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athenas_owl's "Stacks: Jewish Literature"

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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2. Yiddish Folktales (Library of Yiddish Classics)
by Beatrice Weinreich
 
3. Yehuda Amichai: A Life of Poetry, 1948-1994
by Yehuda Amichai
 
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
 
5. Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl  
6. Jewish Literacy Revised Ed: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History
by Joseph Telushkin
 
7. Call It Sleep: A Novel
by Henry Roth
 
8. Words That Hurt, Words That Heal: How to Choose Words Wisely and Well
by Joseph Telushkin
 
9. The Counterlife
by Philip Roth
 
10. When Bad Things Happen to Good People
by Harold S. Kushner
 
11. Living a Life that Matters
by Harold S. Kushner
 
12. The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion
by Mordecai M. Kaplan
 
13. An Orphan in History: One Man's Triumphant Search for His Jewish Roots
by Paul Cowan
 
14. My Life By Golda Meir
by GOLDA MEIR
 
15. Exodus
by Uris
 
16. To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life
by Hayim Halevy Donin
 
17. To Pray As a Jew: A Guide to the Prayer Book and the Synagogue Service
by Hayim Halevy Donin
 
18. A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People: From the Time of the Patriarchs to the Present
by Eli Barnavi
 
19. On the Doorposts of Your House: Al Mezuzot Beitecha Prayers and Ceremonies for the Jewish Home (Hebrew Edition)
by Chaim Stern
 
20. The Chosen (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Chaim Potok
 
21. Night (Oprah's Book Club)
by Elie Wiesel
 
22. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
by Peter Duffy
 
23. The Avengers
by Rich Cohen
 
24. Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
by Jud Newborn
 
25. Survival In Auschwitz
by Primo Levi
 
26. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
by Art Spiegelman
 
27. The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman
 
28. The Case for Israel
by Alan Dershowitz
 
29. I And Thou
by Martin Buber
 
30. The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved
by Alan Dershowitz
 
31. The Guide for the Perplexed
by Moses Maimonides
 
32. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
by Irene Opdyke
 
33. Man's Quest For God
by Abraham J. Heschel
 
34. Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
by Michael Wex
 
35. The Sabbath
by Abraham Joshua Heschel
 
36. Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
by Aaron Lansky
 
37. I Asked For Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology (I Asked for Wonder Ppr)
by Samuel H. Dresner
 
38. Songs for the Butcher's Daughter: A Novel
by Peter Manseau
 
39. The Essential Kabbalah: Heart of Jewish Mysticism, The
by Daniel C. Matt
 
40.
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People of the Book: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
 
41. Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
by Judith Plaskow
 
42. Deborah, Golda, and Me
by Letty Pogrebin
 
43. Five Books Of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah
by Ellen Frankel
 
44. Tevyes Daughters: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem
by Sholem Aleichem
 
45. The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai, Newly Revised and Expanded edition (Literature of the Middle East)
by Yehuda Amichai
 
46. The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America
by Lawrence J. Epstein
 
47.
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Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish
by Abigail Pogrebin
 
48. The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt  
49.
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The Yiddish Policeman's Union
by Michael Chabon
 
50. Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)
by Louis Zukofsky
 
51. Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology  
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Created by athenas_owl on Jul 10, 2009.