Jewish Bios & Memoirs

Faith, strength, and resilience shine through powerful, haunting memoirs from Holocaust survivors,
accounts of rabbinical leaders, and moving stories of devoted Jewish families.

Ginsburg and Amanda Tyler, Berkeley Law professor and former Ginsburg law clerk, bring together RBG's most penetrating opinions - many previously unpublished - sharing details from Justice Ginsburg's family life and long career....

A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz.

When we rewind history to Abraham's era, we encounter people who concocted false superstitions to explain the unexplainable....

Our Crime Was Being Jewish contains 576 vivid memories of 358 Holocaust survivors. These are the true, insider stories of victims, told in their own words....

Quickly becoming a cornerstone of Holocaust historiography, this is a devastatingly stark memoir from one of the lone survivors of Treblinka....

Night is an unmistakably autobiographical account of the author's own gruesome experiences in Nazi Germany's death camps....

God Is in the Crowd is an original and provocative blueprint for Judaism in the 21st century. Presented through the lens of Tal Keinan’s unusual personal story, it a sobering analysis of the threat to Jewish continuity....

The Long Night is Ernst Israel Bornstein's first-hand account of what he witnessed in seven concentration camps....

After a decade as a political speechwriter, Sarah Hurwitz decided to apply her skills as a communicator to writing a book...about Judaism. And no one is more surprised than she is....

Berlin, 1942. The Gestapo arrest 18-year-old Bert Lewyn and his parents, sending the latter to their deaths and Bert to work in a factory making guns for the Nazi war effort....

Maimonides: The Life and Legacy of the Medieval Jewish Philosopher profiles the life and teachings of one of the Middle Ages’ most influential people....

The remarkable true story of two families that survived against all odds in the heart of the Nazi capital....

For half a century, a terrible secret lay hidden, locked in a trunk in an attic... photos, official documents, and scraps of a diary written by a young girl....

Here you will find true stories of all sorts of Jews. Among them are uniquely holy ones called "Tzadikim" and their followers called "Chassidim", all walking in the path of Abraham the first Jew....

Here are deeply moving and illuminating reflections on what it means to live a good life....

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has since become a world classic - a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit....

Jemma Saunders goes beyond Anne Frank's diary to fill in the gaps about her family history, her life before she went into hiding, and her final months at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp....

This book traces the history of the arrest and subsequent release from prison for "counter-revolutionary activity" of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe....

"I do not hate. To hate is to let Hitler win." - Rena Kornreich Gelissen....

A razor-sharp, hilarious, and poignant memoir about growing up in the closed world of the ultraorthodox Jewish community....