Items with the category: History | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

Lawrence Wright

Cover of American Judaism: A History

American Judaism: A History

Jonathan D. Sarna

Cover of The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men

The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men

Cover of A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987

A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586 – 1987

Kathryn Hellerstein

Cover of Herzl's Vision: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State

Herzl’s Vision: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State

Shlomo Avineri; Haim Watzman, trans.

Cover of Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War

Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War

Cover of Gates of Tears: The Holocaust in the Lublin District

Gates of Tears: The Holocaust in the Lublin District

David Silberklang

Cover of Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

Bettina Stangneth; Ruth Martin, trans.

Cover of Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance

Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance

Elisheva Baumgarten

Cover of Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700–1950

Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700 – 1950

Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, eds.

Cover of Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era

Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era

Julia Phillips Cohen

Cover of Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia

Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia

Simon Rabinovitch

Cover of The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt

The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt

Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman

Cover of Jewish Mad Men: Advertising and the Design of the American Jewish Experience

Jewish Mad Men: Advertising and the Design of the American Jewish Experience

Kerri P. Steinberg

Essay

Stumbling on Jewish Suppliers to the Confederacy

Adam D. Mendelsohn is Director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston. His…

Adam D. Mendelsohn

December 16, 2014

Essay

Where Should We Have Gone?

Earlier this week, Adam Rovner wrote about the top five alternative Jewish homelands that he didn’t explore in his new book, In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands…

Adam Rovner

December 10, 2014