A Pigeon and a Boy

Written by Meir Shalev

Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Fiction - Literary | Schocken | January 2009 | $14.95 | 978-0-8052-1214-3 (0-8052-1214-0)

From the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Meir Shalev comes a mesmerizing novel of two love stories, separated by half a century but connected by one enchanting act of devotion.

During the 1948 War of Independence--a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages--a gifted young pigeon handler is mortally wounded... Read more »

Amerika: The Missing Person

Written by Franz Kafka

Hardcover, 336 pages
Fiction - Literary | Schocken | November 2008 | $25.00 | 978-0-8052-4211-9 (0-8052-4211-2)

Franz Kafka's diaries and letters suggest that his fascination with America grew out of a desire to break away from his native Prague, even if only in his imagination. Kafka died before he could finish what he like to call his "American novel,: but he clearly entitled it Der Verschollene ("The... Read more »

Dropped from Heaven

Written by Sophie Judah

Hardcover, 256 pages
Fiction - Short Stories (single author) | Schocken | March 2007 | $23.00 | 978-0-8052-4248-5 (0-8052-4248-1)

A marvelous fiction debut–a collection of richly told, deeply moving stories about everyday life within a community of Indian Jews as its ancient culture confronts the modern world.

In the mythical village of Jwalanagar, the Jewish traditions of the Bene Israel have survived for more than two thousand years, but the twentieth... Read more »

The Time of the Uprooted

Written by Elie Wiesel

Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Fiction - Literary | Schocken | February 2007 | $14.00 | 978-0-8052-1177-1 (0-8052-1177-2)

Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the relative safety of Hungary. For him, it will be the beginning of a life of rootlessness, disguise, and longing. Five years later, in desperation, Gamaliel’s parents entrust him to a young Christian cabaret singer named Ilonka... Read more »

The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature

Edited by Ilan Stavans

Hardcover, 480 pages
Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors); Literary Criticism & Collections - Jewish | Schocken | January 2005 | $27.50 | 978-0-8052-4228-7 (0-8052-4228-7)

The expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 gave rise to a series of rich, diverse diasporas that were interconnected through a common vision and joie de vivre. The exodus took these Sephardim to other European countries; to North Africa, Asia Minor, and South America; and, eventually, to the American... Read more »

Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories

Written by Sholem Aleichem

Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Fiction - Short Stories (single author) | Schocken | October 1996 | $15.95 | 978-0-8052-1069-9 (0-8052-1069-5)

Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate, irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the writings of Sholem Aleichem and in acclaimed and award-winning theatrical and film adaptations.

And no Yiddish writer was more beloved than Tevye’s creator, Sholem Rabinovich (1859–1916)... Read more »

The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction

Written by Ted Solotaroff and Nessa Rapoport

Trade Paperback, 420 pages
Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors) | Schocken | April 1996 | $20.00 | 978-0-8052-1065-1 (0-8052-1065-2)

This landmark anthology brings together some of the best stories written in the last thirty years by and about American Jews. Saul Bellow tells a brutal coming-of-age story set in Chicago; Mark Helprin recalls a stint in the Israeli army during the Six-Day War; Grace Paley explores the complex relationship between... Read more »

The Mirror Maker

Written by Primo Levi

Trade Paperback, 188 pages
Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays | Schocken | September 1990 | $15.00 | 978-0-8052-0989-1 (0-8052-0989-1)

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