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100 Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature

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

(found at: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/story.php?n=14)

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1. TALES OF MENDELE THE BOOK PEDDLER : Fishke the Lame and Benjamin the Third (Library of Yiddish Classics)
by S.Y. Abramovitsh
  
2.
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 The Nag (Di Kliyatshe)
by S.Y. Abramovitch
  
3. Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve: A Novel of the 1930's
by Dannie Abse
  
4.
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 A Guest for the Night: A Novel (Library Of World Fiction)
by S. Y. Agnon
  
5. A Simple Story (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)
by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
  
6. Only Yesterday
by S. Y. Agnon
  
7.
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 The Joy of the Poor (Simkhat aniyyim)
by Nathan Alterman
  
8. The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai, Newly Revised and Expanded edition (Literature of the Middle East)
by Yehuda Amichai
  
9.
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 Pioneers (Pionern)
by S. An-ski
  
10. Dybbuk, The : and Other Writings (Library of Yiddish Classics)
by S. Ansky
  
11. The Age of Wonders
by Aron Appelfeld
  
12. Salvation
by Sholem Asch
  
13. The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
by Isaac Babel
  
14. "The First Day" and Other Stories
by Dvora Baron
  
15. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
by Giorgio Bassani
  
16. Feathers (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series)
by Haim Be'er
  
17. Herzog (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
18. Mr. Sammler's Planet (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
19. Miriam and Other Stories (Hebrew Classics)
by M. Y. Berdichevsky
  
20.
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 Descent (Texts and Translations. Translations, 7)
by Dovid Bergelson
  
21. Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
by Hayyim Nahman Bialik
  
22. Breakdown & Bereavement
by Yosef Haim Brenner
  
23. The Rise Of David Levinsky
by Abraham Cahan
  
24. The Memoirs of Elias Canetti: The Tongue Set Free, The Torch in My Ear, The Play of the Eyes
by Elias Canetti
  
25. Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
by Paul Celan
  
26. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
  
27. Belle Du Seigneur
by Albert Cohen
  
28.
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 Tales in Praise of the Baal Shem Tov
by Dov Ber of Linitz
  
29. Whither: & Other Stories
by M. Z. Feierberg
  
30.
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 Jew Suss
by Lion Feuchtwanger
  
31. The Journey
by Ida Fink
  
32. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - The Definitive Edition
by Anne Frank
  
33.
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 The Williamsburg Trilogy
by Daniel Fuchs
  
34. The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas (Jewish Latin America series)
by Alberto Gerchunoff
  
35. The Things We Used to Say
by Natalia Ginzburg
  
36.
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 Selected Poems of Jacob Glatstein
by Jacob Glatstein
  
37. Beside & Other Stories
by Uri Nissan Gnessin
  
38. The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner (Jewish Latin America)
by Isaac Goldemberg
  
39.
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 Yeshiva
by Chaim Grade
  
40.
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 Selected Poetry
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
  
41. See Under: LOVE: A Novel
by David Grossman
  
42. Life and Fate (New York Review Books Classics)
by Vasily Grossman
  
43. The Jewish War and The Victory (Jewish Lives)
by Henryk Grynberg
  
44.
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 In New York: A Selection (Jewish Poetry Series)
by Moshe Leib Halpern
  
45.
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 The Dweller in Gardens (Yoshevet Baganim)
by Hayim Hazaz
  
46.
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 Jewish Stories and Hebrew Melodies (Masterworks of Modern Jewish Writing Series)
by Heinrich Heine
  
47. Heshel's Kingdom (Jewish Lives)
by Dan Jacobson
  
48. The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text
by Franz Kafka
  
49.
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 Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
by Nabum N. Glazer
  
50. The Trial
by Franz Kafka
  
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