Items with the category: History | Jewish Book Council

Cover of The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century

The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century

Cover of Becoming Janet: Finding Myself in the Holocaust

Becoming Janet: Finding Myself in the Holocaust

Janet Singer Applefield

Essay

Not So(w) Kosher? Nine Jewish Facts About the Pig

Jordan D. Rosenblum

October 7, 2024

Cover of Babi Yar

Anatoly Kuznetsov

Cover of Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig

Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig

Jordan D. Rosenblum

Cover of Documentary Poetry

Documentary Poetry

Heimrad Bäcker; Patrick Greaney, trans.

Essay

My Grandfather’s Secret: Jewish Inside the Manhattan Project

Rachel Robbins

September 30, 2024

Cover of Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil

Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil

Recommended Reading

Jewish Life in Patagonia

Jessica Ruetter

September 23, 2024

Cover of 10/7: 100 Human Stories

10/7: 100 Human Stories

Interview

From Generation to Generation, On a Chariot of Fire: A Conversation Between Siona Benjamin and Erica Lyons

Isadora Kianovsky

September 2, 2024

Cover of No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust

No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust

Cover of Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape

Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape

Arthur J. Magida

Cover of Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

Hannah Pollin-Galay

Cover of Bad Jew: A Family's Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu's Israel

Bad Jew: A Family’s Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu’s Israel

Piotr Smolar; Anthony Roberts, trans.

Essay

Making the Revolution Jewish

Adam Jortner

August 19, 2024