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If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir

10 best books like If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir (Ilana Kurshan): Eternal Life, The Weight of Ink, As a Driven Leaf, This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales, The Best Place on Earth, The Orchard, Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet, The Book of Separation

Eternal Life
AuthorDara Horn
ISBN0393356566
Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can’t die. Her recent troubles—widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son—are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of children. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual bargain...
The Weight of Ink
AuthorRachel Kadish
An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book.

Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester...
As a Driven Leaf
AuthorMilton Steinberg
ISBN0874411033
The age of the Talmud is brought to life in a breathtaking saga. This masterpiece of modern fiction tells the gripping tale of renegade talmudic sage Elisha ben Abuyah's struggle to reconcile his faith with the allure of Hellenistic culture.
Set in Roman Palestine, As a Driven Leaf draws readers...
This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
AuthorAlan Lew
ISBN0316739081
There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling and heartbroken, as we stumble back to our faith.The Days of Awe...
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
AuthorMichael David Lukas
ISBN0399181164
In this spellbinding novel, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets.

Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling him into a mesmerizing...
A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales
AuthorRuth Calderon
ISBN0827612095
Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and most colorful stories in the Talmud. Calderon rewrites talmudic tales as richly imagined fictions,...
The Best Place on Earth
AuthorAyelet Tsabari
ISBN1443411957
Confident, original and humane, the stories in The Best Place on Earth are peopled with characters at the crossroads of nationalities, religions and communities: expatriates, travellers, immigrants and locals.

In the powerfully affecting opening story, “Tikkun,” a chance meeting...
The Orchard
AuthorYochi Brandes
Yochi Brandes is one of the top authors in Israel. The Orchard, her eighth book, is considered the most daring and ambitious of her novels. Critics went so far as to call it a cultural phenomenon after it eclipsed the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy on the Israeli bestseller lists. The novel depicts the beginnings...
Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet
AuthorErica Brown
In Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet, Dr. Erica Brown takes us on a journey over land and sea, in the footsteps of the Bible’s most recalcitrant prophet. Melding traditional commentators, rabbinic literature, modern biblical scholarship, psychological sensitivity, and artistic imagination, Brown...
The Book of Separation
AuthorTova Mirvis
ISBN0544520521
The memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world.

Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this...
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
AuthorYossi Klein Halevi
ISBN0062844938
New York Times bestseller

"A profound and original book, the work of a gifted thinker."--Daphne Merkin, The Wall Street Journal

Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly...
The Art of Leaving
AuthorAyelet Tsabari
ISBN1443447889
An unforgettable memoir about a young woman who tries to outrun loss, but eventually finds a way home.

Ayelet Tsabari was 21 years old the first time she left Tel Aviv with no plans to return. Restless after two turbulent mandatory years in the Israel Defense Forces, Tsabari longed to get away....
Kaddish.com
AuthorNathan Englander
ISBN1524732753
The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father

Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies,...
Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul
AuthorNaomi Levy
ISBN1250057264
Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Award in the Religion/Spirituality of Western Thought category

A bestselling author and rabbi's profoundly affecting exploration of the meaning and purpose of the soul, inspired by the famous correspondence between Albert Einstein and a grieving rabbi.

"A...
A Guide for the Perplexed
AuthorDara Horn
ISBN0393064891
The incomparable Dara Horn returns with a spellbinding novel of how technology changes memory and how memory shapes the soul.

Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When an Egyptian library invites her to visit as a consultant,...
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir
AuthorMeir Shalev
ISBN0805242872
From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth. Here we meet Shalev’s amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923...
The Ruined House
AuthorRuby Namdar
ISBN0062467492
Andrew P. Cohen, a professor of comparative culture at New York University, is at the zenith of his life. Adored by his classes, published in prestigious literary magazines, he is about to receive a coveted promotion—the crowning achievement of an envious career. He is on excellent terms with Linda,...
Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom
AuthorAriel Burger
ISBN1328802698
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD—BIOGRAPHY

Elie Wiesel was a towering presence on the world stage—a Nobel laureate, activist, adviser to world leaders, and the author of more than forty books, including the Oprah’s Book Club selection Night. But when asked, Wiesel always...
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