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...

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

Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has ca...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Hardcover, 128 pages Renegade Women in Film and TV blends stunning illustrations, fascinating biographical profiles, and exclusive interviews with...

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

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...