Fiction

A Holocaust survivor returns to his Slovakian hometown after the war only to discover, one day in the market, a woman wearing his mother’s dress.

May 5 2016 12:01AM

Geraldine Brooks tackles King David.

Feb. 8 2016 12:01AM

“Like Ben Hur, but bigger and better.”

Nov. 24 2015 12:01AM

As the war ends and she comes down from the mountains of Slovakia, a Jewish girl discovers that she can still be “moved by something other than the mere struggle for existence.”

Oct. 29 2015 12:01AM

Reissuing a forgotten work of a founding father of Zionism.

Jenni Frazer
Aug. 31 2015 12:01AM

Laura Z. Hobson’s The Gentleman’s Agreement, a best-selling 1947 novel, brought American “genteel” anti-Semitism into the limelight, especially after it was turned into a movie.. . .

Rachel Gordan
Nov. 14 2014 12:01AM

What does it mean to be “pro-Israel” on campus today? A new novel tells the tale.

Nov. 5 2014 12:01AM

In Kristol’s only published work of fiction, a guilt-ridden GI confronts an aggressive young Holocaust survivor.

Sept. 30 2014 8:00AM

In Harry Kemelman’s “Rabbi Small” novels, a proudly Jewish cleric confronts issues and solves mysteries with the aid of insights psychological, sociological, and theological.

Adam Rosen
Sept. 11 2014 12:01AM

In his second novel on the Holocaust, the British writer has delivered an almost unbearable work—and a timely corrective to today’s promiscuous talk of “genocide.”

Wynn Wheldon
Aug. 28 2014 12:01AM

In Call It Sleep (1934), Henry Roth produced a masterpiece—and then, in his four-volume, late-life autobiographical novel, a human document without parallel in American Jewish literature. 

Aug. 4 2014 12:01AM

To the bestselling novelist Gary Shteyngart, the success achieved by Soviet Jewish immigrants in America is a tragic sellout. He should speak for himself.

July 16 2014 12:01AM

No rabbi spoke at the celebration of Jeanne’s life. But neither of her two sisters would forgive the other for her death. (A Story)

Allegra Goodman
July 7 2014 12:01AM

New translations of Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret novels should have come with a cover warning: copious anti-Semitism within.

Norman Lebrecht
Dec. 5 2013 12:00AM