12 Best history books like A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman

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A History of Judaism

By: Martin Goodman

3.86

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

A panoramic history of Judaism from its origins to the present Judaism is by some distance the o…

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1. My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

By: Ari Shavit

4.22

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Die große Geschichte IsraelsDer renommierte Journalist Ari Shavit sieht Israel in einer halt- und a… read more

Similar categories in Ari Shavit's My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel book and Martin Goodman's A History of Judaism

  • history
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"As the state became everything, the individual became marginalized. As it marched toward the future, Israel erased the past. There was no place for the previous landscape, no place for previous ident…"

-Ari Shavit, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

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2. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

By: Stephen Kotkin

3.97

Format: 976 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Kotkin's Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 book and Martin Goodman's A History of Judaism

  • nonfiction
  • history
"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"

-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

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3. Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

By: Daniel Gordis

4.31

Format: 560 pages, ebook

Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Gordis's Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn book and Martin Goodman's A History of Judaism

  • history
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • judaica
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4. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil book and Martin Goodman's A History of Judaism

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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5. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

By: David Fromkin

4.21

Format: 635 pages, Paperback

The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into… read more

Similar categories in David Fromkin's A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East book and Martin Goodman's A History of Judaism

  • nonfiction
  • history
"Reginald Wingate… wrote that “Moslems in general have hitherto regarded the Hejaz revolt, and our share in it, with suspicion or dislike"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

"Clayton and his colleagues believed French colonial administration to be incapable of allowing a country to retain its own character. What the French termed their “civilizing mission"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

"[T]he sheer magnitude of Britain’s commitment and loss at Gallipoli made it seem vital years later that she should play a major role in the postwar Middle East to give some sort of meaning to so grea…"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

"Fear of Russian expansionism was at the heart of the Porte’s policy. The Turkish ambassador told Deedes that if the Allies won the war, they would cause or allow the Ottoman Empire to be partitioned,…"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

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6. Economics: A Very Short Introduction

By: Partha Dasgupta

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Here Partha Dasgupta, an internationally recognized authority in economics, presents readers with a… read more

Similar categories in Partha Dasgupta's Economics: A Very Short Introduction book and Martin Goodman's A History of Judaism

  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

By: Colin Woodard

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more

Similar categories in Colin Woodard's American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America book and Martin Goodman's A History of Judaism

  • nonfiction
  • history
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8. Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950

By: Mark Mazower

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different rel… read more

Similar categories in Mark Mazower's Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 book and Martin Goodman's A History of Judaism

  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
  • jewish

9. The Decameron

By: Giovanni Boccaccio , G.H. McWilliam

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the … read more

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10. The Reformation: A History

By: Diarmaid MacCulloch

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning history of the Reformation--from the New York Timesb… read more

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11. The Peloponnesian War

By: Donald Kagan

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For three decades in the fifth century B.C. the ancient world was torn apart by a conflict that was… read more

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12. Judaism: A Very Short Introduction

By: None

3.50

Format: None pages,

In addition to surveying the nature and development of Judaism, this book outlines the basics of pr… read more

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13. Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History

By: James Carroll

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives."---Ch… read more

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14. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

By: Albert Camus

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on … read more

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15. 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

Similar categories in Dara Horn's People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present book and Martin Goodman's A History of Judaism

  • history
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • judaica
"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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16. The Books of Jacob

By: Olga Tokarczuk

4.02

Format: 965 pages, Hardcover

The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more

Similar categories in Olga Tokarczuk's The Books of Jacob book and Martin Goodman's A History of Judaism

  • jewish
"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

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17. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

By: Christopher Lasch

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “bibl… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations book and Martin Goodman's A History of Judaism

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Since “the society"

-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

"We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves."

-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

"Imprisoned in his self-awareness modern man longs for the lost innocence of spontaneous feeling."

-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

"When the images of power overshadow the reality, those without power find themselves fighting phantoms."

-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

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18. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

By: Jeremy D. Popkin

4.21

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern wo… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy D. Popkin's A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution book and Martin Goodman's A History of Judaism

  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. Family Business

By: Jonathan Sims

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Diya Burman’s best friend dies, her life falls apart. She loses everything. But then she ge… read more

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20. A History of Judaism

By: Martin Goodman

3.86

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

A panoramic history of Judaism from its origins to the present Judaism is by some distance the o… read more

Similar categories in Martin Goodman's A History of Judaism book and Martin Goodman's A History of Judaism

  • history
  • jewish
  • theology
  • judaism
  • philosophy
  • ancient history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • judaica
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21. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

Similar categories in Nate Silver's On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything book and Martin Goodman's A History of Judaism

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

5 Top religion books like A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman

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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

Ari Shavit

4.22

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Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

Daniel Gordis

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950

Mark Mazower

3.67

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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

4.36

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Jews Don't Count

David Baddiel

4.21

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Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism (after Finally Choosing to Look There)

Sarah Hurwitz

4.44

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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

4.36

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Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

Noa Tishby

4.34

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