Items with the category: History | Jewish Book Council

Cover of No Past Tense: Love and Survival in the Shadow of the Holocaust

No Past Tense: Love and Survival in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Cover of Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife

Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife

Cover of Making Peace with the Universe: Personal Crisis and Spiritual Healing

Making Peace with the Universe: Personal Crisis and Spiritual Healing

Michael Scott Alexander

Cover of Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America

Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America

Hilary Levey Friedman

Cover of Splitsville

Cover of Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL

Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL

Cover of The Legend of Safed: Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah

The Legend of Safed: Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah

 Eli Yassif, Haim Watzman (trans.)

Cover of Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth

Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth

Cover of The JDC at 100: A Century of Humanitarianism

The JDC at 100: A Century of Humanitarianism

Avinoam J. Patt

Cover of The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago's Jewish Gangsters

The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters

Essay

Of Monsters and Menschen: A Typology of Jewish Monsters

Joela Jacobs

July 15, 2019

Cover of Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight

Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight

Lyn Julius, Tom Gross (Fwd.)

Essay

Part II: The Legacy Continues

Nadine Epstein

July 1, 2019

Interview

Queer Identity in Jewish History: An Interview with Noam Sienna

An interview about an anthology exploring marginalized voices in Jewish history

Sacha Lamb

June 11, 2019

Cover of America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

Pamela S. Nadell

Cover of A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969

A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969