Items with the category: History | Jewish Book Council

Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

Magical Thinking and My Grandfather’s Story

Amanda J. Rothschild

August 4, 2025

Cover of A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark’s Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII

A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark’s Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII

Cover of 100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Stefanie Halpern

Cover of Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy

Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy

Jonathan Marc Gribetz

Cover of The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood

The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood

Cover of Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp

Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp

Essay

The Female Jewish Snipers Who Inspired “The Night Sparrow”

Shelly Sanders

July 2, 2025

Cover of People of the Image: Jews and Art

People of the Image: Jews and Art

Marc Michael Epstein

Cover of The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders

The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders

Cover of The Jewish South: An American History

The Jewish South: An American History

Cover of Laughing in Yiddish

Laughing in Yiddish

Cover of Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land

Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land

Rachel Cockerell

Essay

Correcting the Injustice of Forgetting: The Black Angelenos of Sugar Hill

Kyra Davis Lurie

June 9, 2025

Cover of Life Must Go On: The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto, and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania's Jews

Life Must Go On: The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto, and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania’s Jews

Essay

‘Radicle’ Entanglements: Recovering Jewish Women’s Folk Healing Knowledge

Deatra Cohen

June 2, 2025

Cover of American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews

American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews

Andrew Porwancher