Best 100 Contemporary Jewish Books

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Fiction

S.Y. Agnon,

Only Yesterday

Aharon Appelfeld,

The Conversion

Saul Bellow,

Ravelstein

Melvin Jules Bukiet,

Stories of an Imagined Childhood

Jules Chametzky and others (eds.),

The Norton Anthology of Jewish American Literature

Anita Diament,

The Red Tent

Rebecca Goldstein,

Mazel: A Novel

Allegra Goodman,

Paradise Park

David Grossman,

See Under Love

Tony Kushner,

Angels in America

Bernard Malamud,

The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud

Grace Paley,

Collected Stories

Thane Rosenbaum,

Elijah Visible

Philip Roth,

The Counterlife

Howard Schwartz (ed.),

Gabriel's Palace: Stories from the Jewish Mystical Tradition

Isaac Bashevis Singer,

Shadows on the Hudson

Ilan Stavans (ed.),

The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories

Aryeh Lev Stollman,

The Far Euphrates

A.B. Yehoshua,

Mister Mani

Richard Zimler,

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

Gender & Sexuality

Rachel Adler,

Engendering Judaism

Rebecca Albert,

Like Bread on the Seder Table

Judith S. Antonelli,

In the Image of God

Daniel Boyarin,

Carnal Israel

Ellen Frankel,

The Five Books of Miriam

Tikva Frymer-Kensky,

In the Wake of the Goddesses

Elyse Goldstein (ed.),

The Women's Torah commentary

Judith Hauptman,

Rereading the Rabbis

Paula Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore,

Women in America

Judith A. Kates and Gail Twersky Reimer (eds.),

Reading Ruth

Irena Klepfisz and Melanie Kaye-Kantrowitz (eds.),

The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology

Debra Orenstein,

Lifecycles: Jewish Women on Life Passages and Personal Milestones

Judith Plaskow,

Standing Again at Sinai

Letty Cottin Pogrebin,

Deborah, Golda, and Me

Ellen M. Umansky and Dianne Ashton,

Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality

Susan Weidman Schneider,

Jewish and Female: Choices and Changes in Our lives Today

History & Culture

Meron Benvenisti,

Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948

David Biale,

Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History

Yaffa Eliach,

There Once Was a World

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi,

Booking Passage

Benny Morris,

Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999

Amos Oz,

In the Land of Israel

Michael Walzer and others (eds.),

The Jewish Political Tradition

Holocaust

Yehuda Bauer,

Rethinking the Holocaust

Eva Fogelman,

Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust

Saul Friedlander,

Nazi Germany and the Jews

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,

Hitler's Willing Executioners

Geoffrey Hartman,

The Longest Shadow

Lawrence Langer,

Art from the Ashes

Deborah E. Lipstadt,

Denying the Holocaust

Peter Novick,

The Holocaust in American Life

Tom Segev,

The Seventh Million

Art Spiegelman,

MAUS: A Survivor's Tale

Identity

Sander L. Gilman,

Jewish Self-Hatred

Jacob Neusner,

Recovering Judaism

Jewish Thought and Ethics

Elliot N. Dorff and Louis E. Newman (eds.),

Contemporary Jewish Ethics and Morality

Evan Eisenberg,

The Ecology of Eden

Michael Fishbane,

The Exegetical Imagination

Irving Greenberg,

The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays

David Hartman,

Israelis and the Jewish Tradition

Susannah Heschel (ed.),

Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel

Emmanuel Levinas,

Nine Talmudic Readings

Laurence J. Silberstein and Robert L. Cohn (eds.),

The Other in Jewish Thought and History

Joseph Telushkin,

The Book of Jewish Values

Judaism in America

Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen,

The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America

Diane Matza (ed.),

Sephardic American Voices

Riv-Ellen Prell,

Fighting to Become Americans

Literary Criticism

Alfred Kazin,

God and the American Writer

Chana Kronfeld,

On the Margins of Modernism

Memoirs

Elie Wiesel,

Memoirs

Leon Wieseltier,

Kaddish

Poetry

Yehuda Amichai,

Open Closed Open

Allan Ginsberg,

Selected Poems, 1947-1995

Marge Piercy,

The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems With a Jewish Theme

Adrienne Rich,

Selected Poems, 1950-1995

Steven J. Rubin (ed.),

A Century of American Jewish Poetry

Spirituality

Ellen Bernstein,

Ecology and the Jewish Spirit

David Cooper,

God is a Verb

Marcia Falk,

The Book of Blessings

Roger S. Gottlieb,

A Spirituality of Resistance

Arthur Green,

Seek My Face, Speak My Name

Rodger Kamenetz,

Jew in the Lotus

Aryeh Kaplan,

Innerspace

Lawrence Kushner,

God Was in This Place and I, i Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning

Daniel Matt,

The Essential Kabbalah

Carol Ochs,

Our Lives as Torah

Marcia Prager,

The Path of Blessing

Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi,

Paradigm Shift

Rami M. Shapiro,

Minyan

Arthur Waskow,

Down-to-Earth Judaism

Theology & Scripture

Robert Alter,

Canon and Creativity

Harold Bloom,

The Book of J

Neil Gilman,

Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew

Moshe Halbertal,

The People of the Book

Lawrence Hoffman,

My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries

Judith A. Kates and Gail Twersky Reimer (eds.),

Reading Ruth

Peter Pitzele,

Our Fathers' Well

Nosson Scherman (ed.),

The Stone Edition of the Chumash

Adin Steinsaltz (ed.),

The Steinsaltz Edition of the Talmud

Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg,

Genesis: The Beginning of Desire

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