Best 100 Contemporary Jewish Books

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Best 100 Contemporary Jewish Books

1. Rachel Adler,

Engendering Judaism

2. S.Y. Agnon,

Only Yesterday

3. Rebecca Albert,

Like Bread on the Seder Table

4. Robert Alter,

Canon and Creativity

5. Yehuda Amichai,

Open Closed Open

6. Judith S. Antonelli,

In the Image of God

7. Aharon Appelfeld,

The Conversion

8. Yehuda Bauer,

Rethinking the Holocaust

9. Saul Bellow,

Ravelstein

10. Meron Benvenisti,

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

11. Ellen Bernstein,

Ecology and the Jewish Spirit

12. David Biale,

Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History

13. Harold Bloom,

The Book of J

14. Daniel Boyarin,

Carnal Israel

15. Melvin Jules Bukiet,

Stories of an Imagined Childhood

16. Jules Chametzky and others (eds.),

The Norton Anthology of Jewish American Literature

17. Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen,

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

18. David Cooper,

God is a Verb

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19. Anita Diament,

The Red Tent

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

Contemporary Jewish Ethics and Morality

21. Evan Eisenberg,

The Ecology of Eden

22. Yaffa Eliach,

There Once Was a World

23. Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi,

Booking Passage

24. Marcia Falk,

The Book of Blessings

25. Michael Fishbane,

The Exegetical Imagination

26. Eva Fogelman,

Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust

27. Ellen Frankel,

The Five Books of Miriam

28. Saul Friedlander,

Nazi Germany and the Jews

29. Tikva Frymer-Kensky,

In the Wake of the Goddesses

30. Neil Gilman,

Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew

31. Sander L. Gilman,

Jewish Self-Hatred

32. Allan Ginsberg,

Selected Poems, 1947-1995

33. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,

Hitler's Willing Executioners

34. Elyse Goldstein (ed.),

The Women's Torah commentary

35. Rebecca Goldstein,

Mazel: A Novel

36. Allegra Goodman,

Paradise Park

37. Roger S. Gottlieb,

A Spirituality of Resistance

38. Arthur Green,

Seek My Face, Speak My Name

39. Irving Greenberg,

The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays

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40. David Grossman,

See Under Love

41. Moshe Halbertal,

The People of the Book

42. David Hartman,

Israelis and the Jewish Tradition

43. Geoffrey Hartman,

The Longest Shadow

44. Judith Hauptman,

Rereading the Rabbis

45. Susannah Heschel (ed.),

Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel

46. Lawrence Hoffman,

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

47. Paula Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore,

Women in America

48. Rodger Kamenetz,

Jew in the Lotus

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49. Aryeh Kaplan,

Innerspace

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

Reading Ruth

51. Alfred Kazin,

God and the American Writers

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

The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology

53. David Kraemer,

Reading the Rabbis

54. Chana Kronfeld,

On the Margins of Modernism

55. Lawrence Kushner,

God Was in This Place and I, i Did Not Know

56. Tony Kushner,

Angels in America

57. Lawrence Langer,

Art from the Ashes

58. Emmanuel Levinas,

Nine Talmudic Readings

59. Deborah E. Lipstadt,

Denying the Holocaust

60. Bernard Malamud,

The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud

61. Daniel Matt,

The Essential Kabbalah

62. Diane Matza (ed.),

Sephardic American Voices

63. Benny Morris,

Righteous Victims

64. Jacob Neusner,

Recovering Judaism

65. Peter Novick,

The Holocaust in American Life

66. Carol Ochs,

Our Lives as Torah

67. Debra Orenstein,

Lifecycles: Jewish Women on Life Passages and Personal Milestones

68. Amos Oz,

In the Land of Israel

69. Grace Paley,

Collected Stories

70. Marge Piercy,

The Art of Blessing the Day

71. Peter Pitzele,

Our Fathers' Well

72. Judith Plaskow,

Standing Again at Sinai

73. Letty Cottin Pogrebin,

Deborah, Golda, and Me

74. Marcia Prager,

The Path of Blessing

75. Riv-Ellen Prell,

Fighting to Become Americans

76. Adrienne Rich,

Selected Poems, 1950-1995

77. Thane Rosenbaum,

Elijah Visible

78. Philip Roth,

The Counterlife

79. Steven J. Rubin (ed.),

A Century of American Jewish Poetry

80. Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi,

Paradigm Shift

81. Nosson Scherman (ed.),

The Stone Edition of the Chumash

82. Howard Schwartz (ed.),

Gabriel's Palace: Stories from the Jewish Mystical Tradition

83. Tom Segev,

The Seventh Million

84. Rami M. Shapiro,

Minyan

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

The Other in Jewish Thought and History

86. Isaac Bashevis Singer,

Shadows on the Hudson

87. Art Spiegelman,

MAUS: A Survivor's Tale

88. Ilan Stavans (ed.),

The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories

89. Adin Steinsaltz (ed.),

The Steinsaltz Edition of the Talmud

90. Aryeh Lev Stollman,

The Far Euphrates

91. Joseph Telushkin,

The Book of Jewish Values

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92. Ellen M. Umansky and Dianne Ashton,

Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality

93. Michael Walzer and others (eds.),

The Jewish Political Tradition

94. Arthur Waskow,

Down-to-Earth Judaism

95. Susan Weidman Schneider,

Jewish and Female: Choices and Changes in Our lives Today

96. Elie Wiesel,

Memoirs

97. Leon Wieseltier,

Kaddish

98. A.B. Yehoshua,

Mister Mani

99. Richard Zimler,

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

100. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg,

Genesis: The Beginning of Desire

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