "Jewish Fiction"

Legends from Vamland

Colin, Vladimir
"Legends from Vamland is one of the most beautiful stories about human struggle against fear. The author blends together Romanian legends and myths with those of cultures throughout the world. One can hardly find any noble and beautiful human aspiration in all the cultures of the world whose reflection is not to be found in Legends from Vamland. The work is also intended to be one of science fiction, as the author provides the image of the spiritual life of an imaginary people from an imaginary land. The result is a book of splendid originality. One of the first Romanian writers of science fiction, Vladimir Colin was also an important representative of Jewish culture in Romania. Among his most important works of science fiction are Legends from Vamland, a work in many ways similar to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. These tales have been abridged and retold for English readers by Luiza Carol. Luiza Carol is associate editor of the international poetry magazine Voices Israel. She is an award-winning writer, poet, and translator and a member of the Federation of Israeli Writers and the Academy of American Poets"--
Center for Romanian Studies 2020-11-15 104 pages

On the Secret Service of His Majesty, the Queen

Sol Weinstein
It's dire times for Israeli intelligence agency M 33 and 1/3. Auntie Sem-Heidt and her sinister agents of TUSH have been killing off Hebrew agents, as part of a devious plan to eradicate Jewish culture at its base. And in the midst of this, turmoil, super agent Israel Bond finds himself stuck with the job of protecting Baldroi LeFagel, the half-arab and all-fabulous new King of Sahd Sakistan. Will the Star of David-lovin' Agent Oy-Oy-7 be willing to handle all of the crosses needed for this assignment (crossing physical boundaries, moral boundaries, and even cross-dressing), or will all this mishugas leave him cross-eyed and just plain cross? ABOUT ISRAEL BOND, AGENT OY-OY-7: In the mid-1960s, when PLAYBOY was serializing the adventures of the world's most famous superspy, they interspersed them with the rollicking tales of Israel's most hilarious weapon, Israel Bond. After the book editions of what the CHICAGO TRIBUNE called "probably the funniest secret agent parodies ever written" had sold over a million copies, they were allowed to fall out of print. Decades later, all four books in the Israel Bond series are back in new editions!
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp 2011-08-17 170 pages

The illuminated soul

Stollman, Aryeh Lev
"Eva is unlike anyone Adele and her two sons have ever met. Her rare beauty, the dazzling tales she tells them - of her travels, of wondrous places and creatures, even of the dangers she faced during the war - change their lives, as do the exquisite illuminations contained within the pages of the Miscellany. The two boys, Joseph and Asa, fall in love with Eva, and as Joseph recounts the story and his love for her, and the past begins to intrude upon the present, he finally reveals the novel's secrets, the darkness to which we are all subject."--BOOK JACKET.
Riverhead 2003 274 pages

The sweet edge

Pick, Alison
Ellen and Adam are struggling to determine the future of their relationship. Over the course of one summer, Ellen toils at a trendy urban art gallery while Adam embarks on a solo trip into the Arctic. While Adam enters the compelling and dangerous wilderness alone, Ellen gains fresh perspective via the lens of a new-found collection of friends. Through alternating points of view, we see Adam's and Ellen's impressions of their partnership change, until the end of the novel when their worlds - and changed world-views - suddenly collide.
Raincoast 2005 284 pages

The Jewish Songster (1918)

Goldfarb, Israel,Goldfarb, Samuel E.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Kessinger Publishing, LLC 2010-09-10 72 pages

Launderama

Margolis, Sue
Rachel has been making people laugh since the moment she could speak. She can even see the funny side when her husband leaves her for a cosmetics demonstrator. Called Greg. Rachel becomes a professional stand-up comedian, but has yet to break into the big time. And with a ten-year-old child and a mortgage, she needs a day job to make ends meet. So Rachel spends her mornings cleaning the houses of the rich and famous, much to the chagrin of her Jewish mother Stella (main ambition: to see Rachel safely re-married) and her Jewish dentist boyfriend Adam (main ambition: to share a scoured and swabbed, germ-free home in the suburbs with Rachel). Life for Rachel couldn't be sweeter. Yet somehow it lacks a certain spark. But there are sparks a-plenty when the washing machine breaks down a repair man called Matt arrives ... and sends her life into a spin.
Headline 2001 311 pages

Reparations A Novel of War and Rebirth

Ruth Sidransky
With the sweep of Sophie's Choice and search for identity of Everything is Illuminated, Reparations is the story of Molly Rose, an innocent catapulted from the streets of New York into the bombed out cities of Austria and Germany at the end of World War II. This is her story, a story of circumstance and choices, survival and strength, love and betrayal. in the early years in Europe, Molly meets stateless Jews in Austria and Germany. They become her European family. Slowly, they begin to tell their secrets of horror under the Nazis: mutilation, experimentation, rape, torture, state-induced abortions, relentless cruelty and death. Some turn to smuggling goods, gold bullion and loose silver, to Spain and Italy. Molly and Jacob join them, driving across borders in a specially made car. Molly has another quest as well: Molly wants a baby for herself and for the surviving Jewish women experimented on by Nazi doctors. Molly wants to undo the wrong done to her sisters by the ultimate affirming act: Molly wants to create new life.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2014-12-19 522 pages

Woody Allen Makes a Scary Sandwich Horror Pastiche - Stories and Poems

Karen Cole,Allan Konigsberg
This is the first in a series of books compiling my short stories I've written over the past twelve or more years. I am a book ghost writer and editor of long standing, and these stories reflect a variety of different genres, including fiction and nonfiction, where I wrote either for practice or in order to improve my writing. Original, suspenseful tales; gripping, humorous, including horror, science fiction, narrative nonfiction, and a host of other topics as perceptively descriptive stories, which should help you perceive the Universe in a whole new intrinsically original and realistic light.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2015-07-28 340 pages

Peace flower: a nuclear space adventure

Aharoni, Ada
Review In this adventure story for the entire family anything does! It is a story of childhood innocence and world peace. -- Ladybug PressThis book is an innovative Masterpiece for young and old. -- New WavesThis is a still more revolutionary contribution to children's literature than Harry Popper... -- Mariv Product Description Peace Flower is a story which can be read from the age of ten to a hundred and ten. It is an imaginative tale of fantastic adventures in space, to find the Peace Flower in the Future and bring it back to earth as it does not exist in our present. Lee and Ronni two brave children face the terrible nuclear giant Nuki, who tries to stop them from bringing peace on earth, and they triumph. The book has been adopted by many schools and colleges to teach peace education. It is available in English, in Hebrew, and in Arabic. It is also available on tape, from Ladybug Press, Ca. About the Author Ada Aharoni is an Israeli poet, writer, and lecturer. She writes in English and Hebrew and has published twenty two books to date that have been translated into several languages. She believes that culture and literature can help in healing the urgent ailments of our global village, such as war and conflict, and the themes of peace and conflict resolution are major ones throughout her works. She studied at London University, where she earned an M. Phil. Degree on Henry Fielding, and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she was awarded a Ph.D. on: Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize laureate. Her first novel, The Second Exodus, was published in 1983, and To Alexandria, Jerusalem and Freedom appeared in 1985. Her historical novel From The Nile to The Jordan, was published in 1994; and in 1996 she published The Peace Flower, a fantasy for young and old, which has been compared to St. Exupery's Little Prince. She is likewise one of the editors of the book: Saul Bellow: A Mosaic, that covers the First International Saul Bellow Conference, which she initiated and chaired at Haifa University. Among her published books are eight collections of poems in Hebrew, English, French and Arabic, and two books of translations of Israeli poetry, including Shin Shalom's New Poems. She is the Editor of the Anthology: A Song to Life and to World Peace, as well as of Waves of Peace (1997), dedicated to the memory of Yitzhak Rabin. She is the founder and editor of the Literary Magazine Galim: Waves (1987-1997), and the electronic journals internet Horizon: Pave Peace, and Poetry Israel: Lirit, featuring Israeli poets in English translation. Her latest published book is: You and I Can Change the World (Jan. 2000). Among her many prizes and awards are: The British Council Award, the Keren Amos President Award, the Haifa and Bremen Prize, The World Academy of Arts and Culture Award, the Korean Gold Crown of World Poets Award, the Shin Shalom Prize, the Yunus Emre Award, the Rachel Prize, and she was chosen as one the Hundred Global Heroines in Rochester, N.Y, in 1998. She was also awarded the Honorary Award of HSJE: The World Historical Society of the Jews from Egypt, for her "devoted and unmatched efforts to promote the history of the Jews from Egypt, through her visionary literature and poetry proclaiming peace in the world." She is President of the XIII World Congress of Poets (Haifa, Israel, 1992), and the founder and President of IFLAC: the International Forum for the Culture and Literature of Peace, and convener of PTLC the "Pave Peace Through Literature and Culture" commission of IPRA: the International Peace Research Association. She is also the founder and General Director of "The Bridge: Jewish and Arab Women for Peace in the Middle East." Ada Aharoni has taught literature and sociology at the University of Haifa, and sociology and Conflict Resolution, in the general studies department of the Technion in Haifa. She has been a guest lecturer and visiting professor at several American and European universities,
A. Aharoni 1996 119 pages

Lieder Des Ghetto. Autor, Abertragung Aus Dem Judischen Von Berthold Feiwel, Mit Zeichnungen Von E.M. Lilien

Morris Rosenfeld
About the Book Books on Jewish History discuss the development of the Jewish culture and religion over more than three millennia. Jews were dispersed through in Babylonian, Egypt, throughout the Roman Empire, and later throughout Europe and much of the world. The Zionist movement of the late 19th century was formed with the aim of re-establishing a Jewish homeland. European Jewry suffered greatly in the Holocaust in Nazi-dominated Europe in the 1930s and 40s. The State of Israel, established in 1949, provided that homeland. Titles include: The History of Jerusalem A. D. 1180, Fragments from Græco-Jewish Writers, Jews and Judaism in the nineteenth century, Juden als Erfinder und Entdecker, Juden und Judenverfolgungen im Alten Alexandria, Die Judenfrage; eine ethische Frage, The true story of the Exodus of Israel, The Jews in America, The English Jew and his religion, The Jews in China, The Jews of Asia, Anti-Semitism, its cause and cure, and Israel's inalienable possessions. About us Trieste Publishing's aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. Our titles are produced from scans of the original books and as a result may sometimes have imperfections. To ensure a high-quality product we have: thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the catalog repaired some of the text in some cases, and rejected titles that are not of the highest quality. You can look up "Trieste Publishing" in categories that interest you to find other titles in our large collection. Come home to the books that made a difference!
Trieste Publishing Pty Limited 2017-11-29 156 pages

Utter chaos

Gronemann, Samuel
"Published in Germany in 1920, Sammy Gronemann's satirical novel set in 1903 at the time of the Sixth Zionist Congress follows the life of a baptized Jew, Heinz Lehnsen, as he negotiates legal entanglements, German culture, religious differences, and Zionist aspirations. A chance encounter with a long-lost cousin from a shtetl in Russia further complicates the plot and challenges the characters' notions of Jewish identity and their belief in the claims of the Zionist movement. Gronemann's humor and compassion slyly expose the foibles and contraditions of human behavior. With deep insight into German society, German-Jewish culture, and antisemitism, Utter Chaos paints a highly entertaining portrait of German Jews at the beginning of the twentieth century" --
Indiana University Press 2016 267 pages

Sunburnt faces

Adaf, Shimon
When Flora Elhayani is twelve years old, God appears to her through the television and suddenly, after being mute for two months, she can speak again. Flora changes her name to Ori, and acquires a new, fantastical vantage point of her life in the desert town of Netivot. Trying to decipher what the revelation holds for her, Ori comes across a rare series of young adult novels about a strange wonderland whose heroine plays special part in Ori's own coming of age. Twenty years later, we meet Ori again. She now lives in Tel Aviv, where she is married to a successful man and the mother of a little girl. She has become a writer for young adults, focusing her work on various Wonderland themes. Life is good until a second revelation, very different from the first, rattles the very foundations of her life and puts all in doubt. Sunburnt Faces examines the nature of revelation in a world in which the fantastical takes place only in situations of error and misunderstanding. But will the social and political nature of this world allow Ori to find the certainty without which she cannot live?
PS Publishing 2013 472 pages

Abe and Mawruss

Montague Glass
Montague Marsden Glass (1877-1934) was an English playwright and humourist. He moved to The United states with his family at a young age. His works revolve around the characters of two funny jewish businessmen in the American society at the beginning of the twentieth century. Amongst his most famous works are: Potash and Perlmutter (1913), Abe and Mawruss (1915), Business before Pleasure (1917), His Honor Abe Potash (1919), Partners Again (1922) and Potash and Perlmutter, Detectives (1926).
Dodo Press 2008-02 316 pages

Leib Weihnachtskuchen and his child

Franzos, Karl Emil
Janko Vygoda's parents spend their time drinking themselves to an early grave at the village inn; their farm is mortgaged to the hilt to the three local moneylenders, a Pole, an Armenian and a Jew. Janko swears he will keep his inheritance intact, will not sell one square inch of his land. The man he holds responsible for his misfortune is the Jewish innkeeper, Leib Weihnachtskuchen, who also arranges loans for the local peasants. By chance, he discovers the Jew is not the bloodsucking monster he imagined and the impoverished innkeeper becomes his only friend in the village. Gradually the Christian Janko falls in love with the Jew's daughter, Miriam. He swears another oath: "one bed or one grave." The only chance Leib and his wife have of providing for their daughter is to marry her to an old Jew, the owner of the local sawmill. The wheels of tragedy are set in motion. Leib Weihnachtskuchen and his Child is a story of obsessive passion set in Podolia, now part of the Ukraine but in the nineteenth century a backward, multi-racial corner of Europe where the Russian and Habsburg empires met.
Ascog Press 2005 214 pages

The Five Scrolls: A Commentary On The Song Of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes And Esther

Bettan, Israel
The Five Scrolls is a comprehensive commentary on five books of the Old Testament, namely Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther. The author, Israel Bettan, provides a detailed analysis of each book, highlighting its historical and cultural context, literary style, and theological significance. The Song of Songs is a collection of love poems that celebrate the beauty of human love and the intimacy between a man and a woman. Bettan explores the metaphorical language used in the book and its significance in Jewish tradition. The book of Ruth tells the story of a Moabite woman who becomes part of the Israelite community and ultimately becomes the great-grandmother of King David. Bettan examines the themes of loyalty, faithfulness, and redemption in the book and their relevance to contemporary readers. Lamentations is a collection of poems that mourn the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of the Jewish people. Bettan discusses the book's structure, language, and theological message, emphasizing the importance of lament and mourning in Jewish tradition. Ecclesiastes is a philosophical book that explores the meaning of life and the human condition. Bettan analyzes the book's themes of wisdom, pleasure, and the inevitability of death, and their relevance to contemporary readers. Finally, Esther tells the story of a Jewish woman who becomes queen of Persia and saves her people from genocide. Bettan examines the book's historical context, literary style, and theological significance, emphasizing the themes of courage, faith, and divine providence. Overall, The Five Scrolls is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of these five books of the Old Testament and their relevance to contemporary life.A Commentary On The Song Of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes And Esther. The Jewish Commentary For Bible Readers.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
Kessinger Publishing, LLC 2010-09-10 278 pages