Items with the category: History | Jewish Book Council

Cover of How Magicians Think: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters

How Magicians Think: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters

Cover of A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America

A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America

Cover of The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition

The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition

Essay

A Novel Opening

Rachel Beanland

August 10, 2020

Essay

A Brief History of Balkan Jews and the Story of the Synagogue of Zagreb

Michele Levy

August 3, 2020

Cover of Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon

Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon

Cover of The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

Jonathan Kaufman

Essay

A ‘Legacy of Blood’ Explored with Elissa Bemporad

Elissa Bemporad

July 20, 2020

Cover of Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South

Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South

Cover of The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue

The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue

Interview

JBC Authors at the Table: Sue Eisenfeld

June 18, 2020

Cover of A New Hasidism: Roots

A New Hasidism: Roots

Arthur Green and Ariel Evan Mayse, eds.

Cover of Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century

Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century

Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Cover of Mengele: Unmasking the “Angel of Death”

Mengele: Unmasking the “Angel of Death”

David G. Marwell

Cover of Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader

Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader

Derek J. Penslar

Essay—Excerpt

The Story Behind the Story: A Tribute to Three Old Men

Craig Darch

May 28, 2020