History, Biographies, & Memoirs

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, ...

Paperback, 368 pages. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2015Roberta Kaplan with Lisa DickeyHardcover, 336 pagesRoberta Kaplans gripping story of her...

Speak Now tells the story of a watershed trial that unfolded over twelve tense days in California in 2010. A trial that legalized same-sex marriage...

Nothing matches the energy of Opening Day: a celebration of springtime, of renewed dreams, and of national heroes past, present, and future. From t...

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...

At the end of the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition forced many Jews to flee the country. The most adventurous among them took to the high...

Spanning 350 years of Jewish experience in this country, A History of the Jews in America is an essential chronicle by the author of The Course of ...

Inspired by the 2017 short film The Pirate Captain, Arnon Shorr and Joshua Edelglass bring an exciting, kid friendly version of this story of Jewis...

by Max GendelmanPaperback, 226 pagesA Tale of Two Soldiers is a memoir about the unlikely friendship an American Jewish G.I. and trained sniper for...

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...

by Marisa Scheinfeld (Photographer), Stefan Kanfer (Contributor), Jenna Weissman Joselit (Contributor)Hardcover, 200 pagesToday the Borscht Belt is...

Hardcover: 464 pagesIn a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspectiv...

Hardcover: 400 pagesHow did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) poli...

A History of Jews in America Hasia R. Diner Paperback, 176 Pages An engaging chronicle of Jewish life in the United States, A New Promised Land r...

A riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory un...

Drawing upon a cache of personal letters undiscovered until the 1980, Esther Schor brings this vital woman to life in all her complexity. by Esther...

Marking the 350th anniversary of Jewish settlement in New Amsterdam (now New York), this outstanding survey emphasizes the religious history of Jew...

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 ...

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believe...

A new history that centers Judaism at the dawn of the United StatesJews played a critical role both in winning the American Revolution--fighting fo...

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

The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and tra...

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