Tag search:URJ Significant Jewish Books

People of the Book

by Geraldine Brooks
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, People of the Book author, Massachusetts Book Prize, AR book - UG, prayer - tefillah
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
5746
Status
Available
Call number
F BRO

Night (Night)

by Elie Wiesel
Paperback, 2006
Tags
URJ Library List, URJ Significant Jewish Books, URJ High School and Young Adult list, Holocaust, AR book - UG, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, Holocaust - concentration camps, Holocaust - Germany, Hungary
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Series
The Night Trilogy (1)
Barcode
5669
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 WIE

The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Hardcover, 1982
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Yiddish culture, short stories
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
5299
Status
Available
Call number
F SIN

Born To Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods

by Michael Wex
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Yiddish language, Yiddish culture, humor
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5298
Status
Available
Call number
439.109 WEX

The Last of the Just

by André Schwarz-Bart
Hardcover, 1980
Tags
URJ Library List, URJ Significant Jewish Books, France
Collections
Adult Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
4988
Status
Available
Call number
F SCH

Kabbalah: A Love Story

by Lawrence Kushner
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Kabbalah, mysticism, New York, spirituality
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
4630
Status
Available
Call number
F KUS

Broken Tablets: Restoring the Ten Commandments and Ourselves

by Rachel S. Mikva
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
anthology, URJ Significant Jewish Books, Ten Commandments
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4598
Status
Available
Call number
296.36 MIK

Night

by Elie Wiesel
Paperback, 2006
Tags
URJ Library List, URJ Significant Jewish Books, URJ High School and Young Adult list, Holocaust, AR book - UG, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, Holocaust - concentration camps, Holocaust - Germany, Hungary
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Series
The Night Trilogy (1)
Barcode
3610
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 WIE

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition)

by Simon Wiesenthal
Paperback, 1998
Tags
URJ Library List, URJ Significant Jewish Books, Betty's 100 Books, forgiveness - selichot, Simon Wiesenthal, Holocaust - concentration camps
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4446
Status
Available
Call number
179.7 WIE

Yiddish: A Nation of Words

by Miriam Weinstein
Paperback, 2002
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, URJ Significant Jewish Books, Yiddish language
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3690
Status
Available
Call number
439.109 WEI

Emma Lazarus (Jewish Encounters)

by Esther Schor
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, URJ Significant Jewish Books, poetry, women, Emma Lazarus, Betty's 100 Books, New York, Zionism, Koach Ha Dibbur - the power of words
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
4511
Status
Available
Call number
B LAZ

American Judaism: A History

by Jonathan D. Sarna
Paperback, 2005
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, URJ Significant Jewish Books, Betty's 100 Books, United States - history
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4466
Status
Available
Call number
296.0973 SAR

The Speed of Light (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Elizabeth Rosner
Paperback, 2003
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Betty's 100 Books, Holocaust - survivors, Holocaust - concentration camps, Hungary
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
4465
Status
Available
Call number
F ROS

Homesick (Hebrew Literature Series)

by Eshkol Nevo
Paperback, 2010
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Israel, Betty's 100 Books, Israeli writer, Jerusalem
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
4562
Status
Available
Call number
F NEV

Scattered Among the Peoples: THE JEWISH DIASPORA IN TWELVE PORTRAITS

by Allan Levine
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Betty's 100 Books
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4506
Status
Available
Call number
909.04924 LEV

Wherever You Go: A Novel

by Joan Leegant
Paperback, 2011
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Israel, Betty's 100 Books, Jerusalem
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
4464
Status
Available
Call number
F LEE

Kabbalah: A Love Story

by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
Paperback, 2007
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Kabbalah, mysticism, Betty's 100 Books, New York, spirituality
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
4505
Status
Available
Call number
F KUS

American Reform Judaism: An Introduction

by Dana Evan Kaplan
Paperback, 2003
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Reform Judaism, United States - history, Jews - identity
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4330
Status
Available
Call number
296.8341 KAP

How to Read the Jewish Bible

by Marc Zvi Brettler
Paperback, 2007
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Betty's 100 Books, Bible - Old Testament, Bible - criticism and commentary
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4490
Status
Available
Call number
221.61 BRE

The Israelis : Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land

by Donna Rosenthal
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
Israel, URJ Significant Jewish Books, Orthodox Judaism
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3331
Status
Available
Call number
956.94 ROS

Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933

by Amos Elon
Paperback, 2004
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Germany, history, Israeli writer
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3279
Status
Available
Call number
943.004 ELO

Denying the Holocaust

by Deborah E. Lipstadt
Hardcover, 1993
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Holocaust, World War II, Holocaust denial
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3008
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 LIP

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory

by Deborah E. Lipstadt
Paperback, 1994
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Holocaust, World War II, Holocaust denial
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3007
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 LIP

The Avengers: A Jewish War Story

by Rich Cohen
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, URJ High School and Young Adult list, Holocaust, World War II, Holocaust - resistance and rescue
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2986
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 COH

O Jerusalem!

by Larry & Domanique Lapierre Collins
Hardcover, 1973
Tags
URJ Library List, URJ Significant Jewish Books, Israel, Israel - history, Jerusalem
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2969
Status
Available
Call number
956.042 COL

Night; Dawn; Day (The Accident)

by Elie Wiesel
Hardcover, 1985
Tags
URJ Library List, URJ Significant Jewish Books, URJ High School and Young Adult list, Holocaust, AR book - UG, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II
Collection
Adult Fiction
Series
The Night Trilogy (Omnibus 1-3)
Barcode
2866
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 WIE

Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return To His Jewish Family

by Stephen J. Dubner
Paperback, 1999
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Catholicism, family, Christianity
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2859
Status
Available
Call number
B DUB

The Last of the Just

by Andre Schwarz-Bart
Paperback, 1961
Tags
URJ Library List, URJ Significant Jewish Books, France
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
2805
Status
Available
Call number
F SCH

The Plot Against America: A Novel

by Philip Roth
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, James Fenimore Cooper Prize, New York Times Best Book of the Year, AR book - UG, family
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
2797
Status
Available
Call number
F ROT

People of the Book: A Novel

by Geraldine Brooks
Paperback, 2008
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, People of the Book author, Massachusetts Book Prize, AR book - UG, prayer - tefillah
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
2785
Status
Available
Call number
F BRO

Mr. Sammler's Planet

by Saul Bellow
Paperback, 1971
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, National Book Award
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
2782
Status
Available
Call number
F BEL

The Rise of David Levinsky

by Abraham Cahan
Hardcover, 1945
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, immigration and emigration, New York, Russia, men
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
2773
Status
Available
Call number
F CAH

Bread Givers

by Anzia Yezierska
Paperback, 1975
Tags
URJ Library List, URJ Significant Jewish Books, URJ High School and Young Adult list, women, children, family, fathers, immigration and emigration, New York
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
2727
Status
Available
Call number
F YEZ

Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses

by Bruce Feiler
Paperback, 2002
Tags
People of the Book author, URJ Significant Jewish Books, CHAI Lit List Level 4, CHAI Lit List Level 3, New York Times Bestseller, reverence and awe - yirah, Abraham (patriarch), archaeology, Creation, Israel, Jerusalem — 4 more, Moses (prophet), Noah (Biblical figure), Sarah (matriarch), Bible - Old Testament
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2650
Status
Available
Call number
915.604 FEI

Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods

by Michael Wex
Paperback, 2006
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Yiddish language, Yiddish culture, humor
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2629
Status
Available
Call number
439.109 WEX

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel

by Michael Chabon
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
Holocaust, Pulitzer Prize, URJ High School and Young Adult list, URJ Significant Jewish Books, AR book - UG, New York, humor, men, Golem, cartoonists, LGBTQ — 3 more, World War II, diversity and inclusion, B'Tzelem Elohim - In God's Image
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
3421
Status
Available
Call number
F CHA

Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Generation of Jews Can Transform the American Synagogue

by Sidney Schwarz
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, synagogues
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2467
Status
Available
Call number
296.65 SCH

God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning

by Lawrence Kushner
Paperback, 1991
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Genesis, Hasidim - Hasidism, Bible - Old Testament, spirituality, Bible - criticism and commentary, B'Tzelem Elohim - In God's Image
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2443
Status
Available
Call number
296.7 KUS

The Healer of Shattered Hearts: A Jewish View of God

by David J. Wolpe
Hardcover, 1990
Tags
URJ Library List, URJ Significant Jewish Books, B'Tzelem Elohim - In God's Image
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2393
Status
Available
Call number
296.311 WOL

Broken Tablets: Restoring the Ten Commandments and Ourselves

by Rachel S. Mikva Editor
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
anthology, URJ Significant Jewish Books, Ten Commandments
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2369
Status
Available
Call number
296.36 MIK

God Was in This Place & I, I Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality, and Ultimate Meaning

by Lawrence Kushner
Paperback, 1993
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Genesis, Hasidim - Hasidism, Bible - Old Testament, spirituality, Bible - criticism and commentary, B'Tzelem Elohim - In God's Image
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2336
Status
Available
Call number
296.7 KUS

Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts

by Barry W. Holtz
Paper Book, 1984
Tags
URJ Library List, URJ Significant Jewish Books, history
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2319
Status
Available
Call number
296.1 HOL

As a Driven Leaf

by Milton Steinberg
Paper Book, 1996
Tags
URJ Library List, URJ Significant Jewish Books, URJ High School and Young Adult list, JBC National Jewish Book Club, history
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
2318
Status
Available
Call number
F STE

The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Law

by Alan M. Dershowitz
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Ten Commandments, Genesis, Bible - Old Testament, seeking justice, Bible - criticism and commentary, B'Tzelem Elohim - In God's Image
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2186
Status
Available
Call number
222.1106 DER

Walking The Bible

by Bruce Feiler
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
CHAI Lit List Level 4, CHAI Lit List Level 3, New York Times Bestseller, People of the Book author, URJ Significant Jewish Books, reverence and awe - yirah, Abraham (patriarch), archaeology, Creation, Israel, Jerusalem — 4 more, Moses (prophet), Noah (Biblical figure), Sarah (matriarch), Bible - Old Testament
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Barcode
1406
Status
Available
Call number
T 915.604 FEI
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