This landmark book illustrates the early victories as well as ongoing battles for equality and freedom in the United States.

Francine Klagsbrun’s prodigious work on Golda Meir is more than just a biography of a seminal figure in Jewish history.

Author Richard Rubin details American history from colonial times to the present, highlighting the uniqueness of the American Jewish experience.

'Charlotte' is a lyrical, haunting look at a young artist who perished at Auschwitz at the age of 26.

Chaya Deitsch’s chronicle of her life in the Lubavitch community reveals an undisguised, wistful nostalgia for the culture she turned her back on.

Adam Kirsch’s brilliant, well-researched work looks at Jewish texts over the past 2,500 years.

As Philippe Sands writes in this indispensable book, “international law offered few constraints on the majority’s treatment of minorities and no rights for individuals."

Friedman argues that the morass Israel encountered in Lebanon was a precursor to the struggles Western societies now face.