With the lyrical joy and lighthearted wordplay that have won him critical acclaim, celebrated Jewish author Curt Leviant delivers a charming literary love story against the backdrop of the lush Italian countrysideSuccessful author Giorgio is vacationing in Parma when he meets Sofia, a beautiful woman who bears a striking resemblance to the famous Italian actress Sophia Loren. Giorgio is ecstatic when the lookalike asks for his email, expressing her desire to stay i...

Award-winning author Curt Leviant delivers a joyful reimagining of the classic tale of Don Quixote through the eyes of his long-overlooked sidekick, Sancho PanzaIn a dusty old second-hand bookshop in a side street in Sevilla, an unnamed narrator discovers a 1751 edition of Don Quixote—one that is narrated, most unusually, by Sancho Panza. With Curt Leviant’s signature whimsy, this audaciously titled novel reimagines Cervantes’s classic tale through Sancho'...

A prolific, dedicated, and compassionate humorist, Sholom Aleichem (1859-1916) created literary gems that have not only become an important part of Jewish cultural life, they have captured the hearts of readers around the world, even serving as an inspiration for a classic of musical theater — Fiddler on the Roof. Timeless tributes to the Jews of Eastern Europe, his stories of the shtetl combine the ancient traditions of Hasidic tales and Jewish humor with the aesthetics of Wester...

A deeply affecting parable of law, mercy, and communal judgment centered on one woman's fate in interwar Vilna—from the acclaimed author of Sons and Daughters, hailed by the New York Times as one of the ten best works of historical fiction of 2025“I am an agunah, rabbi, an agunah. For more than fifteen years I’ve waited for my husband to come back from the war. But he has not come and I cannot wait any longer . . . ”Merl Tswilling...

A deeply affecting parable of law, mercy, and communal judgment centered on one woman's fate in interwar Vilna—from the acclaimed author of Sons and Daughters, hailed by the New York Times as one of the ten best works of historical fiction of 2025“I am an agunah, rabbi, an agunah. For more than fifteen years I’ve waited for my husband to come back from the war. But he has not come and I cannot wait any longer . . . ”Merl Tswilling...

Set in New York City and Prague in 1992, Kafka’s Son follows a first-person narrator who is a documentary filmmaker. In a New York synagogue, he meets an elderly Czech Jew named Jiri, once the head of the famous Jewish Museum in Prague, with whom he discovers a shared love of Kafka. Inspired by this friendship, the narrator travels to Prague to make a film about Jewish life in the city and its Kafka connections.In his search for answers, he crosses paths with the beadle of...

This first English translation of Sholom Aleichem’s rediscovered novel, Moshkeleh the Thief, has a riveting plot, an unusual love story, and a keenly observed portrayal of an underclass Jew replete with characters never before been seen in Yiddish literature.The eponymous hero, Moshkeleh, is a robust chap and horse thief. When Tsireleh, daughter of a tavern keeper, flees to a monastery with the man she loves—a non-Jew she met at the tavern—the humiliated tavern keeper’s fa...

One of the most beloved and prolific writers of Yiddish literature, Sholom Aleichem (1859–1916) produced a wealth of wonderful stories that combine traditional Jewish oral humor with Western literary tradition. For years a living legend, he wrote enduring gems of fiction, eleven of which are included in this entertaining collection.The master storyteller brilliantly recaptures the joy and tribulations of Jewish life in such tales as "Geese," "At the Doctor's," "Three Widows," "The P...

A monumental novel of faith and doubt—long regarded as Chaim Grade’s crowning achievement, this treasure of Yiddish literature stands as one of the great moral novels of the twentieth century, in the lineage of The Brothers Karamazov and The Magic Mountain.Set in Lithuania between the world wars, The Yeshiva tells the story of Tsemakh Atlas, a brilliant and tormented Talmudist whose pursuit of ethical purity propels him from the cloistere...

A monumental novel of faith and doubt—long regarded as Chaim Grade’s crowning achievement, this treasure of Yiddish literature stands as one of the great moral novels of the twentieth century, in the lineage of The Brothers Karamazov and The Magic Mountain.Set in Lithuania between the world wars, The Yeshiva tells the story of Tsemakh Atlas, a brilliant and tormented Talmudist whose pursuit of ethical purity propels him from the cloistere...

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVELADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOODFrom the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious, life-affirming and utterly original novel about the search for truth'Gripping, hilariously funny and deeply serious. An astonishing feat of writing' The Times'One...

From Sholom Aleichem to Avram Davidson, Isaac Bashevis Singer to Tony Kushner, the Jewish literary tradition has always been one rich in the supernatural and the fantastic. In these pages, gathered from the best short fiction of the last ten years, twenty authors prove that their heritage is alive and well—in the spaces between stars that an alphabet can bridge, folklore come to life and histories become stories, and all the places where old worlds and new collide and change.