Items with the category: History | Jewish Book Council

Essay

Not So(w) Kosher? Nine Jewish Facts About the Pig

Jordan D. Rosenblum

October 7, 2024

Cover of Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig

Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig

Jordan D. Rosenblum

Essay

My Grandfather’s Secret: Jewish Inside the Manhattan Project

Rachel Robbins

September 30, 2024

Cover of Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil

Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil

Recommended Reading

Jewish Life in Patagonia

Jessica Ruetter

September 23, 2024

Cover of 10/7: 100 Human Stories

10/7: 100 Human Stories

Interview

From Generation to Generation, On a Chariot of Fire: A Conversation Between Siona Benjamin and Erica Lyons

Isadora Kianovsky

September 2, 2024

Cover of No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust

No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust

Cover of Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape

Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape

Arthur J. Magida

Cover of Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

Hannah Pollin-Galay

Cover of Bad Jew: A Family's Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu's Israel

Bad Jew: A Family’s Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu’s Israel

Piotr Smolar; Anthony Roberts, trans.

Cover of A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom

A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom

Excerpt

Excerpt — Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe

Ken Krimstein

August 19, 2024

Essay

Making the Revolution Jewish

Adam Jortner

August 19, 2024

Cover of Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe

Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe

Iris Idelson-Shein

Cover of (In)Sights: Peacemaking in the Oslo Process Thirty Years and Counting

(In)Sights: Peacemaking in the Oslo Process Thirty Years and Counting

Gidi (Gideon) Grinstein and Ari Afilalo