Items with the category: Biography | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Harry and the Highwire: Houdini’s First Amazing Act

Harry and the Highwire: Houdini’s First Amazing Act

Julie Carpenter; Laura Catalán, illus.

Cover of One of a Kind: The Life of Sydney Taylor

One of a Kind: The Life of Sydney Taylor

Richard Michelson; Sarah Green, illus.

Cover of Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code

Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code

Excerpt

Searching for Martha Freud

Daphne Merkin

May 13, 2024

News

Cover Reveal: “What Jewish Looks Like”

Liz Kleinrock, Caroline Kusin Pritchard, Iris Gottlieb

May 3, 2024

Cover of The Forbidden Daughter: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor

The Forbidden Daughter: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor

Zipora Klein Jakob

Cover of Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah

Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah

Cover of Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World

Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World

Cover of I Am Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I Am Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Brad Meltzer; Christopher Eliopoulos, illus.

Cover of The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and Universal Stories

The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and Universal Stories

Essay

“One of a Kind: The Life of Sydney Taylor” — How the Book Began

Richard Michelson

March 11, 2024

Cover of Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream

Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream

Francine Klagsbrun

Cover of Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair

Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair

Maurice Samuels

Cover of On Czesław Miłosz: Visions from the Other Europe

On Czesław Miłosz: Visions from the Other Europe

Excerpt

Excerpt: The Counterfeit Countess

Elizabeth B. White, Joanna Sliwa

January 22, 2024

Cover of The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

Elizabeth B. White