Jødisk

Eldgammel visdom møter det moderne liv i disse opplysende bøkene som utforsker jødisk kultur, spiritualitet og tankeliv gjennom personlige fortellinger, akademiske innsikter og praktisk veiledning. Rik på både tidløse lærdommer og samtidige perspektiver spenner denne samlingen over alt fra jiddisk arv og det israelske samfunnet til bevisst livsførsel og å finne dypere mening i jødiske tradisjoner.

Jødisk Boksammendrag

The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

av Kristin Harmel

When a photograph exposes an elderly jewel thief, her dead sister's bracelet surfaces in a museum.

4.24

83 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Mysterium

Historisk

The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau Sammendrag

Oppslukende

The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

When a photograph exposes an elderly jewel thief, her dead sister's bracelet surfaces in a museum.

av Kristin Harmel 2025 384 sider

4.24

83 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Mysterium

Historisk

Man's Search for Meaning

av Viktor E. Frankl • 1946

Auschwitz revealed that meaning, not pleasure or power, is what keeps human beings alive.

4.37

800 000+

Psykologi

Memoarer

Filosofi

Oppslukende

Man's Search for Meaning

Auschwitz revealed that meaning, not pleasure or power, is what keeps human beings alive.

av Viktor E. Frankl 1946 148 sider

4.37

800 000+ vurderinger

Psykologi

Memoarer

Filosofi

Family of Spies

av Christine Kuehn • 2025

A 1994 letter claimed her grandfather helped Japan attack Pearl Harbor. Every word was true.

4.22

15 000+

Historie

Memoarer

Biografi

Oppslukende

Family of Spies

A 1994 letter claimed her grandfather helped Japan attack Pearl Harbor. Every word was true.

av Christine Kuehn 2025 272 sider

4.22

15 000+ vurderinger

Historie

Memoarer

Biografi

The Book of Enoch

av Anonymous

Angels descended, took human wives, and unleashed chaos. One man's tour of heaven before the flood.

3.96

5 000+

Religion

Historie

Teologi

The Book of Enoch

Angels descended, took human wives, and unleashed chaos. One man's tour of heaven before the flood.

av Anonymous 160 sider

3.96

5 000+ vurderinger

Religion

Historie

Teologi

The Diary of a Young Girl

av Anne Frank • 1947

A Jewish teenager's diary of two years in an Amsterdam attic, hiding from the Nazis.

4.20

4 000 000+

Klassikere

Historie

Holocaust

The Diary of a Young Girl

A Jewish teenager's diary of two years in an Amsterdam attic, hiding from the Nazis.

av Anne Frank 1947 283 sider

4.20

4 000 000+ vurderinger

Klassikere

Historie

Holocaust

Night

av Elie Wiesel • 1956

A boy enters Auschwitz with a father to protect and a God who falls silent.

4.38

1 000 000+

Klassikere

Memoarer

Historie

Night

A boy enters Auschwitz with a father to protect and a God who falls silent.

av Elie Wiesel 1956 120 sider

4.38

1 000 000+ vurderinger

Klassikere

Memoarer

Historie

Business Secrets from the Bible

av Daniel Lapin • 2014

Ancient Hebrew wisdom for building wealth: serve strangers, give money away, and refuse to retire.

4.34

500+

Business

Finans

Penger

Business Secrets from the Bible

Ancient Hebrew wisdom for building wealth: serve strangers, give money away, and refuse to retire.

av Daniel Lapin 2014 320 sider

4.34

500+ vurderinger

Business

Finans

Penger

The Happiest Man on Earth

av Eddie Jaku • 2020

Auschwitz, Buchenwald, then Australia: how a man who lost everything rebuilt a life he calls happy.

4.62

100 000+

Biografi

Memoarer

Historie

The Happiest Man on Earth

Auschwitz, Buchenwald, then Australia: how a man who lost everything rebuilt a life he calls happy.

av Eddie Jaku 2020 200 sider

4.62

100 000+ vurderinger

Biografi

Memoarer

Historie

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

av James McBride • 2023

Chicken Hill's Black and Jewish neighbors conspire to rescue a deaf boy from a state asylum.

3.91

300 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Skjønnlitteratur

Mysterium

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Chicken Hill's Black and Jewish neighbors conspire to rescue a deaf boy from a state asylum.

av James McBride 2023 400 sider

3.91

300 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Skjønnlitteratur

Mysterium

Fortelleren

av Jodi Picoult • 2013

An elderly SS officer asks a reclusive Jewish baker to forgive and end his life.

4.30

200 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Holocaust

Samtidslitteratur

Fortelleren

An elderly SS officer asks a reclusive Jewish baker to forgive and end his life.

av Jodi Picoult 2013 461 sider

4.30

200 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Holocaust

Samtidslitteratur

Gutten i den stripete pyjamasen

av John Boyne • 2006

A commandant's son befriends a boy behind barbed wire, too innocent to see the danger.

4.16

900 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Ungdomsbøker

Klassikere

Gutten i den stripete pyjamasen

A commandant's son befriends a boy behind barbed wire, too innocent to see the danger.

av John Boyne 2006 224 sider

4.16

900 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Ungdomsbøker

Klassikere

The Zohar

av Daniel C. Matt • 2003

Underneath scripture's skin lies a dynamic, erotic map of God: the Zohar, Kabbalah's masterpiece.

4.40

255

Religion

Jødedom

Spiritualitet

The Zohar

Underneath scripture's skin lies a dynamic, erotic map of God: the Zohar, Kabbalah's masterpiece.

av Daniel C. Matt 2003 584 sider

4.40

255 vurderinger

Religion

Jødedom

Spiritualitet

I and Thou

av Martin Buber • 1923

Life divides into two modes: treating the world as an object, or meeting it as a presence.

4.07

11 000+

Filosofi

Religion

Spiritualitet

I and Thou

Life divides into two modes: treating the world as an object, or meeting it as a presence.

av Martin Buber 1923 192 sider

4.07

11 000+ vurderinger

Filosofi

Religion

Spiritualitet

De fantastiske eventyrene til Kavalier og Clay

av Michael Chabon • 2000

Jewish cousins in 1939 Brooklyn invent a superhero who fights the evil they can only draw.

4.19

200 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Skjønnlitteratur

Romaner

De fantastiske eventyrene til Kavalier og Clay

Jewish cousins in 1939 Brooklyn invent a superhero who fights the evil they can only draw.

av Michael Chabon 2000 639 sider

4.19

200 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Skjønnlitteratur

Romaner

Yes to Life

av Viktor E. Frankl • 2020

Three paths to finding meaning survived the Holocaust; they work for ordinary life too.

4.17

9 000+

Psykologi

Filosofi

Selvhjelp

Yes to Life

Three paths to finding meaning survived the Holocaust; they work for ordinary life too.

av Viktor E. Frankl 2020 136 sider

4.17

9 000+ vurderinger

Psykologi

Filosofi

Selvhjelp

The Boy on the Wooden Box

av Leon Leyson • 2013

Youngest on Schindler's list, he needed a wooden box just to reach the factory levers.

4.38

30 000+

Historie

Memoarer

Biografi

The Boy on the Wooden Box

Youngest on Schindler's list, he needed a wooden box just to reach the factory levers.

av Leon Leyson 2013 240 sider

4.38

30 000+ vurderinger

Historie

Memoarer

Biografi

The Power of Kabbalah

av Yehuda Berg • 2004

Reality is built by consciousness. Shift yours, and your finances, health, and future shift with it.

4.18

2 000+

Spiritualitet

Selvhjelp

Religion

The Power of Kabbalah

Reality is built by consciousness. Shift yours, and your finances, health, and future shift with it.

av Yehuda Berg 2004 288 sider

4.18

2 000+ vurderinger

Spiritualitet

Selvhjelp

Religion

Ten Myths About Israel

av Ilan Pappé • 2017

Ten founding myths of Israel, debunked: the land wasn't empty and the flight wasn't voluntary.

4.40

6 000+

Historie

Politikk

Krig

Ten Myths About Israel

Ten founding myths of Israel, debunked: the land wasn't empty and the flight wasn't voluntary.

av Ilan Pappé 2017 192 sider

4.40

6 000+ vurderinger

Historie

Politikk

Krig

When the World Was Ours

av Liz Kessler • 2021

Three best friends in 1936 Vienna. A photograph on the Ferris wheel. Then the Nazis come.

4.51

6 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Holocaust

Ungdomsbøker

When the World Was Ours

Three best friends in 1936 Vienna. A photograph on the Ferris wheel. Then the Nazis come.

av Liz Kessler 2021 352 sider

4.51

6 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Holocaust

Ungdomsbøker

Myth of Islamic Tolerance

av Robert Spencer • 2005

Behind Islam's tolerance story lies a legal caste system for non-Muslims, and its logic never left.

3.68

Religion

Politikk

Historie

Myth of Islamic Tolerance

Behind Islam's tolerance story lies a legal caste system for non-Muslims, and its logic never left.

av Robert Spencer 2005 602 sider

3.68

62 vurderinger

Religion

Politikk

Historie

Paul

av Paula Fredriksen • 2017

Paul’s letters were written by a Jew, to pagans, with the end in sight. That changes everything.

4.00

240

Historie

Religion

Kristendom

Paul

Paul’s letters were written by a Jew, to pagans, with the end in sight. That changes everything.

av Paula Fredriksen 2017 336 sider

4.00

240 vurderinger

Historie

Religion

Kristendom

Vi var de heldige

av Georgia Hunter • 2017

Scattered across continents by war, a Polish Jewish family fights to survive and reunite.

4.42

200 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Historisk

Wwii

Vi var de heldige

Scattered across continents by war, a Polish Jewish family fights to survive and reunite.

av Georgia Hunter 2017 403 sider

4.42

200 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Historisk

Wwii

I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree

av Laura Hillman • 2003

Schindler's list saved her life. A boy's promise inside the camps saved her will to live.

4.16

5 000+

Historie

Holocaust

Memoarer

I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree

Schindler's list saved her life. A boy's promise inside the camps saved her will to live.

av Laura Hillman 2003 288 sider

4.16

5 000+ vurderinger

Historie

Holocaust

Memoarer

Long Island Compromise

av Taffy Brodesser-Akner • 2024

A Long Island father survives a kidnapping, but his family pays the ransom for decades.

3.74

50 000+

Skjønnlitteratur

Samtidslitteratur

Jødisk

Long Island Compromise

A Long Island father survives a kidnapping, but his family pays the ransom for decades.

av Taffy Brodesser-Akner 2024 464 sider

3.74

50 000+ vurderinger

Skjønnlitteratur

Samtidslitteratur

Jødisk

The House of Rothschild, Vol 1

av Niall Ferguson • 1998

Five brothers in a Frankfurt ghetto became Europe's bankers by moving news faster than governments.

3.88

1 000+

Historie

Biografi

Økonomi

The House of Rothschild, Vol 1

Five brothers in a Frankfurt ghetto became Europe's bankers by moving news faster than governments.

av Niall Ferguson 1998 544 sider

3.88

1 000+ vurderinger

Historie

Biografi

Økonomi

Twelve Tribes

av Ethan Michaeli • 2021

Half of Israel's next generation comes from communities rejecting the state. The reckoning is here.

3.93

145

Politikk

Sosiologi

Historie

Oppslukende

Twelve Tribes

Half of Israel's next generation comes from communities rejecting the state. The reckoning is here.

av Ethan Michaeli 2021 464 sider

3.93

145 vurderinger

Politikk

Sosiologi

Historie

The Little Liar

av Mitch Albom • 2023

Salonika, 1943: a Jewish boy lies about the trains. His family boards. He never forgives himself.

4.56

100 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Holocaust

Wwii

The Little Liar

Salonika, 1943: a Jewish boy lies about the trains. His family boards. He never forgives himself.

av Mitch Albom 2023 333 sider

4.56

100 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Holocaust

Wwii

Skylark

av Paula McLain

A washerwoman's blue pigment, born in defiance, outlasts three centuries of war, fire, and silence.

3.89

11 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Skjønnlitteratur

Historisk

Oppslukende

Skylark

A washerwoman's blue pigment, born in defiance, outlasts three centuries of war, fire, and silence.

av Paula McLain 2026 464 sider

3.89

11 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Skjønnlitteratur

Historisk

Alt er opplyst

av Jonathan Safran Foer • 2002

An American scours Ukraine for his grandfather's savior, his translator guarding a dark secret.

3.89

100 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Skjønnlitteratur

Magisk realisme

Alt er opplyst

An American scours Ukraine for his grandfather's savior, his translator guarding a dark secret.

av Jonathan Safran Foer 2002 276 sider

3.89

100 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Skjønnlitteratur

Magisk realisme

The Source

av James A. Michener • 1965

Dig into a single Galilee mound and uncover ten thousand years of faith, war, and human survival.

4.30

45 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Historisk

Jødisk

The Source

Dig into a single Galilee mound and uncover ten thousand years of faith, war, and human survival.

av James A. Michener 1965 1080 sider

4.30

45 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Historisk

Jødisk

Last Twilight in Paris

av Pam Jenoff • 2025

A broken necklace pulls a shop clerk to occupied Paris, where a friend died guarding a secret.

3.95

33 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Wwii

Mysterium

Last Twilight in Paris

A broken necklace pulls a shop clerk to occupied Paris, where a friend died guarding a secret.

av Pam Jenoff 2025 336 sider

3.95

33 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Wwii

Mysterium

The Genius of Israel

av Dan Senor • 2023

Happiness, fertility, and trust are plummeting worldwide except in one divided, embattled nation.

4.38

1 000+

Israel

Historie

Sosiologi

The Genius of Israel

Happiness, fertility, and trust are plummeting worldwide except in one divided, embattled nation.

av Dan Senor 2023 336 sider

4.38

1 000+ vurderinger

Israel

Historie

Sosiologi

Chutzpah

av Inbal Arieli • 2019

The world's densest startup hub was raised on junkyard playgrounds, not business schools.

3.79

173

Business

Entreprenørskap

Teknologi

Chutzpah

The world's densest startup hub was raised on junkyard playgrounds, not business schools.

av Inbal Arieli 2019 272 sider

3.79

173 vurderinger

Business

Entreprenørskap

Teknologi

Tatovøren i Auschwitz

av Heather Morris • 2018

An Auschwitz prisoner forced to tattoo inmates falls for a woman he marks.

4.32

1 000 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Holocaust

Krig

Tatovøren i Auschwitz

An Auschwitz prisoner forced to tattoo inmates falls for a woman he marks.

av Heather Morris 2018 1 sider

4.32

1 000 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Holocaust

Krig

Mossad

av Michael Bar-Zohar • 2010

Audacity and moral compromise: the real missions that built the Mossad legend.

4.19

15 000+

Historie

Spy

Krig

Mossad

Audacity and moral compromise: the real missions that built the Mossad legend.

av Michael Bar-Zohar 2010 388 sider

4.19

15 000+ vurderinger

Historie

Spy

Krig

Three Sisters

av Heather Morris • 2021

Three sisters walk into Auschwitz with only a childhood promise and each other.

4.37

95 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Holocaust

Wwii

Three Sisters

Three sisters walk into Auschwitz with only a childhood promise and each other.

av Heather Morris 2021 416 sider

4.37

95 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Holocaust

Wwii

Kjøpmannen i Venedig

av William Shakespeare • 1596

To woo a clever heiress, a young man borrows money secured by his friend's flesh.

3.77

200 000+

Klassikere

Skuespill

Drama

Kjøpmannen i Venedig

To woo a clever heiress, a young man borrows money secured by his friend's flesh.

av William Shakespeare 1596 249 sider

3.77

200 000+ vurderinger

Klassikere

Skuespill

Drama

The Japanese Lover

av Isabel Allende • 2015

Polish refugee and Japanese gardener's son keep a secret love across decades of war and separation.

3.89

97 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Romantikk

Skjønnlitteratur

The Japanese Lover

Polish refugee and Japanese gardener's son keep a secret love across decades of war and separation.

av Isabel Allende 2015 337 sider

3.89

97 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Romantikk

Skjønnlitteratur

Words That Hurt, Words That Heal

av Joseph Telushkin • 1996

Break the cycle of gossip, anger, and shaming with ancient wisdom on the power of speech.

4.36

500+

Jødisk

Religion

Selvhjelp

Words That Hurt, Words That Heal

Break the cycle of gossip, anger, and shaming with ancient wisdom on the power of speech.

av Joseph Telushkin 1996 240 sider

4.36

500+ vurderinger

Jødisk

Religion

Selvhjelp

Lying About Hitler

av Richard J. Evans • 2001

When a Holocaust denier sued for libel, his own sources put him on trial instead.

4.10

1 000+

Historie

Holocaust

Tyskland

Lying About Hitler

When a Holocaust denier sued for libel, his own sources put him on trial instead.

av Richard J. Evans 2001 318 sider

4.10

1 000+ vurderinger

Historie

Holocaust

Tyskland

Fierce Attachments

av Vivian Gornick • 1987

Decades of walks, a mother and daughter, and a bond that felt like a locked room.

4.02

20 000+

Memoarer

Selvbiografi

Feminisme

Fierce Attachments

Decades of walks, a mother and daughter, and a bond that felt like a locked room.

av Vivian Gornick 1987 216 sider

4.02

20 000+ vurderinger

Memoarer

Selvbiografi

Feminisme

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

av Franz Kafka • 1948

An insurance clerk fills notebooks at night, dissecting himself with precision that still stings.

4.22

260

Klassikere

Memoarer

Selvbiografi

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

An insurance clerk fills notebooks at night, dissecting himself with precision that still stings.

av Franz Kafka 1948 345 sider

4.22

260 vurderinger

Klassikere

Memoarer

Selvbiografi

Det røde teltet

av Anita Diamant • 1997

Jacob's only daughter grows up in the red tent, learning women's sacred stories from four mothers.

4.21

600 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Feminisme

Gjenfortellinger

Det røde teltet

Jacob's only daughter grows up in the red tent, learning women's sacred stories from four mothers.

av Anita Diamant 1997 324 sider

4.21

600 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Feminisme

Gjenfortellinger

The Last Kings of Shanghai

av Jonathan Kaufman • 2020

Opium, war, and revolution: how two Jewish families built modern China, then lost it.

4.27

5 000+

Historie

Biografi

Kina

The Last Kings of Shanghai

Opium, war, and revolution: how two Jewish families built modern China, then lost it.

av Jonathan Kaufman 2020 384 sider

4.27

5 000+ vurderinger

Historie

Biografi

Kina

The German Girl

av Armando Lucas Correa • 2016

A twelve-year-old Jewish girl flees Berlin aboard a refugee ship; Havana's port refuses them entry.

3.81

39 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Holocaust

Historisk

The German Girl

A twelve-year-old Jewish girl flees Berlin aboard a refugee ship; Havana's port refuses them entry.

av Armando Lucas Correa 2016 360 sider

3.81

39 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Holocaust

Historisk

De udødelige

av Chloe Benjamin • 2018

Four siblings learn the dates of their deaths. Each life becomes a negotiation with the prophecy.

3.71

200 000+

Skjønnlitteratur

Historisk fiksjon

Magisk realisme

De udødelige

Four siblings learn the dates of their deaths. Each life becomes a negotiation with the prophecy.

av Chloe Benjamin 2018 346 sider

3.71

200 000+ vurderinger

Skjønnlitteratur

Historisk fiksjon

Magisk realisme

Jerusalem

av Simon Sebag Montefiore • 2011

The city that drives a hundred pilgrims insane, and the 3,000-year story behind the madness.

4.1

13 000+

Historie

Religion

Midtøsten

Jerusalem

The city that drives a hundred pilgrims insane, and the 3,000-year story behind the madness.

av Simon Sebag Montefiore 2011 752 sider

4.1

13 000+ vurderinger

Historie

Religion

Midtøsten

The Last Jew

av Noah Gordon • 1999

When the Inquisition makes him an orphan, a Jewish boy in medieval Spain hides his faith to survive.

4.16

10 000+

Historisk fiksjon

Historisk

Jødisk

The Last Jew

When the Inquisition makes him an orphan, a Jewish boy in medieval Spain hides his faith to survive.

av Noah Gordon 1999 348 sider

4.16

10 000+ vurderinger

Historisk fiksjon

Historisk

Jødisk

Life and Fate

av Vasily Grossman • 1960

At Stalingrad, a Soviet family discovers their own state mirrors the Nazi regime it fights.

4.46

15 000+

Klassikere

Historisk fiksjon

Krig

Life and Fate

At Stalingrad, a Soviet family discovers their own state mirrors the Nazi regime it fights.

av Vasily Grossman 1960 864 sider

4.46

15 000+ vurderinger

Klassikere

Historisk fiksjon

Krig

Kabbalah

av Yehuda Berg • 2009

Consciousness creates reality. A Kabbalist's guide to using yours to change money and fear.

4.18

337

Spiritualitet

Religion

Jødisk

Kabbalah

Consciousness creates reality. A Kabbalist's guide to using yours to change money and fear.

av Yehuda Berg 2009 192 sider

4.18

337 vurderinger

Spiritualitet

Religion

Jødisk

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