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Boychiks in the Hood: Travels in the Hasidic Underground

10 best books like Boychiks in the Hood: Travels in the Hasidic Underground (Robert Eisenberg): Confessions, About a Boy, Fighting Over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, The Lonely Man of Faith, The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America, The Radleys, Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory

Confessions
AuthorAugustine of Hippo
ISBN0192833723
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting...
About a Boy
AuthorNick Hornby
ISBN0140285679
'How cool was Will Freeman?'

Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping...
Fighting Over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution
AuthorAndrew M. Schocket
ISBN0814708161
The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation's founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source of...
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
AuthorMuhammad Yunus
ISBN1586481983
Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Grameen Bank,...
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
AuthorDeborah Feldman
ISBN1439187010
The instant New York Times bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.

As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism,...
The Lonely Man of Faith
AuthorJoseph B. Soloveitchik
ISBN0385514085
Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the rabbi known as “The Rav” by his followers worldwide, was a leading authority on the meaning of Jewish law and prominent force in building bridges between traditional Orthodox Judaism and the modern world. In The Lonely Man of Faith, a soaring, eloquent essay first published...
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
AuthorLinda Greenlaw
ISBN0786885416
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK! Known to millions of readers of The Perfect Storm as the captain of the Hannah Boden, sister ship to the Andrea Gail, Linda Greenlaw is also known as one of the best sea captains on the East Coast. Here she offers an adventure-soaked tale of her...
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
AuthorPeter Silver
ISBN0393062481
The colonial communities of eighteenth-century America were perhaps the most racially, ethnically, and religiously mixed societies on earth. Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics, and Covenentors, the Irish, the German, the French, the Welsh—groups that rarely intermingled...
The Radleys
AuthorMatt Haig
ISBN1847678602
Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/

I was looking for a scary vampire story. You’re probably thinking, “duh, Salem’s Lot, you idiot!” Well smartypantses, that was my first choice too . . . and then “The Cloud” ate it.



Whoever decided...
Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory
AuthorYosef Hayim Yerushalmi
ISBN0295975199
A colorfully written, subtle, and compelling examination of the tension between collective memory and modern history in the Jewish context. The book traces brief sketches on Jewish people's relationship to history and looks into the question of why Jews did not exert serious efforts to compose history...
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness
AuthorAdina Hoffman
ISBN0300141505
Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist’s eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged.

Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was forced to flee during the war in 1948. He traveled on foot...
Click: The Magic of Instant Connections
AuthorOri Brafman
ISBN0385529058
You know the feeling. You meet someone new—at a party or at work—and you just hit it off. There is an instant sense of camaraderie.
 
In a word, you “click.”
 
From the bestselling authors of Sway, Click is a fascinating psychological investigation of the forces behind what...
The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
AuthorAdam Braun
The riveting story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life.

Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful...
A Man With One of Those Faces
AuthorCaimh McDonnell
LOVED IT!!!

Do you know which famous person you look like?
I've been told that I have an uncanny resemblance to Brad Pitt...in the sense that we both have a body with two legs, two feet, two arms, two hands, and a head with two eyes, two ears, a nose, a mouth and hair. It's only the shape of everything...
The Thirteen Petalled Rose: A Discourse on the Essence of Jewish Existence and Belief
AuthorAdin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
ISBN0465082726
From Madonna's music videos to the glossy pages of celebrity magazines and back to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Jewish mysticism has stepped into the modern consciousness like never before. In this classic work, world-renowned scholar Adin Steinsaltz answers the major questions asked by modern...
The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools
AuthorAlfie Kohn
ISBN0325003254
Our students are tested to an extent that is unprecedented in American history and unparalleled anywhere in the world. Politicians and businesspeople, determined to get tough with students and teachers, have increased the pressure to raise standardized test scores. Unfortunately, the effort...
Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs—A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
AuthorBen Mezrich
ISBN1476771898
The bestselling author of Bringing Down the House (sixty-three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and the basis for the hit movie 21) and The Accidental Billionaires (the basis for the Academy Award–winning film The Social Network) delivers an epic drama of wealth, rivalry, and betrayal...
I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
AuthorNadja Spiegelman
ISBN1594631921
A memoir of mothers and daughters—and mothers as daughters—traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again.  

For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most...
America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers
AuthorJoyce Antler
ISBN0807036072
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Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification
AuthorDavid Waldstreicher
ISBN0809094533
Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery’s place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four clauses, six were directly concerned with slaves and the interests...
Khirbet Khizeh
AuthorS. Yizhar
ISBN9659012594
This classic 1949 novella about the violent expulsion of Palestinian villagers by the Israeli army has long been considered a high point in Hebrew literature, as it has also given rise to fierce controversy over the years. Published just months after the end of the 1948 war (in which the author fought)...
With an Iron Pen: Twenty Years of Hebrew Protest Poetry
AuthorRachel Tzvia Back
ISBN1438426488
The eighty-eight poems in With an Iron Pen, all originally written in Hebrew, offer a collective protest to the continuing Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Palestinian territories--"the sin of Judah," which is written "with an iron pen, engraved with the point of a diamond on the tablet of their...
J'Accuse
AuthorAharon Shabtai
ISBN0811215393
Playing on Zola's famous letter denouncing the anti-Semitism of the French government throughout the Dreyfus affair, Aharon Shabtai's title can be taken literally: it charges his government and his people with crimes against the humanity of their neighbors. Here we find snipers shooting children,...
State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts
AuthorNick Hornby
ISBN0593087348
A heartbreaking, funny, and honest look inside of a marriage falling apart and the lengths a couple would go to in order to fix it from the bestselling author of About a Boy and High Fidelity.

"Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent, and emotionally generous all at once." - The New...
Last Orders
AuthorCaimh McDonnell
As a wise man once said, just because you're done with the past, doesn't mean the past is done with you.

Paul can't let an incident from his past go. When he finds out a rival detective agency played a key role in it, he drags MCM Investigations into a blood feud that they can't hope to win. Soon they're...
The Day That Never Comes
AuthorCaimh McDonnell
Remember those people that destroyed the economy and then cruised off on their yachts? Well guess what - someone is killing them.

Dublin is in the middle of a heat wave and tempers are running high. The Celtic Tiger is well and truly dead, activists have taken over the headquarters of a failed...
The Mayor of Mogadishu: A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia
AuthorAndrew Harding
ISBN1250072344
In The Mayor of Mogadishu, one of the BBC’s most experienced foreign correspondents, Andrew Harding, reveals the tumultuous life of Mohamoud “Tarzan” Nur - an impoverished nomad who was abandoned in a state orphanage in newly independent Somalia, and became a street brawler and activist....
Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
AuthorScott Harrison
ISBN1524762849
An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water.

At 28 years old, Scott Harrison had it all. A top nightclub promoter in New York City, his life was an endless cycle of drugs, booze,...
Your Life Is Mine
AuthorNathan Ripley
ISBN1501178253
Instant national bestseller Nathan Ripley follows up the success of Find You in the Dark with another suspenseful page-turner—this time about a woman whose notorious father died when she was a child, but whose legacy comes back to haunt her.

Blanche Potter never expected to face her past...
A Treasury of Yiddish Stories
AuthorIrving Howe
ISBN0140144196
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