Jewish Historical Fiction

Books & Looks Podcast: Exploring Historical Shadows: A Conversation with Eric Weintraub on “South of Sepharad”

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews are either…

BookTribJanuary 10, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Historical Novel Details an Immigrant Family Navigating War, Uncertainty and Antisemitism

Golda races off the ship at Ellis Island, frantically searching for her brother-in-law Ben. Chaos has already struck and launched the main characters into emotional turmoil – just what they don’t need as they prepare with trepidation to face their new, uncharted lives in the United States. Florence Reiss Kraut’s…

Erin McGetrickNovember 15, 2023

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Historical Novel Spills the Secrets and Grace of Matchmaking

A divorcee and her two daughters are grieving for Sara, their beloved mother and grandmother who died recently after a very long life as a matchmaker. Sara’s career began at an early age, as a ten-year old girl on a boat with her family, emigrating from Eastern Europe to America.…

Claudia KeenanSeptember 20, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Grandmother’s Resurfacing Spurs Woman’s Quest to Find Family Lost in WWII Latvia

Daughters of the Occupation (HarperCollins) by Shelly Sanders is one of the most authentic and profound works of historical fiction I have ever read about World War II and the Holocaust. It is inspired by true events that provide a powerful lesson and a compellingly uplifting story of a fictional…

Linda HitchcockMay 26, 2022

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Two Very Different Cultures Find Common Ground in the Freedom of Music

In such a crowded market, it’s difficult to find new approaches and new stories, but Weina Dai Randel manages to do just this in her sweeping saga The Last Rose of Shanghai (Lake Union). There have been few stories about the Jewish pogrom as well as the oppression of the…

Aimie K. RunyanNovember 11, 2021

Fiction

“The Lost Diary of Anne Frank” Imagines the Final Days of an Extraordinary Young Girl

Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl, first published in 1947, is a universal classic and perhaps the most powerful, important and tragic account of the Nazi occupation of Holland in the early 1940s. It has sold 30 million copies in 67 languages. Some 1.3 million people visit…

Jim AlkonApril 14, 2021

Fiction Recommended

Jewish Boy’s Strange Journey to the Promised Land

More than historical fiction, The Immigrant by Frederic Petrovsky can be defined as a fine bit of motivational philosophizing -- and a most satisfying read. The Immigrant follows an admirable and eclectic list of previous works by Petrovsky: The Clinton Diaries, speculative fiction about former president Bill Clinton, his obsessions…

Sherri DaleyNovember 18, 2022

Jewish Historical Fiction

Books & Looks Podcast: Exploring Historical Shadows: A Conversation with Eric Weintraub on “South of Sepharad”

Historical Novel Details an Immigrant Family Navigating War, Uncertainty and Antisemitism

Historical Novel Spills the Secrets and Grace of Matchmaking

Grandmother’s Resurfacing Spurs Woman’s Quest to Find Family Lost in WWII Latvia

Tall Poppy Review: Two Very Different Cultures Find Common Ground in the Freedom of Music

“The Lost Diary of Anne Frank” Imagines the Final Days of an Extraordinary Young Girl

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