Professor Carol Zoref discusses her award-winning novel, 'Barren Island,' which deftly explores immigrant life, poverty, religion and coming of age in the first half of the 20th century.

It is 1967; students are burning their draft cards to protest the Vietnam War, and Norman Gould finds himself attracted to the resistance.

This richly imaginative novel opens in present-day New York City after Rachel—the eternal wife and mother—loses her most recent husband.

Nathan Englander takes on his toughest topic and format to date—the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, wrapped in the guise of an international thriller.

A heavy dose of sex, drug and intrigue fills Bethany Ball's humor-laced debut novel about a dysfunctional family.

Dark humor and mysticism abound in Nicole Krauss’s modern Israel, enlivened by Kabbalistic rabbis, possible ex-Mossad agents and nods to gilgul and Gogol.

In postwar Switzerland, 5-year-old Gustav becomes the unlikely friend of Anton, the new student who is Jewish, in Rose Tremain’s 'The Gustav Sonata.'

A multigenerational saga that spans 75 years, 'The Patriots' is historically rich, deeply moving and suspenseful.