Audiobooks by Jewish American Authors

Kantika

By: Elizabeth Graver
Narrated by: Gail Shalan
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four countries, Kantika?“song” in Ladino?follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what... Read more

Beat the Devils

By: Josh Weiss
Narrated by: Fred Berman
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

This inventive, page-turning crime thriller with "palpable emotional depth" (New York Times Book Review) envisions a world in which the Red Scare never ended.

USA, 1958. President Joseph McCarthy sits in the White House, elected on a wave of populist xenophobia and barely‑concealed anti‑Semitism. The country is in the firm grip of... Read more

Code Name Sapphire

By: Pam Jenoff
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

"A heart-wrenching exploration of the decisions women must make when their loyalties are put to the test in the most unimaginable of circumstances.” –Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary

A woman must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of bravery and resistance, from... Read more

As Seen on TV

By: Meredith Schorr
Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Fans of the Hallmark Channel and Gilmore Girls will adore this delightful rom‑com about a city girl who goes in search of small-town happiness, only to discover life—and love—are nothing like the TV movies.

Emerging journalist Adina Gellar is done with dating in New York City. If she’s learned anything from made-for-TV romance movies, it’s that... Read more

My Jewish Year

18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew

By: Abigail Pogrebin
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin's My Jewish Year, a lively chronicle of the author's journey into the spiritual heart of Judaism.

Although she grew up following some holiday rituals, Pogrebin realized... Read more

Zabar's

A Family Story, with Recipes

By: Lori Zabar
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

The fascinating, mouthwatering story (with recipes!) of the immigrant familythat created a New York gastronomic legend: “The most rambunctious andchaotic of all delicatessens, with one foot in the Old World and the other inthe vanguard of every fast-breaking food move in the city.” —Nora Ephron

When Louis and Lilly Zabar rented a counter in a... Read more

Camp QUILTBAG

By: Nicole Melleby & A. J. Sass
Narrated by: Jennifer Nittoso & Avi Roque
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

From the acclaimed authors of Hurricane Season and Ana on the Edge, an unforgettable story about the importance of and joy in finding a community, for fans of Alex Gino and Ashley Herring-Blake.
 
Twelve-year-old Abigail (she/her/hers) is so excited to spend her summer at Camp QUILTBAG, an inclusive retreat for queer and trans kids. She can’t... Read more

The 12th Commandment

By: Daniel Torday
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Swirling with secrets and their consequences, exploring how revelation and redemption might be accessed through sin, and driven through twists and turns toward a startling conclusion, The 12th Commandment is a brilliant novel by award-winning author Daniel Torday.The Dönme sect―a group of Jewish-Islamic adherents with ancient roots―lives in an... Read more

World Made of Glass

By: Ami Polonsky
Narrated by: Jennifer Nittoso
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

A heartbreaking, heart-mending novel of love, grief, friendship, and community.  
 
March 1987. The FDA has just approved AZT as the first drug to treat AIDS. But it's too late for Iris’s dad. He’s dying, confined to a hospital bed in the apartment he shares with his boyfriend, J.R. (who Iris hates), four floors above Iris and her mom. Soon, all... Read more

For Never & Always

By: Helena Greer
Length: TBA

One surprise inheritance, two best friends (now bitter exes), and three months to prove he loves her, forever and always, in this swoony second-chance romance for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Ashley Herring Blake.
 
Hannah Rosenstein should be happy: after a lonely childhood of traipsing all over the world, she finally has a home as the... 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

Once More with Chutzpah

By: Haley Neil
Narrated by: Cady Zuckerman
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

When high-school senior Tally and her twin brother Max head off on an exchange trip to Israel over their winter break, Tally thinks it will be a good distraction for Max; he might be trying to hide it, but she knows he's still struggling in the wake of a car crash that injured him and killed the driver. Maybe this will help him get back on track... Read more

Nazis Knew My Name

A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz

By: Magda Hellinger & Maya Lee
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton & Zoe Carides
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

The “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer’s Wife.

In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and... Read more

I Will Protect You

A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz

By: Eva Mozes Kor
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

The illuminating and deeply moving true story of twin sisters who survived Nazi experimentation, against all odds, during the Holocaust.

Eva and her identical twin sister, Miriam, had a mostly happy childhood. Theirs was the only Jewish family in their small village in the Transylvanian mountains, but they didn't think much of it until... Read more

Antiquities and Other Stories

By: Cynthia Ozick
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings, now alongside four previously uncollected stories

In Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a... Read more

The Whole Story of Half a Girl

By: Veera Hiranandani
Narrated by: Siiri Scott
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

By the author of the Newbery Honor Book The Night Diary, a thoughtful and relatable story about cultural identity, friendship, and what it means to fit in without losing who you are.

After her father loses his job, Sonia Nadhamuni, half Indian and half Jewish American, finds herself yanked out of private school and thrown into the unfamiliar... Read more

Disguised as Clark Kent

Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero

By: Danny Fingeroth
Narrated by: Danny Fingeroth
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

In this insightful and provocative book, comics-industry veteran Danny Fingeroth explores the backgrounds of the most well-known superheroes and their creators—largely young American Jewish men from Eastern European backgrounds. These innovators include Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Will Eisner, and Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.Jewish Identity has... Read more

The Letters Project

A Daughter's Journey

By: Eleanor Reissa
Narrated by: Eleanor Reissa
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

In 1986, when her mother died at the age of sixty-four, Eleanor Reissa went through all of her belongings. In the back of her mother’s lingerie drawer, she found an old leather purse. Inside that purse was a large wad of folded papers. They were letters. Fifty-six of them. In German. Written in 1949. Letters from her father to her mother, when... Read more

New York Jew

By: Alfred Kazin
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

In this book, Alfred Kazin, who for more than thirty years has been one of the central figures of America's intellectual life, takes us into his own life and times. His autobiography encompasses a personal story openly told; an inside look at New York's innermost intellectual circles; strong and intimate revelations of many of the most important... Read more

The Adventures of Herbie Cohen

World's Greatest Negotiator

By: Rich Cohen
Narrated by: Paul Adelstein
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

The New York Times bestselling author Rich Cohen tells the story of Herbie: the king of Bensonhurst, the world’s best negotiator—and Cohen’s wise, wisecracking father.

Meet Herbie Cohen, World’s Greatest Negotiator, dealmaker, risk taker, raconteur, adviser to presidents and corporations, hostage and arms negotiator, lesson giver and justice... Read more