Academic Corpus
Essential works of Jewish narrative fiction commonly appearing on college & university Jewish Studies syllabi.
Absurdistan
Gary Shteyngart
Humor & Satire
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Menahem-Mendl
Sholem Aleichem and Tamara Kahana, Translator
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Mordecai Richler
Humor & Satire
Badenheim 1939
Aharon Appelfeld and Dalya Bilu, Translator
Bee Season
Myla Goldberg
Immigration & American Jewish Experience
The Best Place on Earth
Ayelet Tsabari
Black Box
Amos Oz and Nicholas de Lange, Translator
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne
Holocaust & Its Aftermath
Bread Givers
Anzia Yezierska
Immigration & American Jewish Experience
The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God
Etgar Keret
Israeli Fiction
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth
Immigration & American Jewish Experience
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Humor & Satire
The Chosen
Chaim Potok
Immigration & American Jewish Experience
Esther
Rebecca Kanner
Biblical & Midrashic Reimaginings
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson
Humor & Satire
The Frozen Rabbi
Steve Stern
The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker
Great House
Nicole Krauss
Holocaust & Its Aftermath
A Guide for the Perplexed
Dara Horn
Herzog
Saul Bellow
The History of Love
Nicole Krauss
Hope: a Tragedy
Shalom Auslander
Humor & Satire
A Horse Walks Into a Bar
David Grossman and Jessica Cohen, Translator
Israeli Fiction
The Invisible Bridge
Julie Orringer
Holocaust & Its Aftermath
Jacob The Liar
Jurek Becker and Leila Vennewitz, Translator
The Journey
Ida Fink, Joanna Weschler, Translator, and Francine Prose, Translator
Judas
Amos Oz
Israeli Fiction
Kaaterskill Falls
Allegra Goodman
Immigration & American Jewish Experience
The Ladies Auxiliary
Tova Mirvis
Immigration & American Jewish Experience
The Last of the Just
Andre Schwarz-Bart
Holocaust & Its Aftermath
The Little Disturbances of Man
Grace Paley
The Lover
A.B. Yehoshua
Israeli Fiction
The Magic Barrel
Bernard Malamud
The Manor and The Estate
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Marjorie Morningstar
Herman Wouk
Mazel
Rebecca Goldstein
The Messiah of Stockholm
Cynthia Ozick
The Mind-Body Problem
Rebecca Goldstein
The Ministry of Special Cases
Nathan Englander
Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
Gina B. Nahai
Mr. Mani
A.B. Yehoshua
My Michael
Amos Oz and Nicholas de Lange, Translator
Israeli Fiction
My Name Is Asher Lev
Chaim Potok
Immigration & American Jewish Experience
The One Facing Us
Ronit Matalon
Only Human
Jenny Diski
Biblical & Midrashic Reimaginings
Only Yesterday
S.Y. Agnon and Barbara Harshav, Translator
The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski
Holocaust & Its Aftermath
The Parable and Its Lesson
S.Y. Agnon
People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
The Promise
Chaim Potok
Immigration & American Jewish Experience
The Puttermesser Papers
Cynthia Ozick
Folklore, Mysticism & the Fantastic
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant
Biblical & Midrashic Reimaginings
A Replacement Life
Boris Fishman
The Rise of David Levinsky
Abraham Cahan
Salome of the Tenements
Anzia Yezierska
Sarah
Marek Halter
Biblical & Midrashic Reimaginings
Second Hand Smoke
Thane Rosenbaum
Holocaust & Its Aftermath
The Secret Chord
Geraldine Brooks
Biblical & Midrashic Reimaginings
See Under: Love
David Grossman and Betsy Rosenberg, Translator
Israeli Fiction
The Septembers of Shiraz
Dalia Sofer
The Shawl
Cynthia Ozick
Sinners and the Sea
Rebecca Kanner
Biblical & Midrashic Reimaginings
Stern
Bruce Jay Friedman
Humor & Satire
The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories
Bruno Schulz and Celina Wieniewska, Translator
Tevye the Dairyman
Sholem Aleichem and Hillel Halkin, Translator
To the End of the Land
David Grossman
Israeli Fiction
Tzili
Aharon Appelfeld and Dalya Bilu, Translator
Holocaust & Its Aftermath
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Nathan Englander
Holocaust & Its Aftermath
A Woman in Jerusalem
A.B. Yehoshua and Hillel Halkin, Translator
Israeli Fiction
The World To Come
Dara Horn
The Yeshiva
Chaim Grade and Curt Leviant, Translator
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon
Zipporah, Wife of Moses
Marek Halter
Biblical & Midrashic Reimaginings