Items with the category: History | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich

Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich

Joanne D. Gilbert

Cover of The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust

The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust

Lisa Moses Leff

Cover of Days of Ticho: Empire, Mandate, Medicine, and Art in the Holy Land

Days of Ticho: Empire, Mandate, Medicine, and Art in the Holy Land

Cover of Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse

Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse

Stanley Meisler

Essay

My Wallenberg Education in Budapest, Stockholm, and Moscow

Earlier this week, Alan Lelchuk wrote about meeting Daniel Pagliansky, Wallenberg’s KGB interrogator. Lelchuk is the author of the acclaimed novels, American…

Alan Lelchuk

May 6, 2015

Cover of Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust

Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust

Michael A. Grodin, ed.

Cover of Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art, 1880-1940

Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art, 1880 – 1940

Matthew Baigell

Cover of Masorah and Text Criticism in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Moshe Ibn Zabara and Menahem De Lonzano

Masorah and Text Criticism in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Moshe Ibn Zabara and Menahem De Lonzano

Jordan S. Penkower

Essay

An Introduction to Jan Karski

by Joshua MuravchikFew individuals risked more to try to save the Jews from the Holocaust than Jan Karski, and yet what makes his actions most amazing was that the cause of…

Joshua Muravchik

April 17, 2015

Cover of Becoming Israeli: National Ideals & Everyday Life in the 1950s

Becoming Israeli: National Ideals & Everyday Life in the 1950s

Interview

Interview: Eric Lichtblau

by Elise CooperThe Nazis Next Door by Eric Lichtblau is a compelling reminder of how quickly man’s inhumanity to man has been forgotten. Many in the FBI, CIA, the…

Elise Cooper

April 2, 2015

Cover of Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943

Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940 – 1943

Katarzyna Person

Cover of The Kasztner Report: The Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee, 1942-1945

The Kasztner Report: The Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee, 1942 – 1945

Rezső Kasztner; edited by László Karsai and Judit Molnár

Cover of The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941

The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939 – 1941

Roger Moorhouse

Cover of Israel Since the Six-Day War

Israel Since the Six-Day War

Cover of The Jew Who Defeated Hitler: Henry Morgenthau Jr., FDR, and How We Won the War

The Jew Who Defeated Hitler: Henry Morgenthau Jr., FDR, and How We Won the War