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Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past

by Yehuda Kurtzer

Published: 2012-04-10

Paperback: 184 pages

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Modern Jews tend to relate to the past through “history,” which relies on empirical demonstration and rational thought, rather than through “memory,” which relies on the non-rational architectures of mythology. By now “history” has surpassed “memory” as a means of relating ...

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Bummy Davis vs Murder, Inc.

by Ron Ross

Published: 2014-07-11

Paperback: 436 pages

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BUMMY DAVIS VS. MURDER, INC. The life of Al “Bummy” Davis was so intricately interwoven with a time, a place and a unique phenomenon, that he became the personification of a slice of history. His is the story of an immigrant Jewish community whose old country fears, values and traditions served as...

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Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

by Roger Horowitz

Published: 2018-05-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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Kosher USA follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. It recounts how iconic products such as Coca-Cola and Jell-O tried to become kosher; the contentious debates among rabbis over the incorporation of modern science into Jewish law; how Manis...

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1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls

by Winston Groom

Published: 2007-12-01

Kindle Edition: 516 pages

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America’s first year in World War II, chronicled in this “page-turner” by the Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Forrest Gump and The Generals (Publishers Weekly).   On December 7, 1941, an unexpected attack on American territory pulled an unprepared country into a terrifying n...

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Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? Updated and Expanded

by Michael Shermer, Alex Grobman

Published: 2009-04-01

Paperback: 360 pages

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Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims. While most commentators have dismissed the Holocaust deniers as antisemitic neo-Nazi thugs who do not deserve a response, historians Michael Shermer...

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My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants

Published: 2008-04-05

Paperback: 329 pages

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In 1942, YIVO held a contest for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant on the theme “Why I Left the Old Country and What I Have Accomplished in America.” Chosen from over two hundred entries, and translated from Yiddish, the nine life stories in My Future Is in America provide a...

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Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate: A Novel

by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Published: 2015-05-18

Kindle Edition: 296 pages

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This novel “unflinchingly confronts the issue of Jewish continuity in a diverse and changing America” (Anne Roiphe, author and journalist).   Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s second novel is the story of Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mo...

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Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi

by Thomas Weber

Published: 2017-11-07

Hardcover: 464 pages

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An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leaderIn Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitl...

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The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941

by Roger Moorhouse

Published: 2014-10-14

Hardcover: 432 pages

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History remembers the Soviets and the Nazis as bitter enemies and ideological rivals, the two mammoth and opposing totalitarian regimes of World War II whose conflict would be the defining and deciding clash of the war. Yet for nearly a third of the conflict's entire timespan, Hitler and S...

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Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust

by Joseph Berger

Published: 2010-05-08

Kindle Edition: 352 pages

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In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own family of Polish Jews -- with one son born at the close of World War II and the other in a "displaced persons" camp outside Berlin -- managed against all odds to make a life for themselves in the ...