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Jewish Resources

Here's where I'm planning to put links to actually Jewish Resources for people curious or those in conversion classes. Entries are grouped by topic and arranged by authors surname. UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Online Educational Resources

  • 18doors - Resources for Interfaith families - Skews US American and Reform
  • Aish - US American/Israeli Orthodox
  • Chabad - Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox
  • Jewfaq - British Conservative/Masorti
  • Jewish Virtual Library - US American/Israeli Nondenominational
  • My Jewish Learning - Great Resource- Skews American Reform
  • Reform Judaism - Skews US American
  • Ritual Well - Reconstructionist
  • Torah.org - Orthodox

    • Personal Blogs about Judaism

  • AskJumblr - Crowdsourced answers from Jewish Tumblr
  • Did you mean Xtianity? on tumblr - Jewish blogger with a background in early Xtian history
  • The Jewitches Blog
  • The Velveteen Rabbi

    • Other Jewish Resources Online

  • Chabad's Shabbat Candle Time Calculator
  • Kosher.com - Kosher Recipe Site
  • Halachipedia - Wiki for halacha
  • Mi Yodeya? - Jewish Substack exchange - be warned it has some great threads but it's like reddit for Yeshiva guys so there are some magma hot takes on there.
  • Sefaria.org - Online Library of Jewish religious and liturgical texts with translations and commentary
  • Yad Vashem's Holocaust Database
  • Yiddish Dictionary Lookup
  • YIVO Encyclopedia - Primarily Focused on Yiddish-Speaking Ashkenazim
  • Zemirot Database - Database for Jewish songs piyyutim and Zemirot

    • Books - General Judaism Non-Fiction

  • Women and Jewish Law by Rachel Biale
  • Living a Jewish Life by Anita Diamant
  • To Be a Jew by Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin (archive.org)
  • People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn
  • Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life — in Judaism (2019) by Sarah Hurwitz
  • The Jewish Book of Why by Alfred J. Kolatch
  • Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs and Rituals (Updated in 2016) by George Robinson
  • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
  • Basic Judaism by Milton Steinberg

    • Books -Non-Fiction - Palestinian History and Liberation, History of Medinat Yisrael.

  • Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society by Nadia Abu El Haj(2001)
  • Black Skin, White Masks by Franz Fanon (archive.org)
  • The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon(archive.org)
  • The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi (2008)
  • All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 by Walid Khalidi (1992)
  • From Haven to Conquest : Readings in Zionism and the Palestine problem until 1948 by Walid Khalidi (1998) (archive.org)
  • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Walid Khalidi (2020)
  • The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe (2006) (archive) (wiki)

    • Books - Non-Fiction- LGBT Jews

  • A Rainbow Thread by Noam Sienna
  • Wrestling with Man and God - Rabbi Steven Greenberg
  • Torah Queeries
  • Becoming Eve by Rabbi Abby Stein

    • Books - Holocaust Memoirs/ Non-Fiction

  • Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt (archive.org)
  • A Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (archive.org) (wiki)
  • From Thessaloniki to Auschwitz and Back: Memories of a Survivor from Thessaloniki by Erika Kounio-Amarilio
  • Night by Elie Wiesel
  • Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story by Dan Vittorio Segre
  • Maus by Art Spiegelmann - Graphic Novel

    • Books - Jewish Cookbooks

  • The Jewish Cookbook by Leah Keonig
  • The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden
  • 100 Best Jewish Recipes by Evelyn and Judi Rose
  • Ima by Yael Shochat
  • Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and it's sister book Falastin by Sami Tamimi
  • The Cooking Gene - Michael Twitty -Soul Food and African-American Jewish Cuisine by writer, educator and all-around mensch MichaelTwitty

    • Books - Jewish Fiction

  • Cavalier and Clay - by Michael Chabon - Drama Fiction about the Silver Age of Comics and it's Jewish origins with an expy of Jack Kirby
  • The Yiddish Policeman's Union - by Michael Chabon - Alternate History Film Noir Crime Fiction about a Detective in the Jewish State of Alaska.
  • The Red Tent by Anita Diamant - Historical Fiction from a Jewish Feminist lense.
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman - Not explicitly Jewish but Gaiman is and listen, it's a very diasporic Jewish take on modern belief and henotheism.
  • The Mangoverse Series by Shira Glassman - YA LGBT F/F Romance and Fantasy
  • Avi Cantor has Six Months to Live by Sacha Lamb - YA M/M LGBT Romance and Fantasy
  • When the Angels left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb - Fantasy/Historical
  • The Djinni and the Golem by Helene Wecker - Modern Fantasy

    • Films

  • The Dybbuk (1937)- One of the earliest surviving Yiddish language films. (wiki)(archive.org)
  • Jacob the Liar (1975) dir. Frank Beyer - Set in Occupied Poland the title character makes up rumours that he heard from a radio to keep up the spirits of other Jews in the ghetto.
  • The Fifth Horseman is Fear (1965) dir. Zbyněk Brynych.- a Czechoslovak expressionist film about the Holocaust.(wiki)
  • You are So Not Invited to my Bat Mitzvah (2023) dir. Sammi Cohen- Teen coming-of-age dramedy about a teenage girl preparing for her Bat Mitzvah. It's on US Netflix, if you have that.
  • A Serious Man (2009) dir Coen Brothers - A Coen Brothers retelling of the Book of Job. If you know the Coen Brothers you'll know it's fairly inscrutable the first time you watch it but it's an excelent and very Jewish film.
  • For Your Consideration (2006) dir. Christopher Guest - A very hammy comedy about the production of a Jewish Western film called "Home For Purim" that it becomes rumoured to have won an Academy Award. Eugene Levy is his most Jewish dad in this outside of Schitt's Creek
  • Lies My Father Told Me (1975) dir Ján Kadár. - Semi-biographical film about the life of an Orthodox Jewish boy in Canada.
  • The Fixer (1968) dir. Bernard Malamud - Based on a real account of Blood Libel in Ukraine.
  • The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019) dir. Gideon Raff - Spy thriller film based on true events of Operation Moses and Operation Joshua - bringing a large group of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
  • Uncut Gems (2019) dir. Safdie Brothers-Crime thriller about Jewish jewel thieves.
  • To Dust (2018) dir Shawn Snyder - A black comedy about a Haredi man who becomes depressed after his wife dies, and he strikes up a friendship with a professor of biology.
  • Schindler's List (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg -Really the only actual Holocaust film I recommend apart from maybe La Bella è Vita by Roberto Benigni.
  • Munich (2005) dir Spielberg - A drama based on the true events of Mossad Assassinations during Operation Bayonet after the Munich Massacre.
  • The Fabelmans (2022) dir. Steven Spielberg - Semi-autobiographical film based on Steven Spielberg's life.
  • Minyan (2020) dir. Eric Steel - Gay Coming-of-age film set during the AIDS Crisis, the main character is a young Orthodox Jewish man coming to terms with his sexuality and dealing with a sometimes abusive family.
  • Yentl(1983) dir Barbra Streisand- Arguably one of the most iconic Jewish films, Barbra Streisand plays a young woman who dresses as a man to attend a Yeshiva. It's camp, it's a musical, it's very queer-coded. I love Yentl.