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Selections by:
Student Rabbi Mark Miller
Rabbi Susan Conforti
Amazon.com - Books on the UAHC "Significant Jewish Books"
list as part of Rabbi Yoffie's initiative encouraging
us all to read 4 Significant Jewish Books per year.
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Fugitive Pieces : A Novel (Vintage International)
, by Anne Michaels. This book is MAGIC, one of the best
books of any sort I've ever read. She is actually a poet from Toronto, and
the publisher who recommended the book to me said, "we have found our
Davinci of authors!" He is right. This is roughly a Holocaust fiction, but
beautifully written, powerful, and meaningful.
"Who Wrote the Bible", by Richard Elliott Friedman. This book has been
instrumental in how a lot of people understand the Bible. Although it
'exposes' some of the mythology in the Bible, I do not think it undermines
its holiness, or the meaning it still has for us. But it does help us
understand where it came from. Very readable, with eye-opening conclusions.
The Sabbath
, by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Indispensable. Heschel is the
quintessential modern Jewish thinker, and this book provides lots of food
for thought about how Jews view this most holy of times. I would also
recommend "Man's Quest for God", for Heschel's musings on spirituality.
Man's Search For Meaning, "Man's Search For Meaning", by Viktor Frankl. This is also a book that
stems from the Holocaust, but provides a psychological viewpoint on how to
understand it and, ultimately, how to deal with suffering and evil in the
world.
As a Driven Leaf, by Milton Steinberg. This is a historical novel
dealing with the rabbis from the days of the Talmud. It brings them to life
in an incredible way.
The Leader's Guide to The Family Participation Haggadah "A Different Night"
, by Noam Zion. This is a marvelous, practical book
with lots of stories, ideas, etc, about the Passover Seder. Will add a lot
of spice to your celebrations! Similarly, he has a book called "A Different
Light" with lots of amazing material for Hanukkah.
Jewish Living: A Guide to Contemporary Reform Practice
, by Mark Washofsky. This is a book written by the person
who writes answers to Jewish legal questions for the Reform Movement. It is
full of interesting responses to specific issues, but from a Reform
perspective.
The Gifts of the Jews : How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Hinges of History)
, by Thomas Cahill. This book is fascinating
because it is written by a non-Jew, and gives an outside perspective on what
ideas originated with Judaism, and why Judaism has been so important to the
world.
Finding God: Selected Responses
, by Sonsino and Syme. This book presents 10 different
positions on God, which is great because it helps us understand that there
is not just one 'right' way to believe in God as a Jew, and that Jews can
hold many different positions and still be within the fold.
Susan Conforti recommends:
In 1998 Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President, UAHC called upon all Jews to read at least 4
Significant Jewish Books per year. Each year titles are added to this list.
Selected titles can be found here, with a link to Amazon.com for purchase.
The Jewish Moral Virtues, by Eugene B. Borowitz and Frances Weinman Schwartz
The Book of Jewish Values A Day-by-day Guide to Ethical Living, by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Norther Plains, by Rachel Bella Calof, edited by Sanford Rikoon
Denying the Holocaust:The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by Deborah Lipstadt
The Fixer by
Bernard Malamud
A Journey to the End of the Millennium - A Novel of the Middle Ages by A.B. Yehoshua
Jewish Meditation : A Practical Guide by Aryeh Kaplan
Broken Tablet: Restoring the Ten Commandments and Ourselves Edited by Rachel S. Mivka
The Last of the Just:A Novel by Andre Schwartz-Bar
Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to his Jewish Family by Stephen J. Dubner
Taking Hold of Torah: Jewish Commitment and Community in America (The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies)by Arnold M. Eisen
Wisdom of the Jewish Sages:A Modern Reading of Pirke Avot by Rami M. Shapiro
Pirke Avot:
A Modern Commentary on Jewish Ethics by Kerry M. Olitzky (Editor),
Leonard S. Kravitz(Translator)
The Sunflower:
On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
(Newly Expanded Paperback Edition) by Simon Wiesenthal
The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
Jews : The Essence and Character of a People by Arthur Hertzberg, Aron Hirt-Manheimer (Preface)
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
A Book That Was Lost : And Other Stories by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Anne Golom Hoffman,
Alan Mintz (Editor)
Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts by Barry W. Holtz
In the Image by Dara Horn
The Coffee Trader: A Novel by David Liss
A Book of Life: Embracing Judaism as a Spiritual Practice ,
by Michael Strassfeld
The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933
by Amos Elon
The
Rise of David Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan
The
Avengers, by Rich Cohen
Everything
Is Illuminated , by Jonathan Safran Foer
When I Lived in Modern Times , by Linda Grant
The Journey Home: Discovering the Deep Spiritual Wisdom of Jewish Tradition
, by Lawrence A. Hoffman
The Collected Stories , by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice that Led to
the Ten Commandments and Modern Law , by Alan M. Dershowitz
Yiddish:
A Nation of Words , by Miriam Weinstein
The Counterlife , by Philip Roth
God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know , by Lawrence Kushner
Thirst:
The Desert Trilogy , by Shulamith Hareven
The
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay , by Michael Chabon
O Jerusalem! , by Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
Walking the Bible by Bruce Feiler
The Talmud and the Internet by Jonathan Rosen
The
Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, by Richard Zimler
The Healer of Shattered Hearts , by David Wolpe
Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Generation of Jews Can Transform the American
Synagogue , by Rabbi Sidney Schwarz
Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment , by J.
J. Goldberg
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