Jewish

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

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Odessa
Livonia Chow Mein
When You're Brave Enough
The Water Women: A Novel
Night Night Fawn
Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe
The Kingdom of Almonds (The Mirror Realm Cycle Book 3)
What Emma Wrote: The Woman Behind the Words on the Statue of Liberty
The Passover Pet Surprise
Miriam and Her Dancing Shoes
This Is Not About Us
The Little Liar
The Water Women: A Novel
The Sunflower House
The Midwife of Auschwitz (Women of War #1)
Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)
What Happens in Amsterdam
Don’t Forget to Write
Hostage
Woman on Fire
See You Yesterday
Homebound
The Goddess of Warsaw
Queen Esther
Behind Every Good Man
And Rachel Was His Wife by Marsi TabakSun Inside Rain by M. BassaraWildflower by Rachel PomerantzA Promise Fulfilled by Menachem KaganThe Betrayal by M. Kenan
Jewish (Frum) Books
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Night by Elie WieselThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankExodus by Leon Uris
Jewish Fiction And Literature
749 books — 265 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Chosen by Chaim PotokNight by Elie WieselWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Best of Jewish Authors
732 books — 195 voters
The Merchant of Venice by William ShakespeareThe Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion by Matvei Vasilyevich GolovinskiThe Jew of Malta by Christopher MarloweOliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Anti-Semitism in Literature
51 books — 29 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

Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.
Sol Stern, A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred

Lawrence Schimel
My first female lover was a Jewish woman. She was butch, but not in a swaggering macho way- she could pass as a yeshiva boy, pale and intense. Small, almost fragile, she exuded a powerful sense of herself. She had not been to a synagogue in years, but kept the law of kashrut, and taught me my first prayers in Hebrew. She cooked, she read, she ironed her dress shirts and polished her boots meticulously, and admired femme women enormously. She was also the first person ever- including myself- to b ...more
Lawrence Schimel, First Person Queer: Who We Are

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