athenas_owl's "Judaica"

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Roughly divided into the following categories:

-theology, philosophy, and being Jewish in the modern world

-folktales, culture mythology and stories

-Jewish feminism

-History (including Israel and the Holocaust)

-misc (fiction, Israeli fiction)

For more great Jewish literature please see the National Jewish Book Awards:

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/71185-national-jewish-book-awards

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  1. 2.
    Essential Talmud: Thirtieth-anniversary Edition
    by Adin Steinsaltz

  2. 4.
    Who Wrote the Bible?
    by Richard Elliott Friedman

  3. 9.
    Living a Life that Matters
    by Harold S. Kushner

  4. 10.
    Synagogues Without Jews
    by Rivka Dorfman

  5. 11.
    I And Thou
    by Martin Buber

  6. 12.
    When Bad Things Happen to Good People
    by Harold S. Kushner

  7. 13.
    The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion
    by Mordecai M. Kaplan

  8. 14.
    Man's Quest For God
    by Abraham J. Heschel

  9. 15.
    I Asked For Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology
    by Abraham Joshua Heschel

  10. 16.
    The Sabbath
    by Abraham Joshua Heschel

  11. 17.
    The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 1
    by Daniel C. Matt

  12. 18.
    The Guide for the Perplexed
    by Moses Maimonides

  13. 25.
    The Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
    by Adin Steinsaltz

  14. 27.
    Tevye's Daughters: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem
    by Sholem Aleichem

  15. 28.
    The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism
    by Daniel C. Matt

  16. 29.
    Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales
    by Howard Schwartz

  17. 32.
    The Haunted Smile: The Story Of Jewish Comedians In America
    by Lawrence J. Epstein

  18. 33.
    Yiddish Folktales (Library of Yiddish Classics)
    by Beatrice Weinreich

  19. 34.
    Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism
    by Howard Schwartz

  20. 35.
    The Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic
    by Dr. Howard Schwartz

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    The Jewish Woman: New Perspectives
    by elizabeth Koltun

  22. 37.
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    On Being a Jewish Feminist
    by Susannah Heschel

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  24. 40.
    The Red Tent: A Novel
    by Anita Diamant

  25. 42.
    Five Books Of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah
    by Ellen Frankel

  26. 43.
    Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
    by Judith Plaskow

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  28. 45.
    Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America
    by Letty Pogrebin

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  30. 48.
    The Tribe of Dina

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Untitled — 2 years ago

You might try Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic.




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