Growing up in a dysfunctional family within an ultra-Orthodox community in Monsey, New York, Shalom Auslander suffered an alcoholic father, a guilt-wielding mother, and a violent, overbearing God. But now, as he reaches middle age, he begins to suspect that what truly plagues him is the story indelibly implanted in him at an early age, a story that told him he is fallen, broken, shameful, disgusting, a story we have all been told for thousands of...

"Biography of Major League Baseball catcher and coach who was a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II"--Provided by publisher.

"Americanism, with freedom and democracy at its core, and Zionism, the movement to create a free and democratic Jewish state, were the two most successful "isms" of the twentieth century. Their adversaries-communism, fascism, and antisemitism-murdered tens of millions. The stories of some of the leaders of the two triumphant movements, however, have in some cases not yet received their full recognition. This book presents eight individuals-four born...

"Fine artist, activist, and Titans actor Chella Man uses his own experiences as a deaf, transgender, genderqueer, Jewish person of color to talk about cultivating self-acceptance and acting as one's own representation"--Publisher marketing.

A biography of the Jewish heroine, Luba Tryszynska, who saved the lives of more than fifty Jewish children in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the winter of 1944/45.

When the author was in his twenties, he discovered that his parents had converted from Judaism to Catholicism during World War II, before marrying. Learning about the estrangements and secrets of his family's history, he returns to his Jewish roots.