Jay's Revised Modern Canon 2021 Edition

                             World Literature: Jewish People

                              History

     Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews

     The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, Volume Two: Belonging: 1492-1900, Simon Schama

    Jerusalem: The Biography, Simon Sebag Montefiore

     Personal Witness: Israel, Abba Iban

     Israel, Gilbert

     The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness, Every Day Remembrance Day: A Chronicle of Jewish Martyrdom, The Murderers Among Us, Krystyna: The Tragedy of the Polish Resistance, Simon Wiesenthal

    Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation, Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman  

     Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City, Andrew Lawler

     Historical Atlas of the Jewish People, Barnavi ed

     Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations, A History of Judaism, Martin Goodman

      Flags Over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Moshe Arens

     Auschwitz, Laurence Rees

    Treblinka, Jean-François Steiner, Simone de Beauvoir (Preface), Terrence Des Pres (Introduction)

     Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari

     Homage to Chagall, Amiell ed

     An Empire of Their Own: how the Jews Invented Hollywood, Neal Gabler

     I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, Sylvie Simmons

      The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature, The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century, Come and Hear: What I Saw in My Seven-And-A-Half-Year Journey Through the Talmud, Adam Kirsch

                             Literature

     The Schoken Bible: The Five Books of Moses

     The Guide for the Perplexed, Maimonides

     Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays, The Ineffable Name of God: Man, Abraham Joshua Heschel

     Siddur Leshabbat Veyom Tov: Prayer Book for Sabbath & Festivals with Torah Readings, Philip Birnbaum

     On The Bible, Tales of the Hasidim, Vols 1-2 (Bonny V. Fetterman Editor, Chaim Potok Foreword), I and Thou, Between Man and Man, Martin Buber

Martin Buber, Diamond

The Text as Thou: Martin Buber's Dialogical Hermeneutics and Narrative Theology, Steven Kepnes

Learning Through Dialogue: The Relevance of Martin Buber's Classroom, Kenneth Paul Kramer

     Zohar: The Book of Splendor: Basic Readings from the Kabbalah, On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism, On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah, Kabbalah, Origins of the Kabbalah, The Messianic Idea in Judaism: And Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality, Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship, From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth, The Fullness of Time: Poems by Gershom Scholem, A Life in Letters, 1914-1982,  Gershom Scholem

     The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire, Understanding Brecht, Walter Benjamin

     The Five Books of Miriam, Ellen Frankel

     Congregation, Rosenberg ed

     The Essential Kabbalah, Daniel Matt

     Sages and Dreamers, A Passover Haggadah, Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends, Wise Men and Their Tales: Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Masters, All RIvers Run To The Sea: Memoir, Night Trilogy ( Night, Dawn, Day), The Trial of God: as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod, A Beggar in Jerusalem, Elie Wiesel

Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom, Ariel Burger

     Survival in Auschwitz, Auschwitz Report, The Reawakening, The Drowned and the Saved, Moments of Reprieve, If Not Now When?, Periodic Table, The Mirror Maker: Stories and Essays, The Monkey's Wrench, Collected Poems, Primo Levi

Primo Levi's Resistance: Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy, Sergio Luzzatto

     Holiday Tales of Scholom Aleichem

The World of Scholom Aleichem, Samuel

     Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

     Days of Awe, S.Y. Agnon

     Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan, Paul Celan, John Felstiner trans.

     Theological-Political Treatise, Ethics, Baruch Spinoza

A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age, Steven Nadler

Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity, Rebecca Goldstein

     The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels), Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx 

The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto, Slavoj Žižek

A Companion to Marx's Capital, David Harvey

     The Freud Reader Peter Gay (Editor), Totem and Taboo, Civilization and Its Discontents, The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud

Freud: A Life for Our Time, Peter Gay

     Man's Search for Meaning, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy, Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything, Recollections: An Autobiography, Viktor E. Frankl

     Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Dissemination, Margins of Philosophy, Specters of Marx, Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles, The Truth in Painting, Jacques Derrida

     The Trial, The Castle, The Complete Stories, The Zürau Aphorisms, Franz Kafka

Conversations with Kafka, Gustav Janouch

Franz Kafka: a biography, Max Brod

Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

The Nightmare of Reason: Kafka, Pawel

     The Street of Crocodiles, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Bruno Schulz

     Elsewhere Perhaps, Fima, Amos Oz

     The Chosen, Davita's Harp, The Promise, My Name is Asher Lev, The Gift of Asher Lev, Chaim Potok

     Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch, Dalia Ravikovitch

     City of Many Days, The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East, Shulamith Hareven

     Mr Mani, Yehoshua

     Apples From The Desert, Savyon Liebrecht

     The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, Alter ed

The Writing of Yehuda Amichai: A Thematic Approach, Glenda Abramson

      An Impossible Life, David Black

     Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism, Voices Within The Ark, Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural, Miriam's Tambourine, Leaves from the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales, Gabriel's Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales, Invisible Kingdoms: Jewish Tales of Angels, Spirits, and Demons, A Palace of Pearls: The Stories of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, Reimagining the Bible: The Storytelling of the Rabbis, Voices Within the Ark: The Modern Jewish Poets, Howard Schwartz

     The Complete Stories, Near to the Wild Heart, The Apple in the Dark, The Passion According to G.H., The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector

Reading with Clarice Lispector, Hélène Cixous

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser

     Gimpel the Fool and other stories, Shadows on the Hudson, In My Father's Court, Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side (with Bruce Davidson),  The Spinoza of Market Street, A Friend of Kafka and other stories, A Crown of Feathers and other stories, The Family Moskat, Isaac Bashevis Singer

     The Complete Stories, Near to the Wild Heart, The Apple in the Dark, The Passion According to G.H., The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector

Reading with Clarice Lispector, Hélène Cixous

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser

     Where the Bird Sings Best, Albina and the Dog-Men, The Son of Black Thursday, Alejandro Jodorowsky

Anarchy and Alchemy: the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky

     The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, Sarit Yishai-Levi

     Jerusalem: A Family Portrait, Boaz Yakin, Nick Bertozzi (Illustrations)

                             Jewish American Literature

         The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, The Hope, The Glory, Marjorie Morningstar, Herman Wouk

     The Origins of Totalitarianism, On Revolution, The Human Condition, Between Past and Future, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, The Life of the Mind, Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, Love and Saint Augustine, Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975, The Promise of Politics, Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics Civil Disobedience On Violence and Thoughts on Politics and Revolution, The Recovery of the Public World, Responsibility and Judgment, The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age, Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations, Hannah Arendt

The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth, Ken Krimstein

Hannah Arendt, Julia Kristeva

      Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Art Spiegelman

      The Five Books of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah, The Classic Tales: 4,000 Years of Jewish Lore, Jewish Spirit: Stories & Art, Ellen Frankel

          Sages and Dreamers, A Passover Haggadah, Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends, Wise Men and Their Tales: Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Masters, All RIvers Run To The Sea: Memoir, Night Trilogy (Night, Dawn, Day), The Trial of God: as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod, A Beggar in Jerusalem, Elie Wiesel

Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom, Ariel Burger

     The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition: A Novel, Day After Night, Anita Diamant

     The Chosen, The Promise, My Name is Asher Lev, The Gift of Asher Lev, Davita's Harp, Chaim Potok

    The Shawl/Rosa, Envy, or Yiddish in America / The Pagan Rabbi, Collected Stories, The Messiah of Stockholm, The Puttermesser Papers, Antiquities, Heir to the Glimmering World, Foreign Bodies, Art & Ardor, Metaphor & Memory, Quarrel & Quandary: Essays, The Din in the Head, Critics Monsters Fanatics and Other Literary Essays, Portrait Of The Artist As A Bad Character: And Other Essays On Writing, Cynthia Ozick

     The Rabbi of Lud, Boswell, George Mills, The Dick Gibson Show, Stanley Elkin

    Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The March, World's Fair, E.L. Doctorow

E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) Harold Bloom

    Essays, Collected Stories, Grace Paley

    Gimpel the Fool and other stories, Shadows on the Hudson, In My Father's Court, Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side (with Bruce Davidson),  The Spinoza of Market Street, A Friend of Kafka and other stories, A Crown of Feathers and other stories, The Family Moskat, Isaac Bashevis Singer

   Anarchy and other writings, Living My Life, Emma Goldman

  The Adventures of Augie March, Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Humboldt's Gift, Collected Stories, There Is Simply Too Much to Think about: Collected Nonfiction, Saul Bellow

Conversations with Saul Bellow, Saul Bellow (Editor), Gloria L. Cronin, Ben Siegel

The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune 1915-1964, The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005, Zachary Leader

     The Complete Stories, The Natural, The Assistant, The Fixer, Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud

   Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story, I Was Here, The Weight of Ink, Rachel Kadish                

   The Ghost Writer, The Counterlife, Operation Shylock, The Plot Against America, American Pastoral, I Married A Communist, Philip Roth

   Man Walks into a Room, The History of Love, Great House, Forest Dark, Nicole Krauss

     A Guide for the Perplexed: a novel, Septimania: a novel, Jonathan Levi

     36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, Properties of Light: A Novel of Love Betrayal and Quantum Physics, The Dark Sister, Strange Attractors: Stories, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity, Rebecca Goldstein

     Kaddish, Leon Wieseltier

     Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Tree of Codes, Here I Am, Eating Animals, The Future Dictionary of America (Editor), New American Haggadah, Jonathan Safran Foer

     The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, The Final Solution, Summerland, Gentlemen of the Road, Telegraph Avenue, Moonglow, Manhood for Amateurs, Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands, Michael Chabon

     Poems 1962-2020, American Originality: Essays on Poetry, Louise Glück

The Poetry of Louise Glück: A Thematic Introduction, Daniel Morris


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