Items with the category: History | Jewish Book Council

Essay

A Return to the Source: On Translating Tobie Nathan’s ‘A Land Like You’

Joyce Zonana

June 14, 2021

Cover of The Jewish Body: A History

The Jewish Body: A History

Robert Jütte, Elizabeth Bredeck (Translator)

Poetry

Ak-mechet

David Osachy

June 7, 2021

Cover of The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice With Art

The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice With Art

Cynthia Levinson, Evan Turk (Illustrator)

Essay

Poems Born in Bergen-Belsen

Menachem Z. Rosensaft

May 24, 2021

Cover of Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection

Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection

Cover of Letters to Camondo

Letters to Camondo

Excerpt

Excerpt: Bungalow Colonies and Mahjong Summers

Annelise Heinz

May 3, 2021

Essay

Shaking Up the Tanakh

Alison L. Joseph

May 3, 2021

Cover of Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe

Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe

Paola Tartakoff

Interview

‘It’s a Story First’: A Conversation with Amy Hest

Emily Schneider

April 12, 2021

Cover of Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation

Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation

Claudio Lomnitz

Essay

Healers of the Pale: A Hidden Herbal Legacy

Deatra Cohen

April 5, 2021

Cover of Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World's First Female Rabbi

Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World’s First Female Rabbi

Sigal Samuel; Vali Mintzi, illus.

Cover of The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City

Scott D. Seligman

Cover of The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos