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Sun Jan 7, 2024, 06:16 PM Jan 2024

(JEWISH GROUP) What have you read? [View all]

Out of curiosity, what books have y'all read regarding Jews? It can include books about Israel, Zionism, anti-Semitism, culture, language, history, or anything related to the Jewish experience. Here's what I have read in the past year (a few may have been 2022).

Anti-Semitism
The Bloody Story of Anti-Semitism Down the Ages by Joseph McCabe
Anti-Semitism: A Disease of the Mind by Theodore Isaac Rubin
Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism by Magda Teter
Protocols: Exposing Modern Anti-semitism by Elder of Ziyon
The Jewish Choice: Unity or Anti-Semitism: Historical Facts on Anti-Semitism as a Reflection of Jewish Social Discord by Michael Laitman
Contemporary Left Antisemitism by David Hirsh
Anti-Judaism : The Western Tradition by David Nirenberg
It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable - and How We Can Stop It by Jonathan Greenblatt
Antisemitism: What It Is. What It Isn't. Why It Matters by Julia Neuberger
The Chosen Wars by Steven R. Weisman
The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Antisemitism: The Oldest Hatred by John Mann
How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss
Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah E. Lipstadt
Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories by Mike Rothschild

Israel
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby
Reclaiming Israel’s History: Roots, Rights, and the Struggle for Peace by David Brog
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis

Judaism
3,000 Years of Judaism in 30 Days: Understanding Jewish History, Beliefs, and Practices by Howard N. Lupovitch
Mystical Tradition: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Luke Timothy Johnson
Maimonides and Medieval Jewish Philosophy by Idit Dobbs-Weinstein
Judaism by Dr. Geoffrey Wigoder
Great World Religions: Judaism by Isaiah M. Gafni

Language
Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods by Michael Wex
Yiddish: A Nation of Words by Miriam Weinstein

The Shoah (Holocaust)
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
Killing Queers: The Nazi Extermination of Gay Men by Helmut Rohn (touches on the Jewish experience)
Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport
The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War by David Nasaw (READ THIS!)
Our Crime Was Being Jewish: Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories by Anthony S. Pitch
The Last Jew of Treblinka: A Survivor’s Memory, 1942-1943 by Chil Rajchman
The Holocaust: A New History by Laurence Rees
The History of the Holocaust by Howard N. Lupovitch
Defiance: The Bielski Partisans by Nechama Tec
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Frank Heibert

Culture
Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America by Ruth Gay
Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero by Danny Fingeroth
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History by Jeremy Dauber
All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks
Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way by Harry Brod

Other
Denying History: Holocaust Denial, Pseudohistory, and How We Know What Happened in the Past by Michael Brant Shermer
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow (Read this, then...)
The Minuteman by Greg Donahue
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (fiction)

MUST READ
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel



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