From Cairo Genizah to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, the spread of books in Jewish vernacular languages and Hebrew characters offers us an extraordinary insight into the linguistic richness of Jewish life. For over two millennia, Jewish co...

A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution. Herod the Great (73-4 BCE) was a phenomenally energetic ruler who took advantage of the chaos of the Rom...

Award-winning author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and a Zionist trailblazer. Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) is renowned as the founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of Ame...

An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents. On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus's cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting "Death t...

A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights. American Jews have debated Palestinian rights since Israel emerged in 1948. Geoffrey Levin recovers th...

Volume 7 of the Posen Library captures unprecedented transformations of Jewish culture amid mass migration, global capitalism, nationalism, revolution, and the birth of the secular self. Between 1880 and 1918, traditions and regimes collapsed aroun...

An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist. Amos Oz (1939-2018) was one of Israel's most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular contender for the Nobel Prize for Liter...

A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism. The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921-2006), pathbreaking author of "The Feminine Mystique", was powerful and polarizing. In th...

A highly original and compelling account of individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution, challenging the traditional portrayal of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust. Drawing on twelve years of research in dozens of archives in Austria, Germany...

A balanced biography of Golda Meir, who was both adored and abhorred, from award-winning author Deborah E. Lipstadt. Golda Meir (1898-1978) was the first and only woman to serve as prime minister of Israel. She was born in Kiev into a childhood of...