Ethnic Orientation/Jewish
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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
$24.00 Add to cartFeatured historian in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust on PBS – WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD – In this remarkable work of historical reclamation, Holocaust historian Re… [more below]
- Author: Erbelding, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0525433740
- Language: English
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What Makes Sammy Run?
$19.00 Read moreThe classic book that shaped two generations’ view of the movie business and introduced the archetypal Hollywood player Sammy Glick. He’s got a machete mouth and a genius for double-cross. As Budd Shu… [more below]
- Author: Schulberg, Budd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 06 1993
- ISBN10: 0679734228
- Language: English
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
$8.99 Read moreNow in paperback! In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the beloved supreme … [more below]
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #66
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0711284474
- Language: English
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Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
$45.00 Read moreA “magisterial” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize–and previously unmapped–influence ext… [more below]
- Author: Meier, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1400068851
- Language: English
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Summons to Berlin: Nazi Theft and a Daughter’s Quest for Justice
$17.95 Read moreWhen Joanne Intrator accepts her father’s deathbed challenge to seek restitution for property stolen from her German Jewish family by the Nazis, she has no idea that the quest will last decades-or how… [more below]
- Author: Intrator, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425131
- Language: English
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Here Is the World: A Year of Jewish Holidays: A Picture Book
$6.99 Read moreLesl饌 Newman’s picture book Here Is the World is a joyous celebration of the Jewish holidays throughout the year for young children that’s “both lovely and eminently useful” (Kirkus Reviews)–illust… [more below]
- Author: Newman, Lesléa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1419764632
- Language: English
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Bessie
$28.00 Read moreDrawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson-the talented daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants-who, in the bigoted milieu of 1945, remarkably … [more below]
- Author: Kass, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425956
- Language: English
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Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust
$35.00 Read moreGermans remember the Nazi past so that it may never happen again. But how has the abstract vow to remember translated into concrete action to prevent new genocides abroad?
As reports of mass killings- Author: Port, Andrew I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0674275225
- Language: English
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The Periodic Table: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartThe Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.
It recounts, in clear, precise
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Levi, Primo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 1995
- ISBN10: 0805210415
- Language: English
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The Trial
$14.99 Read moreThrough tight dialogue and absurd settings Kafka creates a maze-like prose to mimic the bureaucracy of early 20th century Germany, trapping his protagonist in an unlawful conviction that alters the pa
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1529021073
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival
$17.99 Read more“Brilliantly written, vivid, a powerful and often uncomfortable true story that deserves to be read and remembered. It beautifully captures the strength of the bond between a father and son.”–Heather
- Author: Dronfield, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0063019299
- Language: English
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The Village Idiot
$19.99 Read moreA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022
“A frothy picaresque that … vibrates to the “sweet celestial confusion” of Soutine’s painting: delirious and earthy, reverent and irreligious.” — The New Yor… [more below]- Author: Stern, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1685890776
- Language: English
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
$30.00 Read moreThe “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected fore… [more below]
- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1982178523
- Language: English
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The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home
$22.95 Read moreEven as a fourth-generation Jewish Texan, S. L. Wisenberg has always felt the ghost of Europe dogging her steps, making her feel uneasy in her body and in the world. At age six, she’s sure that she h
- Series: Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction
- Author: Wisenberg, S. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1625347359
- Language: English
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We the Black Jews
$29.95 Add to cartDr. Ben destroys the myth of a “white Jewish race” and the bigotry that has denied the existence of an African Jewish culture. He establishes the legitimacy of contemporary Black Jewish culture in Afr… [more below]
- Author: Ben-Jochannan, Yosef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: December 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0933121407
- Language: English
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I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Here is the beloved, bestselling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck at her funniest, wisest, and best, taking a hilarious look at the past and bemoaning the vicissitudes of moder… [more below]
- Author: Ephron, Nora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0307742806
- Language: English
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Rbg’s Brave & Brilliant Women: 33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone
$16.99 Add to cartThis collection of biographies of brave and brilliant Jewish female role models–selected in collaboration with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and including an introduction written by the iconic Supreme Court ju… [more below]
- Author: Epstein, Nadine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0593377184
- Language: English
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The Connections Paradigm: Ancient Jewish Wisdom for Modern Mental Health
$22.95 Read moreThis book introduces an approach to mental health that dates back 3,000 years to an ancient body of Jewish spiritual wisdom. Known as the Connections Paradigm, the millennia-old method has been empiri… [more below]
- Series: Spirituality and Mental Health
- Author: Rosmarin, David H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: February 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1599475502
- Language: English
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Chik Chak Shabbat
$16.99 Read moreCelebrate Shabbat, community, and diverse traditions with this lyrical tale, illustrated with a lively and whimsical touch.
When Goldie Simcha doesn’t joyfully throw open her door to welcome everyone- Author: Rockliff, Mara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0763655287
- Language: English
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Maimonides: Faith in Reason
$26.00 Read moreAn exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world’s foremost bibliophiles
Moses ben Maimon, or Maim- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Manguel, Alberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300217897
- Language: English
