11 must-read jewish books like The Rabbi’s Wife, The Bishop’s Wife by David Jacobson

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The Rabbi’s Wife, The Bishop’s Wife

By: David Jacobson

4.28

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

The moving story of Joana Halevi – one brave woman who was willing to give up the most precious thi…

If you liked the jewish plot in The Rabbi’s Wife, The Bishop’s Wife by David Jacobson , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. White Nights (Shetland Island, #2)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.76

Format: 6 pages,

The electrifying follow up to the award-winningRaven Black Raven Blackreceived crime fiction's high… read more

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  • audiobook

2. Yellow Crocus

By: Laila Ibrahim

3.69

Format: 384 pages,

Mattie was never truly mine. That knowledge must have filled me as quickly and surely as the milk f… read more

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3. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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4. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

By: Dara Horn

4.36

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more

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  • audiobook
  • jewish
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

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5. The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

By: Sharon Brous

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community bas… read more

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  • audiobook
  • jewish
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6. A Different Kind of Gone

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.19

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

The truth behind a teenage girl’s disappearance becomes something to conceal in a gripping novel ab… read more

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  • audiobook
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7. The Wind Knows My Name

By: Isabel Allende

4.03

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Se… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • historical fiction
"Hay que estar tranquilas. No estamos perdidas. El viento conoce mi nombre y también el tuyo… No hay que tener miedo."

-Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

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8. The Last Rose of Shanghai

By: Weina Dai Randel

4.12

Format: 429 pages, Kindle Edition

In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • historical fiction
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9. American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World

By: Gregg Olsen

3.55

Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author comes the shocking true-crime story of a mother and wife, her distur… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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10. Where Waters Meet

By: Zhang Ling

3.86

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

A daughter discovers the dramatic history that shaped her mother’s secret life in an emotional and … read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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11. Kantika

By: Elizabeth Graver

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • jewish
  • historical fiction
"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

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12. The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding

By: Lydia Kang

3.71

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Poison comes a spellbinding historical mystery about hid… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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13. One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

By: Michael Frank

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

One of Wall Street Journal ’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Award… read more

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  • audiobook
  • jewish
"I do believe that as we travel through life we become a different person in every situation, or context, or phase."

-Michael Frank, One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

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14. A Mischief of Rats (Nell Ward, #3)

By: Sarah Yarwood-Lovett

3.87

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

When a driver dies during a glamourous classic car event at her family's estate, Dr Nell Ward is in… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. From Under A Mango Tree

By: Alan Fagan

4.71

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

“This story based on actual events is authentic, powerful, achingly beautiful and sad, and often br… read more

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16. The Doctor's Daughter

By: Shari J. Ryan

4.33

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Auschwitz, 1941: It was her father’s job to save the lives of the SS. But she chose to risk everyth… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
"No one warned me there would eventually be a last tick."

-Shari J. Ryan, The Doctor's Daughter

"How is beauty ever to be seen through a tarnished lens?"

-Shari J. Ryan, The Doctor's Daughter

"It’s easier to dream of a future where we are not in a war."

-Shari J. Ryan, The Doctor's Daughter

"Nothing is what it was, and this town is no longer a part of who we are."

-Shari J. Ryan, The Doctor's Daughter

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17. The Goddess of Warsaw

By: Lisa Barr

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphan… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • jewish
  • historical fiction
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18. Immodest

By: L.S. Einat

4.46

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world ruled by strict traditions and laws, one brave woman is willing to risk everything to ea… read more

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  • jewish
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19. Ayuni

By: Sarah Ansbacher

4.34

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

Miri and Ben’s paths should never have crossed. Although they live in the same north London neighbo… read more

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  • jewish
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20. The Rabbi’s Wife, The Bishop’s Wife

By: David Jacobson

4.28

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

The moving story of Joana Halevi – one brave woman who was willing to give up the most precious thi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • jewish
  • historical fiction
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21. The Jewish Priest

By: Aaron Ben Shahar

3.66

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

“And the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried the reeds and flags shall wither.” – Isaiah … read more

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  • historical fiction
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22. The Memory Keeper of Kyiv

By: Erin Litteken

4.46

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Beekeeper of Aleppo. In the 1930s, Stalin… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • historical fiction
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23. Written: A Story of Love, Secrets, Betrayal and Honour

By: D.A. Lee

4.47

Format: 675 pages, Kindle Edition

What if your entire existence was based on someone else's story, someone else's dreams, someone els… read more

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"Every woman should know they have a choice. They can choose not to be silent, they can choose not to give in and by starting with just that they have made the choice to lead an extraordinary life. D.…"

-D.A. Lee, Written: A Story of Love, Secrets, Betrayal and Honour

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24. The Jewish Spy

By: Hayuta Katzenelson

3.65

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

The chance to save many lives could cost her the loss of her own family.Poland 1938. Eve of the Wor… read more

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  • historical
  • jewish
  • historical fiction
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25. Shira's Secret

By: Chaya T. Hirsch

3.87

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Orthodox Jew Shira Newman is sick and tired of being the older unmarried sister in her family. At h… read more

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  • jewish
Cover of The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith and The Talmud by Maggie Anton

26. The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith and The Talmud

By: Maggie Anton

3.97

Format: 570 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful love story with a purpose: to challenge Jewish customs concerning women, marriage, and… read more

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  • jewish
  • historical fiction
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27. Broken Leaves of Autumn: A Novel

By: Eli Hai

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

An impossible love triangle on the backdrop of ultraorthodox Brooklyn. Jeff Palmer is a young Chri… read more

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28. Behind Every Good Man

By: Sara Goodman Confino

4.41

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

A wronged wife goes toe to toe with her cheating husband at the polls in this hilarious and heart-l… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • historical fiction
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29. Passage From Aden: Stories From A Little Museum In Tel Aviv

By: Sarah Ansbacher

4.51

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Once upon a time, the port of Aden was a trading post and meeting point for people from all over t… read more

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30. Meant To Be

By: Chaya T. Hirsch

3.93

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Orthodox Jew Shani Lazar has too much going on in her life to worry about dating. Her father recent… read more

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31. Days Uncounted: A Historical Novel

By: Eli Hai

4.33

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

His world was split in two.And now, he must make a fateful decision. Iraq, the 1940’s. Elias, the … read more

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  • historical fiction

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