6 best-selling jewish books like Moshkeleh the Thief: A Rediscovered Novel by Sholom Aleichem

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Moshkeleh the Thief: A Rediscovered Novel

By: Sholom Aleichem

4.13

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

This first English translation of Sholom Aleichem’s rediscovered novel, Moshkeleh the Thief, has a …

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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By: Michael Lewis

4.30

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more

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"Time is a variable continuum."

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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2. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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3. Men Without Women

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.60

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

This influential 14-story collection includes some of the Nobel laureate’s most notable short ficti… read more

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"The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning."

-Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."

-Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

4. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

By: Norman G. Finkelstein

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain. In a… read more

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  • jewish
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5. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

3.99

Format: 272 pages,

Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more

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6. Skylark

By: Dezső Kosztolányi , Péter Esterházy , Richard Aczel

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays--call them Mother and Father--live in Sarszeg, a … read more

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  • fiction
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7. The Quiet American

By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more

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8. Hiroshima

By: John Hersey

3.50

Format: 36 pages,

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more

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9. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)

By: S.J. Parris

3.55

Format: 288 pages,

Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more

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10. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

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11. The End of the Affair

By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more

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"As long as one suffers one lives."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

12. Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States

By: Pete Jordan

3.89

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Dishwasheris the true story of a man on a mission: to clean dirty dishes professionally in every st… read more

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13. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

By: Tony Horwitz

4.50

Format: None pages,

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle … read more

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14. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more

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15. Shosha

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Shosha is a hauntingly lyrical love story set in Jewish Warsaw on the eve of its annihilation. Aaro… read more

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16. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

By: Eric Foner

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's--and the nation's--transformation through the cruci… read more

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17. Red Cavalry

By: Isaac Babel , Michael Dirda

3.95

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalrycycle retains today the shockin… read more

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18. The Brothers Ashkenazi

By: Irving Howe , Israel J. Singer , None

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the Polish city of Lodz, the brothers Ashkenazi grew up very differently in talent and in temper… read more

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19. Grant

By: Ron Chernow

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more

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20. American Pastoral

By: Philip Roth

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more

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"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

21. The Intuitionist

By: Colson Whitehead

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Verticality, architectural and social, is the lofty idea at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first n… read more

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22. The Ferryman

By: Justin Cronin

3.93

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a… read more

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Cover of Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby

23. 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

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24. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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25. Leonard Cohen: On a Wire

By: Philippe Girard

3.28

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

A captivating, revealing biography of the legendary musician and poetLeonard Cohen opens in Los Ang… read more

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26. 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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27. The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

By: Jonathan Kaufman

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Sassoons and the Kadoories--two Jewish families from Baghdad--had long been successful in busin… read more

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Cover of The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World by Dan Senor

28. The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

By: Dan Senor

4.38

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since it… read more

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Cover of People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami

29. People From My Neighbourhood

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.53

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interl… read more

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  • fiction
"Even the smallest hole is enough to send a balloon spiraling to the ground. The falsification of memory is like that. All it takes is one individual who remembers the truth, said Romi, for the whole …"

-Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood

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30. Basic Black with Pearls (A List)

By: Helen Weinzweig

3.53

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A lost feminist classic — and winner of the Toronto Book Award — reissued to coincide with the 35th… read more

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31. Moshkeleh the Thief: A Rediscovered Novel

By: Sholom Aleichem

4.13

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

This first English translation of Sholom Aleichem’s rediscovered novel, Moshkeleh the Thief, has a … read more

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3.98

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3.60

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4.53

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3.13

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Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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4.26

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4.81

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