Genre search:Biography

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

Shalom in My Heart, Salaam on My Lips: A Jewish Woman in Modern Morocco

by Gloria Becker Marchick
Paperback, 2003
Tags
Morocco, women, Islam
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
5052
Status
Available
Call number
916.4 MAR

Shanghai Refuge: A Memoir of the World War II Jewish Ghetto

by Ernest G. Heppner
Paperback, 1993
Tags
Holocaust, China, World War II, Germany, ghettos, Holocaust - refugees, Shanghai
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3052
Status
Available
Call number
951.1304 HEP

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

Summoned to Jerusalem: The Life of Henrietta Szold

by Joan Dash
Hardcover, 1979
Tags
Israel, Zionism, Henrietta Szold
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2896
Status
Available
Call number
B SZO

Rashi

by Chaim Pearl
Hardcover, 1988
Tags
France, rabbis, Rashi
Collection
Adult Biography
Series
The B'nai B'rith Jewish heritage classics (1970)
Barcode
2335
Status
Available
Call number
B RAS

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

Shiksa Goddess: Or, How I Spent My Forties

by Wendy Wasserstein
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
theatre - theater
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
2746
Status
Available
Call number
F WAS

Fighting Back: A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in World War II

by Harold Werner
Hardcover, 1992
Tags
Holocaust, anti-Semitism, World War II, Holocaust - resistance and rescue
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3038
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 WER

The Revolt: Story of the Irgun

by Menachem Begin
Hardcover, 1977
Tags
Israel, Israel - history, Palestine
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3077
Status
Available
Call number
956.94 BEG

For Jerusalem: A life

by Teddy Kollek
Hardcover, 1978
Tags
Israel, Jerusalem
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2877
Status
Available
Call number
B KOL

Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman

by Richard Drinnon
Paperback, 1973
Tags
women, feminism
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
4148
Status
Available
Call number
B GOL

Moe Berg: Athlete, Scholar, Spy

by Louis Kaufman
Hardcover, 1975
Tags
baseball, biography, sports
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
4262
Status
Available
Call number
B BER

Begin: A Portrait

by Harry Zvi Hurwitz
Paperback, 1994
Tags
Israel
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2885
Status
Available
Call number
B BEG

The Jewish Preacher: Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch

by Myron A. Hirsch
Paperback, 2003
Tags
Emil Hirsch, rabbis
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2879
Status
Available
Call number
B HIR

False Papers: DECEPTION AND SURVIVAL IN THE HOLOCAUST

by Robert Melson
Paperback, 2005
Tags
Holocaust - Poland, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
5025
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 MEL

Lionhearts: Heroes of Israel

by Michael Bar-Zohar Editor
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
Israel - history, biography, Zionism, Holocaust
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, B'nai Jacob Collection
Barcode
6428
Status
Available
Call number
956.94 BAR

Reluctant Return: A Survivor’s Journey to an Austrian Town (Jewish Literature and Culture)

by David W. Weiss
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
Austria, Holocaust
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
5178
Status
Available
Call number
943.612 WEI

In the Trenches: Selected Speeches and Writings of an American Jewish Activist, 1979-1999

by David A. Harris
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
Soviet Union, Arab-Israeli conflict, anti-Semitism, Holocaust, community - kehillah, Koach Ha Dibbur - the power of words
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Series
In the trenches : selected speeches and writings of an American Jewish activist
Barcode
4959
Status
Available
Call number
305.892 HAR

Territory of Lies: The Exclusive Story of Jonathan Jay Pollard

by Wolf Blitzer
Hardcover, 1989
Tags
history - 20th century, Israel, United States
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2931
Status
Available
Call number
B POL

My Mother Golda Meir: A Son's Evocation of Life With Golda Meir

by Menahem Meir
Hardcover, 1983
Tags
biography, Israel, Israel - government and politics, Golda Meir, Zionism
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2872
Status
Available
Call number
B MEI

Generation Exodus : The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany

by Walter Laqueur
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
Holocaust - refugees, Germany, immigration and emigration, Israel - immigration and emigration
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
4968
Status
Available
Call number
943.004 LAQ

Jewish Heroes & Heroines: Their Unique Achievements

by Darryl Lyman
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
biography
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4258
Status
Available
Call number
909.0492 LYM

Life Doesn't Get Any Better Than This: The Holiness of Little Daily Dramas

by Robert Alper
Paperback, 1997
Tags
ethics, holiness - kedusha
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2279
Status
Available
Call number
296.19 ALP

Memoirs

by David Ben-Gurion
Hardcover, 1970
Tags
David Ben-Gurion
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
3403
Status
Available
Call number
B BEN

Testimony : contemporary writers make the Holocaust personal

by David Rosenberg
Hardcover, 1989
Tags
Holocaust, biography, authors
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
5332
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 ROS

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 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

Great Jewish Personalities in Modern Times (B'nai B'rith Great Books Series vol 2)

by Simon Noveck Editor
Hardcover, 1960
Tags
Moses Mendelssohn, Moses Montefiore, Emil Hirsch, Isaac Mayer Wise, Solomon Schechter, Bialik, Sholem Aleichem, Theodor Herzl, Louis Brandeis, Henrietta Szold, Chaim Weizmann
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Series
B'nai B'rith great books (book 2) (1960)
Barcode
2316
Status
Available
Call number
920 NOV

Great Jewish Personalities in Ancient and Medieval Times (B'Nai B'rith Great Books Series: Volume I)

by Simon Noveck
Hardcover, 1962
Tags
Moses (prophet), David (King of Israel), Jeremiah (prophet), Philo, Akiba - Akiva, Saadia Gaon, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, Rashi, Abravanel, Baal Shem Tov — 1 more, Vilna Gaon
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Series
B'nai B'rith great books (book 1) (1959)
Barcode
2315
Status
Available
Call number
920 NOV

The Goebbels Diaries, 1942-1943

by Joseph Goebbels
Hardcover, 1948
Tags
Holocaust, Germany, World War II
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3010
Status
Available
Call number
940.54 GOE

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 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

Israel Journal: June, 1967

by Yael Dayan
Hardcover, 1967
Tags
Israel, Middle East, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3063
Status
Available
Call number
956 DAY

Hanna and Walter: A Love Story

by Hanna Kohner
Paperback, 1997
Tags
Holocaust, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, theatre - theater, California
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3012
Status
Available
Call number
940.53 KOH

American Jewish Desk Reference: The Ultimate One-Volume Reference to the Jewish Experience in America

by Maryanne Wagner Editor
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
United States - history, encyclopedia
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
4986
Status
Available
Call number
973.04924 WAG

Moshe Dayan: The soldier, the man, the legend

by Shabtai Teveth
Hardcover, 1973
Tags
Israel, Moshe Dayan
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2941
Status
Available
Call number
B DAY

Searching for my Brothers

by Jeffrey K. Salkin
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
men
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2455
Status
Available
Call number
296.7081 SAL

Searching for My Brothers: Jewish Men in a Gentile World

by Jeffrey K. Salkin
Paperback, 2000
Tags
men
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3442
Status
Available
Call number
296.7081 SAL

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

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 Last Seven Months of Anne Frank

by Willy Lindwer
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Holocaust, biography, Anne Frank, Netherlands, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, Holocaust - survivors
Collections
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12), B'nai Jacob Collection
Barcode
5874
Status
Available
Call number
T 940.5318 LIN

The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank

by Willy Lindwer
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
Holocaust, biography, Anne Frank, Netherlands, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, Holocaust - survivors
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3006
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 LIN

The Extraordinary Nature of Ordinary Things

by Steven Z. Leder
Paperback, 1999
Tags
URJ High School and Young Adult list, rabbis
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2625
Status
Available
Call number
296.72 LED

The Grandees: America's Sephardic Elite

by Stephen Birmingham
Hardcover, 1971
Tags
Sephardim
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3084
Status
Available
Call number
920.073 BIR

Anton the Dove Fancier and other tales of the Holocaust

by Bernard Gotfryd
Paperback, 1990
Tags
Holocaust, Holocaust - Poland, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, persecution
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2733
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 GOT

Written Out of history: Our Jewish Foremothers

by Sondra Henry
Hardcover, 1983
Tags
women
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2613
Status
Available
Call number
920.72 HEN

Five Years of My Life: The Diary of Captain Alfred Dreyfus

by Alfred Dreyfus
Hardcover, 1977
Tags
France, Alfred Dreyfus
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Barcode
1039
Status
Available
Call number
T 944.081 DRE

Moses Mendelssohn: A biographical study

by Alexander Altmann
Hardcover, 1973
Tags
Moses Mendelssohn
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2940
Status
Available
Call number
B MEN
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