Fiction, Jewish
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A People at the Source of a River
by Myrna Brown
In 1933, a young Jewish family leaves an increasingly tense Germany for New York. Eager to make a place for his family in America, Henrich Schwartz purchases a large acreage in Washington State with plans to plant an apple orchard. With his wife,...
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The Messiah of Smyrna
by Sam Goldenberg
In the 17th century, Shabtai Zvi was a name to reckon with. A man of strong passions and mesmerizing personality, he convinced many that he was the Jewish Messiah. But his thirst for power - his conviction that anything he wanted could be his -...
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Ephraim
A Rabbi Strays... by Sam Goldenberg
When twenty-seven-year-old Ephraim returns to Toronto from rabbinical school in New York, he’s looking forward to launching his career and then someday finding a devout young woman who’ll be happy to become his rebbetzin. However, his Uncle Avram...
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Prinz David's Castle
by Daniel Richard Smith
Germany, 1939. While Europe braces for the inevitable advancement of the Nazi war machine, Hitler turns his hate-filled agenda on his own people, specifically the portion of the German population least able to defend itself—the mentally and...
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Samuel of the Nations
by Norman Jay Landerman-Moore
Occasionally, unknown individuals engage in momentous events. They associate with iconic people standing at the heart of nations. Samuel Saunders is one of these. Beginning at age 15 and continuing until his demise, Samuel of the Nations...
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Nadludzki
by Bushi Xhindi
Ben Zolbarschy was never like other children. The only son of a respected Jewish family in Poland, he grew far faster than his peers, and was soon as strong as a grown man. By his third birthday, he started behaving strangely. He could hold his...
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The Chaplin Cane
by Carl Mendelsohn
The Chaplin Cane explores the life and times of Calman Mencher, a mild mannered accountant who starts off his practice in an office located next to a “smelly deli” then rises up to become a successful businessman with his hands in several pots....
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Marvin's Novel
by David Koulack
In this funny and heartwarming novel, a man who has been bullied all his life, first by his parents, then by his wife and even by the students he teaches at university, learns to stand up for himself and take control of his own destiny. “Marvin’s...
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You Are The Boy
by Danny Unrau
The results of a mtDNA test jangles Ben’s self identity. A crooked trail back through his family history uncovers a Jewish infant mysteriously left on a Mennonite doorstep in the violent Ukraine nearly eighty years before he was born. It also...
