Items with the category: Biography | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams: The Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World’s Largest Children’s Library

Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams: The Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World’s Largest Children’s Library

Katherine Paterson; Sally Deng, illus.

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

Cover of A Few Words in Defense of Our Country

A Few Words in Defense of Our Country

Cover of Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer

Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer

Cover of Abraham: The First Jew

Abraham: The First Jew

Cover of The Girl with the Secret Name: The Incredible Life of Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi

The Girl with the Secret Name: The Incredible Life of Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi

Cover of Two Sisters: Betrayal, Love, and Resistance in Wartime France

Two Sisters: Betrayal, Love, and Resistance in Wartime France

Rosie Whitehouse

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.

Cover of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation

Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation

Cover of Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History

Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History

Olivia Campbell

Essay

Anne Frank as Idea and Inspiration

Ruth Franklin

January 24, 2025

Cover of The Many Lives of Anne Frank

The Many Lives of Anne Frank

Cover of Chutzpah Girls: 100 Tales of Daring Jewish Women

Chutzpah Girls: 100 Tales of Daring Jewish Women

Julie Silverstein

Tami Schlossberg Pruwer

Essay

A Jew in the Street and a Man in Your Tent?: Rabbinical Dress in Vienna at the Fin de Siècle

Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum

January 6, 2025

Cover of Twist, Tumble, Triumph: The Story of Champion Gymnast Agnes Kelet

Twist, Tumble, Triumph: The Story of Champion Gymnast Agnes Kelet

Deborah Bodin Cohen