BookEnds: 1952-2012
On the occasion of JBW's 60th anniversary, we have decided to attempt the impossible task of listing 60 great Jewish books of the last 60 years.
To find out more about how the list came about, read the JBW blog, Bagels & Books. Believe me, it wasn't easy! We did not even think of trying to rank them. They are in alphabetical order and listed as fiction, drama, poetry, non fiction and children's books.
Now your turn. We would love to have your "must have been on the list!!!!!s" via email or by posting on twitter or facebook. But remember, for every book you add, another one has to go....
| Aharon Appelfeld |
Badenheim 1939 |
| Saul Bellow |
Mr Sammler's Planet |
| Linda Grant |
When I Lived in Modern Times |
| Vasily Grossman |
Life and Fate |
| David Grossman |
See Under: Love |
| Joseph Heller |
Good As Gold |
| Howard Jacobson |
The Mighty Walzer |
| Thomas Keneally |
Schindler's Ark |
| Imre Kertesz |
Fatelessness |
| Jerzy Kosinski |
The Painted Bird |
| Nicole Krauss |
The History of Love |
| Bernard Malamud |
The Fixer |
| Albert Memmi |
The Pillar of Salt |
| Anne Michaels |
Fugitive Pieces |
| Amos Oz |
A Tale of Love and Darkness |
| Cynthia Ozick |
The Shawl |
| Chaim Potok |
The Chosen |
| Philip Roth |
American Pastoral |
| Bernice Rubens |
The Elected Member |
| Jonathan Safran Foer |
Everything is Illuminated |
| Andre Schwartz-Bart |
The Last of the Just |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Enemies - A Love Story |
| Art Spiegelman |
Maus |
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| Tony Kushner |
Angels in America |
| Arthur Miller |
The Price |
| Harold Pinter |
The Birthday Party |
| Neil Simon |
The Odd Couple |
| Arnold Wesker |
Roots |
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| Yehuda Amichai |
Poems of Jerusalem |
| Leonard Cohen |
Lyrics |
| Allen Ginsberg |
Kaddish |
| Paul Celan |
Poems |
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| Dannie Abse |
Ash on a Young Man’s Sleeve |
| Hannah Arendt |
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil |
| Isaiah Berlin |
Two Concepts of Liberty |
| Bruno Bettelheim |
Children of the Dream |
| Avraham Burg |
The Holocaust is Over, We Must Rise from its Ashes |
| Anne Frank |
The Diary of Anne Frank |
| Martin Gilbert |
The Holocaust |
| John Gross |
A Double Thread |
| Abraham Joshua Heschel |
God in Search of Man |
| Eric Hobsbawm |
The Age of Extremes |
| Eva Hoffman |
Lost in Translation |
| Louis Jacobs |
We Have Reason to Believe |
| Yeshayahu Leibowitz |
Judaism, Human Values and the Jewish State |
| Primo Levi |
If This Is a Man |
| Nadezhda Mandelstam |
Hope Against Hope |
| Benny Morris |
The Birth of the Palestinian Problem |
| Claudia Roden |
The Book of Jewish Food |
| Leo Rosten |
The Joys of Yiddish |
| Jonathan Sacks |
The Dignity of Difference |
| Roman Vishniac |
A Vanished World |
| Edmund de Waal |
The Hare with Amber Eyes |
| Leon Wieseltier |
Kaddish |
| George Steiner |
Language and Silence |
| Adin Steinsaltz |
The Talmud |
| Elie Wiesel |
Night |
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| Judith Kerr |
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit |
| Shel Silverstein |
The Giving Tree |
| Maurice Sendak |
Where the Wild Things Are |
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