Diane Ackerman In war-torn Warsaw, a zookeeper and his wife refuse to surrender...Now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Brühl, Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper's Wife is based...

Yaffa Eliach Traces the history of the Jewish community in Eisiskes, Lithuania, describes its social life and customs, and puts a human face on one of the many villages destroyed...

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Patrick K O'Donnell At the height of World War II, with the Third Reich’s Final Solution in full operation, a small group of Jews who were naturalized American citizens, having...

Suketu MehtaA timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrantsThere are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy...

Tadeusz BorowskiTadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides...

James Andrew Miller and Tom ShalesIn the exclusive behind the scenes look, sports fans can unlock the fascinating history of the channel that changed the way people watch and interact...

Sylvie Courtine-Denamy Three women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human face for a decade of crisis in this powerful and moving book. The dark years when the...

Erik Larson A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely...

Time for Kids TIME For Kids continues the success of That's Awesome! to create, That's Incredible!, a book filled with brand-new and impressive facts combined with colorful and attention-grabbing photos...

Steven WeinbergA masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg—a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most...

Michael RothbergLiterary Theory/Cultural Studies Analyzes the impact of historical trauma on contemporary culture. How to approach the Holocaust and its relationship to late twentieth-century society? While some stress the impossibility...