Genre search:General Nonfiction

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

by Erik Larson
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
Christian Science Monitor Best Book, New York Times Bestseller, AR book - UG, Germany, anti-Semitism, Berlin
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
1500
Status
Available
Call number
943.086 LAR

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

by Irin Carmon
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Betty's 100 Books, biography, seeking justice, judges and lawyers, women, B'Tzelem Elohim - In God's Image
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
4500
Status
Available
Call number
B GIN

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

by Jonathan Freedland
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
Holocaust - concentration camps, Holocaust - survivors
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6968
Status
Available
Call number
940.53 FRE

Man's Search for Meaning The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust

by Viktor E Frankl
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
Holocaust - concentration camps
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5516
Status
Available
Call number
940.53 FRA

A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

by Karen Armstrong
Paperback, 1994
Tags
God, history, Islam, Christianity, multi-faith
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2224
Status
Available
Call number
291.211 ARM

Jerusalem: The Biography (Vintage)

by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Paperback, 2012
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Israel, Israel - history, Jerusalem
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3672
Status
Available
Call number
956.9442 MON

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer (1960-09-01)

by William L. Shirer
Hardcover, 1960
Tags
World War II, Holocaust
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
5344
Status
Available
Call number
943 SHI

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

by Edmund De Waal
Paperback, 2011
Tags
art, banking and finance, London, collections and collecting
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5292
Status
Available
Call number
909.04924 DEW

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

by Jeremy Eichler
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, music, Holocaust
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
7098
Status
Available
Call number
780.89 EIC

The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Hinges of History, Vol. 2)

by Thomas Cahill
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
People of the Book author, Christopher Award, history, Bible - Old Testament
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Series
Hinges of History (2)
Barcode
2095
Status
Available
Call number
909.0492 CAH

The Gifts of the Jews

by Thomas Cahill
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
People of the Book author, Christopher Award, history, Bible - Old Testament
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Series
Hinges of History (2)
Barcode
2899
Status
Available
Call number
909.0492 CAH

From Beirut to Jerusalem

by Thomas L Friedman
Hardcover, 1989
Tags
Israel, National Book Award, Arab-Israeli conflict, Middle East, travel
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3044
Status
Available
Call number
956.04 FRI

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

by Daniel Mendelsohn
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust, family history - genealogy, Ukraine
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3786
Status
Available
Call number
973.04 MEN

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

by Ari Shavit
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Israel, Israeli writer
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
4901
Status
Available
Call number
956.05 SHA

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

by Ari Shavit
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Israel, Israeli writer
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3669
Status
Available
Call number
956.05 SHA

The Choice: Embrace the Possible

by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
Holocaust - survivors, Holocaust - concentration camps, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, biography, National Jewish Book Award
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
5470
Status
Available
Call number
B EGE

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

by Judy Batalion
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
Holocaust - resistance and rescue, women, Holocaust - Poland, National Jewish Book Award
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6723
Status
Available
Call number
940.53 BAT

Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew

by Michael W. Twitty
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
cookbook, African-Americans, African American - Jewish relations
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6967
Status
Available
Call number
641.5 TWI

Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

by Michael B. Oren
Paperback, 2003
Tags
Israel, National Jewish Book Award, Israel - history, Middle East
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3413
Status
Available
Call number
956.046 ORE

Story of the Jews, The: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD

by Simon Schama
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Betty's 100 Books, history - ancient, history - medieval
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Series
The Story of the Jews (1)
Barcode
4561
Status
Available
Call number
909.04924 SCH

On Repentance And Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

by Danya Ruttenberg
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
teshuvah - repentance
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
7033
Status
Available
Call number
202.2 RUT

Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Paperback, 1997
Tags
Holocaust, Time Magazine Best Book of the Year, Germany, World War II
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2959
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 GOL

Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books

by Aaron Lansky
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
Yiddish literature
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5089
Status
Available
Call number
002.075 LAN

Anne Frank : The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank
Hardcover, 1952
Tags
Holocaust, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, URJ Library List, URJ Middle School list, AR book - MG+, Anne Frank, Netherlands, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Barcode
1065
Status
Available
Call number
T 949.207 FRA

Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank
Paperback, 1990
Tags
Holocaust, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, URJ Library List, URJ Middle School list, AR book - MG+, Anne Frank, Netherlands, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Barcode
1064
Status
Available
Call number
T 949.207 FRA

Anne Frank the Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank
Paperback, 1982
Tags
Linda Silver "Classic", teen - young adult, URJ Middle School list, Holocaust, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, URJ Library List, AR book - MG+, Anne Frank, Netherlands, Holocaust - hidden children
Collections
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12), Federation Collection
Barcode
5107
Status
Available
Call number
T 949.207 FRA

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust

by Edith H. Beer
Hardcover, 1999
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
5058
Status
Available
Call number
940.53 BEE

The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance

by Anders Rydell
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
Holocaust, libraries, books and reading
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5572
Status
Available
Call number
940.531 RYD

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

by James McBride
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, AR book - UG, women, children, African American - Jewish relations, mothers, New York, race relations, diversity and inclusion, B'Tzelem Elohim - In God's Image
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2790
Status
Available
Call number
974.7 MCB

Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths

by Bruce Feiler
Hardcover, 2002
Tags
Abraham (patriarch), Judaism, Islam, Christianity, multi-faith
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
4921
Status
Available
Call number
222.11092 FEI

The Story of the Jews Volume Two: Belonging: 1492-1900

by Simon Schama
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
history
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Series
The Story of the Jews (2)
Barcode
5524
Status
Available
Call number
909.04924 SCH

The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

by David I. Kertzer
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Italy, World War II, Catholicism
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5099
Status
Available
Call number
322.1094 KER

The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed

by Wendy Lower
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust, Ukraine
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6779
Status
Available
Call number
940.53 LOW

Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

by Daniel Gordis
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Israel, National Jewish Book Award, Israel - history
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4642
Status
Available
Call number
956.94 GOR

Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (Hinges of History)

by Thomas Cahill
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
Christianity, Jesus
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Series
Hinges of History (3)
Barcode
5065
Status
Available
Call number
232 CAH

IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation

by Edwin Black
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
Holocaust, Germany
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2984
Status
Available
Call number
382.0943 BLA

Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?

by Daniel Gordis
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
Israel
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
7074
Status
Available
Call number
305.892 GOR

The Auschwitz Photographer: The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls (Gift for History Buffs and Men)

by Luca Crippa
Paperback, 2021
Tags
Holocaust - concentration camps
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6942
Status
Available
Call number
940.53 CRI

Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood

by Mark Oppenheimer
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
Pennsylvania, anti-Semitism
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6738
Status
Available
Call number
364.152 OPP

Jerusalem: A Cookbook

by Yotam Ottolenghi
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
cooking, Middle East, Israel, cookbook, food, Jerusalem
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2085
Status
Available
Call number
641.5 OTT

Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History

by James Carroll
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Christian Science Monitor Best Book, Jewish-Christian relations, Catholicism, Christianity
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2100
Status
Available
Call number
261.2609 CAR

Start-Up Nation : The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

by Dan Senor
Paperback, 2009
Tags
Israel, economy
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
4897
Status
Available
Call number
330.95694 SEN

If This is a Man

by Primo Levi
Hardcover, 1959
Tags
Holocaust, Holocaust - concentration camps, Holocaust - Poland, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, Italy
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Series
Auschwitz Trilogy (1)
Barcode
3009
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 LEV

The Case for Israel

by Alan Dershowitz
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
Israel, Arab-Israeli conflict, Zionism, Palestine, Israel - history, Israel - immigration and emigration
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
4900
Status
Available
Call number
956.94 DER

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

by Harold S. Kushner
Hardcover, 1983
Tags
CHAI Lit List Level 7, Judaism through Children's Books, teen - young adult, URJ Library List, URJ High School and Young Adult list
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Barcode
1411
Status
Available
Call number
T 296.311 KUS

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

by Harold S. Kushner
Hardcover, 1987
Tags
URJ Library List, URJ High School and Young Adult list
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2532
Status
Available
Call number
296.311 KUS

"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II

by Studs Terkel
Hardcover, 1984
Tags
Pulitzer Prize, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2692
Status
Available
Call number
940.548 TER

Walking The Bible

by Bruce Feiler
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
CHAI Lit List Level 4, CHAI Lit List Level 3, New York Times Bestseller, People of the Book author, URJ Significant Jewish Books, reverence and awe - yirah, Abraham (patriarch), archaeology, Creation, Israel, Jerusalem — 4 more, Moses (prophet), Noah (Biblical figure), Sarah (matriarch), Bible - Old Testament
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Barcode
1406
Status
Available
Call number
T 915.604 FEI

Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses

by Bruce Feiler
Paperback, 2002
Tags
People of the Book author, URJ Significant Jewish Books, CHAI Lit List Level 4, CHAI Lit List Level 3, New York Times Bestseller, reverence and awe - yirah, Abraham (patriarch), archaeology, Creation, Israel, Jerusalem — 4 more, Moses (prophet), Noah (Biblical figure), Sarah (matriarch), Bible - Old Testament
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2650
Status
Available
Call number
915.604 FEI

Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel

by Francine Klagsbrun
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Israel, Golda Meir
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
5477
Status
Available
Call number
B MEI
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