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   Humanistic Judaism, being such a young movement, does not yet have a
   large body of literature. However, there are a number of authors that
   are recommended reading by Rabbi Wine:
   
     * Classics Of Humanism: Epicurus, Democritus, August Comte, John
       Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, Jean Paul Sartre,
       George Santayana.
     * Writings of Jews Who Were Humanists: Albert Einstein, Sigmund
       Freud, Erich Fromm, Walter Kippman, and Walter Kaufman
     * Literature of Secular Historians: Spinoza, Julius Wellhausen,
       Emile Durkeim, Max Weber, Simon Dubnow, Salo Baron, and Theodore
       Gaster
     * Writings of Jewish Nationalists: I.L. Peretz, Sholem Aleichem,
       Chaim Zhitlowsky, Ahad Haam, Micah Berdichevsky, Theodore Herzl,
       Max Nordau, A.D. Gordon, Ber Borochov, Saul Tchernikhovsky,
       Vladmir Jabotinsky, David Ben Gurion, and Haum Goldmann
     * Jewish Essayists and Novelists Who are Ardent Humanists: Saul
       Bellow, Albert Memmi, and George Steiner
       
   Other books on Humanism and Judaism include:
   
   [Eli89]
          Eliav, Arie Lova; Oz, Amos (design); Wouk, Herman (design). New
          Heart, New Spirit: Biblical Humanism for Modern Israel. Jewish
          Publication Society; 1989. Hardcover. ISBN 0-827603-17-7.
          [6][Buy at Amazon:
          http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0827603177/socculturejew
          ish/] 
          
   [Lac92]
          Lachs, Samuel Tobias. Humanism in Talmud and Midrash. Fairleigh
          Dickinson Univ Pr; 1992. Hardcover. ISBN 0-838634-68-0.
          [7][Buy at Amazon:
          http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0838634680/socculturejew
          ish/] 

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