Items with the category: History | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Up, Up and Oy Vey!: How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero

Up, Up and Oy Vey!: How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero

Simcha Weinstein

Cover of The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World

The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World

Cover of Jacob's Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History

Jacob’s Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History

David B. Goldstein

Cover of The Handbook of the Middle East, rev. ed.

The Handbook of the Middle East, rev. ed.

Michael B. Kort

Cover of The Jews in Poland and Russia, vol. 1, 1350 to 1881

The Jews in Poland and Russia, vol. 1, 1350 to 1881

Antony Polonsky

Cover of The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Palestinian Politics and the City Since 1967

The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Palestinian Politics and the City Since 1967

Cover of The Jewish Community of Salonika: History, Memory, Identity

The Jewish Community of Salonika: History, Memory, Identity

Cover of Torah Through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary From the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times

Torah Through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary From the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times

Cover of 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East

1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East

Tom Segev; Jessica Cohen, trans.

Cover of From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

Matthew Hoffman

Cover of Thugs: How History's Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World Through Terror, Tyranny and Mass Murder

Thugs: How History’s Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World Through Terror, Tyranny and Mass Murder

Micah D. Halpern

Cover of City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa

City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa

Essay

Historical Figure Fixation

Lavie Tidhar’s most recent novel is Osama (PS Publishing). He will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.I might be obsessed with…

Lavie Tidhar

December 12, 2011

Cover of Laboratory for World Destruction: Germans and Jews in Central Europe

Laboratory for World Destruction: Germans and Jews in Central Europe

Robert S. Wistrich

Cover of Witness

Ruth Gruber; Richard Holbrooke, fwd.

Cover of A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life

A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life

George Konrad; Jim Tucker, trans.; Michael Henry Heim, ed.