History, Biographies, & Memoirs

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...

By Pamela S. NadellA groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves i...

Adapted by Ari FolmanIllustrations by David PolonskyHardcover, 160 pagesA timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young ...

by Richard Schwartz Hardcover: 332 pages Independent Publisher Book Awards 2018 Bronze Medal Winner - Biography As the Statue of Liberty stood unli...

A fresh appreciation of the great musical figure that gives him his due as composer as well as conductor Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter o...

Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam PresslerPaperback: 341 pages Size: 5.2 x 0.8 x 7.9 inchesPublisher: Anchor Books; Reprint edition (February 1, ...

Paperback, 144 pages By Art SpiegelmanAcclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Mausintr...

Paperback, 159 pages by Art Spiegelman The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, ...

The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg Nicholas Dawidoff Paperback, 453 Pages Moe Berg is the only major-league baseball player who...

by Max Gendelman Hardcover, 184 pages A Tale of Two Soldiers is a memoir about the unlikely friendship an American Jewish G.I. and trained sniper f...

Biography written by Esther SchorPaperback, 368 pagesWinner of the National Jewish Book AwardEmma Lazaruss most famous poem gave a voice to the Sta...

Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi deat...

An award-winning journalist presents an even-handed, thoroughly researched examination of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and illustrates how a shock...

Leaving South Dakota is the tale of Beryl Radin and her experience growing up as a first generation Jewish American in the Midwest. From her small ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking investigation into antise...

A dramatic history of how American Jews reckoned with slavery—and fought the Civil War. "Despite their own legacy of torment in Egypt, Jews in...

In 1926, Harvard athletic director Bill Bingham chose former Crimson All-American Arnold Horween as coach of the university’s moribund football tea...

A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel’s seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha PowerWhen Elie ...

Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards' 2024 Jewish Book of the Year and The Natan Fund's Winter 2025 Notable Book Award!The definitive account ...

A gripping history that plumbs the extraordinary stories of American relief and rescue workers during World War II. Long before their country offic...

The New York Times bestseller with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide | Now a Hulu limited series starring Joey King and Logan LermanInspire...

From the first Asian American to be ordained as a rabbi, a stirring account of one woman’s journey from feeling like an outsider to becoming one of...