Items with the category: History | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena

Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena

Cover of Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans' Home of New Orleans

Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans

Marlene Trestman

Essay

What Kind of a Name is Osnos?

Peter Osnos

August 30, 2021

Cover of Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation

Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation

Katarzyna Person

Cover of Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art: Audacities of Color

Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art: Audacities of Color

LaNitra M. Berger

Cover of Babka, Boulou, & Blintzes: Jewish Chocolate Recipes from around the World

Babka, Boulou, & Blintzes: Jewish Chocolate Recipes from around the World

Michael Leventhal

Essay

Alexander Hamilton and His Jewish Witnesses

Andrew Porwancher

August 16, 2021

Essay

Otto Warburg’s Jewish Identity

Sam Apple

August 16, 2021

Cover of To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah

To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah

Cover of The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness

The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness

Andrei S. Markovits

Cover of Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice

Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice

Rachel B. Gross

Essay

Culture of Fragrance: Jewish Perfumers in the Twentieth Century

Timothy Schaffert

July 26, 2021

Jews and the Olympics

Cover of Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream

Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream

Michael Shnayerson

Cover of Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945-1989

Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945 – 1989

Cover of Saving Lady Liberty: Joseph Pulitzer’s Fight for the Statue of Liberty

Saving Lady Liberty: Joseph Pulitzer’s Fight for the Statue of Liberty

Claudia Friddell, Stacy Innerst (Illustrator)