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Recommended Readings for Considering Judaism
Yehuda Amichai, Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems
Bradley Shavit Artson, It’s a Mitzvah! Step-by-Step to Jewish Living
Wendy Besmann, A Separate Circle: Jewish life in Knoxville
Benjamin Blech, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Judasim
Anita Diamant, Choosing a Jewish Life
Anita Diamant and Howard Cooper. Living a Jewish Life: Jewish Traditions, Customs and Values for Today’s Families
Wayne Dosck, Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition and Practice
David J. Goldberg and John D. Rayner, The Jewish People: Their History and Their Religion
Arthur Green, Judaism’s 10 Best Ideas: A Brief Guide for Seekers
Blu Greenberg, How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household
Irving Greenberg, The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man
Susannah Heschel, On Being a Jewish Feminist
Barry Holtz, Back to the Sources
Louis Jacobs, The Book of Jewish Beliefs
Louis Jacobs, The Book of Jewish Practice
Mira Kimmelman, Echoes from the Holocaust
Harold Kushner, To Life! A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking
Maurice Lamm, Becoming a Jew
Maurice Lamm, The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning
Joan Nathan, Jewish Cooking in America
Amos Oz, In the Land of Israel
Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai
Chaim Potok, The Gift of Asher Lev
George Robinson, Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs, and Rituals, updated 2016
Claudia Roden, The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand
Howard M. Sachar, A History of Israel
Richard Siegel, Michael Strassfeld, and Sharon Strassfeld, The Jewish Catalog
Michael Strassfeld, A Book of Life: Embracing Judaism as a Spiritual Practice
Joseph Telushkin, The Book of Jewish Values
Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History
Leo Trepp, The Complete Book of Jewish Observance
Ellen M. Umansky and Diane Ashton, Four Centuries of Jewish Women’s Spirituality
Leon Uris, Exodus
Elie Wiesel, Night
David Wolpe, Why be Jewish?
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