Audiobooks by Jewish American Authors

City of Laughter

By: Temim Fruchter
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an 18th century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests laugh, receives a visitation from a mysterious stranger—bringing the laughter the people of Ropshitz desperately need and triggering a sequence of events that will reverberate across the coming... Read more

The Key to Forever

Secret Ties: Book #3

By: Kelly Cain
Narrated by: Chance Smolders & Joy Beharie
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Tori Matheny comes from a family of strong women who are all close and happily single. She plans to live the same way—an occasional fling, but never settling down. What’s the need? She is, however, curious about her birth family despite her adoptive mom and aunts strongly discouraging her search. Tori’s always known she was adopted and has never... Read more

The Inn at Lake Devine

By: Elinor Lipman
Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

It's 1962, and all across America barriers are collapsing. But when Natalie Marx's mother inquires about summer accommodations in Vermont, she gets the following reply: The Inn at Lake Devine is a family-owned resort, which has been in continuous operation since 1922. Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are... Read more

A Kiss from the Past

Secret Ties: Book #1

By: Kelly Cain
Narrated by: Joy Beharie & Chance Smolders
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Nichelle Sampson is living the life she always dreamed of. She’s a political-science professor like her father, is in her sorority’s leadership like her mother, and has wonderful friends. The only thing missing is romance. But when a letter and mysterious ring arrive, Nichelle’s perfect life is shattered. She’s shocked to learn that she’s... Read more

Two Sides of a Secret

Secret Ties: Book #2

By: Kelly Cain
Narrated by: Joy Beharie & Chance Smolders
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Lauren Steele has always been grateful for her adoptive family’s love and support. So much so that she takes over the family floral business when her parents retire, despite her dreams of working on political campaigns. Instead of crafting clever speeches, she spends her days writing out romantic messages on behalf of her clients—a bittersweet... Read more

Tears Over Russia

A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine's Pogroms

By: Lisa Brahin
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Between 1917 and 1921, twenty years before the Holocaust began, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Jews were murdered in anti-Jewish pogroms across the Ukraine. Lisa grew up transfixed by her grandmother Channa’s stories about her family being forced to flee their hometown of Stavishche, as armies and bandit groups raided village after village,... Read more

The Rye Bread Marriage

How I Found Happiness with a Partner I'll Never Understand

By: Michaele Weissman
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Experience a beautiful, humorous, universal love story with this memoir about learning to live with another human being and how every relationship is a mystery—and a miracle. 
 
When they first meet, John, a dashing European, a Latvian refugee, a physics PhD, is hoping to settle down. Michaele, a fast-talking American college student, is hungry... Read more

Stan Lee

A Life in Comics

Jewish Lives

By: Liel Leibovitz
Narrated by: Liel Leibovitz
Length: 6 hours

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel ComicsFew artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created—Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four—occupy Hollywood’s imagination and... Read more

The Sins on Their Bones

Book one of The Cursed Crown series

The Cursed Crown Duology: Book #1

By: Laura R. Samotin
Narrated by: Aaron Willis, Daniel Chichagov & Robin Wilcock
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Set in a Jewish folklore-inspired reimagining of 19th century Eastern Europe, this queer dark fantasy debut pits two estranged husbands and a daring spymaster on opposite sides of a civil war. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, C.S. Pacat, and Katherine Arden.

Dimitri Alexeyev used to be the Tzar of Novo-Svitsevo. Now, he is merely a broken man,... Read more

The Color of Love

A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl

By: Marra B. Gad
Narrated by: Marra B. Gad
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Winner of the 2020 Midwest Book Award in Autobiography/Memoir, The Color of Love is an unforgettable memoir about a mixed-race Jewish woman who, after fifteen years of estrangement from her racist great-aunt, helps bring her home when Alzheimer’s strikes.In 1970, three-day-old Marra B. Gad was adopted by a white Jewish family in Chicago. For her... Read more

The Mathematician's Shiva

By: Stuart Rojstaczer
Narrated by: Angela Brazil & Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

When the greatest female mathematician in history passes away, her son, Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch, just wants to mourn his mother in peace. But rumor has it the notoriously eccentric Polish émigré has solved one of the most difficult problems in all of mathematics, and has spitefully taken the solution to her grave. As a ragtag group of... Read more

Their Promised Land

My Grandparents in Love and War

By: Ian Buruma
Narrated by: Ian Buruma
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

A family history of surpassing beauty and power, Their Promised Land is Ian Buruma’s account of his grandparents’ enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars.During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma’s grandparents, were, like so many others, thoroughly... Read more

Gone to Dust

The Nils Shapiro Series: Book #1

By: Matt Goldman
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Set in Minnesota, Gone to Dust is the debut private-eye murder mystery from Emmy Award–winning Seinfeld writer Matt Goldman.A brutal crime. The ultimate cover-up. How do you solve a murder with no useable evidence?Private detective Nils Shapiro is focused on forgetting his ex-wife and keeping warm during another Minneapolis winter when a former... Read more

The Last Jew of Treblinka

A Survivor’s Memory, 1942–1943

By: Chil Rajchman
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Quickly becoming a cornerstone of Holocaust historiography, this is a devastatingly stark memoir from one of the lone survivors of Treblinka.Why do some live while so many others perish? Tiny children, old men, beautiful girls—in the gas chambers of Treblinka, all are equal. The Nazis kept the fires of Treblinka burning night and day, a central... Read more

Bread Givers

A Novel 3rd Edition

By: Anzia Yezierska
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Sarah's struggle towards independence and self-fulfillment resonates with a passion all... Read more

The Shawl

By: Cynthia Ozick
Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Two award-winning works of fiction by one of America's finest writers, together in one collection.



In "The Shawl," a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her daughter. In "Rosa," that same woman appears thirty years later, "a mad woman and a scavenger" in a Miami hotel. She has no life in the present because her past... Read more

Hadassah

An American Story

The HBI Series on Jewish Women

By: Hadassah Lieberman
Narrated by: Hadassah Lieberman
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Born in Prague to Holocaust survivors, Hadassah Lieberman and her family immigrated in 1949 to the United States. She went on to earn a BA from Boston University in government and dramatics and an MA in international relations and American government from Northeastern University. She built a career devoted largely to public health that has... Read more

Recommended for You

By: Laura Silverman
Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
Length: 7 hours

To All the Boys I've Loved Before meets You've Got Mail in this charming and hilarious rom-com following two teen booksellers whose rivalry is taken to the next level as they compete for the top bookseller bonus.



Shoshanna Greenberg loves working at Once Upon, her favorite local bookstore. And with her moms fighting at home and her beloved car... Read more

By the Grace of the Game

The Holocaust, A Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream

By: Dan Grunfeld
Narrated by: Chris Lutkin
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

When Lily and Alex entered a packed gymnasium in Queens, New York, in 1972, they barely recognized their son. The boy who escaped to America with them, who was bullied as he struggled to learn English and cope with family tragedy, was now a young man who had discovered and secretly honed his basketball talent on the outdoor courts of New York... Read more

Two Who Survived

Keeping Hope Alive While Surviving the Holocaust

By: Rose Schindler, Max Schindler & M. Lee Connolly
Narrated by: Rose Schindler & Michael Beck
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Two Who Survived chronicles the true story of two children from different worlds: a city boy and a country girl. When the persecution of Jews begins, both are plucked from their reality and thrust into concentration camps. They are stripped of everything they know and forced to navigate a truly incomprehensible, volatile, dangerous and... Read more