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Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder)

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שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem


Although written from a child's perspective, this is not a kids book but a series of funny, poignant, and sometimes disturbing stories about…

The King of Schnorrers

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Israel Zangwill


Manasseh da Costa, protagonist of this hilarious novel, is a schnorrer (beggar) who lives on the charitable contributions of the Jews of lat…

California Coast Trails

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Joseph Smeaton Chase


In 1911, decades before California's coast Highway 1 was built, an Englishman rode 2000 miles on horseback the length of California, from Me…

The Curious Quest

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


A sweet, simple tale of how friendship and honesty triumph over money. The protagonist’s pun of a name—Ernest Bliss—foreshadows the plot in …

Reuben Sachs: A Sketch

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Amy Levy


Reuben Sachs is a London lawyer whose political aspirations do not include marriage to Judith Quixano, the daughter of a respectable but une…

Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry

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Samuel Gordon


Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' c…

The Golem: A legend of old Prague

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Rudolf Lothar


Rabbi Loeb creates a clay man to house a perfect soul that he hopes will not be blighted by human prejudices. The plan does not go as he hop…

An Angler's Hours

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Hugh Tempest Sheringham


One of the classic British books about angling. The author’s love was fly fishing—“…while there are trout, life is worth living…” but he was…

THE SON OF THE BRAHMAN

In Siddhartha

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Hermann Hesse


Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha…

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