Plays
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Women’s Minyan | 2006 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Jephte’s Daughter | 1988 | Buy |
| Sotah | 1992 | Buy |
| A Woman Under Suspicion | 1992 | Buy |
| The Sacrifice of Tamar | 1994 | Buy |
| The Ghost of Hannah Mendes | 1998 | Buy |
| Chains Around the Grass | 2001 | Buy |
| The Covenant | 2004 | Buy |
| The Saturday Wife | 2007 | Buy |
| The Tenth Song | 2010 | Buy |
| The Sisters Weiss | 2012 | Buy |
| The Devil in Jerusalem | 2015 | Buy |
| An Unorthodox Match | 2019 | Buy |
| An Observant Wife | 2021 | Buy |
| The Enemy Beside Me | 2023 | Buy |
Naomi Ragen has spent her career writing about Orthodox Jewish women navigating tradition, faith, and personal freedom. Her debut, Jephte’s Daughter, published in 1988, drew both praise and controversy for depicting an arranged marriage in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox community. Sotah and The Sacrifice of Tamar continued to examine the costs women bear in highly traditional religious societies.
Her later novels have broadened in scope while keeping the same core concerns. The Ghost of Hannah Mendes traces a Jewish family across centuries. The Devil in Jerusalem is based on a true case of a cult leader in Israel. An Unorthodox Match and An Observant Wife explore the possibility of love and partnership within Orthodox life. Ragen writes from personal experience as an American who moved to Jerusalem, and her fiction carries the authority of someone who has lived inside the world she describes.