History

Fifty frum olim describe the joys, challenges, and opportunities of making the move to Eretz Yisrael, as well as the resources and strategies that ...

Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?By Daniel GordisOn Israel's seventy-fifth anniversa...

The story of R' Yona Tiefenbrunner and the hundreds he savedWhile the Angels of Death sent their parents to the gas chambers, an Angel of Life resc...

The Mir Yeshiva's story of survivalPoland in the late 1930s has become a very dangerous place for Jews. Isaac Tzvi, a student in the Mir Yeshiva, k...

Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life and Prac­ticeFinalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in NonfictionA New Y...

Edited by Rabbi Bezalel Naor Rabbi Naor is an expositor par excellence of Rabbi Kook who gives spiritual seekers access to his teachings. He provid...

Edited by Rabbi Bezalel Naor Rabbah bar Bar Hannah has been referred to as the Jewish Sinbad the Sailor. His tall tales, fifteen in all, are record...

An inspiring true story, perfect for fans of Hidden Figures, about an American woman who pioneered codebreaking in WWI and WWII but was only recent...

Annotaded by and with an Introduction by Chava Turniansky "My dear children, I write this for you in case your dear children or grandchildren come ...

Series: The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry Since the late 1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become a cause célèbre....

INSIDE AN ANCIENT ASSYRIAN PALACE: LOOKING AT AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD'S RECONSTRUCTIONAda Cohen and Steven E. KangasOne of the best-known images of the...

 A Vision for Unity in Israel and Why the World Needs It Why has antisemitism mutated into a potent form of anti-Zionism? What is the goal of a Je...

Like a forest recovering from a cataclysmic fire, the Jews of Eastern Europe are drawing on deep roots to regrow their communities in the long afte...

Texas has one of the largest Jewish populations in the South and West, comprising an often-overlooked vestige of the Diaspora. The Chosen Folks bri...

Introduction by Joel Beinin

The story of Tisha B'Av taken from Me'am Loez, translated by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan. It discusses the destruction of the Second Temple, the laws of Tis...

Authors: Ziv Koren (photography) Miryam Sivan Ellin Yassky (curation) Without question, Tel Aviv is one of the world's most compact and cosmopolita...

by Nathan A. Efrati The Golden Land and the Holy Land: American Jewry and the Yishuv in the Late Ottoman Period sheds new light on the relationship...

Rabbi Jonathan Porath recounts the story of his lifetime of experiences with Soviet and post-Soviet Jews spanning over fifty years. This first-pers...

Series: Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life Edited by Vincent Brook and Marat GrinbergAlthough Woody Allen's films have r...

What happened to the Jewish people in the forty years of wanderings, between the giving of the Torah and their entry into the Holy Land?Where did t...

A multifaceted exploration of the teachings, observances, and history of Judaism.Edited by Rabbi Yanki TauberDesigned by Baruch GorkinWhat is Judai...

A multifaceted exploration of the teachings, observances, and history of Judaism.EDITED BY RABBI YANKI TAUBERDESIGNED BY BARUCH GORKINWhat is Judai...

One of Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Re...