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Judaism Books
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The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 283 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.37 — 7,713 ratings — published 1951
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,374,759 ratings — published 1956
Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 222 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,494 ratings — published 1991
Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,469 ratings — published 1998
The Chosen (Reuven Malter, #1)
by (shelved 190 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.08 — 98,812 ratings — published 1967
Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism (after Finally Choosing to Look There)
by (shelved 177 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,229 ratings — published
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,227,143 ratings — published 1947
Living a Jewish Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,454 ratings — published 1991
God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,670 ratings — published 1955
To Life: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,351 ratings — published 1993
Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs and Rituals (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.19 — 939 ratings — published 2000
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.04 — 157,561 ratings — published 2008
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,271 ratings — published 2021
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.21 — 634,682 ratings — published 1997
My Name Is Asher Lev (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.24 — 43,667 ratings — published 1972
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.00 — 68,736 ratings — published 2012
To Be A Jew: A Guide To Jewish Observance In Contemporary Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.14 — 991 ratings — published 1952
This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,749 ratings — published 2003
I and Thou (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,940 ratings — published 1923
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,198 ratings — published -450
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.37 — 893,468 ratings — published 1946
A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as judaism)
avg rating 3.89 — 52,794 ratings — published 1993
Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.19 — 461 ratings — published 1995
To Pray as a Jew: A Guide to the Prayer Book and the Synagogue Service (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.21 — 650 ratings — published 1991
When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.03 — 20,208 ratings — published 1981
This is My God: A Guidebook to Judaism (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,220 ratings — published 1959
The Jewish Study Bible: Featuring the Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,701 ratings — published 2003
The Essential Talmud (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.02 — 740 ratings — published 1976
Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.05 — 392 ratings — published 1990
The Guide for the Perplexed (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,331 ratings — published 1190
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as judaism)
avg rating 3.72 — 80,776 ratings — published 2007
The Jewish Book of Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.02 — 945 ratings — published 1981
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.39 — 378,036 ratings — published 1986
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as judaism)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,431 ratings — published 2013
Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,017 ratings — published 1985
The Book of Jewish Values: A Day-by-Day Guide to Ethical Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.49 — 579 ratings — published 2000
The Lonely Man of Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,128 ratings — published 1992
Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as judaism)
avg rating 3.97 — 597 ratings — published 1931
The Promise (Reuven Malter, #2)
by (shelved 65 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.19 — 14,269 ratings — published 1969
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.04 — 969 ratings — published 2017
As a Driven Leaf (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,060 ratings — published 1939
The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as judaism)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,522 ratings — published 1995
The Weight of Ink (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.14 — 41,006 ratings — published 2017
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,905,304 ratings — published 2005
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.31 — 651 ratings — published 1929
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
by (shelved 61 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.43 — 158,900 ratings — published 1991
The Prophets (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,351 ratings — published 1962
Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as judaism)
avg rating 3.98 — 324 ratings — published 1984
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.20 — 625,420 ratings — published 1989
Jews Don't Count (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.19 — 13,103 ratings — published 2021
“I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.”
― At Home: Essays 1982-1988
― At Home: Essays 1982-1988
“Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the last, he ceased to be Benjamin, becoming Israel. And upon his heart had settled the history of five thousand years, no longer remote, but become as the history of his own lifetime. His "I" was the converse of the imperial "We.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz












