History, Biographies, & Memoirs

This gripping account interweaves Nixon and Kissinger's pursuit of the war in Southeast Asia and their diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China wi...

“Wise and ebullient.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times Now in paperback, the first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photog...

75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled its Founders’ Dreams? Has Israel lived up to its founders’ vision? Published on the country’s 75t...

If you're going to Philly, this is the guide for you. It's got everything from the new National Museum of American Jewish History to the newly-re...

The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and televisionBarbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman w...

In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration, ...

Sabato Morais was a prominent rabbinic leader in the Philadelphia Jewish community during the late 19th century. Prior to arriving in the United St...

A new graphic novel that brings to life Kitty, Anne Frank’s imaginary friend to whom she addressed her diary—from the same creative team that produ...

Paperback, 614 pages In short, I believe, a little bit of religion is a good thing whether or not you fully embrace the idea of God. I believe that...

Follow the inspiring life of Martin Luther King Jr. in a moving, vital, and informative book by an author and an illustrator with close ties to Dr...

8-12 years 120 pages The Ivy Hero is the true story of Sergeant William (Bill) Shemin, child of immigrants, an American soldier who fought in Wor...

Hardcover, 128 pages Renegade Women in Film and TV blends stunning illustrations, fascinating biographical profiles, and exclusive interviews with...

Political theorist, philosopher, and feminist thinker Hannah Arendt's On Violence is an analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violenc...

Hardcover, 295 pages by Art Spiegelman The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, ...

400 pages, Hardcover By Dvora Hacohen The authoritative biography of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah, introduces a new generation to a rema...

Hardcover, 272 pages An illustrated, illuminating insight into the world of illusion from the world’s greatest and most successful magician, captur...

About Koshersoul: 320 pages, Hardcover The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of ...

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...

One of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, read by tens of millions of people around the world since its publication in 1947.Th...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day OConnor, Americas first female Supreme Court justice...

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...

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

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...

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