Jewish literature
Talmudic and biblical texts
Jewish literature encompasses writings by Jewish authors or works engaging with Jewish themes, history, religion, and identity.
The category spans religious texts like the Torah and Talmud, medieval poetry and philosophy, Yiddish fiction, and modern novels exploring diaspora experience: Roth and Bellow defined mid-century Jewish literature in America.
The term sometimes emphasizes cultural perspective over the author's background.
- TanakhJewish scriptural canon
- Song of SongsBiblical erotic poetry collection
- ZionismAdvocacy for Hebrew homeland
- shtetlHistoric Jewish village
- MidrashRabbinic biblical commentary tradition
diaspora · Torah · Haggadah · Psalms · Responsa · Talmud · Mishnah · matzo ball soup · Hebrew · Shoah · prophets · Dead Sea Scrolls · mysticism · covenant · chosen people · Promised Land · Sephardic · rabbi
- Jewish Lifesynagogues, rabbis, Torah scrolls, Torah study, Shabbat
- Jewish studiesTorah study, yeshiva, rabbinical school, midrash, kabbalah
- Jewish educationyeshiva, Hebrew, Hebrew school, day school, day schools
- JudaismShabbat, kosher, Passover, Torah, Hanukkah
- Jewish cultureTorah, synagogue, synagogues, rabbi, rabbis
- Jewish HistoryHolocaust, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon
Jewish literatureChristian literature
Writing grounded in gospel
New Testament · Quran · Vedas · patristic literature · Church Fathers