Items with the category: History | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Rescuing the Children: The Story of the Kindertransport

Rescuing the Children: The Story of the Kindertransport

Cover of Israel: A History

Israel: A History

Cover of The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492

The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70 – 1492

Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein

Cover of Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way

Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way

Cover of In the Lion's Shadow: The Iranian Schindler and his Homeland in the Second World War

In the Lion’s Shadow: The Iranian Schindler and his Homeland in the Second World War

Fariborz Mokhtari

Cover of Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life

Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life

Laura Arnold Leibman

Cover of Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures

Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures

Gad Freudenthal, ed.

Cover of Collect and Record: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe

Collect and Record: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe

Cover of The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement.

The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement.

Nathaniel Deutsch

Cover of Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism

Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism

Alanna E. Cooper

Cover of Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920

Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917 – 1920

Oleg Budnitskii; Timothy J. Portice, trans.

Cover of Irena's Jars of Secrets

Irena’s Jars of Secrets

Marcia Vaughan; Ron Mazellan, illus.

Cover of Jean Laffite: The Pirate Who Saved America

Jean Laffite: The Pirate Who Saved America

Susan Goldman Rubin; Jeff Himmelman, illus.

Cover of The Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933-1939: A Documentary History

The Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933 – 1939: A Documentary History

Christian Goeschel & Nikolaus Wachsmann, eds.; Ewald Osers, trans.

Cover of Archaeology and the Biblical Record

Archaeology and the Biblical Record

Bernard Alpert and Fran Alpert

Essay

Writing Biography: The Historian’s Challenge, Part 2

On Tuesday, Gerald Sorin wrote about ambivalence toward the genre of biography. Today, he considers the question: Can the biographer or their readers really know the…

Gerald Sorin

November 8, 2012