god I hate this question...listen folks, Treehugger Dan's is an English Language bookstore. It does not matter where the author is from, just so long as the book is in English. We do not divide the books up by the author's country of birth. People also expect me, because of my name (Swartz), to be conversant about Jewish authors. I honestly do not know who they mean. I do not divide the books up by the author's religion or the religion of their mother either. There are the more obvious ones like Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Primo Levi, Isaac B. Singer, Gertrude Stein..., but what about Anita Brookner, Miguel de Cervantes, E.L. Doctorow, Belva Plain, Dorothy Parker...? Here is an interesting and sometimes surprsing list. With the exception of E.L. Doctorow and Cervantes I have not read any of these <!-- pagebreak -->authors and do not intend to. However, I do enjoy the occassional Kinky Friedman book. Kinky Friedman is a Jewish cowboy musician, former gubenatorial candidate for Texas and occassional crime writer. Anyone who pens such classic songs as "They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore" deserves our full support. I am currently reading Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore. Moore is the author of Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, perhaps the funniest book I have ever read. It explains those age old mysteries such as why Jewish people, myself included, go for Chinese food at Christmas. I do not accept being Jewish though, since I see Judaism as a religion, a matter of faith, not blood. Nor have I ever had any desire to see Israel, though I do make a fantastic matzo ball soup, and pretty good bagels. That said, Edward Whittemore's excellent Jerusalem Quartet, beginning with Sinai Tapestry, did for a time make me very curious about the city of Jerusalem. By the way, the series does feature as a supporting character a mustached garlic eating  Hungarian count/baron.