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Jewish Voices

Jewish Books selected from the library's Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature — Identity and Imagination book discussion series, recent winners of the National Jewish Book Awards for fiction and nonfiction, and selected Jewish authors.

Fiction

All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted: GN=graphic novel, y=teen, ygn=teen graphic novel

Chabon, Michael
The Final Solution: A Story of Detection
(2004)
FICTION CHABON
Eisner, Will
A Contract with God
(1996)
GN EISNER
Goodman, Allegra
Kaaterskill Falls
(1998)
FICTION GOODMAN
Greif, Jean-Jacques
The fighter
(2006)
y GREIF
Horn, Dara
In the Image
(2002)
FICTION HORN
Horn, Dara
The World to Come
(2006)
FICTION HORN
Jenoff, Pam.
The kommandant's girl
(2007)
FICTION JENOFF
Kafka, Franz
The Metamorphosis
(Published in German in 1915)
FICTION KAFKA (various editions)
Kass, Pnina Moed
Real Time
(2004)
y KASS
Nayman, Shira
Awake in the dark: stories
(2006)
FICTION NAYMAN
Ozick, Cynthia
The Puttermesser Papers
(1997)
FICTION OZICK
Sandor, Marjorie
Portrait of My Mother Who Posed Nude in Wartime
(2003)
FICTION SANDOR
Scliar, Moacyr
The Centaur in the Garden
(1985, c1984)
FICTION SCLIAR
Sfar, Joann
The Rabbi's Cat
(2005)
GN SFAR
Shalev, Meir
A pigeon and a boy
(2007)
FICTION SHALEV
Shteyngart, Gary
The Russian Debutante's Handbook
(2002)
FICTION SHTEYNGAR
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Satan in Goray
(1996; published in Yiddish in 1935, English version 1955)
FICTION SINGER
Wiesel, Elie
The time of the uprooted
(2005)
FICTION WIESEL
Zusak, Markus
The Book Thief
(2006)
y ZUSAK

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Nonfiction (including plays & poetry):

Aciman, Andre
Out of Egypt: A Memoir
(1994, 1996)
962.0092 A181o
962.1 A181o 1996
Ansky, S.
The Dybbuk and Other Writings
(2002; published in Russian in 1914, Yiddish version 1920)
839.1 A531d 2002
Cesarani, David
Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a "Desk Murderer"
(2006)
B-Ei24c 2006
Cole, Peter (editor)
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
(2007)
892.41 D771 2007
Gessen, Masha
Ester and Ruzya: How my Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace
(2004)
B-Ge332g 2004
Herf, Jeffrey
The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust
(2006)
940.5488 H544j 2006
Jewish Publication Society
The Jewish Study Bible: Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation
(2004)
220.447 B582j 2004
Karabel, Jerome
The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
(2005)
378.161 K18c 2005
Kosofsky, Scott-Martin
The Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook for the Jewish Year
(2004)
296.4 K86b 2004
Kushner, Tony
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
(2003)
812.5 K97an 2003
Mazower, Mark
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
(2005)
949.565 M476s 2005
Mendelsohn, Daniel
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
(2006)
973.04924 M537L 2006
Oney, Steve
And the Dead Shall Rise: the Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
(2003)
364.1523 O58a 2003
Oz, Amos
A Tale of Love and Darkness
(2004)
B-Oz13t 2004
Spiegelman, Art
The Complete Maus
(1997)
y 940.5318 S755m 1997
ygn 940.5318 SPIEGELMA

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Selected Jewish authors (fiction and nonfiction)

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Catalog Search Tips

Use these links to find more Jewish books in the library collection.

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Web Resources

Association of Jewish Libraries Children's Book Awards
http://www.ajljewishvalues.org/awards.htm
Award winners for Jewish books for younger readers, older readers, teens and young adults.
Jewish Book Council
http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/
The sponsor of Jewish Book Month. Includes the winners of the National Jewish Book Awards.
Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature — Identity and Imagination
http://www.multcolib.org/events/jewishliterature.html
The Multnomah County Library book discussion series, funded by Nextbook and the American Library Association.
Nextbook
http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/archive.html?category=Books
An extensive annotated list of recommended Jewish books from Nextbook.

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