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Classics of Jewish American Literature
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Call It Sleep
Henry Roth, c1934, 1991
“Arguably the most distinguished work of fiction ever written about immigrant life....
Surely the most lyrically authentic novel … about a young boy’s coming to consciousness.”
—Lis Harris, The New Yorker
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The Chosen
Chaim Potok, c1967
Two boys from different Jewish religious traditions in 1940s Brooklyn form an unlikely
friendship, which challenges and changes them both.
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 Tell Me A Riddle
Tille Olsen, c1995
An extended short story about a working class marriage under stress. Her stories
“... have the lyric intensity of an Emily Dickinson poem and the scope of a Balzac
novel.”
—Judges’ citation, Rea Award for the Short Story
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The Magic Barrel: Storie
Bernard Malamud, c1958, 2003
“...thirteen stories … every one of them is a small, highly individualized work
of art.”
—Richard Sullivan, The Chicago Tribune
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 The Plot Against America
Philip Roth, c2004
What if popular, pro-German Charles Lindbergh had been elected president in 1940?
A Jewish American family finds the course of their lives completely altered.
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 Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
Art Spiegelman, c1997
A father’s experience of the concentration camps haunts his American son, who tells
the story in graphic novel form.
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 Patrimony: A True Story
Philip Roth, c1991
Roth’s memoir of his dying father is by turns moving and funny, as they both battle
with the ignominy and helplessness of old age.
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Chagall
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 My Life
Marc Chagall, c2003
Chagall’s colorful memoir of his boyhood and development as an artist.
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 Marc Chagall and the Lost
Jewish World: The Nature of Chagall’s Art and Iconography
Benjamin Harshav, c2006
The cultural context out of which Chagall’s art developed.
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 Marc Chagall
Jonathan Wilson, c2007
An analytical biography that interprets the artist in the context of his times.
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 Chagall
Edited by Jose Maria Faerna, c1995
Includes brief biographical and interpretive overviews, with 70 color plates.
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Jewish American Authors
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Fiction
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation
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Auster, Paul
Moon Palace
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Bellow, Saul
Seize the Day
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Chabon, Michael
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
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Doctorow, E. L.
The Book of Daniel
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Foer, Jonathan Safran
Everything Is Illuminated
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Heller, Joseph
Catch-22
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Horn, Dara
In The Image
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Paley, Grace
The Complete Stories
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Picoult, Jodi
My Sister’s Keeper
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Schwartz, Lynne Sharon
Disturbances in the Field
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Wouk, Herman
The Caine Mutiny
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Poetry
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Plays
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Russian/Soviet Jewish History
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A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union,
1881 to the Present
Zvi Y. Gitelman, c2001
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A Memoir
Nadezhda Mandelstam, c1999
This memoir about the experience of intellectuals from the Revolution through the
purges of the 1930s is a classic.
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 Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty
Million
Martin Amis, c2002
A fiery condemnation of Stalin’s regime, under which 20 million Russians lost their
lives in the name of building a better future for their country.
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the Whirlwind
Eugenia S. Ginzburg, c2002
Memoir of a woman arrested during the 1930s purges, who survived the gulag
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 The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the
Nazis, Saved 1,200 Jews, & Built a Village in the Forest
Peter Duffy, c2003
Belorussian Jewish partisan resistance during World War II.
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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
Esther Hautzig, c1968.
Autobiographical story of a Jewish family removed to Siberia during World War II—for
children, teens, and even adults.
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Fear No Evil
Natan Sharansky, c1988
A Jewish dissident’s battle against the Soviet police state.
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Yiddish Literature
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 Yiddish Folktales
Edited by Beatrice Silverman Weinreich, c1997
Folktales from the villages of Eastern Europe collected in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Dairyman and The Railroad Stories
Sholem Aleichem, c1996
“...these unprettified stories of simple people and their harsh realities summon
a bygone era, but their application and appeal are timeless.” —Publisher’s Weekly
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Shosha
Isaac Bashevis Singer, c1996.
An ambitious writer leaves his cosmopolitan life behind in this “hauntingly lyrical
love story set in Jewish Warsaw on the eve of its annihilation.” —book jacket
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Peretz Reader
Edited by Ruth Wisse, c2002
Stories and memoirs by one of the founders of modern Yiddish literature.
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/SC.gif&client=depup) Great Tales of
Jewish Fantasy and the Occult: The Dubbuk and Thirty Other Classic Stories
Edited by Joachim Neugroschel, c2001
Includes a story by Der Nister.
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A Little Boy in Search of God: Mysticism in a Personal Light
Isaac Bashevis Singer and illustrated by Ira
Moskowitz, c1976
A Nobel Prize winning Yiddish author writes about the development of his own personal
values in a world of competing religious traditions and rising secularism.
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 Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued
a Million Yiddish Books
Aaron Lansky, c2004
In 1980 a student began a project to save discarded Yiddish books.
That project became the National Yiddish Book Center, which helped preserve an almost-lost
culture.
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