History, Biographies, & Memoirs

Hersh Grundstein knows you get more with a gun and a kind word than with just a kind word.Roza Grundstein learned at the age of five that evil some...

A Sephardi Sea tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, migrated from th...

When, if ever, should lying be permitted? If you've damaged a person's reputation unfairly, can the damage be undone? Is a person who sells weapon...

The New York Philharmonic, from Bernstein to Maazel continues the story of America's oldest orchestra as told in Howard Shanet's Philharmonic: A Hi...

Few knew him by his full name, Amihai Paglin.Everyone called him “Gidi.”His name became a legend.He appeared suddenly, like a shooting star, out of...

Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists presents over 80 19th- and 20-century Jewish American artists, ranging from the critically neglected Theres...

In the early 1960s, Richard Avedon was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar to create Observations, a column that consisted of a series of nine photogra...

California Princeton Playing America's Game Print length ‏ : ‎ 384 pages Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.96 x 9 inches

Alan Taylor is featured in THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt on PBS"Excellent…deserves high praise. M...

Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author, tells this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War. In The First Salute, on...

The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen...

Foreword by Jonathan D. Sarna, PhDThis photographic essay highlights the little-known history of the first Jewish communities established in the Ne...

Alan Astro has compiled the first anthology of Latin American Yiddish writings translated into English. Included are works of fiction, poetry, and ...

The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad...

A sweeping history of Judaism over more than three millenniaJudaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distincti...

In 1922, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, first initiated the bat mitzvah as a rite-of-passage for Jewish girls. Ch...

In the American colonies of the 1770s, people were fed up with British laws. Local farmers and tradesmen secretly formed a militia. In 1775, when t...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the Revolution comes “an elegant, concise, and lucid summar...

Uncover the key moments that shaped American history in this extensive history encyclopedia for children. This complete encyclopedia of American hi...

Become an eyewitness to the American struggle for independence, from the events that sparked the war through to the signing of the Constitution.Dis...

This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jews―descendant...

A 2015 National Jewish Book Award finalistThe inspiring story of Clara Lemlich, whose fight for equal rights led to the largest strike by women in ...

The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal eraWe're often told that the United States is, was, a...

On New Year's Eve, in 1929, as the Great Depression and Prohibition cast a shadow over America, a spirited young Philadelphian kissed his Cinderell...