American Jewish Fiction: A JPS Guide (JPS Desk Reference)

A guide to 125 top-selected works of fiction includes classic American Jewish novels and story collections from the past 150 years and complements each entry with a book summary, its historical context, author background notes and suggestions for further reading.

Josh Lambert is a doctoral candidate in English and Jewish literature at the University of Michigan. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard in English literature, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and served as a staff writer for the Harvard Lampoon. He led the redesign and relaunch of JBooks.com, an online book review magazine, in 2003, and served as its editor until 2004. He now contributes book reviews and essays to the Forward, the San Francisco Chronicle, the two national daily newspapers in Canada (the National Post and Globe and Mail), The Jerusalem Post, and Nextbook.org.