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LERMAN / AMERICAN-JEWISH FICTION BOOKS
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G o l d m a n , A l e x
J.
The Rabbi is a lady.
New York: Hippocrene Books,
1987. 313 p.
Sara Weintraub, a newly widowed rebezin, is drawn to the rabbin
ate of her late husband’s congregation. What appears to be a tempo
rary arrangement, touches a yearning within Sara that forces recog
nition of her talent amid social and religious controversy.
G r a d e , C h a im .
My mother’s Sabbath days: a memoir.
Trans, from the Yid
dish by Channa Kleinerman Goldstein and Inna Hecker Grade.
New York: Knopf, 1986. 397 p.
More than a chronicle, this memoir, published in Yiddish in 1955,
recreates the life o f the peddlers and shopkeepers o f Vilna before
the Holocaust and is a loving elegy to Grade’s pious mother.
The great works of Jewish fantasy and occult.
Ed. and trans. by Joachim
Neugroschel. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1986. 709 p.
Originally published in English translation in 1978 as
Yenne velt,
this collection of 31 fables and ghost stories draws on Jewish mysti
cism and magical tales o f fantasy as the source of its imagination.
G r o s s m a n , V a s i l y .
Life and fate.
Trans, from the Russian by Robert
Chandler. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. 880 p.
This novel of the siege of Stalingrad, written in 1960, was never
published in the Soviet Union. It was smuggled out in manuscript
form on microfilm by a dissident. Grossman was a Jew born in the
Ukrainian town of Berdichev in 1905.
K e m e lm a n , H a r r y .
One fine day the rabbi bought a cross.
New York:
Morrow, 1987. 234 p.
Rabbi David Small and his wife are vacationing inJerusalem when
the disappearance of a pro-Arab American professor returns the
rabbi to his famed vocation as a detective.
K o t l o w i t z , R o b e r t .
Sea changes.
San Francisco: North Point Press,
1986. 275 p.
A teenage German boy is sent by his parents from Frankfurt to
America in pre-WWII days to be adopted by another family. A story
of enormous sacrifice that saves his life.
K u l k a , E r i c h .
Escapefrom Auschwitz.
Translated from the Czech by Hana
Aharon and Shira Nahari. Fwd. by Herman Wouk, introd. by
Yehuda Bauer. South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin &Garvey, 1986. 150 p.
A German guard at Auschwitz, Viktor Pestek, falls in love with a
Jewish woman, an inmate at the camp. To save her life, he helps her
and another inmate to escape. This fictionalized account is based on
actual events.
L e v , M i c h a .
Yordim: leaving the Promised Land for the land of promise.
Kensington,
M d . :
Woodbine House, 1986. 366 p.
Yosef Lvov came to the United States from Israel and now drives a
taxi in Philadelphia. Together with his younger brother, he tells the