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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:

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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.

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Lachs, Samuel Tobias. Humanism in Talmud and Midrash. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr; 1992. Hardcover. ISBN 0-838634-68-0.

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