Tablet Magazine's List of 101 Great Jewish Books

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Tablet Magazine's list, at http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/145840/101-great-jewish-books. Note: This list is heavily -- if not disproportionately -- male, Ashkenazi (European), and New York-centric. It includes few books by or about women or Sephardic (Spanish/Portuguese) or Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) Jews.
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af Philip Roth
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The Savage Mind
af Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Satan in Goray
af Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The Armies of the Night
af Norman Mailer
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The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
af Shulamith Firestone
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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Luft under vingerne
af Erica Jong
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Where the Wild Things Are
af Maurice Sendak
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af Lawrence Durrell
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Dr. Ruth's Guide to Good Sex
af Ruth Westheimer
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Hvorfor har Sammy så travlt?
af Budd Schulberg
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Forblindelsen
af Elias Canetti
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The Mind-Body Problem
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The Passion According to G.H.
af Clarice Lispector
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The Counterlife
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The Rise of David Levinsky
af Abraham Cahan
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Anne Frank's dagbog
af Anne Frank
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Call It Sleep
af Henry Roth
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Two Concepts of Liberty: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 31 October 1958
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Den utrolige historie om Kavalier & Clay
af Michael Chabon
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The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln
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The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940
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Making It
af Norman Podhoretz
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The Adventures of K'TonTon: A Little Jewish Tom Thumb
af Sadie Rose Weilerstein
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Old New Land
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In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
af Delmore Schwartz
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af S. Y. Agnon
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Adventures in the Screen Trade
af William Goldman
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Marjorie Morningstar
af Herman Wouk
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The Feminine Mystique
af Betty Friedan
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Autoemancipation!
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, volume I: The Process of Capitalist Production
af Karl Marx
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af Yoram Kaniuk
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The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
af Harold Bloom
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Ethics
af Baruch Spinoza
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Punkt 22
af Joseph Heller
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Philosophical Investigations
af Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Kanelbutikkerne
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Hungry Hearts
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature
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All-of-a-Kind Family
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Ulysses
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Red Cavalry
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Vejen til Swann
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Drømmetydning bind 1-2
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The Foundation Novels [seven-book bundle]
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Beginning to see the light: Pieces of a decade
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Samson
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The Puttermesser Papers
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Daniel Deronda
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Eichmann i Jerusalem : en rapport om ondskabens banalitet
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
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A Walker in the City
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The Dybbuk
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The Family Mashber
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World of Our Fathers
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The Jewish government and other stories
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The Yeshiva
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The I. L. Peretz Reader
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The Destruction of the European Jews
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Hvis dette er et menneske
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Den jødiske krig
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King of the Jews
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