History, Biographies, & Memoirs

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...

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...

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 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...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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...

1998 National Jewish Book Award finalistPamela S. Nadell mines a wealth of untapped sources to bring us the first complete story of the courageous ...

From the Pulitzer-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Nazis Next DoorA deeply reported exploration of the violent resurgence of hat...

She’s an iconic Jewish storyteller. She’s a widely acclaimed professor and folklorist. She’s the one and only Peninnah Schram, and Peninnah’s Wo...