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...

The weight of grief, fear, and bigotry. The imprint of trauma.The inner wonder and light that no measure of darkness can extinguish. The daughter o...

Weitzman Book Club Virtual Event: Most Fortunate Unfortunates with Dr Jonathan Sarna and author Marlene Trestman Tuesday, Apr 9, 2024 on Zoom ...

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

From National Jewish Book Award Winner and author of Israel, a bold reevaluation of the tensions between American and Israeli Jews that reimagines ...

Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has ca...

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...

How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and ...

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, ...

She's a Mensch!  Jewish Women Who Rocked the World Meet a judo champion, a chess grandmaster, a spacewalking astronaut, a World War II spy, and mo...

Thanks to Bob Marshall (1901-1939) there are still places in America where people can listen to the wind in the trees, scramble up a mountain, and ...

About Squirrel Hill A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America’s renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakab...

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

Phish has a diehard fan base and a dedicated community of enthusiasts—called Phishheads—who follow the band around the country, some fans attendin...

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...

An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that l...

336 pages For centuries, the bustling port city of Salonica was home to the sprawling Levy family. As leading publishers and editors, they helped ...

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...

Paperback, 400 pages On December 11, 1973, Mark Segal disrupted a live broadcast of the CBS Evening News when he sat on the desk directly between t...

A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carr...

National Business Book Award The nationally bestselling memoir of the scion of a Canadian business empire Billionaire businessman and philanthropi...

The New York Times BestsellerMike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of...