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Tablet Magazine's List of 101 Great Jewish Books

Description: Tablet Magazine's list, at http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/145840/101-great-jewish-books. Note: This list is heavily -- if not disproportionately -- male, Ashkenazi (European), and New York-centric. It includes few books by or about women or Sephardic (Spanish/Portuguese) or Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) Jews.
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22,904 members

329 reviews

4

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, MilkenLibrary, ahef1963, mspixieears
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

2

6,439 members

93 reviews

4.1

5 Members: thecoroner, Dilara86, MilkenLibrary, ahef1963, mspixieears
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

3

All-of-a-Kind Family

by Sydney Taylor

2,942 members

54 reviews

4.2

5 Members: aulsmith, Dilara86, cej1027, MilkenLibrary, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

4

by Joseph Heller

38,311 members

504 reviews

4.1

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, MilkenLibrary, ahef1963
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Laughing & Complaining" category

5

The Diary of a Young Girl

26,789 members

501 reviews

4.1

4 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, MilkenLibrary, ahef1963
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

6

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

24,200 members

1,417 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: Dilara86, cej1027, MilkenLibrary, ahef1963
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

7

18,994 members

226 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, MilkenLibrary, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

8

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

7,191 members

226 reviews

3.8

4 Members: MilkenLibrary, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

9

25,901 members

555 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: MilkenLibrary, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

10

by Isaac Asimov

19,349 members

361 reviews

4

3 Members: MilkenLibrary, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: Foundation Series, Isaac Asimov (1951): "The Jew in the World" category

11

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,273 members

404 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aulsmith, MilkenLibrary, ahef1963
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

12

by Marcel Proust

10,533 members

172 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, Dilara86, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

13

The Complete Maus

by Art Spiegelman

8,041 members

238 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: cej1027, MilkenLibrary, mspixieears
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

14

Portnoy's Complaint

7,136 members

145 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: thecoroner, MilkenLibrary, ahef1963
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

15

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

5,026 members

46 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: thecoroner, MilkenLibrary, ahef1963
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

16

The Feminine Mystique

by Betty Friedan

4,332 members

46 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aulsmith, Dilara86, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Laughing & Complaining" category

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by Isaac Bashevis Singer

591 members

5 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, Dilara86, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

18

The Foundation Novels [seven-book bundle]

by Isaac Asimov

193 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: aulsmith, MilkenLibrary, ahef1963
Explanations: aulsmith: The series as a whole says more about Jewish humanism than the first book by itself.
MilkenLibrary: Foundation Series, Isaac Asimov (1951): "The Jew in the World" category

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by George Eliot

3,575 members

46 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

20

by Vasily Grossman

3,183 members

82 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: thecoroner, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

21

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, volume I: The Process of Capitalist Production

2,725 members

27 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: Das Kapital, Karl Marx (1867): "Laughing & Complaining" category

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by Lawrence Durrell

2,635 members

53 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

23

The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

by Michael D. Coogan

2,451 members

6 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: cej1027, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: The Bible: "What is Judaism?" category

24

by Elias Canetti

2,263 members

30 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

25

A Tale of Love and Darkness

2,253 members

57 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thecoroner, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

26

2,016 members

38 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

27

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

by Giorgio Bassani

1,949 members

54 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

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Without Feathers

1,895 members

21 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Laughing & Complaining" category

29

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

by Shulamith Firestone

797 members

5 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

30

715 members

23 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

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Two Concepts of Liberty: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 31 October 1958

1 member

2 Members: aulsmith, MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: Two Concepts of Liberty, Isaiah Berlin (1958): "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

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Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

14,374 members

297 reviews

4.2

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

33

If This Is a Man

5,794 members

96 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi (1947): "Suffering & Loss" category

34

Darkness at Noon

by Arthur Koestler

5,148 members

94 reviews

4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

35

5,006 members

59 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thecoroner, MilkenLibrary,aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith : Too much complaining, not enough laughing
MilkenLibrary: "Laughing & Complaining" category

36

4,024 members

62 reviews

4.1

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

by Hannah Arendt

3,854 members

56 reviews

4.2

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

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3,339 members

79 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

39

Philosophical Investigations

by Ludwig Wittgenstein

3,285 members

18 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Laughing & Complaining" category

40

by Susan Sontag

3,155 members

40 reviews

4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

41

by Benedictus de Spinoza

2,789 members

40 reviews

4.1

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Laughing & Complaining" category

42

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

by Robert A. Caro

2,641 members

44 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

43

by Bernard Malamud

2,188 members

34 reviews

3.9

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Old Country" category

44

The Great Roman-Jewish War

by Flavius Josephus

1,982 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

45

Writing and Difference

by Jacques Derrida

1,620 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

46

The Counterlife

1,374 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

47

The Street of Crocodiles

by Bruno Schulz

1,318 members

40 reviews

4.1

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Laughing & Complaining" category

48

The Guide for the Perplexed

by Moses Maimonides

1,250 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "What is Judaism?" category

49

Marjorie Morningstar

1,242 members

27 reviews

3.8

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

50

The Armies of the Night

by Norman Mailer

1,184 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

51

The Boys of Summer

1,145 members

20 reviews

4.1

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

52

The Savage Mind

by Claude Lévi-Strauss

1,056 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

53

The Passion According to G.H.

by Clarice Lispector

999 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

54

Adventures in the Screen Trade

by William Goldman

994 members

16 reviews

4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

55

World of Our Fathers

803 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Old Country" category

56

The Puttermesser Papers

by Cynthia Ozick

723 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

57

The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry

by Harold Bloom

716 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Laughing & Complaining" category

58

The Destruction of the European Jews

by Raul Hilberg

609 members

6 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

59

What Makes Sammy Run?

by Budd Schulberg

557 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

60

Man Is Not Alone : A Philosophy of Religion

by Abraham Joshua Heschel

483 members

1 review

4.8

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "What is Judaism?" category

61

Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number

by Jacobo Timerman

445 members

6 reviews

4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

62

The Rise of David Levinsky

by Abraham Cahan

419 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

63

Tevye the Dairyman / The Railroad Stories

by Sholom Aleichem

418 members

8 reviews

4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: Tevye, Sholem Aleichem (1914): "The Old Country" category

64

The Mind-Body Problem

by Rebecca Goldstein

408 members

10 reviews

4

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

65

by Leon Wieseltier

388 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "What is Judaism?" category

66

A Walker in the City

by Alfred Kazin

373 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

67

The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln

by Glückel of Hameln

364 members

5 reviews

4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

68

Later the Same Day

314 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

69

The Norton Anthology of English Literature

by M. H. Abrams

311 members

1 review

½ 4.4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, edited by M.H. Abrams (1962): "The Jew in the World" category

70

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

by Delmore Schwartz

290 members

2 reviews

4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

71

The Family Mashber

261 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Old Country" category

72

Really the Blues

by Mezz Mezzrow

255 members

6 reviews

4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

73

by Anzia Yezierska

180 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Laughing & Complaining" category

74

King of the Jews

by Leslie Epstein

180 members

1 review

½ 2.6

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

75

Nahman of Bratslav: The Tales

by of Bratslav Naḥman

162 members

½ 4.4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: Sipurei Masiyos by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov: "What is Judaism?" category

76

158 members

2 reviews

4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

77

The Iron Tracks

by Aharon Appelfeld

155 members

2 reviews

4.1

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

78

Daily Prayer Book: Ha-Siddur Ha-Shalem

by Philip Birnbaum

151 members

½ 4.3

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: Birnbaum Siddur, Philip Birnbaum (1977): "What is Judaism?" category

79

by Theodor Herzl

135 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

80

The I. L. Peretz Reader

by Isaac Leib Peretz

134 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: Folk-Style Stories, I.L. Peretz (1908): "The Old Country" category

81

134 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Old Country" category

82

History of the Jews

by Heinrich Graetz

127 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

83

Adam Resurrected: A Novel

by Yoram Kaniuk

121 members

5 reviews

2.9

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Laughing & Complaining" category

84

by Norman Podhoretz

116 members

½ 3.6

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

85

by Orly Castel-Bloom

104 members

3 reviews

3.1

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

86

The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940

by Walter Benjamin

86 members

1 review

4.2

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

87

The Adventures of K'TonTon: A Little Jewish Tom Thumb

by Sadie Rose Weilerstein

82 members

1 review

4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

88

72 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Old Country" category

89

Beginning to see the light: Pieces of a decade

by Ellen Willis

72 members

½ 3.6

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Jew in the World" category

90

The Babylonian Talmud: A Translation and Commentary

by Jacob Neusner

60 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: Babylonian Talmud (770): "What is Judaism?" category

91

The Ghetto Fights: Warsaw, 1941-43

by Marek Edelman

58 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

92

Rashi (Jewish Thinkers)

52 members

1 review

4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: Commentary, Rashi (11th c.): "What is Judaism?" category

93

Breakdown & Bereavement

by Yosef Haim Brenner

46 members

½ 4.5

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Laughing & Complaining" category

94

The Weekly Midrash: Tz'enah Ur'enah - 2 Volume Set - The Classic Anthology of Torah Lore and Midrashic Commentary (ArtScroll Judaica Classics)

by Yaakov Ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi

46 members

3

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: Tsene-Rene (1590s): "What is Judaism?" category

95

Dr. Ruth's Guide to Good Sex

by Ruth Westheimer

43 members

4

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96

And from There You Shall Seek

by Joseph B. Soloveitchik

19 members

1 review

3

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97

by Vladimir Jabotinsky

14 members

3.8

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: Samson the Nazerite, Ze’ev Jabotinsky (1927): "The Jew in the World" category

98

The Jewish government and other stories

by Lamed Shapiro

8 members

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Old Country" category

99

Ocalone z warszawskiego getta : Archiwum Ringelbluma : Muzeum Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego w Polsce, Warszawa, 15 IV-30 V 1993 r. = Salvaged from the Warsaw Ghetto : The Archives of E. Ringelblum : Museum of the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland, Warsaw 15 IV-30 V 1993 r.

by Emanuel Ringelblum

7 members

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: Ringelblum Archive (1944): "Suffering & Loss" category. See also the Oneg Shabbat Archives online.

100

Autoemancipation!

by Leon Pinsker

7 members

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: Auto-Emancipation, Leo Pinsker (1882): "Laughing & Complaining" category

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