Rav Kook

Yehudah Mirsky

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Lives
• The life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel's religious and political life Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential-... Lees meer

Solidarity and Treason

Lisa Fittko

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Lives
• Lisa Fittko's gripping memoir of the antifascist resistance in Germany opens with Hitler's ascension to power in January 1933, and continues through h... Lees meer

Sidney Reilly

Benny Morris

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Lives
• A revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage "Mr. Morris's dogged research . . . lends impressive rigor t... Lees meer

A Hitler Youth in Poland

Jost Hermand

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Lives
• Jost Hermand's A Hitler Youth in Poland is an invaluable first-hand account of his experience in Nazi education camps for German children, four in Pol... Lees meer

Voices of the Diaspora

Thomas Nolden, Frances Malino

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Lives
• Voices of the Diaspora offers, for the first time, representative works by major Jewish women writers from Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, t... Lees meer

Harvey Milk

Lillian Faderman

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Lives
• A lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to protecting all ... Lees meer

Children of Zion

Henryk Grynberg

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Lives
• This text can be considered a documentary; it is a compilation of fragments of records compiled in Palestine in 1943 by the Polish group Eastern Cente... Lees meer

Lala's Story

Lala Fishman, Steven Weingartner

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Lives
• Winner of 1998 Carl Sandburg Award Born into a middle-class Jewish family in 1932, Lala Weintraub grew up in Lvov, Poland. When the Nazis came, Lala--... Lees meer

Mark Rothko

Annie Cohen-Solal

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Lives
• A fascinating exploration of the life and work of one of America's most famous and enigmatic postwar visual artists Mark Rothko, one of the greatest p... Lees meer

Lost in a Labyrinth of Red Tape

Armin Schmid, Renate Schmid

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Lives
• Lost in a Labyrinth of Red Tape is the story of one family's desperate attempts to emigrate from Nazi Germany. The Frühaufs faced enormous obstacles w... Lees meer

Admiral Hyman Rickover

Marc Wortman

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Lives
• A riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial "Father of the Nuclear Navy" "Marc Wortman delivers a 17-gun salute to this shor... Lees meer

Becoming Elijah

Daniel C Matt

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Lives
• The story of the prophet Elijah's transformation from fierce zealot to compassionate hero and cherished figure in Jewish tradition "In a series on Jew... Lees meer

Henrietta Szold

Francine Klagsbrun

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Lives
• Award-winning author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and a Zionist trailblazer "Klagsbrun... Lees meer

Elie Wiesel

Joseph Berger

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Lives
• An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize Finalist for the National Jewish ... Lees meer

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Julian E Zelizer

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Lives
• A biography of the rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who became a symbol of the marriage between religion and social justice Lees meer

Wayward Threads

Robert Goldmann

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Lives
• Wayward Threads is the story of Robert Goldmann's youth in Reinheim, a small German village; his experience in the early Nazi years in Frankfurt; his ... Lees meer

Trap with a Green Fence

Richard Glazar

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Lives
• Trap with a Green Fence is Richard Glazar's memoir of deportation, escape, and survival. In economical prose, Glazar weaves a description of Treblinka... Lees meer

Golda Meir

Deborah E Lipstadt

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Lives
• A balanced biography of Golda Meir, who was both adored and abhorred, from award-winning author Deborah E. Lipstadt "Comprehensive. . . . Always thoug... Lees meer

The Bitter Smell of Almonds

Arnost Lustig

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Lives
• For the first time, Arnost Lustig's short story collections Street of Lost Brothers and Indecent Dreams and his novel Dita Saxova are brought together... Lees meer

And Yet I Still Have Dreams

Joanna Wiszniewicz

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Lives
• And Yet I Still Have Dreams is a departure from many Holocaust memoirs and biographies. Based on interviews with "Alex," an anonymous survivor of the ... Lees meer

The Last Eyewitnesses, Volume 2

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Lives
• The memoirs of Jews who were children during the Nazi occupation of Poland This book serves as a memorial to loved ones who do not even have a grave, ... Lees meer

Yitzhak Rabin

Itamar Rabinovich

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Lives
• An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassinat... Lees meer

Primo Levi

Berel Lang

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Lives
• From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the first intellectual biography of Primo Levi to describe the intersection of his roles as both chemist an... Lees meer

Stan Lee

Liel Leibovitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Lives
• From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics Few artist... Lees meer