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BOOK CLUB

FEATURED PICKS

1) WHERE PRIDE DWELLS BY RABBI DENISE EGER BOOK CLUB This groundbreaking collection of LGBTQ prayers, poems, liturgy, and rituals is both a spiritual resource and a celebratory affirmation of Jewish diversity. Giving voice to the private and public sectors of queer Jewish experience, Mishkan Ga’avah is also a commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of both the Stonewall Riots and the first pride march, reflecting the longtime advocacy of the Reform Movement for full LGBTQ inclusion. Tune into the Zioness Book Club interview with Rabbi Eger on April 22 by registering at www.zioness.org/events

2) MY OWN WORDS BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG This incredible collection of speeches and writings cover life as a Jewish woman, gender equality, and the U.S. Constitution from one of the greatest living Zionesses of our time: the notorious RBG.

3) : HERE AND NOW BY DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT The winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award, this book (written as a series of letters to a college student and a professor) gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from neo-Nazis, to mainstream enablers like , to the Chicago .

4) AN IMPROBABLE FRIENDSHIP BY ANTHONY DAVID Fashion designer and social activist Ruth Dayan, IDF General ’s wife, and Palestinian journalist Raymonda Tawil, ’s mother-in-law, first became friends after the Six-Day War in 1967. Using interviews and journal entries, this tells the history of the Middle East’s most influential leaders from two prominent women on either side of the ongoing conflict.

5) YES SHE CAN COMPILED BY MOLLY DILLON This anthology includes 10 inspiring stories from young female staffers of the Obama White House (three of them are Jewish). It tells their successes and challenges while taking charge and creating change in the U.S. government.

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6) THE LIBERATION OF THE JEW BY ALBERT MEMMI Primarily available as an e-book, this work from one of the greatest world’s foremost writers on colonization and post-modernism makes the case why and liberate Jews from oppression worldwide and from a crisis of identity.

7) EXODUS BY LEON URIS This tremendous historical novel depicts the incredible courage of Jews defying the British government to settle in and the freedom fighters who sacrificed to build the State of Israel and secure the future for generations of Jews. (Catch the epic film, starring Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint, but not until after you read the book!)

8) DEAR MADAM PRESIDENT BY JENNIFER PALMIERI Framed as an empowering letter from former Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri to the first woman president, and by extension, to all women working to succeed in any field, this book is filled with forward-thinking, practical advice for all women who are determined to seize control of their lives—from boardroom to living room.

9) HOW TO FIGHT ANTISEMITISM BY BARI WEISS The prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country—and explains, in practical terms and a powerful unifying voice, what we can do to defeat it. Check out the great Zioness shout-out in the section entitled “How to Fight”!

10) HERE ALL ALONG BY SARAH HURWITZ David Axelrod, director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and former senior advisor to President Barack Obama, describes this book by his former colleague this way: “Searching for meaning in the ancient scripture and traditions of Judaism, Sarah Hurwitz takes us along on an enriching journey of discovery. In Here All Along, she explores her birthright as a Jew and finds timeless and valuable life lessons.”

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BOOK 11) LETTERS TO MY PALESTINIAN NEIGHBOR BY YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI CLUB Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation as he explores how the conflict looks through Israeli eyes.

12) LIONESS BY FRANCIE KLAGSBRUN Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award/Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year, this is the definitive biography of the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel. The iconic Golda was the second female head of state in modern history and part of the inspiration for Zioness’s name.

BOOK 13) BLACK POWER, JEWISH POLITICS BY PROFESSOR MARC DOLLINGER CLUB Marc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power–inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows how black nationalists enabled Jewish activists to devise a new Judeo-centered political agenda including the emancipation of Soviet Jews, the rise of Jewish day schools, the revitalization of worship services with gender-inclusive liturgy, and the birth of a new form of American Zionism.

14) THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA BY PHILIP ROTH Philip Roth’s bestselling alternate history novel tells the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist, antisemitic president in Charles Lindbergh over Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. Shortly thereafter, Lindbergh negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler. (And don’t miss the new HBO series based on the book!)

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ZIONISM FOCUSED

The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky by Susie Linfield

Winning the War of Words: Essays on Zionism and Israel by Einat Wilf

The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi

Telling Our Story: Recent Essays on Zionism, the Middle East, and the Path to Peace by Einat Wilf

The Liberation of the Jew by Albert Memmi

Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS, edited by Andrew Pessin and Doron S. Ben-Atar

Contemporary Left Antisemitism by David Hirsch

FEMINISM/PROGRESSIVE FOCUS

Emma Lazarus by Esther Schor

Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community by Noach Dzmura

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (Essays) by Rebecca Solnit

BOOK CLUB My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World by Jennifer Palmieri Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate by Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr and Rabbi Alysa Mendelson Graf

Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage by Barney Frank The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts

Then Comes Marriage: United States V. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA by Lisa Dickey and Roberta A. Kaplan

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin by Marlene Trestman

Yes She Can: 10 Stories of Hope & Change from Young Female Staffers of the Obama White House (three of the authors are Jewish)

Call Me Phaedra: The Life and Times of Movement Lawyer Fay Stender by Lise A. Pearlman

Balancing on the Mechitza by Noach Dzmura

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ISRAELI HISTORY FOCUS

The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring by Gregory J. Wallance

A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz

Never a Native by Alice Shalvi

Spies of No Country by Matti Friedman

The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership by Yehuda Avner

Israel: A History by Anita Shapira

Catch-67 by Micah Goodman

Israel: The Concise History of Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis

Be Strong and of Good Courage by Dennis Ross & David Makovsky

JEWISH HISTORY FOCUS

The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town by Edward Berenson

Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century by James Loeffler

The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel

In Ishmael’s House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands by Martin Gilbert

Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius

Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s by Marc Dollinger

Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi

When General Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan D. Sarna

Modern Girls by Jennifer S. Brown

Spirits of the Ordinary by Kathleen Alcala

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The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant

All Other Nights: A Novel by Dara Horn

The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg

Forest Dark: A Novel by Nicole Krauss

There Are Jews in My House by Lara Vapnyar

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

Stations West by Allison Amend

One Foot in America by Yuri Suhl

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Exodus by Leon Uris

Dropped from Heaven by Sophie Judah

ZIONESS BOOK CLUB

Books marked with the Zioness Book Club icon either have already been, or will soon be, part of our Book Club series! You can watch interviews with featured authors in the “videos” section of the Zioness Facebook page.

Join our upcoming Book Club discussion with Rabbi Denise Eger, author of Where Pride Dwells, on April 22 at 5pm ET / 8pm PT; make sure you register at www.zioness.org/events! And email us at [email protected] to let us know which books you like most and which authors you’d like us to feature in the future.

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