Jewish Books - Part 1
- Alex Duchêne
- Jun 22, 2024
- 4 min read
Updated: Dec 11, 2024
Since my post about Ben Freeman's book, I've been getting a lot of enquiries about books to read. More coming after this first batch.
RANDOM NON-FICTION
(((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump by Jonathan Weisman
Big Book of Jewish Humor by William Novak and Moshe Waldoks
Esther in America: The Scroll's Interpretation in and Impact on the United States by Rabbi Stuart Halpern
Jewish Literacy Revised Ed: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History by Joseph Telushkin
Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People by Ben Freeman
Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: My Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Amanda L. Tyler
Reclaiming Our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride by Ben Freeman
The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler
BIBLICAL
Back to the Sources: Reading the Classical Jewish Texts by Barry W. Holtz
Biblical Judgements: New Legal Readings in the Hebrew Bible by Daphne Barak-Erez
Legends of the Jews Volume 1 by Louis Ginzberg
Legends of the Jews Volume 2 by Louis Ginzberg
Legends of the Jews Volume 3 by Louis Ginzberg
TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures (blue): The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text Edited by Inc. Jewish Publication Society, Inc.
The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
The Torah: The Five Books of Moses, the New Translation of the Holy Scriptures According to the Traditional Hebrew Text Edited by Inc. Jewish Publication Society, Inc.
BIOS, MEMOIRS, NON-FICTION
A Survivor’s Duty: Surviving the Holocaust and Fighting for Israel - A Story of Father and Son by Gabriel Laufer
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History by Benjamin Balint (Author, Van Leer Institute)
Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales by Sabrina Orah Mark
Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream by Francine Klagsbrun
Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, Purloined Diaries, and Other Theatrics of Exile by Maxim D. Shrayer
Love Atop a Keyboard: A Memoir of Late-Life Love by Janet Silver Ghent
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld
My Life by Golda Meir
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen
CLASSICS
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Night by Elie Wiesel
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Pawnbroker by Edward Lewis Wallant
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
Jeremy’s Dreidel by Ellie Gellman Illustrated by Maria Mola
Queen Vashti’s Comfy Pants by Leah Rachel Berkowitz Illustrated byRuth Bennett
Something from Nothing by Phoebe Gilman
The House on the Roof: A Sukkot Story by David Adler
The Koren Tanakh Graphic Novel: Esther by Jordan Gorfinkel illustrated by ygramul
When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest
HISTORY
A History of the Jewish People edited by H. H. Ben-Sasson
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis
Jerusalem: A History of Forty Centuries by Teddy Kollek and Moshe Pearlman
Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia by Paula Hyman
The Jewish War by Josephus
The Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter by Arthur Hertzberg
The Shabbes Goy: A Study in Halakhic Flexibility by Jacob Katz
War Against the Jews by Lucy Davidowicz
JEWISH LAW
A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice by Isaac Klein
The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning by Maurice Lamm
Women And Jewish Law: The Essential Texts, Their History, And Their Relevance For Today by Rachel Biale
MYSTICISM, SPIRITUALITY & JUDAISM
Basic Judaism by Milton Steinberg\
Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life – in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There) by Sarah Hurwitz
Holy Letter: A Study in Jewish Sexual Morality (Iggeret Hakodesh) by Seymour Cohen
In the Shadow of the Ladder: Introductions to Kabbalah by Rabbi Yehuda Lev Ashlag
The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World by Rabbi Sharon Brous
The Thirteen Petalled Rose: A Discourse On The Essence Of Jewish Existence And Belief by Adin Steinsaltz
To Heal the Soul: The Spiritual Journal of a Chasidic Rebbe by Kalonymus K. Shapira
PHILOSOPHY
Faith and Doubt: Studies in Traditional Jewish Thought by Norman Lamm
Not in Heaven: The Nature and Function of Halakha by Eliezer Berkovits
Standing Again At Sinai: Judaism From A Feminist Perspective by Judith Plaskow
The Book of Kuzari by Yehuda HaLevi
The Guide to the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides
The Lonely Man of Faith by Joseph B. Soloveitchik
The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold Kushner
NOVELS (BIOGRAPHICAL, FICTION & NON-FICTION)
As a Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg
Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld
Day After Night by Anita Diamant
Everything Is a Little Broken by Rebecca Sugar
Exodus by Leon Uris
Jephte’s daughter by Naomi Ragen
Jerusalem Beach by Iddo Gefen
Mother Doll by Katya Apekina
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story by Jordan Salama
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Dissident by Paul Goldberg
The Glory by Herman Wouk
The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad
Victory Parade by Leela Corman
Your Presence Is Mandatory by Sasha Vasilyuk
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