Begin only features as a minor player in Anita Shapira’s biography of David Ben-Gurion, but Israel's first leader is a major foil in Daniel Gordis’s "Menachem Begin: The…

Both an Arab nationalist and an Islamic fundamentalist, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini sided with Nazi Germany during World War II and agitated against the Jews.

By 2008, Kantor's pictures are in color and include more people—a young woman and her baby, children rehearsing to perform at a retirement home, a table spread with…

My Rebbe by Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. (Maggid, 250 pp. $24.95) Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History by

No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet The premise of No Better Time—that Israeli Internet pioneer

The Spoon from Minkowitz: A Bittersweet Roots Journey to Ancestral Landsby Judith Fein. (GlobalAdventure.us, 245 pp. $18.95)   From the time she was a child,

The Secret Legacy of Biblical Women: Revealing the Divine Feminine by Melinda Ribner. (Self-published, 312 pp. $18 paper) In this startling and passionate book, Melinda

Almost 30 years ago, Simon Schama wrote that “all history tends towards autobiographical confession.” Now Schama ranges across lands and times and languages to confess through his own…