Items with the category: History | Jewish Book Council

Cover of The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History

The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History

Cover of All Consuming: Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of Meat

All Consuming: Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of Meat

Cover of Promised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine

Promised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine

Sharon Ann Musher

Essay

Finding Sanctuary in India

Alka Joshi

April 14, 2025

Essay

Uncovering History: Writing “The Jew Who Would Be King”

Adam Rovner

April 14, 2025

Cover of The Jew Who Would Be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa

The Jew Who Would Be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa

Essay

The Blue Butterfly of Cochin: A Journey of Discovery and Connection

Ariana Mizrahi

April 14, 2025

Cover of Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany

Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany

Rebekka Grossmann

Sarah Wobick-Segev

Cover of Holocaust: German History and Our Half-Jewish Family

Holocaust: German History and Our Half-Jewish Family

Thomas Paul Bernstein

Recommended Reading

My Grandfather’s Stories: From the Shtetl to Chicago

Jamie Wendt

March 31, 2025

Cover of Ellis Island Passover

Ellis Island Passover

Recommended Reading

The World of Chaim Grade: Books About Jewish Life in Pre-World War II Eastern Europe

Altie Karper

March 24, 2025

Cover of Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Yardena Schwartz

Cover of Your Roots Cast a Shadow: One Family's Search Across History for Belonging

Your Roots Cast a Shadow: One Family’s Search Across History for Belonging

Caroline Topperman

Cover of A Mitzvah for George Washington

A Mitzvah for George Washington

Rachelle Burk; Chiara Fedele, illus.

Cover of Abzuglutely!: Battling, Bellowing Bella Abzug

Abzuglutely!: Battling, Bellowing Bella Abzug

Sarah Aronson; Andrea D'Aquino, illus.