I agree with you ShragaF- most jewish novels are boring junk.
You can say you like them- because that’s your opinion, but it takes more than just your opinion to make a book be well written.
But Meir Uri Gottesman “The Harp” is completely kosher and a complete masterpiece! Deep Blue is also fantastic.
I also loved “Every Man a Slave”- nobody can complain about research there…
The thing is most of these books are old. If you’ve already read all the oldies and goodies- you can’t expect anything that just came out to be good…
Though- Yael Mermelstien’s “Moonlight” is not a novel- it does have some really professional short stories. The one about the circus and the mink stole- could very well be used in high schools- to be analyzed. I actually thought that it compared well to O’henry’s style
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