The Rise of David Levinsky
10 best books like The Rise of David Levinsky (Abraham Cahan): Bread Givers, The Marrow of Tradition, Only Yesterday, Only What's Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, Jews Without Money, Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of Boston, Quiet Americans, When We Were Bad, The Puzzle King, The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990
| Author | Anzia Yezierska |
| ISBN | 0892552905 |
This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Sarah's struggle towards independence...
| Author | Charles W. Chesnutt |
| ISBN | 0140186867 |
Things they didn't teach you in American History
I consider myself fortunate to have gone to segregated schools in the Jim Crow South of the 1950's,thanks to teachers who taught us many of the things that were missing from the approved text books. The text books in the Virginia schools would...
| Author | S.Y. Agnon |
| ISBN | 0691095442 |
Israeli Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon's famous masterpiece, his novel Only Yesterday, here appears in English translation for the first time. Published in 1945, the book tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya--the several hundred idealists who returned...
| Author | Chip Kidd |
| ISBN | 1419716395 |
Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what’s necessary. For 50 years, from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, Schulz wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip in the...
| Author | Michael Gold |
| ISBN | 0786713453 |
As a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for more than three decades. Beginning in the 1920s his was a powerful journalistic voice for social change and human rights, and Jews Without Money--the...
| Author | Robert Frost |
| ISBN | 0451527879 |
The publication of A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) marked the debut of Robert Frost as a major talent and established him as the true poetic voice of New England. Four of his volumes would win the Pulitzer Prize before his death in 1963, and his body of work has since become an integral part...
| Author | Erika Dreifus |
| ISBN | 0982708424 |
A high-ranking Nazi's wife and a Jewish doctor in prewar Berlin. A Jewish immigrant soldier and the German POWs he is assigned to supervise. A refugee returning to Europe for the first time and the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. A son of survivors and technology's potential...
| Author | Charlotte Mendelson |
"'The Rubin family, everybody agrees, seems doomed to happiness'"
Claudia Rubin is in her heyday. Wife, mother, rabbi and sometime moral voice of the nation, everyone wants to be with her at her older son's glorious February wedding. Until Leo becomes a bolter and the heyday of the Rubin family...
| Author | Betsy Carter |
| ISBN | 1565125940 |
On a gray morning in 1936, Flora Phelps stands in line at the American consulate in Stuttgart, Germany. She carries a gift for the consul, whom she will bribe in order to help her family get out of Hitler’s Germany. This is the story of unlikely heroes, the lively, beautiful Flora and her husband,...
| Author | Charles Wright |
| ISBN | 0374523266 |
The heart of this volume is made up of long journal-like dated entries in free verse. Deliciously absorbing and meditative, they concern themselves with landscapes and the natural world, with ideas, memory, and autobiography. I think of poetry as a kind of wisdom. I get the idea Wright dedicates his...
| Author | Edmund White |
| ISBN | 0312022638 |
A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startling, almost embarrassing, intimacy of a stranger's love letters. The intense emotional situation envelops the readers from the first page; like all images in a dream, White's characters are the most real...
| Author | Américo Paredes |
| ISBN | 1558850120 |
In the 1930's, Americo Paredes, the renowned folklorist, wrote a novel set to the background of the struggles by Texas Mexicans to preserve their property, culture, and identity in the face of Anglo-American migration to and growing dominance over the Rio Grande Valley. For his epic novel Paredes...
| Author | Mary Antin |
| ISBN | 0140189858 |
Interweaving introspection with political commentaries, biography with history, The Promised Land (1912) brings to life the transformation of an East European Jewish immigrant into an American citizen. Mary Antin recounts "the process of uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimitization,...
| Author | Irving Howe |
| ISBN | 0814736858 |
A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic.
Winner of the National Book Award, 1976
World of Our Fathers traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish...
| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| ISBN | 0452280036 |
Serialized in the late 1950s, "Shadows on the Hudson" was translated from Yiddish and published posthumously as a complete novel in 1998, receiving widespread literary acclaim.From the Upper West Side to Miami's pastel resorts, Shadows on the Hudson traces the intertwined destiny of survivors...
| Author | Achy Obejas |
| ISBN | 0345441540 |
“RICH AND SONOROUS PROSE . . . There’s plenty of reason to hope for the future of a fiction that welcomes writers with such a passionate sense of the past.”
–San Jose Mercury News
On New Year’s Day, 1959, Alejandra San José was born in Havana, entering the world through the...
The Making of Middle-Earth: A New Look Inside the World of J.R.R. Tolkien
| Author | Christopher A. Snyder |
| ISBN | 1402784767 |
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings consistently tops polls as the best-loved literary work of all time. Now medieval scholar and Tolkien expert Christopher Snyder presents the most in-depth exploration yet of Tolkien's source materials for Middle-earth—from the languages, poetry, and mythology...
| Author | Sholom Aleichem |
| ISBN | 1574535927 |
In a Russian shtetl at the end of the 19th century, Reisel, a poor girl, and Leibel, a rich boy, run away with a traveling theater company. The young lovers are quickly parted. Reisel goes on to become a famous concert star; Leibel, a theatrical sensation. Separated by success and meddling managers, the...
| Author | Joel Gross |
| ISBN | 0595128203 |
Actually read it on my Kindle -- this is the second time for me. I Read it years ago, when I was a young mother. It was startleingly (is that a word?) powerful then, but I had no idea how much I had changed. This is a beautiful, yet chillingly sad story. I find generational novels quite enriching. Following...
| Author | Walter Mosley |
| ISBN | 0345804449 |
A brand-new, eBook original crime novel from bestselling author Walter Mosley, Parishioner is a portrait of a hardened criminal who regrets his past, but whose only hope for redemption is to sin again.
In a small town situated between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, a simple church of white...
Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel
| Author | Ruth Elias |
| ISBN | 0471350613 |
Now available for the first time in English, this is the memoir of a Jewish woman who was taken to Auschwitz while several months pregnant.
Ruth Elias, a young Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, survived three years in the Nazi camps of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. In this haunting testimony,...
| Author | Joan Holub |
| ISBN | 1481471759 |
Learn all about the most influential explorers who searched the world far and wide in this engaging and colorful board book perfect for pioneers-in-training!
Little explorers discover a great big world.
The follow up to This Little President, now even the youngest adventurers...
| Author | Catharine Maria Sedgwick |
| ISBN | 0140436766 |
Set in seventeenth-century New England in the aftermath of the Pequod War, Hope Leslie not only chronicles the role of women in building the republic but also refocuses the emergent national literature on the lives, domestic mores, and values of American women.
For more than seventy...
