Jewish

Books about the Jewish people or Jewish religion. Common themes include Biblical stories, the Jewish diaspora, and the Holocaust.

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Extracurricular
We Were Forbidden
Off the Record
Long Island Girls
The Way It Haunted Him
Dearest Beast (Once Upon the East End #3)
The Jews and the Left: A Jewish History of Antisemitism, Civil Rights, and the Unraveling of American Politics
Looking at the Sky: How Dr. Janusz Korczak Fought for Children's Rights
The Rest of Our Lives
The Little Liar
This Is Not About Us
The Sunflower House
Off the Record
The Midwife of Auschwitz (Women of War #1)
Don’t Forget to Write
We Were Forbidden
Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)
The Postcard
Homebound
When We See You Again
The Water Women
Long Island Girls
Behind Every Good Man
The Chosen by Chaim PotokMy Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim PotokThe Promise by Chaim PotokDavita's Harp by Chaim PotokThe Book of Lights by Chaim Potok
Hasidism & Orthodox Judaism
272 books — 79 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHeat of Paris by Peter BreyerNight by Elie WieselThe Hiding Place by Corrie ten BoomCome Back for Me by Sharon Hart-Green
The Holocaust - Fiction and Non
243 books — 140 voters

The Chosen by Chaim PotokThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonMy Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim PotokThe Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Jews in Literature
890 books — 318 voters
East of Eden by John SteinbeckDaughter of Eden by Jill Eileen SmithParadise Lost by John MiltonThe Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark TwainComfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
Adam and Eve Retellings
114 books — 40 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
Well-Written Holocaust Books
933 books — 3,017 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Winds of War by Herman WoukThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Best 1940s Historical Fiction
420 books — 464 voters

Night
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Chosen (Reuven Malter, #1)
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
My Name Is Asher Lev
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Book Thief
People of the Book
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
The Red Tent
Everything is Illuminated
Number the Stars
Man's Search for Meaning

Markus Zusak
She walked down the basement steps. She saw an imaginary framed photo seep into the wall - a quiet-smiled secret. No more than a few meters, it was a long walk to the drop sheets and the assortment of paint cans that shielded Max Vandenburg. She removed the sheets closest to the wall until there was a small corridor to look through. The first part of him she saw was his shoulder, and through the slender gap, she slowly, painfully, inched her hand in until it rested there. His clothing was cool. ...more
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Michael Chabon
I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag. ...more
Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union

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