jewish families

Eliza Naumann is used to being the unremarkable member of her family, but when she wins a series of spelling bees, her once distant family begins to lavish praise on her, bringing about surprising complications.

Stories of five Italian Jewish families under the fascist government of Mussolini.

The Freitags, a family of elitist German Jews, are thrown into turmoil in the winter of 1939 when daughter Lala falls for her uncle's new assistant, Joe Farkas, and hints for him to take her to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season, but Joe sets his sights on Lala's cousin, Sunny.

In Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York, two Jewish girls learn about their heritage from their grandmother, who was born in Lithuania, escaped during World War II, and lived for a while in Israel.

The dynamics of the Schwartz family are drastically changed when Bernard, father of the sarcastic Chris and devout Cathy, wakes up from a coma--accidentally induced by the ingestion of two classes of antidepressants--physically and mentally impaired, and at the mercy of his children.

A Jewish-American author describes select moments and events from throughout her life, which includes her childhood in Omaha, Nebraska, and moving to Manhattan to pursue an acting career.

A novel that imagines what might have happened in America, particularly to one Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, had Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election rather than Franklin Roosevelt and acted upon his anti-Semitic leanings.

Frank, a troubled, somewhat desperate, Italian American, works long hours in the grocery store of a struggling Jewish family in a Brooklyn neighborhood where he develops a secret passion for his employer's attractive daughter.