Melvin Jules Bukiet

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1995
  • Latest Book:
    June 2006
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Book List in Order: 9 titles

  • While the Messiah Tarries

    Chronicling the lives of Jews in America, nine stories combining history, fable, theology, and myth include searching for an impossible gem in Manhattan's diamond district, a university library that catalogues human evil, and a rabbi matching wits wi...

  • After

    As the remaining Jews are being freed from the concentration camps, three ex-prisoners--a logician, a saint, and a schemer--join together to take over the only industry in a crippled German town, the black market...

  • Signs and Wonders

    In late 1999, in the midst of a brutal hurricane on the Baltic coast, a concrete prison barge rips free of its moorings. Of thousands of Europe's most dangerous criminals, only the twelve depraved souls in cell block 306 survive. One of the twelve is...

  • Neurotica

    Whoever it was who claimed that sex was the most fun you can have without laughing hadn't encountered Neurotica--an anthology of Jewish short stories, most of which uncover the hilarity inherent in carnality. It is a stellar collection of twenty-seve...

  • Strange Fire

    "Savagely funny....Never was Jewish wit put to better or more urgent use." -- Chicago Tribune, a Favorite Book of 2001 Blind, homosexual, Russian émigré speechwriter Nathan Kazakov has enough problems even before his left ear is obliterated by a bu...

  • Stories of an Imaginary Childhood

    In Stories of an Imaginary Childhood Melvin Jules Bukiet inscribes the world that might have been his own if not for the catastrophe that destroyed most of Jewish life in eastern Europe during the 1940s. Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish...

  • Nothing Makes You Free

    A groundbreaking collection of Holocaust literature by the heirs to the greatest evil of our time.

    History is preserved in the memories of the survivors of the Holocaust and the imaginations of their children, the so-called Second Generation. ...

  • A Faker's Dozen

    The wicked exploits of an assortment of louts and losers occupy Melvin Jules Bukiet's profligate imagination in these delectable stories. The title of Melvin Jules Bukiet's latest collection hints at the deceitful nature of its multiple protagonists....

  • Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary American Jewish Fiction

    The first American Jewish anthology in a decade to include both established masters and the newest generation of gifted storytellers.The authors gathered here represent contemporary American Jewish fiction at its best. Drawn from the renowned ...



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Melvin Jules Bukiet has published 9 books.

Melvin Jules Bukiet does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary American Jewish Fiction, was published in June 2006.

The first book by Melvin Jules Bukiet, While the Messiah Tarries, was published in July 1995.

No. Melvin Jules Bukiet does not write books in series.
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