Genre search:Biography

Prophets without honour: A background to Freud, Kafka, Einstein, and their world

by Frederic V Grunfeld
Hardcover, 1979
Tags
Germany, Austria
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2927
Status
Available
Call number
943.004 GRU

Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story

by Matti Friedman
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Israel - history, Lebanon, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5432
Status
Available
Call number
956.9204 FRI

Raquela, A Woman of Israel

by Ruth Gruber
Hardcover, 1978
Tags
Israel, National Jewish Book Award
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
3338
Status
Available
Call number
B PRY

Raquela, A Woman of Israel

by Ruth Gruber
Hardcover, 1978
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Israel
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
1612
Status
Available
Call number
B PRY

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

Rashi (Jewish Encounters Series)

by Elie Wiesel
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
Rashi, rabbis, France, biography
Collections
Adult Biography, Federation Collection
Barcode
5343
Status
Available
Call number
B RAS

Rashi: The Story Of Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki

by Yaakov Dovid Shulman
Paperback, 1993
Tags
Rashi, biography
Collections
Adult Biography, B'nai Jacob Collection
Barcode
6626
Status
Available
Call number
B RAS

Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History

by Joseph Telushkin
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
rabbis
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
3743
Status
Available
Call number
B SCH

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

Reflections of the Maggid: Inspirational Stories from Around the Globe and Around the Corner

by Paysach J. Krohn
Hardcover, 2002
Tags
rabbis
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2324
Status
Available
Call number
296.19 KRO

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

Rembrandt, the Jews, and the Bible

by Franz Lansberger
Hardcover, 1967
Tags
art, Rembrandt
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3166
Status
Available
Call number
759.9492 LAN

Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp

by Christopher R. Browning
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust, World War II, Betty's 100 Books, Holocaust - concentration camps, Poland
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4569
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 BRO

Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal

by Renia Spiegel
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
Holocaust - Poland, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, teen - young adult, teens - teenagers
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Barcode
6254
Status
Available
Call number
T 940.5318 SPI

Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust

by Gay Block
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Holocaust, World War II, Holocaust - Righteous Gentiles, courage - ometz lev, Holocaust - resistance and rescue, inner strength - gevurah
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
5015
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 BLO

Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust

by Gay Block
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Holocaust, World War II, Holocaust - Righteous Gentiles, courage - ometz lev, Holocaust - resistance and rescue, inner strength - gevurah
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2964
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 BLO

Return from Exile: One Woman's Journey Back to Judaism

by Carol Matzkin Orsborn
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
women
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2454
Status
Available
Call number
296.715 ORS

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

Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey

by Rachel Simon
Paperback, 2003
Tags
mental illness - disability, Pennsylvania
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
5056
Status
Available
Call number
305.9 SIM

The Right Time: An Autobiography of Harry Golden

by Harry Golden
Hardcover, 1969
Tags
civil rights
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2926
Status
Available
Call number
B GOL

Roommates: My Grandfather's Story

by Max Apple
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
grandparents
Collection
Adult Fiction
Barcode
2789
Status
Available
Call number
F APP

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

The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time

by Judith Shulevitz
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
Shabbat - Sabbath, Christianity
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5505
Status
Available
Call number
H SH 296.41 SHU

Sages and Dreamers: Portraits and Legends from the Jewish Traditions

by Elie Wiesel
Paperback, 1993
Tags
Talmud, Bible - Old Testament
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Series
92nd Street Y Lectures (4)
Barcode
2199
Status
Available
Call number
296.0922 WIE

Sages of the Talmud: The Lives, Sayings and Stories of 400 Rabbinic Masters

by Mordechai Judovits
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
Betty's 100 Books, Talmud, biography
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4555
Status
Available
Call number
296.125 JUD

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

Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (P.S.)

by Jane Leavy
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
URJ High School and Young Adult list, AR book - UG, athletes, baseball, sports
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
4670
Status
Available
Call number
B KOU

Sarah Builds a school

by Ann D. Koffsky
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
women, school, biography, ages 6-8
Collection
Juvenile Biography
Barcode
5732
Status
Available
Call number
J B SCH

Scattered Among the Peoples: THE JEWISH DIASPORA IN TWELVE PORTRAITS

by Allan Levine
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
URJ Significant Jewish Books, Betty's 100 Books
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4506
Status
Available
Call number
909.04924 LEV

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

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

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

Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor

by Judith Magyar Isaacson
Paperback, 1991
Tags
Holocaust, Hungary, Holocaust - concentration camps, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3940
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 ISA

Self-portrait of a hero: The letters of Jonathan Netanyahu (1963-1976)

by Yonatan Netanyahu
Hardcover, 1980
Tags
Israel
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2873
Status
Available
Call number
356.166 NET

Shabbat: A rite of passage in Jerusalem

by Peter Stephan Jungk
Hardcover, 1985
Tags
Judaism, faith in God
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6073
Status
Available
Call number
296.74 JUN

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

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

The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris

by Jonathan Kirsch
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
Holocaust - Kristallnacht, France, Paris, Herschel Grynszpan
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5419
Status
Available
Call number
940.53 KIR

Shula: Code Name The Pearl: The True Story of a Woman Spy in the Middle East

by Aviezer Golan
Hardcover, 1980
Tags
Israel, Middle East, spies
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2925
Status
Available
Call number
B KIS

Single Handed: The Inspiring True Story of Tibor "Teddy" Rubin--Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Hero, and Medal of Honor Recipient

by Daniel M. Cohen
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Hungary, Holocaust - survivors, Korean War, World War II
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, Federation Collection
Barcode
4886
Status
Available
Call number
951.904 COH

Sisters in Sorrow: Voices of Care in the Holocaust

by Roger A. Ritvo
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
Holocaust, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, women, World War II, Holocaust - survivors
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2997
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 RIT

Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters

by Elie Wiesel
Hardcover, 1982
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, folklore - folktales - legends, Hasidim - Hasidism
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Series
92nd Street Y Lectures (1)
Barcode
1617
Status
Available
Call number
296.833 WIE

Spinoza: A Life

by Steven Nadler
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
Koret Jewish Book Award, Netherlands
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
2168
Status
Available
Call number
B SPI

Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish

by Abigail Pogrebin
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
CHAI Lit List Level 7, television, movies, biography, anthology
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4416
Status
Available
Call number
920.009 POG

Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish

by Abigail Pogrebin
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
CHAI Lit List Level 7, television, movies, biography, anthology, teen - young adult
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Barcode
1387
Status
Available
Call number
T 920.009 POG

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

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition)

by Simon Wiesenthal
Paperback, 1998
Tags
URJ Library List, URJ Significant Jewish Books, Betty's 100 Books, forgiveness - selichot, Simon Wiesenthal, Holocaust - concentration camps
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4446
Status
Available
Call number
179.7 WIE

The Survivor

by Terence Des Pres
Paperback, 1977
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust, World War II, Holocaust - concentration camps, Holocaust - survivors
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
2988
Status
Available
Call number
940.5472 DES
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