I haven't read any of his books, but I think Bob's right about Saul Bellow. And there's Philip Roth. I recently read Chaim Potok's semi-autobiographical novels--wonderful!!!We have four in the collection but three are rated Fair and one Good. Start with The Chosen. Davida's Harp is another that I read that is not in the collection. They'd fall into the genre of historical fiction as they take place in the U.S. during the 20s, 30s, 40s--conflicts not only within a Hasidic culture but in the world. Then there's Elie Wiesel and Leon Uris; I've read a couple of his books that have to do with WWII. I don't think Stephen Birmingham is Jewish, but his Our Crowd and The Grandees, both of which I've read, is nonfiction but as readable as fiction and about the original Jews who came to America and settled. I'm assuming when Naomi says Jewish authors she means those whose books have Jewish themes. I googled a list of Jewish authors and there are many who write "regular" books. I was amazed at who is Jewish. But then there are non-U.S. authors who are classic Jewish writers, whose works I have not read, like Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Yiddish writer who won a Novel Prize in Literature in 1978 and Sholem Asch,another Yiddish writer. G.Cindy ***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS AVAILABLE AT http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/ http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html Jake's site for useful links: http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.