American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York
By: Nomi M. Stolzenberg
3.83
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on America…
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1. The Ladies Auxiliary
By: Tova Mirvis
4.09
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
When free-spirited Batsheva moves into the close-knit Orthodox community of Memphis, Tennessee, the… read more
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2. 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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"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
3. 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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- nonfiction
"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
4. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By: Charles Spencer
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more
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5. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
6. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
By: Jasper Fforde
4.50
Format: 459 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more
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"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
7. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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8. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
9. 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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"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
10. Hope
By: Andrew Ridker
3.67
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and ideal… read more
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11. Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
By: Yossi Klein Halevi
4.12
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentato… read more
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"Sometimes, in political arguments with Palestinians, I would be told: Why are we arguing about who owns the land, when in the end the land will own us both?"-Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
"The notion of a people chosen by God wasn't intended to bestow privilege but responsibility. Jewish history attests that this role carries more burden than glory. The classical way Jews understood th…"-Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
"We are trapped, you and I, in a seemingly hopeless cycle. Not a "cycle of violence" -- a lazy formulation that tells us nothing about why our conflict exists, let alone how to end it. Instead, we're …"-Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
12. Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
By: Jenny Schuetz
3.95
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the Uni… read more
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13. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
By: Oren Kessler
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more
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- jewish
14. Shmutz
By: Felicia Berliner
3.52
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this witty, provocative, and unputdownable debut novel a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get m… read more
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15. Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity
By: Laura Meckler
4.11
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In th… read more
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- sociology
16. A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg
By: Nathaniel Deutsch
4.11
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
The epic story of Satmar Hasidic Williamsburg, from the decline of New York to the gentrification o… read more
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17. American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York
By: Nomi M. Stolzenberg
3.83
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on America… read more
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- american history
- jewish
- politics
- judaism
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- nonfiction
- sociology
18. The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America
By: Philip Bump
3.61
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A widely-read Washington Post columnist takes a deep dive into what the end of the baby boom means … read more
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- american history
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- sociology
19. Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
By: Bryan Caplan
4.28
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
In this exciting new graphic novel, economist Bryan Caplan examines how changes to housing regulati… read more
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20. Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life
By: Joshua Leifer
4.08
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jew… read more
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21. Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas
By: Yaacob Dweck
4.44
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory account of a spiritual leader who dared to assert the value of rabbinic doubt in the f… read more
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