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Modern Jewish History

Taking as its subject Jewish life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this series continues to examine the Shoah and global Jewish diaspora, alongside neglected historical figures and moments as well as analysis of Jewish literature.

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Jewish Historical Societies

Jewish Historical Societies

Navigating the Professional-Amatuer Divide

by Jonathan L. Friedmann and Joel Gereboff

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9781682831816

Pub Date: May 2023

A scholarly examination of local and regional Jewish historical societies in the United States that considers their contribution to historical memory and suggests what they might offer to the future
Love, Norm

Love, Norm

Inspiration of a Jewish American Fighter Pilot

by Norman M. Shulman

Price: $26.95

ISBN: 9781682831243

Pub Date: July 2022

An epistolary memoir ruminating on Jewish identity, heroism, history, and inspiration.
Songs of Sonderling

Songs of Sonderling

Commissioning Jewish Émigré Composers in Los Angeles, 1938–1945

by Jonathan L. Friedmann and John F. Guest

Foreword by Nick Strimple

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9781682830796

Pub Date: May 2021

The story of one Los Angeles rabbi's new vision for liturgical music.
Transcending Darkness

Transcending Darkness

A Girl’s Journey Out of the Holocaust

by Estelle Glaser Laughlin

Price: $21.95

ISBN: 9780896729803

Pub Date: January 2016

A harrowing tale of destruction and loss amid the Holocaust ghetto and concentration camps of Holocaust Poland, it is also a story of the goodness that still exists in a dark world, of survival and renewal.
Pillar of Fire

Pillar of Fire

A Biography of Stephen S. Wise

by A. James Rudin

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780896729100

Pub Date: December 2015

During his long career, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise received letters with only two words written on the envelope: “Rabbi USA.” But the United States Postal Service was never in doubt about the intended...
The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück

The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück

Who Were They?

by Judith Buber Agassi

Foreword by Sigrid Jacobeit

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780896728721

Pub Date: August 2014

Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, medical experimentation,...
Karski

Karski

How One Many Tried to Stop the Holocaust

by E. Thomas Wood and Stanisław M. Jankowski

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780896728820

Pub Date: August 2014

A young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer, Jan Karski joined the Polish Underground movement in 1939. He became a courier for the Underground, crossing enemy lines to serve as a liaison between...
Commodore Levy

Commodore Levy

A Novel of Early America in the Age of Sail

by Irving Litvag

Edited by Bonny V. Fetterman

Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9780896728813

Pub Date: May 2014

By all accounts, Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish commodore in the U.S. Navy, was both a principled and pugnacious man. On his way to becoming a flag officer, he was subjected to six courts-martial...
The Tailors of Tomaszow

The Tailors of Tomaszow

A Memoir of Polish Jews

by Rena Margulies Chernoff and Allan Chernoff

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780896728790

Pub Date: April 2014

Seven decades after the Nazis annihilated the Jewish community of Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland, comes a gripping eyewitness narrative told by one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, as well as...
“Non-Germans” under the Third Reich

“Non-Germans” under the Third Reich

The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany and Occupied Eastern Europe, with Special Regard to Occupied Poland, 1939-1945

by Diemut Majer

Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9780896728370

Pub Date: January 2014

Under the legal and administrative system of Nazi Germany, people categorized as Fremdvölkische (literally, “foreign people”) were subject to special laws that restricted their rights, limited...
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