The Hillel House Library
We are lucky to have many books in our Beit Mirdash (place of study), also called our Library or Conference Table Room. You can check out as many books as you please! If the book has a card in it, please take the card and fill it out and then place it in the blue basket on the featured books table in the living room. If the book does not have a card, simply write on a piece of paper your name, cell phone number, and the title of the book(s) you are borrowing. Leave this piece of paper also in the blue basket on the first floor.
To return books, place in the Teal Egg-Crate underneath the book display table on the first floor.
selected catalog
fiction, memoir, and self-help
All Who Go Do Not Return, by Shulem Deen
Angels in America, by Tony Kushner
Barrel Fever, by David Sedaris
Eric, by Terry Pratchett
In the Beginning, by Chaim Potok
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo
Naamah, by Sarah Blake
The Gift of Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok
The Mind-Body Problem, by Rebecca Goldstein
Unorthodox, by Deborah Feldman
Woman of Valor, by Lihi Lapid
jewish theology and philosophy
101 Things Everyone Should Know About Judaism, by Richard D. Bank and James B. Wiggins
A Thought For the Week, by Menachem Schneerson
Carnal Israel, by Daniel Boyarin
Choices in Modern Jewish Thought, by Eugene Borowitz
Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe, by Lisa Alcalay Klug
Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs, and Rituals, by George Robinson
From Enemy to Friend: Jewish Wisom and the Pursuit of Peace, by Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice, by Albert Vorspan
Judaism and Ecology, edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Judaism in Biological Perspective, by Rick Goldberg
The Illustrated Pirkei Avot, by Jessica Tamar Duetsch
Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism, by Lynn Davidman
Why Be Jewish? A Testament, by Edgar M. Bronfman
You Are The Book: A Spiritual Memoir, by Rabbi Tamara Miller
jewish history
A Short History of the Jewish People, by Raymond P. Scheindlin
A Peace to End All Peace, by David Fromkin
American Judaism, by Jonathan Sarna
Betraying Spinoza, by Rebecca Goldstein
Between Sickle and Hammer, by Ben Ami
Exodus and Emancipation: Biblical and African-American Slavery, by Kenneth Chelst
Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, by Abba Eban
Jews and Power, by Ruth Wisse
Jews of the United States, by Hasia Diner
The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History, edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr
The Jews in the Soviet Union, by Solomon M. Schwartz
The Mezuzah in the Madonna's Foot, by Trudy Alexy
The New Rabbi, by Stephen Fried
the shoah/the holocaust
Conscious & Courage: Rescuers of the Jews During the Holocaust, by Eva Fogelman
Denying the Holocaust, by Deborah Lipstadt
Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust, by Yaffa Eliach
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, by David Wyman
The Drowned and the Saved, by Primo Levi
israel, zionism, and the israeli/palestinian conflict
An Army of Roses: Inside the World of Palestine Women Suicide Bombers, by Barbara Victor
Healing Israel/Palestine, by Michael Lerner
How Israel Lost, by Richard Ben Cramer
The Bomb in the Basement, by Michael Karpin
The Israelis, by Donna Rosenthal
The Jewish State, by Theodor Herzl
The Zionist Ideas, edited by Gil Troy
This Side of Peace, by Hanan Ashrawi
social justice and politics (non-jewish politics)
Acts of Faith, by Eboo Patel
Jews & Blacks, By Cornel West and Micheal Lerner
When Islam is Not A Religion, by Asma T. Uddin