Naomi Ragen, Author . St. Martin's/Griffin $14.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-28125-0
Opulent prose, brave female characters and an emphasis on the importance of family and tradition distinguish the latest from bestselling Ragen (Jephte's Daughter). Catherine da Costa is a wealthy New York matron, secure in everything but the...
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Naomi Ragen, Author . Toby Press $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-902881-53-9
Based on novelist Ragen's own experiences growing up in an ethnically mixed low-income housing project in the Rockaways, this novel opens a window into the bittersweet world of the Markowitz family as they struggle to make ends meet in 1950s New
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Naomi Ragen, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-29119-8
Ragen, an American writer who's lived in Israel for more than 30 years, blends tragedies of the past with headline news of today in her gripping, emotionally charged sixth novel. It's 2002, and the Margulies family—oncologist Jonathan;
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Naomi Ragen, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-312-35238-7
Like Emma Bovary, Delilah Goldgrab longs for a better life. A Queens yeshiva girl, Delilah is prayerfully remorseful after fornicating with young, opportunistic Yitzie Polinsky, and quickly marries mediocre rabbinical student Chaim Levi, who is...
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Naomi Ragen, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $14.99 (490p) ISBN 978-0-312-57024-8
In Ragen's latest look at the women of Israel's Orthodox communities (after Jephte's Daughter
), a rabbi's daughters deal with love and the fallout of adultery. The story begins as three sisters reach marrying age with limited...
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Naomi Ragen, St. Martin's, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-57017-0
Ragen (The Saturday Wife) brings a bitter intensity to this story of betrayal and a Jewish family brought to its knees by a financial scam to fund overseas terrorism. Boston accountant Adam Samuels gets ensnared in political and religious turmoil...
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Naomi Ragen, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-59561-9
Returning to familiar terrain in her third novel (after Jephte's Daughter and Sotah), Ragen again examines the lives of ultra-orthodox Jews and the severe consequences that can befall even the most faithful when they take a serious, albeit human...
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Naomi Ragen, Author Warner Books $18.45 (436p) ISBN 978-0-446-51486-6
Abraham Ha-Levi, a wealthy Los Angeles businessman, is the sole heir to a 300-year-old Hasidic dynasty. Believing himself unworthy to take on the mantle of leadership, he makes a solemn vow to God to continue the distinguished lineage through his...
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Naomi Ragen, Author Crown Publishers $22 (457p) ISBN 978-0-517-58977-9
Ragen's second novel (after Jephte's Daughter ) revisits the insular world of ultrareligious Jews, focusing on the Reich family's three daughters and how they fare in the elemental rite of passage--marriage. In the Haredi community (made up of Jews...
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Naomi Ragen, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-684-83393-4
Each of Ragen's previous novels--Jephte's Daughter, Sotah and The Sacrifice of Tamar--focused on a family story within an insular orthodox Jewish community. Here, Ragen weaves an account of a contemporary, thoroughly assimilated New York Jewish...
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