Items with the category: History | Jewish Book Council

Cover of What Are Jews For? History, Peoplehood, and Purpose

What Are Jews For? History, Peoplehood, and Purpose

Cover of Recipes From Auschwitz: The Survival Stories of Two Hungarian Jews

Recipes From Auschwitz: The Survival Stories of Two Hungarian Jews

Cover of Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best

Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best

Cover of Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag

Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag

 Julius Margolin, Stefani Hoffman (trans.)

Essay—From the Journal

Magic, Memory, and Mass Murder: New Shtetl Literature and the Long Backshadow of Genocide

Moriel Rothman-Zecher

October 13, 2020

Cover of Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries

Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries

Edited by Rebecca Abrams and Cesar Merchan-Hamann

Cover of Balm in Gilead: A Story from the War

Balm in Gilead: A Story from the War

John L. Withers II

Essay

David Nasaw on the Last Million

David Nasaw

September 15, 2020

Cover of The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility

The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility

Essay

Renaissance Revealed: The Oppression of Jews in Italy in the 1500s

Catherine Fletcher

September 14, 2020

Cover of Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany

Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany

Andrew Maraniss

Cover of Competing With Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait

Competing With Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait

Cover of The History of Stand-Up: From Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle

The History of Stand-Up: From Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle

Cover of What Does the Constitution Say?: A Kid's Guide to How Our Democracy Works

What Does the Constitution Say?: A Kid’s Guide to How Our Democracy Works

Cover of Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People

Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People

Cover of The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter