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Martin Buber |
FOR JEWISH READERS |
Sholem Asch |
In their book 100 Essential Books for Jewish Readers (1998), the authors, Rabbi Daniel B. Syme and Cindy Frenkel Kanter, devote about 3 pages to a discussion of each of the 100 books included. The discussions are divided into six parts. In the list that follows we have maintained the six parts, or topics, but have reordered the works by each author's last name.
JEWISH TEXTS OF BELIEF AND THOUGHT AND THEIR INTERPRETATION
The Hebrew Bible
Braude, William G., tran
The Book of Legends
Freehof, Solomon B.
New Reform Responsa
Gellman, Marc
Does God Have a Big Toe?
Ginsberg, Louis
Legends of the Bible
Jacob, Walter
Contemporary American Reform Responsa
Klagsbrun, Francine
Voices of Wisdom
Kolatch, Alfred J.
The Complete Dictionary of English and Hebrew First
Names
Kushner, Lawrence J.
The Book of Miracles
Kushner, Lawrence
Honey From the Rock
Schwartz, Howard, Anthony Voices From the Ark: The Modern Jewish
Poets
Rudolph, eds.
JEWISH OBSERVANCE AND JEWISH VALUES
Diament, Anita
The New Jewish Wedding
Greenberg, Blu
On Women and Judaism
Grishaver, Joel Lurie
Forty Things You Can Do to Save the Jewish People
Grollman, Earl A.
Talking About Death
Harris, Liz
Holy Days
Idelsohn, Abraham
Jewish Music
Kurzweil, Arthur
My Generations
Lamm, Maurice
The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning
Levy, Diana Shalet, tran
A Bintel Brief
Myerhoff, Barbara
Number Our Days
Pomerantz, Barbara
Bubby, Me, and Memories
Salkin, Jeffrey K.
Putting God on the Guest List: How to Reclaim the
Spiritual Meaning of Your Child's Bar or Bar
Mitzvah
Siegel, Danny
Good People
Siegel, Richard, Michael & The First
Jewish Catalog. The Second Jewish Catalog.
Sharon Strassfeld
Steinberg, Milton
Basic Judaism
Strassfeld, Michael & Sharon The Third Jewish Catalog
Syme, Daniel B.
The Jewish Home: A Guide for Jewish Living
Techner, David, Judith
A Candle for Grandpa
Hirt-Manheimer
JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
Buber, Martin
I and Thou
Frankl, Victor E.
Man's Search for Meaning
Gordon, Sol
When Living Hurts
Heschel, Abraham Joshua God in
Search of Man
Kushner, Harold S.
To Life!
Kushner, Harold S.
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Liebman, Joshua Loth
Peace of Mind
MacLeish, Archibald
J.B.
Prager, Dennis, Joseph
The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism
Telushkin
Sonsino, Rifat, Daniel B.
What Happens After I Die?
Syme
Weiner, Herbert
9 1/2 Mystics
JEWISH HISTORY AND ANTI-SEMITISM
Asch, Sholem
The Apostle
Birmingham, Stephen
Our Crowd
Birmingham, Stephen
The Grandees
Bletter, Diana, Photos by
The Invisible Thread
Lori Grinker
Chanes, Jerome H., ed.
Antisemitism in America Today
Dimont, Max I.
Jews, God, and History
Goldberg, M. Hirsch
The Jewish You Wouldn't Believe It Book
Helmreich, William B.
What They Say Behind Our Backs
Howe, Irving
World of Our Fathers
Isaac, Jules
The Teaching of Contempt: Christian Routes of
Anti-Semitism
Littell, Franklin
The Crucifixion of the Jews
Lyman, Darryl
Great Jews in Music
Meyer, Michael M.
Response to Modernity
Michener, James
The Source
Nathan, Joan
Jewish Cooking in America
Postal, Bernard, Lionel
Guess Who's Jewish in American History?
Koppman
Schwartz-Bart, Andre
The Last of the Just
Shakespeare, William
The Merchant of Venice
Slater, Robert
Great Jews in Sports
ISRAEL AND THE HOLOCAUST
Chafets, Ze'ev
Heroes and Hustlers, Hard Hats and Holy Men
Dayan, Yael
My Father, His Daughter
Frank, Anne
The Diary of a Young Girl
Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah
Hitler's Willing Executioners
Hellman, Aviva
To Touch a Dream
Hersey, John
The Wall
Keneally, Thomas
Schindler's List
Morse, Arthur
When Six Million Died
Porter, Katherine Ann
Ship of Fools
Serotta, Edward
Out of the Shadows
Slater, Leonard
The Pledge
Spriegelman, Art
Maus I
Spriegelman, Art
Maus II
Styron, William
Sophie's Choice
Uris, Leon
Exodus
Wells, Leon
The Janowska Road
Wiesel, Elie
The Gates of the Forest
Wiesenthal, Simon
Max and Helen
Wiesenthal, Simon
The Sunflower
FICTION AND GENERAL WORKS ON JEWISH THEMES
Allen, Woody
Getting Even/Side Effects/Without Feathers
Asch, Sholem
The War Goes On
Cowan, Paul
An Orphan in History
Golden, Harry
Only in America
Heschel, Susannah, ed.
On Being a Jewish Feminist
Howe, Irving, Ruth R.
The Best of Sholem Aleichem
Wisse, eds.
Malamud, Bernard
The Fixer
Ozick, Cynthia
The Shawl
Potok, Chaim
The Chosen
Potok, Chaim
My Name is Asher Lev
Quinn, Daniel
Ishmael
Ragen, Naomi
Jephte's Daughter
Rosten, Leo
The Joys of Yiddish
Roth, Henry
Call It Sleep
Roth, Philip
Portnoy's Complaint
Singer, I. J.
The Brothers Ashkenazi
Taylor, Sidney
All-of-a-Kind Family
Telushkin, Joseph
Jewish Humor
Vallentin, Antonia
The Drama of Albert Einstein
Wouk, Herman
This Is My God
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