Genre search:Biography

Brothers for Resistance and Rescue: The Underground Zionist Youth Movement in Hungary during World War II

by David Gur
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
Holocaust, World War II, Zionism, Hungary, Holocaust - survivors, Holocaust - resistance and rescue, Israel
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2977
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 GUR

Burning Lights

by Bella Chagall
Hardcover, 1946
Tags
Yiddish culture, Russia, Belarus
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2766
Status
Available
Call number
947.656 CHA

Burnt Bread and Chutney: Growing Up Between Cultures-A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Girl

by Carmit Delman
Hardcover, 2002
Tags
URJ High School and Young Adult list, AR book - UG, India, Israel
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3688
Status
Available
Call number
973.0492 DEL

But He Was Good to His Mother : The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters

by Robert A. Rockaway
Paperback, 2000
Tags
crime and criminals
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3854
Status
Available
Call number
364.1 ROC

The Capture And Trial Of Adolf Eichmann

by Moshe Pearlman
Hardcover, 1963
Tags
history - 20th century, Holocaust, Argentina
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2994
Status
Available
Call number
341.41 PEA

Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World

by Susan Silverman
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
parenting, women
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
5346
Status
Available
Call number
305.48 SIL

The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

by Nicholas Dawidoff
Paperback, 1995
Tags
baseball, World War II, spies
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2937
Status
Available
Call number
B BER

Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women: Patterns in a Feminist Sampler

by Rachel J Siegel
Paperback, 1997
Tags
Canada, women, feminism
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3426
Status
Available
Call number
305.486 SIE

Charmed Lives

by Michael Korda
Hardcover, 1979
Tags
movies
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2907
Status
Available
Call number
791.43 KOR

Children Of Israel, Children of Palestine

by Laurel Holliday
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Judaism through Children's Books further reading, teen - young adult, AR book - UG, Israel - children, Palestine, Arab-Israeli conflict, Palestinians
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Series
Children of Conflict (book 3)
Barcode
1713
Status
Available
Call number
T 920.0569 HOL

Children of the Holocaust: Conversations With Sons and Daughters of Survivors

by Helen Epstein
Hardcover, 1979
Tags
Holocaust, World War II, Holocaust - survivors, psychology
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2946
Status
Available
Call number
940.5315 EPS

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

Choosing Judaism

by Lydia Kukoff
Paperback, 1981
Tags
URJ Library List, family, conversion, intermarriage
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2522
Status
Available
Call number
296.714 KUK

Choosing Judaism

by Lydia Kukoff
Paperback, 1981
Tags
URJ Library List, conversion, intermarriage
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2441
Status
Available
Call number
296.714 KUK

Chosen By God: A Brother's Journey

by Joshua Hammer
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
Hasidim - Hasidism
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2756
Status
Available
Call number
210 HAM

A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry

by Mark Kurlansky
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Holocaust - survivors
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2999
Status
Available
Call number
305.892 KUR

The Chosen Game: A Jewish Basketball History

by Charley Rosen
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
sports, basketball
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5648
Status
Available
Call number
796.32 ROS

Chutzpah

by Alan M. Dershowitz
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
Jews - identity
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3087
Status
Available
Call number
973.0492 DER

The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team

by Matthew Goodman
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
basketball, sports, National Jewish Book Award finalist, New York
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6237
Status
Available
Call number
796.32 GOO

Climbing Jacob's Ladder: One Man's Rediscovery of a Jewish Spiritual Tradition

by Alan Morinis
Paperback, 2002
Tags
Musar - Mussar, spirituality, spirit - ruach
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4725
Status
Available
Call number
296.832 MOR

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

The Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography, Two Volumes

by Jacob Rader Marcus
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
biography
Collection
Reference
Status
Available
Call number
REF 920 MAR

Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bible

by David Rosenberg
Hardcover, 1989
Tags
Bible - Old Testament, Bible - criticism and commentary
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2203
Status
Available
Call number
221.6 ROS

The Congressional Minyan: The Jews of Capitol Hill

by Kurt F. Stone
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
United States
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2583
Status
Available
Call number
328.73 STO

The Crate: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

by Deborah Vadas Levison
Paperback, 2018
Tags
Holocaust - survivors, Canada
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6943
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 LEV

Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed

by Leslie Maitland
Paperback, 2013
Tags
JBC National Jewish Book Club, World War II
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3739
Status
Available
Call number
940.53 MAI

Daughter of My People: Henrietta Szold and Hadassah

by Hazel Krantz
Hardcover, 1995
Tags
Linda Silver "Classic", teen - young adult, Hadassah (organization), Henrietta Szold
Collection
Teen Biography (grades 6-12)
Barcode
1858
Status
Available
Call number
T B SZO

A Daughter's Gift of Love: A Holocaust Memoir

by Trudi Birger
Hardcover, 1992
Tags
Holocaust, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, Lithuania, persecution
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3042
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 BIR

Daughters of the King

by Rabbi Susan Grossman
Paperback, 2005
Tags
URJ Library List, women, prayer - tefillah
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3427
Status
Available
Call number
296.65 GRO

A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw

by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Hardcover, 1969
Tags
autobiography, short stories, National Book Award, AR book - UG, Poland, Yiddish literature, Warsaw
Collections
Teen Biography (grades 6-12), Federation Collection
Barcode
4740
Status
Available
Call number
T B SIN

A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw

by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Paper Book, 1969
Tags
autobiography, short stories, National Book Award, AR book - UG, Poland, Yiddish literature, Warsaw
Collection
Juvenile Biography
Barcode
1152
Status
Available
Call number
J B SIN

Days of David Ben Gurion: Seen in Photographs and with Text from His Speeches and Writings

by Ohad Zmora Editor
Hardcover, 1967
Tags
David Ben-Gurion, Koach Ha Dibbur - the power of words
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2930
Status
Available
Call number
B BEN

Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America

by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
People of the Book author, women, feminism
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
5054
Status
Available
Call number
973.0492 POG

Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America

by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
People of the Book author, women, feminism
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2573
Status
Available
Call number
973.0492 POG

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

The Diaries Of Theodor Herzl

by Marvin Lowenthal Editor
Hardcover, 1962
Tags
Theodor Herzl
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
3435
Status
Available
Call number
B HER

The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank
Hardcover, 1995
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, World War II, Holocaust - hidden children
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2948
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 FRA

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

by Anne Frank
Paperback, 1997
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, World War II, Holocaust - hidden children
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
4748
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 FRA

THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL: The Definitive Edition

by Anne Frank
Hardcover, 1997
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
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Barcode
1874
Status
Available
Call number
T 949.207 FRA

Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix

by Lynda Schuster
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
biography, newspapers and media, women
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
5609
Status
Available
Call number
B SCH

The Discovery of God: Abraham and the Birth of Monotheism

by David Klinghoffer
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
Genesis, history - ancient, Bible - Old Testament, Abraham (patriarch)
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2875
Status
Available
Call number
222.11 KLI

Disraeli

by Robert Blake
Hardcover, 1967
Tags
Benjamin Disraeli, Queen Victoria
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2894
Status
Available
Call number
B DIS

Does the World Need the Jews

by Daniel Gordis
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
Jews - identity, United States
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
5179
Status
Available
Call number
296.0973 GOR

The Dynamics of American Jewish History: Jacob Rader Marcus's Essays on American Jewry (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)

by Gary Phillip Zola
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
history, United States - history
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Series
Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life (2003)
Barcode
3374
Status
Available
Call number
973.0492 ZOL

Eban

by Robert St. John
Hardcover, 1972
Tags
Israel
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2919
Status
Available
Call number
B EBA

An Echo in My Blood: The Search for My Family's Hidden Past

by Alan Weisman
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
family history - genealogy
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3125
Status
Available
Call number
977.6 WEI

"Elder of the Jews": Jakob Edelstein of Theresienstadt

by Ruth Bondy
Hardcover, 1989
Tags
Holocaust - concentration camps, Czech Republic - Czechoslovakia
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
5048
Status
Available
Call number
940.53 BON

Elena Kagan: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

by Meg Greene
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
judges and lawyers, women, biography, teen - young adult
Collection
Teen Biography (grades 6-12)
Series
Greenwood Biographies
Barcode
5488
Status
Available
Call number
T B KAG

Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust

by Livia Bitton Jackson
Hardcover, 1980
Tags
teen - young adult, Holocaust, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Barcode
1062
Status
Available
Call number
T 940 JAC

Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience

by Peter Levine
Hardcover, 1992
Tags
sports, United States
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2673
Status
Available
Call number
796.089 LEV
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