Jewish Literature Syllabus (without Zionism and victimhood)

1.
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History 4.14 avg rating — 465 ratings
2.
Kaddish and Other Poems
Kaddish and Other Poems 4.19 avg rating — 9,458 ratings
3.
Bread Givers
Bread Givers 3.75 avg rating — 6,777 ratings
4.
The Sophie Horowitz Story
The Sophie Horowitz Story 3.66 avg rating — 176 ratings
5.
Book of Rachel
Book of Rachel 3.65 avg rating — 93 ratings
6.
Schtick
Schtick 4.20 avg rating — 50 ratings
7.
Jews Without Money
Jews Without Money 3.85 avg rating — 1,010 ratings
8.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 3.79 avg rating — 57 ratings
9.
He, She and It
He, She and It 3.99 avg rating — 5,764 ratings
10.
The Rise of David Levinsky
The Rise of David Levinsky 3.71 avg rating — 690 ratings
11.
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories 4.01 avg rating — 2,781 ratings
12.
Kantika
Kantika 4.05 avg rating — 5,847 ratings
13.
Later Poems Selected and New: 1971–2012
Later Poems Selected and New: 1971–2012 4.30 avg rating — 146 ratings
14.
Hungry Hearts
Hungry Hearts 3.77 avg rating — 375 ratings
15.
Book of Esther
Book of Esther 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings
16.
The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home
The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home 3.86 avg rating — 1,008 ratings
17.
Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues 4.53 avg rating — 34,595 ratings
18.
On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat
On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat 4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
19.
Millennium Approaches (Angels in America, #1)
Millennium Approaches (Angels in America, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 24,949 ratings
20.
Perestroika (Angels in America, #2)
Perestroika (Angels in America, #2) 4.24 avg rating — 22,890 ratings
21.
Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!
Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! 3.80 avg rating — 1,781 ratings
22.
Torch Song Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy 4.25 avg rating — 2,457 ratings
23.
The Sisters Rosensweig
The Sisters Rosensweig 3.62 avg rating — 540 ratings
24.
The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979 - 2011
The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979 - 2011 4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings
25.
Black White and Jewish
Black White and Jewish 3.78 avg rating — 2,940 ratings
26.
Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile 3.96 avg rating — 89 ratings
27.
We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands
We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands 3.81 avg rating — 108 ratings
28.
Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew
Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew 4.40 avg rating — 616 ratings
29.
Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York
Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York 3.41 avg rating — 468 ratings
30.
Envy; or Yiddish in America
Envy; or Yiddish in America 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
31.
The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories
The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories 3.77 avg rating — 240 ratings
32.
The Red Tent
The Red Tent 4.20 avg rating — 624,020 ratings
33.
Azazel
Azazel 3.72 avg rating — 4,070 ratings
34.
I. Asimov: A Memoir
I. Asimov: A Memoir 4.04 avg rating — 3,527 ratings
35.
The Fever
The Fever 4.08 avg rating — 809 ratings
36.
The Designated Mourner
The Designated Mourner 3.75 avg rating — 453 ratings
37.
Baghdad, Yesterday: The Making of an Arab Jew
Baghdad, Yesterday: The Making of an Arab Jew 3.75 avg rating — 56 ratings
38.
What I Will Tell My Jewish Kids and Other Poems on Palestine
What I Will Tell My Jewish Kids and Other Poems on Palestine 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
39.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.13 avg rating — 3,361 ratings
40.
Begin Again: Collected Poems
Begin Again: Collected Poems 4.04 avg rating — 206 ratings
41.
The Last Waltz in Santiago: And Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance
The Last Waltz in Santiago: And Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance 4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings
42.
Call It Sleep
Call It Sleep 3.81 avg rating — 8,879 ratings
43.
The Hour of the Star
The Hour of the Star 4.11 avg rating — 48,430 ratings
44.
The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas (Jewish Latin America Series)
The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas (Jewish Latin America Series) 3.60 avg rating — 82 ratings
45.
Heshel's Kingdom : A Family, a People, a Divided Fate
Heshel's Kingdom : A Family, a People, a Divided Fate 3.72 avg rating — 60 ratings
46.
The Centaur in the Garden
The Centaur in the Garden 3.74 avg rating — 1,238 ratings
47.
The Strange Nation of Rafael Mendes
The Strange Nation of Rafael Mendes 3.67 avg rating — 49 ratings
48.
The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner
The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner 4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
49.
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number 3.93 avg rating — 625 ratings
50.
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi 4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings
51.
The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn 3.89 avg rating — 656 ratings
52.
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World 4.04 avg rating — 4,939 ratings
53.
Out of Egypt: A Memoir
Out of Egypt: A Memoir 4.02 avg rating — 3,193 ratings
54.
The Pillar of Salt
The Pillar of Salt 3.85 avg rating — 452 ratings
55.
New York Jew
New York Jew really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 66 ratings
56.
Beyond the Pale by Elena Dykewomon
Beyond the Pale by Elena Dykewomon 4.33 avg rating — 1,162 ratings
57.
Bee Season
Bee Season 3.57 avg rating — 25,417 ratings
58.
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer 4.38 avg rating — 2,198 ratings
59.
Wandering Stars: A Novel
Wandering Stars: A Novel 3.92 avg rating — 295 ratings
60.
My Name Is Asher Lev
My Name Is Asher Lev 4.24 avg rating — 42,914 ratings
61.
The Chosen (Reuven Malther, #1)
The Chosen (Reuven Malther, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 96,279 ratings
62.
The Man With Many Hats
The Man With Many Hats liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
63.
Ruby of Cochin: An Indian Jewish Woman Remembers
Ruby of Cochin: An Indian Jewish Woman Remembers 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings