History, Biographies, & Memoirs

"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...

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...

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...

Pink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a wid...

In Einstein, writer Jim Ottaviani and artist Jerel Dye take us behind the veneer of Einstein’s celebrity, painting a complex and intimate portrait ...

240 pages, hardcover The fascinating, mouthwatering story (with ten recipes!) of the immigrant family that created a New York gastronomic legend: ...

An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationshi...

80 pages, Hardcover Andy Warhol, the iconic Pop artist, presented himself as the vacuous, dumb kid, famously saying, "If you want to know all about...

Hardcover, 384 pages A New York Times bestsellerIn this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the Presiden...

Hardcover, 295 pages by Art Spiegelman The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, ...

400 pages, Hardcover By Dvora Hacohen The authoritative biography of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah, introduces a new generation to a rema...

Hardcover, 272 pages An illustrated, illuminating insight into the world of illusion from the world’s greatest and most successful magician, captur...

240 pages, Hardcover by Ken Krimstein An NPR Best Book of the YearA Washington Post Best Book of the YearA Chicago Tribune Fall "Best Read"An Alma ...

About Koshersoul: 320 pages, hardcover The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of ...

By Michael Twitty Hardcover, 120 pages Among the staple foods most welcomed on southern tables—and on tables around the world—rice is without quest...

By Susan Dyshel Sommovilla From Hans to Henry--A Holocaust Survivor's Story: A brother's disability, a yellow bicycle, a camera, a little black add...

704 pages, paperback You’ll find everything you need to know about being Jewish in this indispensable, revised and updated guide (2023) to the rel...

By: Isaac Mizrahi Hardcover: 384 pagesINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“In I.M., Isaac Mizrahi puts his life to paper with the same mix of spirit a...