Genre search:Biography

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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

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

The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring

by Gregory J. Wallance
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Zionism, Palestine, women, Israel - history, spies, National Jewish Book Award finalist
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
5595
Status
Available
Call number
B AAR

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

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

If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir

by Ilana Kurshan
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, Talmud, women, wisdom - study - learning
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5608
Status
Available
Call number
296.1 KUR

13 Stradomska Street: A Memoir of Exile and Return

by Andrew Potok
Paperback, 2017
Tags
Holocaust - Poland, artists, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, biography
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5599
Status
Available
Call number
759.9438 POT

Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court: From Brandeis to Kagan (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)

by David G. Dalin
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
judges and lawyers, biography
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Series
Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life
Barcode
5486
Status
Available
Call number
347.73 DAL

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

Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel

by Francine Klagsbrun
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Israel, Golda Meir
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
5477
Status
Available
Call number
B MEI

My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew

by Abigail Pogrebin
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
holidays, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, calendar, National Jewish Book Award finalist
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5242
Status
Available
Call number
296.43 POG

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

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

Max Baer and Barney Ross: Jewish Heroes of Boxing

by Jeffrey Sussman
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
athletes, biography, boxing, sports
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5594
Status
Available
Call number
796.83 SUS

The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

by Sebastian Mallaby
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
biography, banking and finance
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
5485
Status
Available
Call number
B GRE

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

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

Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France

by Moriz Scheyer
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Holocaust - survivors, France
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5122
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 SCH

Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Jewish Encounters Series)

by Masha Gessen
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Soviet Union, Birobidzhan, Russia, history, Betty's 100 Books
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4410
Status
Available
Call number
957.7 GES

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

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

Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide

by Michael B. Oren
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Israel - government and politics, biography
Collections
Adult Biography, Federation Collection
Barcode
4899
Status
Available
Call number
B ORE

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

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

by Irin Carmon
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Betty's 100 Books, biography, seeking justice, judges and lawyers, women, B'Tzelem Elohim - In God's Image
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
4500
Status
Available
Call number
B GIN

Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide

by Michael B. Oren
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Israel - government and politics, biography
Collection
Adult Biography
Barcode
3938
Status
Available
Call number
B ORE

The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible

by Aviya Kushner
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
National Jewish Book Award finalist, Torah, Sam Rohr Prize finalist, Betty's 100 Books
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4142
Status
Available
Call number
220.4 KUS

After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring

by Joseph Polak
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust, Betty's 100 Books, Holocaust - survivors, personal narratives - diaries - memoirs, Holocaust - concentration camps
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4238
Status
Available
Call number
940.53 POL

Lincoln and the Jews: A History

by Jonathan D. Sarna
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
National Jewish Book Award finalist, Betty's 100 Books, United States - history, United States - Civil War
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
4494
Status
Available
Call number
973.70892 SAR

The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

by David I. Kertzer
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Italy, World War II, Catholicism
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
5099
Status
Available
Call number
322.1094 KER

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

Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust--Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour

by James A. Grymes
Paperback, 2014
Tags
National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust, music, violin
Collection
Adult Non-Fiction
Barcode
3794
Status
Available
Call number
787.2092 GRY
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