Genre search:Biography

The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival

by Jeremy Dronfield
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Holocaust - concentration camps, teens - teenagers
Collection
Teen Non-Fiction (grades 6-12)
Barcode
7108
Status
Available
Call number
T 940.53 DRO

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

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

by Yossi Klein Halevi
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Israel, Arab-Israeli conflict
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
7008
Status
Available
Call number
956.94 HAL

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

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

Alex's Wake: The Tragic Voyage of the St. Louis to Flee Nazi Germany-and a Grandson’s Journey of Love and Remembrance

by Martin Goldsmith
Paperback, 2015
Tags
MS St. Louis, Holocaust
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6935
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 GOL

The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World

by Kati Marton
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
Holocaust, Hungary, Holocaust - survivors
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6936
Status
Available
Call number
940.53 MAR

The Hidden Life of Otto Frank

by Carol Ann Lee
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
biography, Holocaust - survivors, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
6937
Status
Available
Call number
B FRA

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

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

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

Forgiveness: The Story of Eva Kor, Survivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experiments

by Joseph E. Lee
Paperback, 2021
Tags
graphic novel format, Holocaust, Eva Kor
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6906
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 LEE

Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran

by Roya Hakakian
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
Iran, women
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6844
Status
Available
Call number
955.05 HAK

To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah

by Dvora Hacohen
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Henrietta Szold, tikkun olam - repairing the world, achrayut - responsibility, women, biography, Hadassah (organization)
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
6796
Status
Available
Call number
B SZO

Yoni's Last Battle: The Rescue at Entebbe, 1976

by Iddo Netanyahu
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
Israel - military
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, B'nai Jacob Collection
Barcode
6649
Status
Available
Call number
956.94 NET

Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoir

by Elizabeth Ehrlich
Paperback, 1998
Tags
personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, food, cooking
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, B'nai Jacob Collection
Barcode
6647
Status
Available
Call number
641.5 EHR

Franci's War: A Woman's Story of Survival

by Franci Rabinek Epstein
Paperback, 2020
Tags
Holocaust, Prague, Holocaust - survivors, Terezin, Czech Republic - Czechoslovakia
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6640
Status
Available
Call number
940.53 EPS

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

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

Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

by Marie Jalowicz Simon
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Holocaust - Germany, Holocaust - survivors, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, Berlin
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6615
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 SIM

The Torah personality: Treasury of biographical sketches (ArtScroll Judaiscope series)

by Rabbi Nisson Wolpin
Hardcover, 1981
Tags
biography, rabbis, newspapers and media, history, wisdom - study - learning
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, B'nai Jacob Collection
Barcode
6437
Status
Available
Call number
296.092 WOL

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

Matzo Balls for Breakfast and Other Memories of Growing Up Jewish

by Alan King
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
biography, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs
Collections
Adult Non-Fiction, B'nai Jacob Collection
Barcode
6376
Status
Available
Call number
305.892 KIN

If I am only for myself: The story of Hillel

by Aaron H. Blumenthal
Paperback, 1973
Tags
Hillel
Collections
Adult Biography, B'nai Jacob Collection
Barcode
6381
Status
Available
Call number
B HIL

Our Crime Was Being Jewish: Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories

by Anthony S. Pitch
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Holocaust - survivors
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6290
Status
Checked out
Call number
940.5318 PIT

How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

by Ilan Stavans Editor
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Yiddish language
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
6272
Status
Available
Call number
439.18 STA

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

A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis

by Françoise Frenkel
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
Holocaust - Germany, France, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, women
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
6258
Status
Available
Call number
B FRE

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

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

The Labyrinth of Exile: A Life of Theodor Herzl

by Ernst Pawel
Hardcover, 1989
Tags
Zionism, Theodor Herzl, Israel
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
6101
Status
Available
Call number
B HER

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

Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust

by Stephen Koch
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
Holocaust, France, Paris, Herschel Grynszpan, biography
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
5887
Status
Available
Call number
B GRY

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

Orchestra of Exiles: The Story of Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic, and the One Thousand Jews He Saved from Nazi Horrors

by Josh Aronson
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
violin, music, Holocaust
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5758
Status
Available
Call number
787.2092 ARO

In Our Voices: Stories of Holocaust Survivors

by Esther Yin-Ling Spodek Editor
Paperback, 2009
Tags
Holocaust - survivors
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5731
Status
Available
Call number
940.53 SPO

Three Stars in the Night Sky

by Fern Schumer Chapman
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
AR book - MG, Holocaust - refugees, ages 9-12
Collection
Juvenile Non-Fiction (grades 1-5)
Barcode
5740
Status
Available
Call number
J 940.53 CHA

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

Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld

by Beate Klarsfeld
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Holocaust, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, National Jewish Book Award
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5716
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 KLA

Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom

by Ariel Burger
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Holocaust - survivors, teachers, wisdom - study - learning, National Jewish Book Award
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
5710
Status
Available
Call number
B WIE

My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace

by Ehud Barak
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Israel - government and politics, biography, National Jewish Book Award
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
5709
Status
Available
Call number
B BAR

Night (Night)

by Elie Wiesel
Paperback, 2006
Tags
URJ Library List, URJ Significant Jewish Books, URJ High School and Young Adult list, Holocaust, AR book - UG, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, World War II, Holocaust - concentration camps, Holocaust - Germany, Hungary
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Series
The Night Trilogy (1)
Barcode
5669
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 WIE

1948 (Hebrew edition)

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

HaMitnadev (The Volunteer: A Canadian's Secret Life in the Mossad)

by Michael Ross
Paperback, 2007
Tags
Canada, Israel, Hebrew
Collection
Hebrew Collection
Barcode
5658
Status
Available
Call number
HEB 327.12 ROS

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

When Basketball Was Jewish: Voices of Those Who Played the Game

by Douglas Stark
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
sports, basketball
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5651
Status
Available
Call number
796.32 STA

If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America's Time of Need

by Colonel Jack Jacobs
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
United States - military, Vietnam, autobiography
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
5615
Status
Available
Call number
B JAC

Mark Spitz: The Extraordinary Life of an Olympic Champion

by Richard J Foster
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
athletes, sports
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
5614
Status
Available
Call number
B SPI

The Google Guys: Inside the Brilliant Minds of Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin

by Richard L. Brandt
Paperback, 2011
Tags
computers, internet, technology, biography
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5617
Status
Available
Call number
338.7 BRA

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
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