History, Biographies, & Memoirs

The extraordinary untold story of how Irish and Jewish immigrants worked together to secure legitimacy in America.Popular belief holds that the var...

"What others can't see. Photographic testimony from both sides of the Warsaw Ghetto Wall 1943"  Discover the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from two unique...

This gripping account interweaves Nixon and Kissinger's pursuit of the war in Southeast Asia and their diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China wi...

The weight of grief, fear, and bigotry. The imprint of trauma.The inner wonder and light that no measure of darkness can extinguish. The daughter o...

Marlene Trestman’s Most Fortunate Unfortunates is the first comprehensive history of the Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans. Founded in 1855 in...

“Wise and ebullient.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times Now in paperback, the first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photog...

75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled its Founders’ Dreams? Has Israel lived up to its founders’ vision? Published on the country’s 75t...

If you're going to Philly, this is the guide for you. It's got everything from the new National Museum of American Jewish History to the newly-re...

How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and ...

The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and televisionBarbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman w...

In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration, ...

About Squirrel Hill A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America’s renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakab...

Sabato Morais was a prominent rabbinic leader in the Philadelphia Jewish community during the late 19th century. Prior to arriving in the United St...

Phish has a diehard fan base and a dedicated community of enthusiasts—called Phishheads—who follow the band around the country, some fans attendin...

A new graphic novel that brings to life Kitty, Anne Frank’s imaginary friend to whom she addressed her diary—from the same creative team that produ...

An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that l...

336 pages For centuries, the bustling port city of Salonica was home to the sprawling Levy family. As leading publishers and editors, they helped ...

Paperback, 614 pages In short, I believe, a little bit of religion is a good thing whether or not you fully embrace the idea of God. I believe that...

A Junior Library Guild Selection Story of MVP and Hall-of-Famer "Hammerin" Hank Greenberg, one of the greatest hitters of all time, and the first  ...

A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carr...

National Business Book Award The nationally bestselling memoir of the scion of a Canadian business empire Billionaire businessman and philanthropi...

This richly detailed study reconceptualizes a striking but enigmatic moment in Rembrandt's art from the 1650s--one of the artist's most prolific an...

Follow the inspiring life of Martin Luther King Jr. in a moving, vital, and informative book by an author and an illustrator with close ties to Dr...

8-12 years 120 pages The Ivy Hero is the true story of Sergeant William (Bill) Shemin, child of immigrants, an American soldier who fought in Wor...