Issue 15

Welcome to this wonderful new issue of Jewish Fiction .net! Here you will find 20 first-rate works of fiction, originally written in Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew and English. These include a new translation of Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry, four novel excerpts by Israeli writers, a story translated from Yiddish, and from the Netherlands, United States and Canada, 14 terrific stories. Also, in keeping with the Pesach holiday which starts this Friday night, several of these 20 stories relate to the themes of servitude and freedom.

With this, our 15^th issue, we proudly reach the number of 225 (15 squared!) stories published so far in Jewish Fiction .net — 225 works of fiction never before published in English. For helping us to reach this exciting milestone, we thank our fantastically devoted volunteers, our generous donors, and you, our excellent readers.

Here in Issue 15:

Soldiers in the Israeli army feel they are experiencing servitude and long for their freedom (“The People, Food for Kings”)

A Jewish soldier-journalist in the Red Army documents the tragic wartime events he observes, and longs for his freedom (“Red Cavalry”)

Two American soldiers during WW II, one Jewish, one Sioux, suffer through their service together (“A Brief History of A Long War”)

Two men in pre-state Israel seek to free Israel from British rule (“One Night, Markovitch”)

A young woman secretly works with the underground to free Amsterdam from the Nazi occupation (“Underground in Amsterdam”)

In 1945 a man sitting in the Luxembourg Gardens tries to free himself from Holocaust memories (“Chameleon and Nightingale”)

A man in Florida tries to free himself from Holocaust memories by confiding in Isaac Bashevis Singer (“Gimpel of Surfside”)

A Jewish academic feels enslaved to duty when constantly solicited to be “der tsenter” (“The Tenth Man”)

The boss of a business going bankrupt feels duty-bound to financially protect his workers (“The Disappearance of Mr. Harry Golden”)

A young woman in Jerusalem hungers for life and freedom from sadness over her past losses (“Hunger - Ra'av”)

A Russian girl who immigrated to America finds her new life strange and perplexing (“America for Breakfast”)

A young Jewish immigrant from Algeria finds Paris shocking and very sexual (“The Sand Dunes of Paris”)

An immigrant who survived the Holocaust finds love in America (“Red Shoes for Rachel”)

Through a recipe, a grandmother tells her granddaughter about the hardships of her past life in the Soviet Union (“Roza Naumovna's Recipes: Sour Cabbage Soup”)

A Christian grandmother is jolted by a supernatural experience into revealing to her granddaughter a shocking family secret (“Chanukah”)

A college student focuses her grief on what to wear to her father’s funeral (“Blue Suit”)

A family holiday is very pleasant — until there’s an accident in a swimming pool (“Drowning”)

A girl and her family lead a pleasant existence in Turkey — until things change there for the Jews (“Soldiers on Crystal Horses”)

The people living down the road from the concentration camp — what did they really know? (“What They Knew”)

A secular young man who lives on past romantic fantasies moves into a building with Orthodox Jews (“Mick Revises A Love Story”)

We hope you enjoy these wonderful stories. And we wish you and those you love a joyful, meaningful, and liberating Pesach! Chag sameach v'kasher! from all of us at

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