Genre search:Biography

Wolf and Dessauer: Where Fort Wayne Shopped

by Jim Barron
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Latz family, local history, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3668
Status
Available
Call number
977.202 BAR

Out of My Later Years

by Albert Einstein
Hardcover, 1950
Tags
physics
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2710
Status
Available
Call number
530.092 EIN

Flory: A Miraculous Story of Survival

by Flory Van Beek
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
Holocaust - survivors, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6940
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 VAN

In My Father's Court: A Memoir

by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Hardcover, 1966
Tags
Yiddish literature
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2891
Status
Available
Call number
B SIN

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

As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin

by Laurence Bergreen
Hardcover, 1990
Tags
Irving Berlin
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2939
Status
Available
Call number
B BER

Disraeli

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

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 Rothschilds: A Family Portrait

by Frederic Morton
Hardcover, 1961
Tags
family history - genealogy
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2924
Status
Available
Call number
923.34 MOR

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

by Jacobo Timerman
Hardcover, 1981
Tags
Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Argentina
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2566
Status
Available
Call number
365.45 TIM

Jewish Sages of Today: Profiles of Extraordinary People

by Aryeh Rubin
Paperback, 2009
Tags
biography, authors, wisdom - study - learning
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
4906
Status
Available
Call number
920.009 RUB

My First 79 Years

by Isaac Stern
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
violin, music
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2671
Status
Available
Call number
B STE

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

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

The Avengers: A Jewish War Story

by Rich Cohen
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, URJ High School and Young Adult list, Holocaust, World War II, Holocaust - resistance and rescue
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2986
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 COH

All But My Life: A Memoir

by Gerda Weissmann Klein
Hardcover, 1995
Tags
Holocaust, URJ High School and Young Adult list, AR book - UG, Holocaust - Poland, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, Holocaust - Germany, Holocaust - survivors
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3011
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 KLE

All But My Life: A Memoir

by Gerda Weissmann Klein
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Holocaust, URJ High School and Young Adult list, AR book - UG, Holocaust - Poland, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, Holocaust - Germany, Holocaust - survivors
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3436
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 KLE

All But My Life: A Memoir

by Gerda Weissmann Klein
Hardcover, 1995
Tags
Holocaust, URJ High School and Young Adult list, AR book - UG, Holocaust - Poland, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, Holocaust - Germany, Holocaust - survivors
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
4922
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 KLE

Schindler's Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors

by Elinor J. Brecher
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
Holocaust, Holocaust - Righteous Gentiles, Holocaust - Poland, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, Holocaust - survivors
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2985
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 BRE

Schindler's Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors

by Elinor J. Brecher
Paperback, 1994
Tags
Holocaust, Holocaust - Righteous Gentiles, Holocaust - Poland, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, Holocaust - survivors
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3232
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 BRE

Living a Year of Kaddish: A Memoir

by Ari Goldman
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
grief and mourning, Kaddish
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3335
Status
Available
Call number
296.445 GOL

Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame

by Franklin Foer
Paperback, 2012
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, athletes, Betty's 100 Books, sports, baseball
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4481
Status
Available
Call number
796.0899 FOE

Warrior: An Autobiography

by Ariel Sharon
Hardcover, 1989
Tags
Israel - history, Israel - military, biography, Israel - government and politics
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
5201
Status
Available
Call number
B SHA

In Praise of Public Life

by Joseph I. Lieberman
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
Connecticut
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2582
Status
Available
Call number
328.73 LIE

Moshe Dayan Story of My Life

by Moshe Dayan
Hardcover, 1976
Tags
Israel, Moshe Dayan
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2858
Status
Available
Call number
B DAY

I Seek My Brethren: Ralph Goldman and 'the Joint' : Rescue, Relief, and Reconstruction

by Tom Shachtman
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
history - 20th century, tzedakah - charity
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3359
Status
Available
Call number
362.84 SHA

To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account

by Saul Bellow
Hardcover, 1976
Tags
Israel, New York Times Best Book of the Year, Jerusalem, Middle East, Arab-Israeli conflict
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3066
Status
Available
Call number
915.694 BEL

Alicia

by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
Paperback, 1989
Tags
Holocaust, Christopher Award, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, AR book - UG, World War II, Holocaust - refugees, Holocaust - survivors, persecution, Ukraine, teen - young adult
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Barcode
1459
Status
Available
Call number
T 940.531 APP

Alicia

by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
Paperback, 1989
Tags
Holocaust, Christopher Award, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, AR book - UG, World War II, Holocaust - refugees, Holocaust - survivors, persecution, Ukraine
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2882
Status
Available
Call number
940.531 APP

Abba Eban: An Autobiography

by Abba Solomon Eban
Hardcover, 1977
Tags
Israel
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2860
Status
Available
Call number
B EBA

A Jewish Mother in Shangri-La

by Rosie Rosenzweig
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
Buddhism, conversion, spirituality
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, B'nai Jacob Collection
Barcode
6148
Status
Available
Call number
296.39 ROS

1948 (Hebrew edition)

by Yoram Kaniuk
Paperback, 2010
Tags
Hebrew, Israel
Collection
Hebrew Collection
Barcode
5665
Status
Available
Call number
HEB F KAN

Kaddish: Women's Voices

by Michal Smart
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, women, Betty's 100 Books, Kaddish, feminism, grief and mourning
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4070
Status
Available
Call number
296.445 SMA

Charmed Lives

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

Kaddish

by Leon Wieseltier
Paperback, 1998
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, grief and mourning, Kaddish
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2459
Status
Available
Call number
296.445 WIE

Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

by Charles King
Paperback, 2012
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust, Ukraine, Soviet Union, World War II
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3857
Status
Available
Call number
947.72 KIN

Hank Greenberg: The Story of My Life

by Hank Greenberg
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
URJ High School and Young Adult list, athletes, baseball, sports, World War II, anti-Semitism
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
3674
Status
Available
Call number
B GRE

Personal Witness: Israel through My Eyes

by Abba Eban
Hardcover, 1992
Tags
Israel, Zionism
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, B'nai Jacob Collection
Barcode
6635
Status
Available
Call number
956.94 EBA

Judah P. Benjamin - The Jewish Confederate

by Eli N. Evans
Hardcover, 1988
Tags
Louisiana Literary Award, Judah Benjamin, United States - Civil War
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2861
Status
Available
Call number
B BEN

Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

by Thomas J. Sugrue
Paperback, 2008
Tags
civil rights, United States - history, African-Americans, diversity and inclusion, B'Tzelem Elohim - In God's Image
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2542
Status
Available
Call number
323.1196 SUG

Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood

by Binjamin Wilkomirski
Paperback, 1996
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust, AR book - UG, Holocaust - Poland, World War II, children
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2103
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 WIL

For Those I Loved

by Martin Gray
Hardcover, 1972
Tags
Holocaust, Holocaust - Poland, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, children, Holocaust - resistance and rescue, Holocaust - Warsaw Ghetto
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2979
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 GRA

Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years

by Misha Defonseca
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
Holocaust, World War II
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2987
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 DEF

Power Privilege and The Post: The Katharine Graham Story

by Carol Felsenthal
Hardcover, 1993
Tags
newspapers and media
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2911
Status
Available
Call number
B GRA

Fear No Evil

by Natan Sharansky
Hardcover, 1988
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Soviet Union
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2102
Status
Available
Call number
323.092 SHA

A Little Too Close to God: The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel

by David Horovitz
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
Israel, Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel - government and politics, Israel - history, Middle East, Israeli writer
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2696
Status
Available
Call number
956.94 HOR

A Little Too Close to God: The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel

by David Horovitz
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
Israel, Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel - government and politics, Israel - history, Middle East, Israeli writer
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2880
Status
Available
Call number
956.94 HOR

"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

Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust

by Alexandra Zapruder
Paperback, 2004
Tags
Holocaust, Leah's MS list, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, children
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Barcode
3266
Status
Available
Call number
T 940.5318 ZAP

I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl

by Ruth Pearl Editor
Paperback, 2005
Tags
CHAI Lit List Level 7, National Jewish Book Award, ethics, Jews - identity
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5585
Status
Available
Call number
305.892 PEA
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