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athenas_owl's "Stacks: Jewish Literature"

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My own continuing list of Jewish literature that I love and would like to read.

"Jewish literature" can mean several different things:
Literature written by a Jewish author
Jewish literature written by any author
Jewish literature written by a Jewish author

This list hopes to include all these different forms, as all are valuable, as well as different genres, such as fiction, theology, memoirs, historical, poetry, the Holocaust, Jewish feminism, Israel and so on.

Any recommendations are greatly appreciated!

Not exhaustive, but I tried to include as many topics and genres as possible.
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    Yiddish Folktales (Library of Yiddish Classics)
    by Beatrice Weinreich

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    Yehuda Amichai: A Life of Poetry, 1948-1994
    by Yehuda Amichai

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    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

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    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

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    The Counterlife
    by Philip Roth

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

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    Living a Life that Matters
    by Harold S. Kushner

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

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    My Life By Golda Meir
    by GOLDA MEIR

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    Exodus
    by Uris

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    To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life
    by Hayim Halevy Donin

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    The Chosen (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Chaim Potok

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    Night (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Elie Wiesel

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    The Avengers
    by Rich Cohen

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    Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
    by Jud Newborn

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    Survival In Auschwitz
    by Primo Levi

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    Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
    by Art Spiegelman

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    The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
    by Art Spiegelman

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    The Case for Israel
    by Alan Dershowitz

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    I And Thou
    by Martin Buber

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    The Guide for the Perplexed
    by Moses Maimonides

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    In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
    by Irene Opdyke

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    Man's Quest For God
    by Abraham J. Heschel

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    The Sabbath
    by Abraham Joshua Heschel

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    Songs for the Butcher's Daughter: A Novel
    by Peter Manseau

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

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    People of the Book: A Novel
    by Geraldine Brooks

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

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    Deborah, Golda, and Me
    by Letty Pogrebin

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

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    Tevyes Daughters: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem
    by Sholem Aleichem

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    The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America
    by Lawrence J. Epstein

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    Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish
    by Abigail Pogrebin

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    The Yiddish Policeman's Union
    by Michael Chabon

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    Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)
    by Louis Zukofsky

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    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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    Getting Even
    by Woody Allen

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    Boychiks in the Hood: Travels in the Hasidic Underground
    by Robert Eisenberg

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    As a Driven Leaf
    by Milton Steinberg

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    Light And Fire of the Baal Shem Tov
    by Yitzhak Buxbaum

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    Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust
    by Yaffa Eliach

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    Let My Babies Go: A Passover Story (Rugrats)
    by Sarah Willson

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    The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
    by Isaac Babel

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    Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
    by Paul Celan

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

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    See Under: LOVE: A Novel
    by David Grossman

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    The Complete Stories
    by Franz Kafka

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    Death of a Salesman (Heinemann Plays)
    by Arthur Miller

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    The Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
    by Adin Steinsaltz

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    The Brothers Ashkenazi (Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by I. J. Singer

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    The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
    by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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    Five Seasons (Harvest Book)
    by A. B. Yehoshua

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    The First Jewish Catalog; A Do-It-Yourself Kit
    by Michael Strassfeld

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    The Painted Bird
    by Jerzy N. Kosinski

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    The Fixer
    by Bernard Malamud

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    Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
    by Jonathan Safran Foer

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    Jewish-American Literature Since 1945
    by Stephen Wade

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    The Shawl
    by Cynthia Ozick

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    My Name Is Asher Lev
    by Chaim Potok

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    X-Men: Magneto Testament
    by Greg Pak

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    The Tribe of Dina

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    A Contract With God
    by Will Eisner

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    The Story of the Jews : A 4,000-Year Adventure
    by Stan Mack

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    Exit Wounds
    by Rutu Modan

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    Klezmer: Tales of the Wild East
    by Joann Sfar

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    Jewish Humour
    by Ben Eliezer

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    Jewtopia: The Chosen Book for the Chosen People
    by Bryan Fogel

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    1948: A Soldier's Tale - The Bloody Road to Jerusalem
    by Uri Avnery

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    The Letters of Allen Ginsberg
    by Allen Ginsberg

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    Soldier of Peace: The Life of Yitzhak Rabin
    by Dan Kurzman

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    Number the Stars (Laurel Leaf Books)
    by Lois Lowry

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    The Plot Against America
    by Philip Roth

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    A Tale of Love and Darkness
    by Amos Oz

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    To Know a Woman (Harvest in Translation)
    by Amos Oz

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    Black Box
    by Amos Oz

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    Golden Country
    by Jennifer Gilmore

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    Lost Tribe : Jewish Fiction from the Edge
    by Paul Zakrzewski

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    The Autograph Man
    by Zadie Smith

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