History, Biographies, & Memoirs

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, ...

By Doris BergerPaperback, 128 pagesFrom classic films such as Casablanca to anti-Nazi films, comedy, and film noir, American cinema in the 1930s an...

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, ...

Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When an Egyptian library invites her to visit as...

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...

Hardcover, 295 pages by Art Spiegelman This is a box set containing Maus Volume 1 & 2 The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek...

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 i...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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...