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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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7,083 members

101 reviews

4.1

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

2

27,411 members

376 reviews

4

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

3

All-of-a-Kind Family

by Sydney Taylor

3,826 members

63 reviews

4.2

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

4

by Joseph Heller

44,269 members

578 reviews

4.1

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

5

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

30,819 members

1,512 reviews

½ 4.3

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

6

22,849 members

267 reviews

4

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

7

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

13,536 members

245 reviews

4.1

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

8

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

8,866 members

260 reviews

3.8

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

9

by Isaac Asimov

23,312 members

442 reviews

4

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

10

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

20,352 members

428 reviews

4.2

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

11

12,906 members

240 reviews

½ 4.3

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

12

by Marcel Proust

12,900 members

207 reviews

4.2

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

13

The Complete Maus

by Art Spiegelman

10,711 members

286 reviews

½ 4.5

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

14

Portnoy's Complaint

8,028 members

162 reviews

½ 3.6

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

15

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

6,240 members

55 reviews

½ 3.5

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

16

The Feminine Mystique

by Betty Friedan

5,143 members

55 reviews

3.8

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

17

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

678 members

7 reviews

3.8

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

18

The Foundation Novels [seven-book bundle]

by Isaac Asimov

250 members

4 reviews

½ 4.5

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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The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha

by Michael D. Coogan

4,621 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

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

20

by George Eliot

4,181 members

61 reviews

3.9

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

21

by Vasily Grossman

4,125 members

100 reviews

½ 4.4

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

22

Capital, Vol. 1: A Critique of Political Economy

3,224 members

30 reviews

4.2

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

23

by Lawrence Durrell

2,990 members

64 reviews

3.8

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

24

by Elias Canetti

2,638 members

31 reviews

4

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

25

A Tale of Love and Darkness

2,610 members

70 reviews

4.2

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

26

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

by Giorgio Bassani

2,338 members

59 reviews

3.8

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

27

2,317 members

43 reviews

3.8

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

28

Without Feathers

2,074 members

27 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

988 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

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

30

900 members

31 reviews

3.9

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

31

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

32

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Frankl

19,374 members

369 reviews

4.2

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

33

If This Is a Man

6,651 members

102 reviews

½ 4.3

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

34

Darkness at Noon

by Arthur Koestler

5,963 members

120 reviews

4

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

35

5,694 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

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

36

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

by Hannah Arendt

4,991 members

66 reviews

4.2

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

37

4,556 members

69 reviews

4.1

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

38

by Susan Sontag

3,920 members

48 reviews

4

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

39

Philosophical Investigations

by Ludwig Wittgenstein

3,827 members

25 reviews

½ 4.3

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

40

3,742 members

89 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

41

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

by Robert A. Caro

3,727 members

66 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

42

by Baruch Spinoza

3,553 members

52 reviews

4.1

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

43

by Bernard Malamud

2,491 members

40 reviews

3.9

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

44

by Flavius Josephus

2,412 members

28 reviews

3.9

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

45

Writing and Difference

by Jacques Derrida

1,874 members

5 reviews

3.9

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

46

The Passion According to G.H.

by Clarice Lispector

1,586 members

29 reviews

4

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

47

The Counterlife

1,526 members

23 reviews

3.9

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

48

Marjorie Morningstar

1,413 members

31 reviews

3.8

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

49

The Armies of the Night

by Norman Mailer

1,371 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

50

The Guide for the Perplexed

by Moses Maimonides

1,348 members

10 reviews

4

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

51

The Boys of Summer

1,334 members

23 reviews

4.1

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

52

The Savage Mind

by Claude Lévi-Strauss

1,241 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

53

The Street of Crocodiles

by Bruno Schulz

1,209 members

37 reviews

4.2

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

54

Adventures in the Screen Trade

by William Goldman

1,205 members

18 reviews

4

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

55

World of Our Fathers

932 members

13 reviews

4

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

56

The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry

by Harold Bloom

865 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

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

57

The Puttermesser Papers

by Cynthia Ozick

818 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

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

58

What Makes Sammy Run?

by Budd Schulberg

658 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

59

Man Is Not Alone : A Philosophy of Religion

by Abraham Joshua Heschel

621 members

3 reviews

½ 4.6

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

60

Tevye the Dairyman / The Railroad Stories

by Sholom Aleichem

547 members

9 reviews

4

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

61

Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number

by Jacobo Timerman

523 members

7 reviews

3.9

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

62

The Rise of David Levinsky

by Abraham Cahan

492 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

63

The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln

by Glückel of Hameln

474 members

7 reviews

4

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

64

The Mind-Body Problem

by Rebecca Goldstein

457 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: MilkenLibrary
Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Appetites" category

65

by Leon Wieseltier

448 members

4 reviews

4.1

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "What is Judaism?" category

66

A Walker in the City

by Alfred Kazin

406 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

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

67

Later the Same Day (Contemporary American Fiction Series)

375 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

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

68

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

by Delmore Schwartz

343 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: MilkenLibrary
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69

Really the Blues

by Mezz Mezzrow

295 members

6 reviews

4

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

70

The Family Mashber

289 members

7 reviews

3.9

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

71

Nahman of Bratslav: The Tales

by Nahman of Bratslav

210 members

½ 4.5

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

72

by Anzia Yezierska

210 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

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

73

King of the Jews

by Leslie Epstein

208 members

1 review

3

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74

185 members

2 reviews

4

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

75

Daily Prayer Book: Ha-Siddur Ha-Shalem

by Philip Birnbaum

180 members

½ 4.3

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

76

The Iron Tracks

by Aharon Appelfeld

178 members

2 reviews

4

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77

by Theodor Herzl

176 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

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78

The Destruction of the European Jews (Student One Volume Edition)

by Raul Hilberg

175 members

½ 4.6

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

79

168 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

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

80

The Norton Anthology of English Literature

by M. H. Abrams

162 members

1 review

½ 4.5

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

81

The I. L. Peretz Reader

by Isaac Leib Peretz

152 members

1 review

½ 4.5

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

82

History of the Jews

by Heinrich Graetz

146 members

1 review

½ 3.7

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

83

by Orly Castel-Bloom

139 members

3 reviews

3.2

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Suffering & Loss" category

84

Making It (NYRB Classics)

by Norman Podhoretz

138 members

1 review

3.8

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85

Adam Resurrected: A Novel

by Yoram Kaniuk

132 members

7 reviews

3

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Laughing & Complaining" category

86

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

by Walter Benjamin

103 members

1 review

4.2

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

87

The Babylonian Talmud: A Translation and Commentary

by Jacob Neusner

94 members

1 review

½ 3.5

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

88

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

by Sadie Rose Weilerstein

88 members

1 review

4

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "Authenticity & Experimentation" category

89

Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll

by Ellen Willis

83 members

½ 3.6

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

90

77 members

2 reviews

4.2

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Old Country" category

91

The Ghetto Fights: Warsaw, 1941-43

by Marek Edelman

75 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

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92

68 members

1 review

4

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

93

Breakdown & Bereavement

by Yosef Haim Brenner

53 members

½ 4.5

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94

Dr. Ruth's Guide to Good Sex

by Ruth Westheimer

51 members

4

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95

Tzenah Urenah: Bamidbar-Devarim With Haftoros

by Yaakov Ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi

51 members

3

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

96

And from There You Shall Seek (Meotzar Horav)

by Joseph B. Soloveitchik

31 members

1 review

3

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97

by Vladimir Jabotinsky

17 members

3.9

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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

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Explanations: MilkenLibrary: "The Old Country" category

99

Ocalone z Warszawskiego Getta Archiwum Ringelbluma - Salvaged From the Warsaw Ghetto the Archives of E. Ringelblum

by Emanuel Ringelblum

8 members

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

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Autoemancipation!

by Leon Pinsker

8 members

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

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