The Prison Minyan
By: Jonathan Stone
4.31
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Then She Found Me
By: Elinor Lipman
3.44
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
April Epner teaches high school Latin, wears flannel jumpers, and is used to having her evenings fr… read more
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"There is an old Jewish story, an ordinary Jewish joke. A father was teaching his little son to be less afraid and have more courage. “Jump,"-Elinor Lipman, Then She Found Me
2. The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
By: Anthony Berris , Sarit Yishai-Levi
3.94
Format: 255 pages,
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalemis a dazzling novel of mothers and daughters, stories told and untold,… read more
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- judaism
- fiction
- jewish
3. Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War
By: Matti Friedman
3.86
Format: 157 pages, Hardcover
"Matti Friedman's haunting war memoir reminds one of Michael Herr's unforgettable Vietnam memoir, D… read more
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4. The Postcard
By: Anne Berest
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more
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- fiction
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"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
5. Künstlers in Paradise
By: Cathleen Schine
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The beloved bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport—once dubbed “the modern-day Jewi… read more
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- fiction
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"If not a lost art, then an art that often rushes away from contemporary writers with all the excited energy of a disobedient dog. At least, that dog runs off from me. The best I have been able to do …"-Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise
6. 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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"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
7. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
By: Noa Tishby
4.34
Format: None pages, Audiobook
AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very m… read more
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"The truth is, there is absolutely nothing that can be said of Israel, that cannot be said of Pakistan."-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"Instead of helping people move forward UNRWA keeps the Palestinian people in an eternal loop of displacement. Instead of solving the problem in any meaningful way, they have overseen the problem's ex…"-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"Here's the nugget: settling the refugee problem would mean ending the war against Israel. And as of now, the Palestinians and many of the Arab world have been refusing to do so. The best way to keep …"-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"There is almost no difference between the establishment of Israel and Pakistan. They were both created as a safe haven for persecuted groups: Jews and Muslims. They are both engaged in land disputes.…"-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
8. 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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- jewish
9. City of Laughter
By: Temim Fruchter
3.78
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood… read more
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10. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- fiction
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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- fiction
- jewish
"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
12. The Hebrew Teacher
By: Maya Arad
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome cris… read more
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"״ילד לא צריך בכלל מסיבה גדולה עד גיל ארבע,״ פוסקת רוית. ״מה, בארץ עושים רק עם הסבתות, הדודים...״ ״אבל זו הבעיה, אין פה סבתות,״ היא מחווה את דעתה. ״איי,״ מלכה מסכימה, ״זאת בדיוק הבעיה. אין פה סבתות.״"-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher
"יועד לוגם מהכוס ומעווה את פניו. ״חרא קפה.״ ״בפעם הבאה תלך לקפה מול הספרייה,״ היא מציעה לו טיפ של מקומיים. רק לפני שנה פתחו אותו, וכל הקמפוס מדבר עליו: כמו בניו יורק, כמו בסן פרנסיסקו, בסיאטל: קלייה ע…"-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher
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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- 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
14. An Observant Wife
By: Naomi Ragen
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this rich and compassionate novel, An Observant Wife, Naomi Ragen continues the love story betwe… read more
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15. An Unorthodox Match
By: Naomi Ragen
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
California girl Lola has her life all set up: business degree, handsome fiancé, fast track career, … read more
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- jewish
"If you want to change who you are, change what you want."-Naomi Ragen, An Unorthodox Match
"Forging peace between people always outweighed the truth."-Naomi Ragen, An Unorthodox Match
"He felt the joy spread down his body like a slow anointing with holy oil, warm and soothing, from head to toe."-Naomi Ragen, An Unorthodox Match
"So many hypocrites, people busy preaching acceptance and tolerance but hating and rejecting everyone who isn't exactly like them."-Naomi Ragen, An Unorthodox Match
16. 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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- jewish
17. The Golem of Brooklyn
By: Adam Mansbach
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated t… read more
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18. Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy
By: Letty Cottin Pogrebin
3.99
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An intimate memoir from a founding editor of Ms. magazine who grew up in a Jewish immigrant family … read more
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19. The Marriage Box
By: Corie Adjmi
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Casey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she start… read more
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20. The Enemy Beside Me
By: Naomi Ragen
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Inspired by true events, Naomi Ragen's The Enemy Beside Me is a powerful, provocative novel about t… read more
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21. Hotel Cuba
By: Aaron Hamburger
3.97
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the terror of the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl… read more
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22. Leaving Eastern Parkway a novel
By: Matthew Daub
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Brooklyn’s Hasidic community of Lubavitchers is turned upside down when family tragedy strikes and … read more
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23. Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust
By: Anna Salton Eisen
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From Anna Salton Eisen, a National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for The 23rd A Holocaust Memoir , c… read more
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24. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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25. The Prison Minyan
By: Jonathan Stone
4.31
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to Otisville, America's only Jewish prison...where a new celebrity inmate is about to shatt… read more
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26. Promised Land
By: Martin Fletcher
3.92
Format: 409 pages, Hardcover
From author Martin Fletcher comes Promised Land, an epic family saga that crosses the globeThe tumu… read more
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27. Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir
By: Sara Glass
4.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Brazen , about one young woman’s desper… read more
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28. The Red Balcony
By: Jonathan Wilson
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A gripping historical novel of sex, love, and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandate Palestine… read more
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29. A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24)
By: Daniel Silva
4.42
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve… Acclaimed #1 Ne… read more
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30. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
By: Margalit Fox
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more
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31. Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth
By: Asaf Elia-Shalev
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel. Israe… read more
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