Jewish category: 3083 books
The Warburgs
The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biography of the Warburgs, one of the great German-Jewish banking families of the twentieth century.
Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites,...
The Nazi Officer's Wife
How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
#1 New York Times Bestseller
Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend,...
by William & Rosalie Schiff and Craig Hanley
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
William & Rosalie is the gripping and heartfelt account of two young Jewish people from Poland who survive six different German slave and prison camps throughout the Holocaust. In 1941, newlyweds William and Rosalie Schiff are forcibly separated and sent on their individual odysseys through a...
Such Good Girls
The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Edgar Award-winning mystery novelist R. D. Rosen tells the story of the hidden children who survived the Holocaust through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries—among the less than 10 percent of Jewish children in Europe to survive World War II—who went on to lead remarkable...
The Grandees
America's Sephardic Elite
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The New World’s earliest Jewish immigrants and their unique, little-known history: A New York Times bestseller from the author of Life at the Dakota.
In 1654, twenty-three Jewish families arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) aboard a French privateer. They were the Sephardim, members of...
by Fiona Gold Kroll
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Since childhood, author Fiona Gold Kroll has been drawn to a photograph of her great-uncle, Benjamin Albaum, a Jewish man who disappeared from Paris at the beginning of World War II. A Stone for Benjamin is the compelling story of Fiona’s quest to discover his fate. Chasing Holocaust shadows across...
Freud's Trip to Orvieto
The Great Doctor's Unresolved Confrontation with Antisemitism, Death, and Homoeroticism; His Passion for Paintings; and the Writer in His Footsteps
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
"[An] unusual meditation on sex, death, art, and Jewishness. . . . Weber weaves in musings on his own sexual and religious experiences, creating a freewheeling psychoanalytic document whose approach would surely delight the doctor, even if its conclusions might surprise him." —New Yorker
"Freud's...
Flying Couch
A Graphic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
“Themes of guilt, Jewish identity, and the complex relationships among daughters, mothers, and grandmothers . . . expanded upon with humor and honesty.” —School Library Journal
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
In this...
by Eva Wiseman
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
A heartbreaking episode in history, explained through the story of a young servant girl in the late 1800s.
The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from the village of Tisza Eszvar face the ‘blood libel’ — the centuries-old...
by Johanna Reiss
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
This Newbery Honor-winning book shows us that in the steady courage of a young girl lies a profound strength that can transcend the horrors of war. This is the true story of a girl's extraordinary survival during the German occupation of Holland of World War II. Annie was only ten years old, but because...
by Rose Zar, Eric A. Kimmel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Rose Zar was 19 years old when the Nazis invaded her native Poland. Her father urged her to save herself by hiding “in the mouth of the wolf”—or within the enemy itself. She managed to obtain false papers, secretly changing her identity and surviving the Holocaust as maid and nanny for a Nazi SS colonel.
How to Spell Chanukah...And Other Holiday Dilemmas
18 Writers Celebrate 8 Nights of Lights
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Ring in the holiday with eighteen writers who extol, excoriate, and expand our understanding of this most merry of Jewish festivals as they offer up funny, irreverent, and, yes, even nostalgic takes on a holiday that holds a special place in Jewish hearts . . . and stomachs.
Pieces by Jonathan...
by Siegmund Siegreich
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Do I believe in the Thirty-Six? I believe in miracles.
Sigi had just turned 15 and was living a carefree life in Poland when WWII was declared. Within days, Germany crossed the Polish border and randomly, to assert their intentions, exterminated Jews and Poles. The Siegreich family relocated...
by Melita Maschmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Account Rendered: A Dossier on my Former Self by Melita Maschmann (translated from the German by Geoffrey Strachan, with a new introduction and an afterword by Marianne Schweitzer Burkenroad with Helen Epstein; 98,000 words, 10 photographs)
Account Rendered was first published in Germany in...