100 Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature

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Great Jewish Books from "The Great Jewish Books Project":http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/story.php?n=14

The National Yiddish Book Center has identified the "100 Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature" – written in Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, German, Spanish, English and other languages. Our plans are to integrate them into the mainstream of contemporary Jewish education.

An alternate list source is "here.":http://www.myjewishbooks.com/great100.html

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    The Nag (Di Kliyatshe)
    by S.Y. Abramovitch

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    Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve: A Novel of the 1930's
    by Dannie Abse

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    A Simple Story (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)
    by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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    Only Yesterday
    by S. Y. Agnon

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    The Joy of the Poor (Simkhat aniyyim)
    by Nathan Alterman

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    Pioneers (Pionern)
    by S. An-ski

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    The Age of Wonders
    by Aron Appelfeld

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  9. 12.
    Salvation
    by Sholem Asch

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  10. 13.
    The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
    by Isaac Babel

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  11. 14.
    "The First Day" and Other Stories
    by Dvora Baron

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  12. 17.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  13. 18.
    Mr. Sammler's Planet (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  14. 19.
    Miriam and Other Stories (Hebrew Classics)
    by M. Y. Berdichevsky

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    Descent (Texts and Translations. Translations, 7)
    by Dovid Bergelson

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  16. 22.
    Breakdown & Bereavement
    by Yosef Haim Brenner

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  17. 23.
    The Rise Of David Levinsky
    by Abraham Cahan

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  18. 25.
    Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
    by Paul Celan

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  19. 26.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

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  20. 27.
    Belle Du Seigneur
    by Albert Cohen

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    Tales in Praise of the Baal Shem Tov
    by Dov Ber of Linitz

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  22. 29.
    Whither: & Other Stories
    by M. Z. Feierberg

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    Jew Suss
    by Lion Feuchtwanger

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  24. 31.
    The Journey
    by Ida Fink

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    The Williamsburg Trilogy
    by Daniel Fuchs

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  26. 34.
    The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas (Jewish Latin America series)
    by Alberto Gerchunoff

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  27. 35.
    The Things We Used to Say
    by Natalia Ginzburg

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    Selected Poems of Jacob Glatstein
    by Jacob Glatstein

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  29. 37.
    Beside & Other Stories
    by Uri Nissan Gnessin

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  30. 38.
    The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner (Jewish Latin America)
    by Isaac Goldemberg

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    Yeshiva
    by Chaim Grade

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  32. 40.
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    Selected Poetry
    by Uri Zvi Greenberg

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  33. 41.
    See Under: LOVE: A Novel
    by David Grossman

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  34. 42.
    Life and Fate (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Vasily Grossman

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  35. 43.
    The Jewish War and The Victory (Jewish Lives)
    by Henryk Grynberg

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    In New York: A Selection (Jewish Poetry Series)
    by Moshe Leib Halpern

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    The Dweller in Gardens (Yoshevet Baganim)
    by Hayim Hazaz

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  38. 47.
    Heshel's Kingdom (Jewish Lives)
    by Dan Jacobson

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    Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
    by Nabum N. Glazer

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  41. 50.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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Tempe

Hi Everyone! — 2 years ago

Please help build this list by looking up the original list on the site linked to above, and add those books to the list that are not yet here. Thanks so much!