Items with the category: Biography | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Mapping The Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep

Mapping The Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep

Cover of From Mistakes to Miracles: A Jewish Birthmother’s Story of Redemption, Hope, & Healing

From Mistakes to Miracles: A Jewish Birthmother’s Story of Redemption, Hope, & Healing

Lori Prashker-Thomas

Cover of The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World's Greatest Negotiator

The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World’s Greatest Negotiator

Cover of My Name is Staszek Surdel: The Improbable Holocaust Survival of Nathan Poremba, The Last Jew of Wieliczka

My Name is Staszek Surdel: The Improbable Holocaust Survival of Nathan Poremba, The Last Jew of Wieliczka

Joel S. Poremba

Cover of A Doorway to Heroism: A decorated German-Jewish soldier who became an American hero

A Doorway to Heroism: A decorated German-Jewish soldier who became an American hero

W. Jack Romberg

Cover of Getting Wiser: 101 Essential Life Lessons and Inspiring Stories

Getting Wiser: 101 Essential Life Lessons and Inspiring Stories

Michael S. Lewis

Cover of Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan that Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich

Overture of Hope: Two Sisters’ Daring Plan that Saved Opera’s Jewish Stars from the Third Reich

Cover of Reach: Hard Lessons and Learned Truths from a Lifetime in Television

Reach: Hard Lessons and Learned Truths from a Lifetime in Television

Cover of Coco At The Ritz

Coco At The Ritz

Gioia Diliberto

Cover of We Shall Build Anew: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism

We Shall Build Anew: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism

Shirley Idelson

Excerpt

Excerpt: My Father’s Drawing

Mindy Weisel

August 23, 2021

Cover of Lies That Matter: A Federal Prosecutor and Child of Holocaust Survivors, Tasked with Stripping US Citizenship from Aged Nazi Collaborators, Finds Himself Caught in the Middle

Lies That Matter: A Federal Prosecutor and Child of Holocaust Survivors, Tasked with Stripping US Citizenship from Aged Nazi Collaborators, Finds Himself Caught in the Middle

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 Nathan's Song

Nathan’s Song

Leda Schubert, Maya Ish-Shalom (Illustrator)

Essay

‘Invisible Years’: Piecing Together My Family’s Story of Survival

Daphne Geismar

August 2, 2021

Cover of Thank You, Dr. Salk!: The Scientist Who Beat Polio and Healed the World

Thank You, Dr. Salk!: The Scientist Who Beat Polio and Healed the World

Dean Robbins, Mike Dutton (Illustrator)