The Kehillah Reading List
A curated collection of essential works on Jewish history, identity, and resilience. Arm yourself with knowledge and reclaim the narrative.
Dara Horn
A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living.
Barry S. Strauss
A gripping account of the two hundred years of ancient Israel's battles against the Roman Empire, highlighting the courageous yet tragic uprisings and geopolitical clashes that reshaped Judaism.
Ivan G. Marcus
An examination of how the Christian majority in medieval Europe villainized Jews, laying the theological and cultural foundations for modern antisemitism.
David Nirenberg
A sweeping intellectual history showing how hostility to Judaism is not an anomaly, but a foundational element of Western culture and self-definition.
Richard Elliott Friedman
A pioneering Bible scholar cuts through the noise to merge new archaeological breakthroughs with scripture, revealing the historical basis for the Exodus.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
A profound intellectual reckoning and defense of Judaism rooted in Talmudic traditions of argument, struggle, and an obligation to the forgotten.
Benjamin Kerstein
A provocative manifesto calling on American Jews to abandon passivity, embrace physical self-defense, and build a resilient movement against rising antisemitism.
Michael B. Oren
The definitive, cinematic account of the 1967 conflict that transformed the region, meticulously reconstructed from once-secret documents and personal interviews.