Books are pouches of wisdom embroidered with pearly words.
--Moshe ben Ezra
Books to start your own Jewish library (in no particular order):
Books to begin your journey:
• To Life: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking by Rabbi Harold Kushner
• Deborah, Golda and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
• God Was Not in the Fire-The Search for a Spiritual Judaism by Daniel Gordis (hands down, the Jewish book I've recommended most frequently)
• The Yellow Wind by David Grossman
• O Jerusalem by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
• The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
• Wrestling with the Angel: Jewish Insights on Death and Mourning by Jack Riemer
Books to sustain you:
• A Spiritual Life-A Jewish Feminist Journey by Merle Feld
• To Begin Again: The Journey Toward Comfort, Strength and Faith in Difficult Times by Rabbi Naomi Levy
• Seek My Face: A Jewish Mystical Theology by Arthur Green
• Rethinking Synagogues: A New Vocabulary for Congregational Life by Lawrence A. Hoffman
Jewish Living
• The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children by Wendy Mogel
• For Those Who Can't Believe: Overcoming the Obstacles to Faith by Harold Schulweis
• Danny Siegel's Bar and Bat Mitzvah Book: A Practical Guide to Changing the World Through Your Simcha by Danny Siegel
• A Time to Mourn, A Time to Comfort by Ron Wolfson and David Wolpe
Israel
• Poems of Jerusalem by Yehuda Amichai
• Open Closed Open: Poems by Yehuda Amichai
• The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land by Donna Rosenthal
• Self-Portrait of a Hero: The Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu,1963-1976 by Yonatan Netanyahu
Holidays
• The Jewish Holidays by Michael Strassfeld
• A Day Apart: Shabbat at Home by Noam Zion and Shawn Fields-Meyer
Prayer
• Talking to God by Rabbi Naomi Levy
• The Book of Blessings by Marcia Falk
Text
• The JPS Hebrew English Tanakh
• The Bedside Torah: Wisdom, Visions and Dreams by Bradley Artson
• The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-aggadah: Legends from the Talmud and Midrash edited by Hayyim Nachman Bialik
Ethics
• To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility by Jonathan Sacks
• Giving Your Money Away by Danny Siegel
• Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World by Sidney Schwarz and Ruth Messinger
Shoah
• Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
• Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman
• Night by Elie Wiesel
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