Suggested Reading & Resources

To improve your candidacy for any of HUC-JIR’s graduate programs, we suggest you familiarize yourself with these books and other sources on Jewish life in America.

Holtz, Barry. Back to the Sources. (New York, NY; Simon and Schuster; 1986.)

Friedman, R.E. Who Wrote the Bible? (San Francisco, CA: Harper Publishing; 1997.)

Steinsaltz, Adin. Essential Talmud. (New York: Basic Books, 1979.)

Hertzberg, Arthur. The Zionist Idea. (New York: JPS, 1959.)

Mendes-Flohr, Paul R. and Reinharz, Jehuda. The Jew in the Modern World. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.)

Strassfeld, Michael. The Jewish Holidays. (New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1985.)

Cohen, Steven and Eisen Arnie. The Jew Within. (Bloomington, IN; Indiana University Press; 2000.)

Borowitz, Eugene B. Reform Judaism Today, 2nd Ed. (New York: Behrman House, 1995.)

Goldstein, Niles E. and Knoble, Peter S., Duties of the Soul: The Role of Commandments in Liberal Judaism. (New York: UAHC Press: 1999)

Levy, Richard N., A Vision of Holiness: The Future of Reform Judaism. (New York: URJ Press, 2005)

Meyer, Michael A. and Plaut, W. Gunther. The Reform Judaism Reader. (New York, UAHC Press, 2001.)

Washofsky, Mark. Jewish Living: A Guide to Contemporary Reform Practice. (New York: UAHC Press, 2000.)

Heschel, Abraham Joshua. The Sabbath. (New York : Noonday Press, 1996, c1979.)

Steinberg, Milton. As a Driven Leaf. (New Jersey: Behrman House, c1996.)

The TaNaKh (The Hebrew Bible)