Eekiel LeikinOn March 20, 1911, the mutilated body of a twelve-year-old boy was discovered in a cave near Kiev, Russia. In reaction, a vicious anti-Jewish campaign was launched in the...

Philippe Sands   A uniquely personal exploration of the origins of international law, centring on the Nuremberg Trials, the city of Lviv and a secret family historyWhen he receives an...

Joan DidionFirst published in 1979, The White Album is a mosaic of the late sixties and seventies. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses...

Mahatma GandhiMahatma Gandhi's autobiography Sathiya Sodhani is one book which guides you as to what is right and wrong. Most importantly, the author should have experienced all these. The original...

Jane GloverTold through the prism of the women in Mozart's life, this biography focuses initially on his precocious childhood and relationship with his mother, sister and the Weber sisters, one...

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World Lucette Lagnado “Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an...

Jennifer WorthWhen 22-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies...

Sandy TolanIn 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and...

Gloria Sananes SteinIn 1917, Marguerite Saltiel, an 18 year old reporter for L'Independant, a popular newspaper in Salonica, Greece, was involved in the adventure of wartime coverage on the Allied...

No Mission Is Impossible: The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special ForcesMichael Bar-Zohar and Nissim MishalA riveting follow-up to Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal's account of the most memorable missions...

Carl SaganHow can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer...

The Mighty Atom: The Life and Times of Joseph L Greenstein: Biography of a SuperhumanEd SpielmanHere is the story of the modern-day Samson who could stop bullets and hold back...