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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    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  2. 52.
    Getting Even
    by Woody Allen

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  3. 53.
    Boychiks in the Hood: Travels in the Hasidic Underground
    by Robert Eisenberg

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  4. 54.
    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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  6. 56.
    Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust
    by Yaffa Eliach

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  7. 57.
    Let My Babies Go: A Passover Story (Rugrats)
    by Sarah Willson

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  8. 60.
    The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
    by Isaac Babel

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  9. 61.
    Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
    by Paul Celan

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  10. 62.
    The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas (Jewish Latin America series)
    by Alberto Gerchunoff

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  11. 63.
    See Under: LOVE: A Novel
    by David Grossman

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  12. 64.
    The Complete Stories
    by Franz Kafka

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  13. 65.
    Death of a Salesman (Heinemann Plays)
    by Arthur Miller

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  14. 66.
    The Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
    by Adin Steinsaltz

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  15. 72.
    The Brothers Ashkenazi (Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by I. J. Singer

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  16. 73.
    The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
    by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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  17. 74.
    Five Seasons (Harvest Book)
    by A. B. Yehoshua

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  18. 75.
    The First Jewish Catalog; A Do-It-Yourself Kit
    by Michael Strassfeld

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  19. 77.
    The Painted Bird
    by Jerzy N. Kosinski

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  20. 78.
    The Fixer
    by Bernard Malamud

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  21. 79.
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    Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
    by Jonathan Safran Foer

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  22. 80.
    Jewish-American Literature Since 1945
    by Stephen Wade

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  23. 81.
    The Shawl
    by Cynthia Ozick

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  24. 82.
    My Name Is Asher Lev
    by Chaim Potok

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  25. 83.
    X-Men: Magneto Testament
    by Greg Pak

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  26. 85.
    The Tribe of Dina

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  27. 86.
    A Contract With God
    by Will Eisner

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  28. 87.
    The Story of the Jews : A 4,000-Year Adventure
    by Stan Mack

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  29. 88.
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    Exit Wounds
    by Rutu Modan

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  30. 89.
    Klezmer: Tales of the Wild East
    by Joann Sfar

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  31. 90.
    Jewish Humour
    by Ben Eliezer

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  32. 91.
    Jewtopia: The Chosen Book for the Chosen People
    by Bryan Fogel

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  33. 92.
    1948: A Soldier's Tale - The Bloody Road to Jerusalem
    by Uri Avnery

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  34. 93.
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    The Letters of Allen Ginsberg
    by Allen Ginsberg

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  35. 94.
    Soldier of Peace: The Life of Yitzhak Rabin
    by Dan Kurzman

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  37. 96.
    Number the Stars (Laurel Leaf Books)
    by Lois Lowry

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  38. 97.
    The Plot Against America
    by Philip Roth

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  39. 98.
    A Tale of Love and Darkness
    by Amos Oz

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  40. 99.
    To Know a Woman (Harvest in Translation)
    by Amos Oz

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  41. 100.
    Black Box
    by Amos Oz

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