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Bibliography & Bookstore: Jewish History

Ackerman-Lieberman, Phillip. The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt. CA: Stanford University Press, 2014.

Altshuler, David. Ed. The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections. Summit Books, 1983.

American Jewish Historical Society. American Jewish Desk Reference. NY: Random House, 1999.

Arnold, Bill T. and Bryan E. Beyer, eds. Readings from the Ancient Near East: Primary Sources for Old Testament Study. Baker Academic, 2002.

Baumgarten, Elisheva. Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance. PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Beare, Arlene. A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Latvia and Estonia. Hertfordshire: The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, 2001.

Bard, Mitchell G. and Moshe Schwartz. 1001 Facts Everyone Should Know About Israel. NJ: Jason Aronson, 2003.

Bard, Mitchell G. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict. 3rd Edition. NY: Alpha Books, 2005.

Bard, Mitchell G. From Tragedy to Triumph: The Politics behind the Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry. CT: Greenwood, 2002.

Bard, Mitchell G. Myths And Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict. MD: AICE, 2012.

Bard, Mitchell G. The Water's Edge And Beyond. NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991.

Barnavi, Eli. A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People. NY: Schocken, 2003.

Baron, Salo. Ancient and Medieval Jewish history. NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1972.

Bartal, Israel, Chaya Naor (Translator). The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

Bauer, Yehuda. The Death of the Shtetl. Yale University Press, 2010.

Berger, David and Michael Wyschogrod. Jews and Jewish Christianity. NY: Ktav, 1978.

Blech, Rabbi Benjamin. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jewish History and Culture. Alpha, 1998.

Biale, David. Cultures of the Jews : A New History. NY: Schocken, 2002.

Botticini, Maristella and Zvi Eckstein. The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History 70-1492. Princeton University Press, 2012.

Bowman, Steven B. Jews of Byzantium 1204-1453. AL: University of Alabama Press, 1985.

Bredin, Jean-Denis, Jeffrey Mehlman (Translator), The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus. George Braziller: 1986.

Bregoli, Francesca. Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform. CA: Stanford University Press, 2014.

Bridger, David. ed. The New Jewish Encyclopedia. Behrman House, Inc. Publishers, NY: 1976.

Brisco, Thomas V. ed. Holman Bible Atlas: A Complete Guide to the Expansive Geography of Biblical History. Holman Reference, 1999.

Brody, Seymour. Jewish Heroes & Heroines of America: 150 True Stories of American Jewish Heroism. Lifetime Books, 1996.

Brody, Seymour. Jewish Heroes of America: True Stories of American Jewish Heroism. Spi Books, 1994.

Bruce, F.F. Israel & the Nations: The History of Israel from the Exodus to the Fall of the Second Temple. IVP Academic, 1998.

Chacour, Elias and David Hazard. Blood Brothers. Chosen Books Pub Co., 1987.

Cohen, Chester G. Shtetl Finder Gazetteer: Jewish Communities in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries in the Pale of Settlement of Russia, Poland, and Lithuania. Heritage Books Inc., 2009.

Cohen, Julia Phillips, Sarah Stein. Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950. CA: Stanford University Press, 2014.

Cohen, Julia Phillips. Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era. London: Oxford University Press, 2014.

De Lange, Nicholas. Atlas of the Jewish World. NY: Facts on File, 1984.

De Lange, Nicholas. The Illustrated History of the Jewish People. NY: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1997.

Dimont, Max. Jews, God and History. NY: Mentor Books, 1994.

Eban, Abba. Heritage: Civilization and the Jews. NY: Summit Books, 1984.

Evans, Eli. The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South. NY: Free Press, 1997.

Eytan, Walter. The First Ten Years: A Deplomatic History of Israel. New York, 1958.

Ferris, Marcie and Mark I. Greenberg, eds. Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History. Brandeis, 2006.

Fishman, Boris. A Replacement Life. NY: Harper, 2014.

Fleming, K. E. Greece - a Jewish History. NJ: Princeton, 2010.

Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. Owl Books, 2001.

Garland, Libby. After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2014.

Gilbert, Martin. Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship. NY: Henry Holt and Co., 2007.

Gilbert, Martin. The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization: 4,000 Years of Jewish History. NY: MacMillan, 1990.

Gilbert, Martin. In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands.Yale University Press, 2010.

Gilbert, Martin. Letters to Auntie Fori: The 5,000-Year History of the Jewish People and Their Faith. Schocken, 2002.

Gilbert, Martin. The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History Ed. 7. UK: Taylor & Francis, 2007.

Halkin, Hillel. Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002.

Harris, Constance. The Way Jews Lived: Five Hundred Years of Printed Words and Images. McFarland, 2008.

Hirschhorn, Sara Yael.  City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement.  Harvard University Press (May 22, 2017)

Jewish Museum (New York City). Ketubbot: Marriage Contracts from the Jewish Museum. Pomegranate, 1998.

Johnson, Paul. A History of the Jews. NY: HarperCollins, 1988.

Johnson, Paul. Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties. NY: Harper & Row, 1983.

Josephus, Flavius. The Complete Works of Josephus. Kregel Publications, 1974.

Kaganoff, Benzion C. A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History. Jason Aronson Inc., 1996.

Kassow, Samuel D. Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive. Indiana University Press, 2007.

Lansky, Aaron. Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill, 2005.

Lewis, Bernard. The Middle East. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Malec, Tomasz. Jewish Architecture And Urbanism in the Years 1495-1815. Maggio, 2015.

Mendes-Flohr, Paul, and Judah Reinharz. The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History. Oxford University Press, 2010.

Menocal, Maria Rosa. Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain. NY: Little Brown, 2002.

Pearce, Laurie E. and Cornelia Wunsch. Documents of Judean Exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the Collection of David Sofer. Capital Decision Ltd, 2014.

Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan. The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe. NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014.

Potok, Chaim. Wanderings: History of the Jews. NY: Fawcett Books, 1990.

Rabinovich, Abraham. The Battle for Jerusalem: An Unintended Conquest. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1972.
     [Revised eBook Edition Published by Author in 2012]

Rabinovich, Abraham. The Boats of Cherbourg: The Navy That Stole Its Own Boats and Revolutionized Naval Warfare. Naval Institute Press, 1997.
     [Revised eBook Edition Published by Author in 2013]

Rabinovich, Abraham. The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East. NY: Schocken Books, 2004.

Rabinovitch, Simon. Jewish Rights, National Rights: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia. CA: Stanford University Press, 2014.

Reston, James Jr. Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors. NY: Anchor, 2006.

Sachar, Abram Leon. History Of the Jews. NY: Random House, 1982.

Sachar, Howard. A History of the Jews in America. NY: Vintage Books, 1993.

Sarna, Jonathan D. Lincoln and the Jews: A History. NY: Thomas Dunne Books, 2015.

Sarna, Jonathan D. When General Grant Expelled the Jews. NY: Schocken, 2012.

Schama, Simon. The Story of the Jews. NY: Harper Collins, 2014.

Scheindlin, Raymond P. A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood. NY: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Segev, Tom. One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate. Owl Books, 2001.

Shimoni, Gideon. The Zionist Ideology. Brandeis, 1995.

Siegmund, Stefanie.  The Medici State and the Jews: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community. Stanford University Press, 2006.

Singer, David , Ed. American Jewish Year Book 2001. NY: American Jewish Committee, 2001.

Smith, Mark S. The Early History of God: Yahweh and Other Deities in Ancient Israel. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002.

Skyte, Thea and Randol Schoenberg. A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Germany and Austria. Hertfordshire: The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, 2001.

Spector, Shmuel and Geoffrey Wigoder. eds. The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life. NY: NYU Press, 2001.

Speregen, Devra Newberger. Yoni Netanyahu: Commando at Entebbe (JPS Young Biography Series). Jewish Publication Society of America; New Ed edition, 1997.

Stern, Malcolm H and Dan Rottenberg. Finding our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy. Genealogical Publishing Company, 1998.

Stillman, Norman. Jews of Arab Lands a History and Source Book. PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1989.

Stillman, Norman. The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times. PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1991.

Tauber, Eliezer. The Massacre That Never Was: The Myth of Deir Yassin and the Creation of the Palestinian Refugee ProblemJerusalem: Koren Publishers, 2021.

Wenzerul, Rosemary. Ed. A Beginner's Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Great Britain. Hertfordshire: The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, 2001.

Wenzerul, Rosemary. Ed. A Guide to Organising Your Family History Records. Hertfordshire: The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, 2004.

Wenzerul, Rosemary. Genealogical Resources Within the Jewish Home and Family. England: FFHS (Publications) Limited, 2002.

Wigoder, Geoffery. Jewish Art and Civilization. Walker and Co. New York, 1972.

Wigoder, Geoffrey , Ed. The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia. NY: Facts on File, 1992.

Wisse, Ruth R. Jews and Power. NY: Schocken Books, 2007.

Ye'or, Bat. The Dhimmi. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985.