Judaism

Judaism is an ancient monotheistic religion, with the Torah as its foundational text (part of the larger text known as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible), and supplemental oral tradition represented by later texts such as the Midrash and the Talmud.

This Is Not About Us
When We See You Again
Hostage
أوراق شمعون المصري
The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living
The Netanyahus
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
Soon by You
Night Night Fawn
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live
Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation
Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir
Jews Don't Count
The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History
Night
Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends
The Chosen (Reuven Malter, #1)
Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism (after Finally Choosing to Look There)
Living a Jewish Life
The Diary of a Young Girl
God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
To Life: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking
Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs and Rituals
People of the Book
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
The Red Tent
This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergPaper is White by Hilary ZaidThink of England by K.J. CharlesKnit One, Girl Two by Shira GlassmanThe Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford
Jewish LGBT Books
328 books — 126 voters
Plenty by Yotam OttolenghiJoan Nathan's Jewish Holiday Cookbook by Joan NathanJerusalem by Yotam OttolenghiModern Jewish Cooking by Leah KoenigThe Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden
Best Jewish Cookbooks
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The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensThey Told Us To Just Believe by Daniel J FriedrichThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganThe Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens
What is Atheism About?
148 books — 92 voters
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverLast Things by Betta FerrendelliJust Thoughts and Dreams by Gary H BoyetThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Religion in Literary Fiction
304 books — 67 voters

Your Pro-Israel Bookshelf by Neville TellerThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankMaus I by Art SpiegelmanTorah Of Trauma by Chaya LernerLiv's Secrets by Janet Levine
Best Jewish Books
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Heart of the Beholder by Elizabeth   RuthDaughter of Eden by Jill Eileen SmithThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Secret Chord by Geraldine BrooksNot Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
Biblical Retellings
234 books — 69 voters


“ We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves. ”
― James A. Michener, The Source

Iain Pears
“ Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument. ...more ”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

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