URJ - Significant Jewish Books Archive

A Book of Life: Embracing Judaism as a Spiritual Practice
by Michael Strassfeld
A Book That Was Lost and Other Stories
S.Y. Agnon
A Journey to the End of the Millennium: A Novel of the Middle Ages
by A.B. Yehoshua
A Pigeon and a Boy
by Meir Shalev
A Tale of Love and Darkness
by Amos Oz
A Vision of Holiness: The Future of Reform Judaism
by Richard N. Levy.
American Judaism: A History
by Jonathan D. Sarna
American Reform Jews: An Introduction
by Dana Evan Kaplan
As a Driven Leaf
by Milton Steinberg
Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts
Edited by Barry W. Holtz
Badenheim 1939
by Aharon Appelfel
Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
by Michael Wex
Bread Givers
By Anzia Yezierska
Broken Tablets: Restoring the Ten Commandments and Ourselves
by Rachel S. Mikva
Deborah
by Esther Singer Kreitman, trans. from the Yiddish by Maurice Carr
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
by Deborah Lipstadt
Emma Lazarus
By Esther Schor
Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler’s War
Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fabulous Small Jews: Stories
by Joseph Epstein
Fateless
by Imre Kertesz
Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Generation of Jews Can Transform the American Synagogue
by Rabbi Sidney Schwarz
Finding God: Selected Responses
by Rifat Sonsino and Daniel B. Syme
Foiglman
By Aharon Megged
God Was In This Place and I, i Did Not Know
by Lawrence Kushner
Healer of Shattered Hearts
by David Wolpe
Heir to a Glimmering World
How to Read the Jewish Bible
By Marc Zvi Brettler
In the Image
by Dara Horn
Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide
by Aryeh Kaplan
Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment
by J.J. Goldberg
Jews: The Essence and Character of a People
by Arthur Hertzberg and Aron Hirt-Manheimer
Joy Comes in the Morning
By Jonathan Rosen
Kabbalah: A Love Story
By Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
Maimonides
By Sherwin B. Nuland
Mr. Sammler's Planet
by Saul Bellow
Natasha and Other Stories
By David Bezmozgis
Night, A Memoir
by Elie Wiesel
O Jerusalem!
by Larry Collins & Dominique LaPierre
Pirke Avot: A Modern Commentary on Jewish Ethics
by Leonard Kravitz and Kerry M. Olitzky
Rachel Calof's Story
by Rachel Bella Calof
Rashi’s Daughters, Book 1: Joheved
By Maggie Anton
Rembrandt's Jews
by Steven Nadler
Scattered Among the Peoples: The Jewish Diaspora in Twelve Portraits
by Allan Levine
Someone to Run With
By David Grossman
Taking Hold of Torah
by Arnold Eisen
Tevya the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories
by Sholem Aleichem
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
The Avengers
by Rich Cohen
The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
by Joel Ben Izzy
The Coffee Trader
by David Liss
The Collected Stories
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Counterlife
by Philip Roth
The English Disease
by Joseph Skibell
The Fixer
by Bernard Malamud
The Genesis of Justice
by Alan M. Dershowitz
The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land
by Donna Rosenthal
The Jewish Moral Virtues and The Book of Jewish Values
The Journey Home: Discovering the Deep Spiritual Wisdom of Jewish Tradition
by Lawrence A. Hoffman
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
by Richard Zimler
The Last of the Just
by Andre Schwartz-Bart
The Periodic Table
by Primo Levi
The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933
by Amos Elon
The Plot Against America : A Novel
by Philip Roth
The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South
by Eli Evans
The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
The Rise of David Levinsky
By Abraham Cahan
The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
by Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Speed of Light
by Elizabeth Rosner
The Sunflower
by Simon Wiesenthal
The Talmud and the Internet
by Jonathan Rosen
Thirst: The Desert Trilogy
by Shulamith Hareven
Those Who Forget the Past
By Ron Rosenbaum
Those Who Save Us
By Jenna Blum
To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Turbulent Souls
by Stephen J. Dubner
Walking the Bible
by Bruce Feiler
When I Lived in Modern Times
by Linda Grant
Who Wrote the Bible -- Student Handout
Who Wrote the Bible?
by Richard Elliott Friedman
Wise Men and their Tales
By Elie Wiesel
Yiddish: A Nation of Words
by Miriam Weinstein